Today is a holiday in the USA. The day when you can eat whatever you want. Today, all Americans allow themselves to deviate from their diet and eat what they have long dreamed of, something tasty. Why is it that only this delicious thing turns out to be fatty, high in calories, with a lot of sugar or salt?
So, how can you spend this day as unhelpfully as possible? How can you make your lunch or dinner today really unhealthy, but very tasty? We offer 9 steps to complete this difficult task.
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ELARI expands its range of innovative devices for smart home control. New generation robotic vacuum cleaners - SmartBot Lite, SmartBot Brush, SmartBot Ultimate
- are ready to provide perfect cleanliness in small apartments, rooms with pets and spacious houses.
Cleaning an apartment or house with smart assistants is no longer a dream, but an everyday occurrence. Manufacturers of smart devices, in competition for consumer attention, are constantly improving models in both design and functionality.
All three home assistants are suitable for dry and wet cleaning, equipped with voice and remote control. The choice of a specific robot vacuum cleaner model depends on the area of the room, the degree of contamination, as well as the quality and speed of the work performed. ELARI SmartBot Lite
ideal for small apartments, weighs only 2 kilograms and runs up to 110 minutes without recharging. Suction power up to 1000 Pa allows you to remove all small debris without leaving a trace. Cleans hard and short-pile carpets, overcomes thresholds up to 1 cm. The robot vacuum cleaner is equipped with a 2-in-1 container with compartments for dust and water, volumes of 300 and 220 ml, respectively, which allows you to simultaneously carry out dry and wet cleaning. Its small height - only 7 cm from the floor - allows the device to clean even under furniture.
The built-in gyroscope provides the vacuum cleaner with improved navigation: the robot cleans the room in zigzags. Sensors will prevent your home assistant from falling down the stairs, and a soft bumper with anti-collision sensors will protect walls and furniture from damage. Having finished cleaning, ELARI SmartBot Lite itself returns to the base to recharge and is ready for work again after five hours. The robot vacuum cleaner can clean in four modes: automatic, partial, spot, along the walls.
ELARI SmartBot Brush
– the best choice for pet owners. It is suitable for more thorough dry and wet cleaning in rooms where there are areas of significant contamination and where pets live.
The exceptional features of this model are its light weight - only 2.3 kg with a suction power of up to 1500 Pa and up to 120 minutes of cleaning. ELARI SmartBot Brush cleans parquet, tiles, linoleum, low-pile carpets, overcoming thresholds up to 1 cm, and, most importantly, collects wool efficiently. It is helped in this by a rapidly rotating turbo brush and high suction power. An obvious bonus is also the wet cleaning mode: to switch to the washing mode, you need to install a 150 ml container with water in the vacuum cleaner, change the turbo brush to a roller brush with soft bristles, and attach a dampened cloth to the bottom.
Thanks to the built-in gyroscope and eSLAM technology, the vacuum cleaner independently builds the most effective route: after zigzagging around the perimeter for the first time, it returns for the second circle and completes the cleaning. A cleanliness map appears in the ELARI SmartHome application and you can set a different mode, for example, spot cleaning in heavily soiled areas or along walls to clean under baseboards.
Fall sensors monitor the balance of the vacuum cleaner on the edge of steps, and a soft bumper with collision sensors protects walls and furniture from scratches and damage. Upon completion of cleaning, the robot itself goes to the charging base.
SmartBot Ultimate
– an excellent option for a large active family. This ELARI SmartBot robot vacuum cleaner is designed to make life easier in a spacious home. It will independently draw up a cleaning map, identify and clean even heavily soiled areas, go to recharge if necessary, and then return to work again. The 5200 mAh battery allows the robot to cover large areas in five cleaning modes: simultaneously dry and wet, dry, automatic, spot and zoned. The rapidly rotating turbo brush will remove all debris from any hard-to-reach places. In wet cleaning mode, ELARI SmartBot Ultimate will wipe the floors; the self-cleaning system will free you from the need to throw out garbage for as many as 30 cleanings: the contents of the container automatically fall into a reusable dust-proof bag located in the charging base.
