With summer right around the corner, it’s
time to start taking a look at your meal plan and assessing all the foods that
you’re eating on a daily basis. With so
many new foods coming out now that the season has arrived, you can easily start
replacing some of the higher calorie choices you used to be making with some
lighter fare.
This will not only give you a great change
of pace, but also help to keep your calorie intake lower as well.
Let’s take a look at a few delicious summer
foods that you should incorporate into your dishes.
Melons
It’s the time of year for melons and these
can be served up in a number of different ways.
Consider incorporating melons into your main course meal or using them
as a sweet dessert to finish things off.
Melons also work great slightly frozen as a
cool treat on a hot summer’s day or can even be added into your protein
smoothies as well.
They’re all rich in vitamin C, relatively
low in calories, and will be a very healthy addition to your diet plan.
Cucumbers
Moving along, cucumbers are the next great
summer food option that you’ll want to consider. Cucumbers have an incredibly high water
content, making them very low in calories for the amount that you could
consume.
In fact, you literally don’t even have to
count the calories that you take in from cucumbers if you don’t want to because
they really won’t add up to anything significant.
Cucumbers can be served in salads or else
raw on the side.
Summer
Squash
Summer squash is the next of the summer
foods to consider adding into your diet plan.
Summer squash is lower in calories than many complex carbs and will
provide you with a great source of fiber to keep your hunger levels down lower.
Summer squash can be baked, microwaved, or
even barbequed if you’re really looking for something unique and original, so
get creative and see what you can come up with.
Fresh
Fish
Finally, the last great summer food to add
into your diet this season is fresh fish.
If you can get out and catch your own fish – all the better. If not, then store bought fresh fish will
work as well.
Try and use a mixture of higher fat
containing fish such as salmon and mackerel which will supply you with a potent
dose of omega-3 fats as well as very low fat fish varieties such as cod, perch,
or trout.
This will give you good balance with your
calorie intake and ensure you’re staying where you need to be.
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