Diet types

The low-cal diet

As most people know, low calorie diet depends on the fact that if you are going to get rid of some fat, then you have to injest less calories than you use.

The calorie defined?
The calorie is a unit for measuring food's ability to produce heat and energy. A 'calorie' is the the amount of energy required to raise one cubic centimeter of water by one degree centigrade. If a food has more calories, then it will will give you more energy to use when it is converted.

Low-cal foods include cauliflower, bell pepper, melon, beef, and low-fat cheese.











Chinese Noodles with Peanut Sauce Recipe
Chinese Noodles with Peanut Sauce Category Rice Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

8 oz Vermicelli noodles, cooked

- to yield 4 cups 1 lb Skinned, boneless chicken

-breasts, cut into match -stick pieces 1 tb Soy sauce

2 ts Dry sherry

2 ts Minced fresh ginger

1 ts Minced fresh garlic

1/2 md Red onion, thinly sliced

1 md Carrot, cut into matchstick

-pieces 1/2 Cucumber, peeled, seeded and

-cut into matchstick pieces 1/2 c Roasted peanuts, coarsely

-chopped --------------------------------PEANUT SAUCE-------------------------------- 1/4 c Peanut butter

3 tb Soy sauce

2 tb Rice vinegar

2 tb Chicken broth or water

Make Peanut Sauce and set aside. Cook vermicelli on range, in the conventional way. Drain and keep warm. Place chicken in a 3-quart casserole. Coat chicken with soy sauce and sherry. Add ginger, garlic and onions; toss. Cover with lid or vented plastic wrap. Stirring midway through cooking, microwave on high 4 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink. Add carrot; cover again and microwave on high 1 1/2 minutes. Add cucumber and warm noodles; toss with Peanut Sauce. Sprinkle chopped peanuts over top. Note: Partially freeze chicken to make cutting easier. Peanut Sauce: Place all ingredients in a 1 cup glass measure. Microwave on high for 1 minute. Whisk mixture until well combined; set aside.

 
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