We all love dining in restaurants and the dishes they prepare taste wonderful but are they good for us? Restaurants are known for using ingredients and cooking methods that are not the most health conscious. Preparing meals at home allow you to know how your food has been prepared and with what ingredients.

Restaurant food arrives at the establishment in boxes and plastics off a truck. The finished product seems great but the process in which it took to get there is less than desirable. The dishes we all enjoy at our favorite spots can easily be prepared at home and I just found out how!

After an awesome meal while dining out I would always whisper to the waitress “any chance I could get this recipe?” and she would always respond with “I will go ask the chef”. When she came back she almost always had the same answer here too and says “sorry we are not permitted to give that out”. I decided I would see if I could find any of the recipes I loved online. I did! I have found a cook book with dishes from all of my favorite restaurants. Not only does it give me the recipes for some of my favorite main courses but also sauces, appetizers, and desserts!

I love this cook book and use it almost every night for dinner. I still get to pick the restaurant I go to and then decide what I want to “order” off the menu. My ingredients are fresh and healthy and I know exactly how to properly prepare it while still gaining keeping the wonderful flavors.

If you want to have your favorite restaurant recipes at home check out this cook book!

Secret Restaurant Recipes

Since I run an online health food store, I am continuously searching for the ultimate whole foods and health drinks. During a slow shopping season I decided it was safe to journey to the mall. Finding a parking space was easy, right in front of the largest health food store in the Universe. I won’t mention any names, but let’s suffice it to say that many of the “health drinks” and supplements they sell are not very “high” in real serious nutrition.

While my wife shopped for clothes, I began contrasting ingredient labels with those at our online health food store to see what was really in all those flashy looking protein blasters and so-called health drinks. Hopefully, this adventure to the massive health food chain will help you pass up some of the ingredients that are anything but healthy in many of their products. Then, it will make sense that an online health food store can be a better option for obtaining the best whole foods and health drinks.

Different from a naturally focused online health food store, the big health food store at the mall hypes those candy-colored, enhanced vitamin waters. The brilliantly colored bottles were everywhere, attracting customers with flashy colors, bargain prices, and the desire for a health drink that really tastes good. It’s too bad that the healthy benefits are not real.

For starters, the crystalline fructose (concentrated sugar) content in this particular vitamin water generated an unpleasant taste right away and the inescapable feeling that this was not healthy. By the way, if your body could really use the isolated, man-made vitamins in this water, it might be worth the .50.. Unfortunately, though, isolated vitamins that are not associated with whole foods usually break down before the body can use them for fuel. At this health food store I could quickly see there were no whole foods in those flashy bottles of enhanced vitamin water.

These are a few of the other ingredients I saw on the labels that I steer away from when selecting whole foods and health drinks for our online health food store: excess sugars, artificial sweetener, high fructose corn syrup, and modified corn starch. I also stay away from “isolated” protein drinks. The body must work harder to digest most protein drinks because they are typically made from “isolated” protein, which causes clogs in the lymphatic system. Many authorities on fitness agree it is a myth that the normal person needs the excessive levels of protein in some of the biggest selling muscle building health drinks. Truthfully, some muscle building devotees are now suffering from liver and kidney problems caused by excess protein consumption.

Excess protein and sugars are just a couple of the ingredients I try to avoid in my constant pursuit for whole foods and health drinks that are truly beneficial for the body. What ingredients are you concerned about in your supplements? I hope you have an eye opening experience as I did at the gargantuan health food store. When you are on the net, discover whole foods and health drinks at an online health food store.

If you’re starting the hCG diet for the first time, you may be unsure about what you can and can’t eat during the calorie restricted phase. Well, there’s no need to worry – everything you need to know about the diet can be found in Dr. Simeons’ Pounds and Inches manuscript, as well as online. You might also like to refer to the hCG diet food list, available on the hCG web site, if you are unsure.

All foods on the list will have minimal to no fat and a very low carbohydrate content. Many of the foods will contain a lot of protein, which is allowed as per Dr. Simeons’ hCG diet protocol. There are also free foods to help give you a bit more variety in your recipes; these have no calories, no fat and no carbs, and are a great source of fiber for your diet. Miracle Noodles, made from glucomannan, a natural fiber, is one of the free foods listed.

There are many different high protein foods you can choose from; red and white meats and seafoods in particular. Red meat listed includes beef in the form of lean ground beef, steak and veal, while organic chicken breast and turkey make up the fowl part of the food list. As for seafood the choices are plenty; from cod, crab and flounder to lobster, shrimp and whiting, plus many more.

Aside from the protein rich foods, there’s the all important allowed fruit and vegetables list. From spinach and all types of lettuce, to celery, cucumber and asparagus, you’ll find plenty of vegetable variety. Broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, radish and tomato make up the rest in this category.

For your fruit selection, you can enjoy apples, oranges, strawberries and grapefruit. Finally, the only approved breads are Grissini bread sticks and Melba toast. In addition to the food list, there are various supplements and hCG diet teas that you can take whilst on your diet.

As with any strict, low calorie diet, it is easy to get bored or to find yourself in a cooking rut, which could lead to diet failure. To help you avoid that, there are some great hCG diet cookbooks available with some inspirational recipe ideas that you can use, or even modify to suit your tastes – provided you always keep to the allowed foods list. You can also check out the 5 day hCG diet menu on the site to get you started.

Another great way to alleviate cooking and food boredom is to use a variety of seasonings to add some zest to your dishes, which is allowed on this diet. However, do not use any dressing or oils. Do not eat any food that is not on the allowed ! As long as you keep this most important rule in mind, your hCG diet will be successful.

You can find the on the hCG Diet Journey web site at http://hcgdietjourney.com. You’ll also have access to detailed information about the diet, as well as help and support. It is a great resource for anyone wanting to lose weight via this method.