A navigation system with a laser rangefinder will allow you not only to remember every corner, but also to update the cleaning map during the cleaning process, build and change the route in real time. The battery power allows operation up to 150 minutes without interruption. If the robot's battery runs out while cleaning, it will go to the base and, after recharging, continue working from where it left off.
Each vacuum cleaner can be easily controlled remotely from the ELARI SmartHome application. If necessary, control of the ELARI SmartBot Lite robot can be delegated to voice assistants.
How to make regular food dietary without losing taste?
In order to improve your diet a little and make it less caloric, you don’t need to completely change your usual diet. You can just make some adjustments to it. Let's figure out which ones!
Lightening salads
1. Less olive oil
Do you like to generously season your vegetable salad with a good portion of olive oil? Isn’t that good for you? It may be good for digestion and general health, but it’s not a fact for your figure. A tablespoon of olive oil – 150 kilocalories. Two tablespoons is already three hundred. Almost a piece of cake! I don’t encourage you to exclude vegetable oils, but I advise you to monitor their amount in your diet.
2. Looking for a replacement for mayonnaise
Mayonnaise is an incredibly high-calorie product, regardless of whether it is made at home or bought in a store. In a salad, it can be replaced, for example, with low-fat yogurt, low-fat sour cream or even yogurt. If you want to add some piquancy to sour cream, add a little mustard and spices to it. Vegetable salads can be dressed with lemon juice or balsamic vinegar.
3. Looking for a replacement for sausage
Most recipes from chefs for the legendary Olivier salad and other meat salads use boiled chicken breast or beef, but many, despite the fact that the times of shortages have long passed, continue to add sausage, which is three times fatter and higher in calories. Moreover, considering the prices for sausages, it is not at all cheaper. You don’t even have to talk about the usefulness - it loses out loudly to full-fledged boiled meat. Does it still have any advantages? I don't think so.
4. Less fatty cheeses!
Cheeses sold in Russia - Russian, Soviet, Dutch, Tilsiter, Edam, Maasdam - have a fat content of 45-55 percent (despite the fact that according to the classic recipe it should be less). That's a lot! Half of the product you consume is fat, which is high in calories! Therefore, at least in salads, they can be replaced with less calorie cheese, feta, suluguni, and mozzarella.
Reducing the amount of fat when frying
The frying pan decides
If you use special cookware with a good non-stick coating, you can cook a lot without any oil or with a minimal amount of it. Are we frying meat or fish? During the cooking process, fat is already rendered out of them, so additional calories are not at all necessary.
Bake!
Another way is to replace frying with baking, which makes the food healthier and requires much less fat. After all, even cutlets can be baked in the oven without losing much in taste!
What about soups?
Without frying
Another habit that can be abandoned, if the strictest recipe does not require it, is the tradition of “frying” soups, that is, pre-frying (again, in oil!) some ingredients.
No potatoes
Some people can’t imagine cooking without potato soups, although the vegetable is quite high in calories. In many soups, it clearly does not play a leading role, so you can try to abandon it, replacing it with healthier and lighter vegetables: zucchini, bell peppers, pumpkin, and, of course, carrots.
No starch
Some people add wheat flour or starch to puréed soups to add thickness to the dish. Not the best option, which you can easily do without. Or replace them with rolled oats ground into flour.
The hardest part is baking
Of course, to make baked goods a little more dietary, you need to try hard, because sometimes any change in the recipe leads to a deterioration in the quality of the dough. However, there are still a few rules.
No yolks
You can use not all the eggs for the dough, but only the whites.
Less sugar
Try using not as much sugar as indicated in the recipe, but 20-30 percent less. Sometimes the difference turns out to be not so fundamental!
Difference in types of dough
Less calorie dough is yeast dough. More - sandy and flaky. Biscuit is somewhere in between.
