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How to prepare tea from herbs collected in the summer

How to prepare tea from herbs collected in the summer.

After the summer are not only numerous photographs, traces of tan and good memories. Many are stocking all kinds of aromatic herbs, leaves and flowers that then – in the autumn and winter – to cook them tea and other warming drinks. So, the time has come. Reach for their stocks, and we will create a miracle! Morning tea with wild rose and herbs will wake you up. A cup of black tea with currant leaves arrange to unhurried evening conversation. Tea with chamomile and oregano will drive away the cares of the day and allow tight sleep. And even herbal teas great treat various diseases.

How to choose

Regarding the choice of the actual teas for the mixture – here you have to start from the maximum simplicity of taste. For mixing teas are suitable only unscented. Jasmine green tea – the only exception, and then only in the case where your supplements have a very delicate flavor that will not be able to score jasmine.

Forget for a moment about your favorite Earl Grey and oolong, prefer Assam tea, English breakfast or a simple but high-quality green Gun Powder. And remember that black tea has a dominant flavor than green, so he is more suited bitter herbs and spices (such as sage and pepper).

But mostly herbs can be combined with any type of tea: black, green and white. Only if they are cooked to the soft water to the taste and flavor of the tea was able to open up completely.

How to mix

Herbal supplements for tea can be very simple, single component, and can be complex charges – from two to ten herbs. Combine them with each other should be, of course, to taste, but there are still some rules. Typically, a mixture dominated by a single component, such as rosemary or currant or mint – and play along with the rest of it only.

If you want to experiment with a strong smell, at least choose them from different “areas”. For example, herbs, leaves, plus berry bushes, plus spices. Whole spices – cinnamon, star anise, dried roots of ginger, mace, cloves, anise, vanilla, allspice – give levies a special charm. They provide not only an amazing flavor, but also a lot of vitamins! Take them to help citrus – their juice and zest, and the number of possible variants is not the limit.

How to prepare tea from herbs collected in the summer

Juice mode

Juice mode.

Nutritionists recommend everyone to include in the daily diet of juice. Moreover, not as a replacement for vegetable or fruit from which the juice is obtained, and as a separate product. Just what time of day is best to drink juices? Good or fresh orange juice for breakfast?

“Strict regime” in the use of juice there. But if you focus on the composition of the various juices and the physiology of the human body, this mode you can make, because each juice becomes useful when you drink it at the right time.

Breakfast – time carbohydrates!

Nutritionists believe, not without reason, that it is the first meal to be heavily loaded with carbohydrates: they are better absorbed in the morning, and give energy that is consumed throughout the day, rather than postponed on hips and waist as Zhirkov. And starchy foods eaten at breakfast, helps to “wake up” the cells of the brain, with much faster than everybody’s favorite coffee.

The perfect dish for breakfast – cereal variety of natural cereals: buckwheat, oats, millet, barley, etc., cooked with milk. You can eat a sandwich and bran bread with boiled or roasted meat (but not with sausage!). A small piece of cheese is also not hurt: the cheese contains substances that increase the body’s level of “happiness hormone” – serotonin, so necessary to the working day.

But do not give up coffee, a small, no more than 70 ml cup of fragrant drink, drunk, not before, but strictly after a meal will help to cheer up, without causing a major impact on blood pressure or heart rate.

And what kind of juice you can drink for breakfast? At this time of the day are ideal drinks rich in sugars: glucose, fructose, sucrose. It clarified grape and apple juice Multifruit mixture with the addition of banana, guava and mango. Drinking such juices better during or immediately after a meal that they are less than the load on the pancreas.

How to be with freshly squeezed orange juice? There will have to focus on your own well-being. If you are not worried about the stomach (after drinking the juice does not cause nausea, heartburn, abdominal discomfort), the breakfast drink orange juice can, but – not being carried away: 150 ml would be sufficient.

How to be with freshly squeezed orange juice? There will have to focus on your own well-being. If you are not worried about the stomach (after drinking the juice does not cause nausea, heartburn, abdominal discomfort), the breakfast drink orange juice can, but – not being carried away: 150 ml would be sufficient.

Lunch – time work, study and mental stress

Ideal meal: fresh vegetable salad and main dish: meat, poultry, fish. Chance of soup, but it is desirable to light. Instead of nourishing borscht – less high-calorie soup, mushroom, tomato soup, and for the summer season it is suitable hash, beetroot, oxalic soup.

