Treats For Guests Who Are On A Diet

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

The hostess is confused by guests who are keen on proper nutrition. What to feed, what to cook. Consider appetizers, main courses, desserts, salads, drinks for those on a diet

If the company has people who follow a diet, you can prepare dishes that are tasty and acceptable for the whole company. You need to know the reason for refusing any products:

• allergy to lactose, fish, gluten, citrus fruits, etc.;

• separate food;

• fight against excess weight;

• raw food diet;

• mono diet, etc.

Knowing which foods are prohibited, you can safely choose recipes for dishes. If your guest simply adheres to the principles of proper nutrition, adjust the menu to exclude “unhealthy foods” (fried, mayonnaise, fats, etc.). An unmistakable choice would be an abundance of greens, vegetables, root vegetables, some fruits, lean fish, white poultry meat.

Main dish

Ideas with fried and smoked products are cut off. Such recipes are unacceptable for people with proper nutrition. Cook low-fat baked fish or poultry. An excellent choice would be veal, quail, chicken breast.

Rub the selected product with spices, salt, leave for 1-2 hours, wrap tightly in foil. To reduce juice leakage, add several layers. Cook in the oven, in a slow cooker, if the company is gathered in the country - on coals.

Do not use cereals and potatoes as a side dish. The right combination with meat / fish is vegetables. Fans of diet food will be delighted with baked asparagus beans, grilled zucchini, eggplant and other vegetables.

Do not use store sauces, the purchased options contain preservatives, dyes, sugar and other substances that nutritionists refuse. Serve the homemade sauce with the meat / fish. The base can be natural mustard, horseradish, olive oil, low-fat yogurt, lemon juice.

The composition includes spices, chopped herbs (cilantro, parsley, dill, basil, oregano). Mushroom powder or crushed champignons will give satiety and aroma, garlic will add pungency.

Diet barbecue sauce is made from equal parts apple cider vinegar and honey with the addition of red pepper (ground), chopped onions, olive oil. Curry sauce goes wonderfully with poultry. Take 100-150 g of natural yogurt + 1 peeled apple + curry (1 tsp). Mix in a blender - done.

Salads

No "fur coat", Olivier and combinations of potatoes with mayonnaise. Make a salad with vegetables and herbs, use olive / linseed oil, soy sauce, wine vinegar / lemon juice for dressing. There are many interesting salads:

• with sun-dried tomatoes and tuna;

• Caesar;

• with chicken and green beans;

• with seaweed (for an amateur);

• seafood with avocado.

A safe bet: chicken breast salad. One boiled / baked breast + 3 eggs + 1 apple + 1 onion + 1 cucumber + garlic (2-3 cloves). Dressing with yogurt or mayonnaise.

Snacks

Canapes and mini sandwiches, despite the small portions, carry a lot of calories. Sausages, smoked meats are harmful products. Snacks can be excluded or replaced with a cheese plate, homemade lecho, vegetable preparations, pickled mushrooms.

If you are worried about an empty table, make chips from apples, zucchini in the oven. Cook Korean-style carrots / beets, eggplant rolls with cottage cheese, baked bell peppers. Fresh herbs should be abundant. Basil leaves, parsley, dill are placed in a glass / vase. It is convenient to use such mini-bouquets, they decorate the table.

desserts

The hostess is confused by the question of desserts for guests "on a diet"? The usual cakes and pastries are an explosive mixture of carbohydrates and fats. You can get by with a bowl of fruit.

Guests will be delighted with home-made goodies: cereal cookies, homemade dried fruit sweets, baked apples with cinnamon, natural juice / yogurt ice cream with berries. Sweets can be made in different types:

• almonds with figs;

• cottage cheese with dried apricots;

• oatmeal with dates;

• prunes with hazelnuts;

• walnuts with dates.

Sweets are prepared without baking from chopped ingredients. I will share the recipe for "cashew dates": a glass of nuts + 2 tbsp. dates. Nuts are broken into halves, quarters. The dates are soaked until they swell, the bones are removed, and crushed in a blender. Mix both components, add a little vanillin, sculpt sweets (cones, balls), roll in cocoa powder or sesame, coconut.

The drinks

If guests do not have a taboo on alcohol, give preference to dry white wines. For drinks, mineral water, freshly squeezed juices and good tea are suitable.

As you can see, you can easily organize the reception of "problem guests". Everyone will be full, and proper nutrition will benefit everyone.