Baked Salmon in Cheese Sauce

Ingredients
12 ounce salmon fillets
1 tablespoon of olive oil
2 teaspoons of dill
1 teaspoon of onion powder
¼ cup of lemon juice
½ cup of milk
1 cup of reduced fat cream cheese
Salt and pepper to taste
Method
Slice the fillets into four pieces and preheat the oven at 425°F.
Season the fillets with salt, pepper lemon juice, dill leaves and olive oil.
For better marination, make slits on the flesh. This will allow all the juices and flavors to seep in. Let this sit for about 30 minutes.
Next, cover the fish in foil and bake it in the preheated oven for 15 – 20 minutes. Then remove the foil and bake it for another 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, add milk and cream to the cheese. In a double boiler, stir this mixture till all the ingredients melt completely. The mixture must reach a thick consistency. Put in the onion powder for the flavor.
Remove the fillets onto a serving plate and pour the cheese sauce on it. Serve this hot with some white wine.
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It often happens that when we decide to stay on healthy diet, we are at loss of right recipes, more so the breakfast recipe. This is my personal favorite recipe and you will see me having this very often.

Ingredients

•2/3 cup rolled oats
•1 cup skimmed milk
•1 diced apple
•¼ cup apple juice
•1 tsp cinnamon
•a dash of nutmeg
•water as required
Method

•In a saucepan combine 1 cup water with apple juice and diced apples.
•Bring the water and juice mixture to a boil and then add rolled oats to the mixture.
•Let the oats cook over low heat, till the mixture thickens, but do not cover the oats.
•If you feel that the oats are sticking to the saucepan, you may add a couple of tablespoons of water to it.
•Add milk, cinnamon and nutmeg to the oats and let it cook till the oatmeal reaches the desired consistency.
•Serve warm with fruits.
Healthy Salad Recipe

Whenever I can have my way, I prefer eating only salads for my meals. However, I ensure my salads are rich in complex carbohydrates, so that I do not end up bingeing again after some time. Making salad using the complex carbohydrates list is a rather easy task, only the list of ingredients is long. This ensures I have different types of salad and I am not bored of eating them.

Ingredients

•¼ cup Brussels sprouts
•½ chopped beetroot
•½ cup chopped carrot
•½ cup salad greens
•1 potato baked or boiled with skin
•¼ cup boiled beans (you can opt for any beans of your choice)
•1 tbsp peanuts
•1 chopped cucumber
•1 chopped small onion
•1 chopped tomato
•3 tbsp olive oil
•2 – 3 tbsp rice vinegar
•1 tbsp minced fresh thyme
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For decades we have been relying on the goodness of milk. Mommies and grannies have always exclaimed in a monotone about how milk helps you to have a healthy gray cell growth and bodily development. It sets a ground to maintain sound bone health from the time you walk on four, makes for a smooth ride when you walk on two and aids you to sail through when you walk on three! It is when you reach an age where navigation starts getting difficult, do we understand about the benefits that milk had in store, to offer. However, there are some children, unfortunate enough who have to compromise on milk not by choice but by force. Lactose intolerance is the answer. By lactose intolerance I mean to explicate that milk and products that are derived through milk are not suitable for the infant’s health. Sprouting out rashes, unconditional redness on skin, brief episodes of diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, regurgitation are some of the reactions that crop up for children who are lactose intolerant. It is due to this prime reason that the child is unable to consume milk and milk products like cottage cheese, cheese, ice-creams or any product that has a consistency of milk. Being definite in conclusion there is a healthy alternative to milk. This is called soy milk or soya milk. There are benefits of soy milk that parents and children can rely on. In this article we explicate the benefits of soy milk for infants.

Is Soy Milk Good for Children?

Yes Soy milk is good for children. When children are allergic to proteins that is constituted in milk, their body rejects and reacts negatively towards those proteins that have been ingested. Soy milk, thus becomes a good alternative. Soy milk provides vitamin E, vitamin B and essential fatty acids. Soy milk is low on sodium and saturated fat content and is rich in dietary fiber.

What are the Health Benefits of Soy Milk for Toddlers?

Soy milk is a healthy alternative for children who have intolerance to milk and those who have milk allergies. It is imperative that parents understand the difference between milk allergies and milk intolerance. Milk allergies occur when kids have a negative reaction towards the proteins in milk. The baby can sprout out allergic reactions even when he is breastfed. It may be due to the fact that the mother had consumed diary products which have been transferred to the baby. The baby shows signs of rejection through vomiting, diarrhea and other more serious effects may include blood found in the stool, swelling and skin allergic reactions. Continue Reading »

Tonsillitis can advance to something to as serious as extracting the enlarged tonsils, to avoid future severe infections in this area. I didn’t have to forgo my tonsils and go through a surgery, but instead went at a stage where the injections did the trick to rid the swelling and inflammation. Strep throat infections have a chance of spiraling out of control where the stomach is then affected with extreme pain, where this condition can escalate by bringing upon the child a case of rheumatoid fever and an infection in the kidneys. Kids fall prey to these infections more commonly than adults, and have to be kept an eye on for serious symptoms of the two conditions.

So while tonsillitis is brought on by an infection caused by a bacteria or virus, strep throat in particular is caused by the already mentioned, streptococcus pyrogene. There are different symptoms that both conditions bring on that are definitive to each kind.

Symptoms of Strep Throat
•Feeling unwell and not an ease
•Cervical lymph nodes are tender
•Lack of appetite
•Hives
•Pain residing in the abdominal region
•Rash
•Nausea
•Skin starts to peel around the feet and areas of the hands
•Halitosis
•Vomiting
Symptoms of Tonsillitis
•Headaches
•Extreme pain when swallowing saliva/food
•Chills
•Muscle aches and pains
•Sore throat sensations with pain in the ears
•Fever
•Coughing
•Neck glands swell up, and sometimes one’s cheeks as well
So as you can see from the above symptomatic differences, tonsillitis and strep throat are indeed two completely different health issues. It is important to visit a clinic and get your child treated for either of the two depending on how severe the signs get. You’ll also notice how strep throat is a more serious problem than tonsillitis, being a condition that needs to be given immediate medical attention when the signs persist. Tonsillitis and strep throat usually occur around the cold winter season, or when a child is constantly ingesting cold food items or drinks. Be sure to limit how many icy edibles your child is taking and don’t ignore flu like symptoms that may arise. Most cases are taken and classified as the common cold or flu but little do people know that it could be more than that. Continue Reading »