Useful juices during lunch: carrot or pumpkin – if your work is connected with a computer, or you work in a room with artificial “daylight” light. These juices contain many carotenoids, beneficial for the eyes, especially in the hard work at the monitor, and relatively low in calories.

Pineapple juice and grapefruit help to cheer up, if you are tired or have overeaten: their fruit acids help digestion, as they contain vitamins give vitality.

Snack – do not go to work hungry

Snack before going to work or study – a great help not to come home hungry and, accordingly, do not overeat at dinner. Variants of the two snack: a fermented milk or juice snack. Choose what to you it is more convenient!

You can drink a glass of low-fat (0.5 to 2.5%), fermented milk drink or a glass of juice – apple with pulp, pear, plum.

Dinner – must be reasonable!

Endocrinologists and nutritionists, who studied fashion is still a tendency to “do not eat after 18 hours,” we came to the conclusion that the dinner should be! Since very large breaks in Prima food does not even help, but on the contrary, harmful to our body.

But dinner should be facilitated because the digestive system is around 18 – 20 pm smoothly into a period of “falling asleep.”

For the evening meal is good low-fat cottage cheese, omelettes with herbs, lean sea fish, steamed or baked in the oven vegetables. For example, the classic ratatouille: a low-calorie meal a satisfying and at the same time, even the most inexperienced hostess can cook it without any problems.

Juices for dinner is best to choose vegetables: tomato, pumpkin and various vegetable mixes. If you would like to arrange an evening “unloading” without a hearty dinner of 250 – 300 ml of vegetable juice can help you get rid of hunger.

Juice mode

Once again about champagne

Once again about champagne.

Champagne is probably the only drink in the world, spoken of with enthusiasm. As other wines can be discussed – not discuss champagne, drink it!

French Champagne is inviolable international prestige. In France itself, it is always different from other sparkling wines. In 1919, this distinction is legally recorded: a law was passed, according to which “champagne” can be called only certain varieties of wine from vineyards located within the boundaries of Champagne. Until the late 19th century, the entire fermentation process takes place only in bottles, and then the French invented special tanks.

Soviet champagne in 1937 made by a tank or akratofornogo (akratoforos – vessel in Greek.) Method. As a result, only a month began to be produced incredible amounts of sparkling. The country had the opportunity to drink at best a copy of the beverage of aristocrats, because the reservoir method does not provide a decent quality of wine. But then, the goal was different – to make champagne available for the masses of working people.

In Spain, a method that is called the “champenoise” sparkling wine cava produced from grapes grown in the same geographical area. Popularity at home cava inferior only sherry and dry red wines. Most Spaniards like dry or brut cava.

Italians have long been addicted to asti spumante, and at the same time taught him Russian and sweet lovers. It does not produce a sparkling classical and akratofornym method in the region of Asti in Piedmont. Its sweetness perfectly natural, thanks to the quality of white muscat grapes. Italians rightly decided not to make him noble Brut and it has paid off. Asti happy to drink New Year’s Eve all over Russia.

In contrast to European neighbors, the Germans out of their sect do not worship. Local legislation allows both the mode of production of sparkling – classic and akratoforny. They will vary in taste and price.

Of course, any self-respecting burger, not refuse to drink sparkling to emphasize the solemnity of the occasion, but then by all means go for the most popular national drink – beer.

How to apply

Throughout its history, the champagne has become a symbol of the holiday. In Russia, a bottle of sparkling -nepremenny attribute New Year’s Eve. Everything is accompanied by noble retinue. There are special champagne glasses and a bucket for cooling, filled with ice. It is very easy to handle and special cooling sleeve

For champagne as for any other wine, it is important the correct pitch. High-walled glass flute will fully appreciate the appearance of wine, his game. Equally important is the temperature – 6-8 ° C. Warmer wine seems not harmonious. In the freezer to put the champagne is also not recommended – wine, especially dear to anything subjected to a temperature shock.

To foam overflowing, pour chilled glasses of sparkling wine.

What to submit

Champagne just created for receptions and parties, as may be submitted by itself. But this does not mean that it should not be put on the table, along with any meal. On the contrary, the champagne – one of the most gastronomichnyh wines. It can accompany the entire meal.

