Dry or canned beans: pick the healthy choice.  

Hi friend,
I have a crzy tension that goes up and down. I suspect it much depends on my nervous system. I had high tension all the time I was at the hospital, but I don´t have that problem at home. But I´m 10 kilos overweight ( side effects of quitting smoking 2 years ago) and my sister produced this diet that sounds intelligent. I have a life long friend with weight problems and I have been a witness of all the stupid diets she has followed after reading a magazine. All of them were againts common sense and a punishment for my poor friend´s body. After two weeks of dieting or less, she would eat nonstop.
So I was looking for something reasonable and I found it in this DASH diet for hypertension. That way I can kill two birds with one stone..
In my country canned beans are VERY expensive as compared to dry beans (to soak and cook). I do use canned tomato paste but I make a big amount of homemade tomato paste with real tomatos and meat or mushrooms and ad a can of tomatos for the colour.
Take care!

You can cook the legumes for a month if you have a freezer. Then you put it in the size you´ll take out. As I live alone, I reclycle plastic containers from various items (most of them are not things I buy, but I get them at my daughter´s homes, such as margerine or icecream containers).
As for recipes, it´s easy to look for them on google. You´ll find easy and not so easy recipes. Change the canned items for real raw food.

and ingredients
the beans: pinto beans, water

the soup: huge long list of things, few of which sound like food.

i've kind of gone off the idea of processed food now. i don't think i wanted to know what they put in it

I hate to be checking how healthy or unhealthy is what I put into my mouth. I love to cook and I love to eat. So that after I read the DASH diet, I decided that I had to eat a lot of grass (you can call them veggies, if you like, but that I could eat reasonable amounts of meat too.
I will not ask them if I must drink wine or not. I´ll do it whenever I have visitors. They bring very good wine and it would be a pity to waste it all on the visitors
Fortunatly, in my country veggies are unexpensive if bought on season. Today I made minestrone. Tomorrow I´ll have cooked chicken with raw and cooked veggies. I hope I lose weight before I I die.
HUG!

i hardly ever read labels but i don't eat much processed food anyway. having seen what they put into tomato soup (which sounds nice and healthy) i might eat less. i think some unhealthy food is ok - just not too much. btw the way why are you eating grass? humans can't digest it - have you turned into a rabbit too?

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I'm soooo glad u are on my side, lol. There was an article in the paper today that the farmer's market would start june 19th. I can't wait to get fresh, homegrown veggies.

Thanks for responding. I can't wait for the farmer's market to start here so i can get fresh veggies. They are the best.