Lightweight base Brut will excellent aperitif and awaken your appetite. For oysters and other seafood Brut natyur suit with a bright character. Blanc de Blancs will be a great partner for the exquisite fish dishes and goat cheese. Rose can act in tandem with a variety of dishes – from salmon to wildfowl with berry sauce. Millezimnyh sparkling wines are also very gastronomichny. They are rich and full-bodied taste, and become a single entity in a complex with fish sauce and white meat.

At the end of dinner, champagne will also look favorably: the rose and strawberries – almost perfect match, semi-dry version can be served with dessert or ice cream.

A glass of champagne, without any support at the end of the meal is always nice to refresh and will help get rid of the feeling of satiety.

But there are also products which combine sparkling wines is not recommended. You’d be surprised, but it’s chocolate, for example. Under the ban dishes containing vinegar.

Once again about champagne

The game of colors. How to attract the attention of the child to healthy eating

The game of colors. How to attract the attention of the child to healthy eating.

Making a child to eat something good is not easy. Kids do not care how much effort spent mom to cook dinner, where everything is balanced – trace elements and vitamins. Kids busy with more important things – a game, for example. As such, the output we have only one: we will play!

We use a simple rule of traffic lights: at the child on the plate should be natural food three natural colors – red, yellow and green. The rest, as they say in the recipes – for vkusu.Esli meal is included in one dish, then, all the traffic lights and must fit in the plate. And you can start with a green salad, and finish red berry juice. Following this rule, you can kill two birds with one stone: to captivate the child’s healthy diet and without any complex calculations to make it a full menu.

Three favorite color – or more?

Nutritionists have long known that food color indicates the presence therein of certain substances.

Red fruits gives lycopene – a powerful antioxidant carotenoid.

Products: tomato, watermelon, peppers, pink grapefruit.

Orange beta-carotene. Good for the heart and blood vessels, strengthens the sight.

Products: carrot, persimmon, yellow pepper, raspberry.

Yellow result of the bioflavonoids contained in all yellow, the fruit of the melon to the potatoes and corn. Bioflavonoids strengthen cell membranes and walls of small blood vessels, as well as regulate the content of the most important enzymes in the body.

Food: melons, potatoes, corn, apples, citrus fruits, grapes.

Green – chlorophyll, a very important substance for blood system. It is necessary for many processes in the body, supports the immune system, increases vitality, stimulates the hematopoietic system, promotes renewal of tissue and rapid healing of wounds.

Products: cucumber, squash, leafy greens, cabbage, kiwi.

Of course, it is not necessary to limit the power of children and only three colors to give up useful food other colors. The palette of children’s plates can be extended indefinitely. Complementing “svetoforchik” child other colors, you are only a variety of food nutrients. For example, purple beets, eggplant, plum and black currant will not only add another paint to the plate, but also support in the body the required amount of vitamin E. The culprit purple coloring of fruits and vegetables – anthocyanins – natural dye from the group of flavonoids. Anthocyanins requires brain cells, improves memory and learning ability. It also contains blueberries and black grapes, blackberries and red cabbage.

Game Artist

For the child, colorful food is interesting, because he himself would be the menu for special rules of the game. But how to captivate him this game? You may fit the scenario here are the moves:

• the child needs to go to the dish with the expansion of fruit and vegetables and pick up a menu for the rule of traffic lights, and you are charged for it he reward points. When their will be a lot, give


• the child a prize. Be sure to arrange this in advance.


• child, choosing the right products is a picture on his plate: a light tomato, corn, green onions in the frame of anything, giraffe of melon slices with walnuts, honey watermelon and kiwi grass.


• the child himself tells you which products to buy to run normally traffic.


• Important! Does not reward your baby for a good selection of “harmful food”: so you will be to improve its image in the eyes of a child, and only in his mind strengthen its relationship with the holiday. The best reward a child some nice trinket: a new cartoon book, a little toy.

The game of colors. How to attract the attention of the child to healthy eating

IQ depends on nutrition in early childhood

IQ depends on nutrition in early childhood.

The diet of children aged 6 months to two years after forming their intelligence. This conclusion was made by Australian scientists from the University of Adelaide, who held a large-scale survey among 7,000 children.

It was found that those children whose parents are in the first two years of life are regularly treated to a “children’s junk food” – such as cookies, purchased carbonated soft drinks as well as chocolate and chips (yes, even those crumbs fed chips!) at the age of eight exhibited reduced IQ – compared with those who ate correctly.

That’s right – this is a sufficient amount of fruits and vegetables every day (ie about 5 servings, according to the recommendations of the World Health Organization). Furthermore, poor test results showed IQ and those grown on the bottle-fed children whose parents were given mixture with a large amount of sugar.

The reason is not the harm of sugar and that an unbalanced diet does not allow the brain to get enough of the necessary material. Fast food is made up of so-called “empty calories”, where there is no place for minerals, flavonoids and other natural “ingredients” that are rich in natural and plant foods.

The fact that the home-made food with a balanced composition, in contrast to industrial products and fast food has beneficial effects on the intellectual level of children, scientists assumed before.

However, for the first time this view has received such an unequivocal acknowledgment.

Despite the fact that the eight-year backlog of “sweet tooth” on the IQ of their peers were not so significant (it is just a few paragraphs), scientists do not exclude that this gap will increase with age.

IQ depends on nutrition in early childhood

Baby porridge: the first solid foods baby

Baby porridge: the first solid foods baby.

Familiarizing the child to the adult table – a long and very responsible. The first food after mother’s milk should not harm – cause goiter, allergies or some other unpleasant reaction of the child’s body. Therefore, most often the first to become a lure vegetable puree and milk porridge. Today will tell about children’s cereals.

For what age

Baby cereals are introduced into the diet of the baby when he is about six months. However, all are individually: more precisely the willingness of the body of the child to receive additional food from the outside can only define a pediatrician.

What are the children’s porridge

In the days of our grandmothers porridge, of course, always prepared with milk, trying to comply fully with the technology of cooking and thus save most of the vitamins. Nowadays, manufacturers of baby food did their best to alleviate our life. The store offers a wide range of children’s cereals. We’ll figure out!

Cereals. Kashi distinguish the content of vegetable protein – gluten. Gluten grains – a rye, wheat, barley, oats. Use them for the first feeding is not necessary, because the child’s stomach is difficult to digest protein. Unstable gastrointestinal system toddler may earn a violation of peristalsis and issue dysbiosis and allergies.

Accordingly, semolina (semolina – is wheat) and oats (oatmeal is) better not to give your child. Note the gluten-free options are available: a buckwheat, rice and corn grits.

Kashi monosostavnymi may be, on the contrary, be composed of several cereals. For the primary initiation of the child to experiment with porridge porridge of 2 and 3 cereals not: let the baby get used to the easier option. Only when the main types of cereals assimilated and do not cause protest from the child’s body, we can safely proceed to the more complex version.

Milk. Presented in the range of cereal can be produced on the basis of milk (milk) and without (dairy). In the first case, the structure includes milk to cow’s milk or any milk formula, similar in composition to that used for artificial feeding children.

Flavors and other additives. The additives may be powder, fruit and vegetable mixture and yogurt, nuts, honey, chocolate. Though they enhance the nutritional value of cereals and improve its taste, but at the same time is not suitable for a first acquaintance with the baby porridge, as they can cause unwanted reactions.

There are also therapeutic and prophylactic porridge – with pro- and prebiotics. These cereals are good for restoring the balance of intestinal microflora.

Pay close attention to a part of cereal was not a palm or coconut oil, which can hide behind the phrase “vegetable oil.”

Cooking method. Baby oatmeal differ from each other according to the method of preparation. Some require prolonged heat treatment, while others are rapidly dissolving formulations for the preparation of which just add boiling water. A special vitamin complex difference in between them. Kasha, you want to cook, as a rule, intended for older children – they are ready to accept lumpy food. However, you can carefully try to stretch the finished porridge with a fork, rub through a sieve or grind cereals to the smallest particles in a coffee mill.

What to look for when buying children’s cereals

1. Be sure to carefully read and composition of the product, no matter how small letters it was not written. To decide on the best option to help the pediatrician. Well, your own observation of the child’s body’s response to the new product will tell you how to adjust the diet.

2. Pay attention to the expiration date.

3. Do not take food with GMOs, artificial preservatives, coloring, vegetable oils.

4. Take the time to familiarize yourself with the recommendations of the scientific community – Institute of Nutrition, Russian Union of Pediatricians. Such information can be found on the Internet, and you can see special markings directly on the package of cereal.

Baby porridge: the first solid foods baby