Lighten the filling
If you can’t significantly reduce the calorie content of the dough, but want to bake, you can reduce the calorie content of the filling. Cabbage and carrots, spinach and egg and other similar options definitely do not burden the dish. Dough with meat is a less dietary option.
Looking for a replacement for wheat flour
Instead of wheat flour, you can use rye, buckwheat, chickpeas... In terms of calories, they are approximately comparable to wheat, but they contain much more useful substances - there are practically no useful microelements left in ordinary premium flour. You can mix several types of different flours!
What ways do you know to make regular food more healthy and dietary?
Milk
Milk has been used for decades to gain weight or build muscle mass.
It provides an excellent balance of protein, carbohydrates and fat and is a good source of calcium as well as other vitamins and minerals. For those trying to build muscle, milk is an excellent source of protein, containing both casein and whey protein. Research has even shown that when combined with weightlifting, it can help you build muscle.
If you want to gain weight, try drinking one or two glasses of milk as a snack, with meals, or before and after exercise if you exercise.
Additionally, you can add milk to your smoothies or shakes.
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Basic principles
Fat enhances the flavor. Therefore, everything low-fat has a weak, completely dull taste.
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Nutritionist on how to start eating a balanced diet Salt. There's nowhere without her.
Salt is a flavor enhancer, among other things. And without it you will not eat bread, porridge, or meat. And if you add more salt... And pour soy sauce on top and sprinkle pickled cucumbers on top. You will get the most delicious hamburger in the world, for example. Sugar . The third whale on which everything delicious in this world rests. And harmful. By breaking down sugar, we get very fast and powerful energy. And a very quick feeling of satiety, which, however, quickly passes. Therefore, sugar is always present in delicious dishes. For example, a hot dog or hamburger will taste best with a sweet bun; sugar is even added to soup for better caramelization of vegetables and for a richer taste in the future.
Based on these basic principles of unhealthy eating, we have developed our tips:
Step 1. Buy cola or any other sweet soda. Drinks of this kind contain dyes, preservatives, flavors and lots and lots of sugar. And after it, your stomach swells - it’s beautiful!
Step 2 . Deep fry. Any dish will benefit from being made in a deep fryer. There is no need to bake or steam anything - it’s not too tasty! Just boiling oil.
Step 3 . Salo. If you fry it, do it not in oil, but in lard. Heat it and throw potatoes into it. Amazingly delicious.
Step 4. Sausage. The fattest ingredient in salads is boiled sausage. You can add a little more smoked food for taste.
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What foods are best to avoid ? Step 5 .
No milk - only cream, sour cream and, if possible, ice cream. The latter combines two principles of unhealthy nutrition: high fat content and an abundance of sugar. Step 6 . Pickled cucumbers. Salty, but there is sugar in the marinade. Put them in salads, on sandwiches, sprinkle finely chopped cucumber on side dishes.
Step 7 . You only need to fry fatty meat, preferably with a layer of fat about a centimeter and a half thick. Then the meat will be really tasty.
Step 8. Nuts. They also need to be fried and salted properly. You will get the desired taste that will not be easy to refuse.
Step 9. The apotheosis of junk food - mayonnaise. It contains a record amount of fat, as mayonnaise is mixed with vegetable oil. It also contains a lot of salt and sugar. It is not surprising that this particular sauce has become the most important of all sauces; it is even eaten separately from salads, just with bread. So using mayonnaise for the holiday table is a great idea. By dressing the salad, you will add about 600-800 Kcal to it. Drizzle mayonnaise over everything - this is the surest way to make your lunch a calorie bomb.
Rice
Rice is a convenient and inexpensive source of carbohydrates that promotes weight gain. One cup (158 grams) of cooked white rice contains 204 calories, 44 grams of carbohydrates and very little fat.
You can cook a large batch of rice, refrigerate and freeze individual portions, then combine it with a variety of proteins and healthy fats for a variety of meals throughout the week without spending much prep time.
The easiest way to add calories, protein, and flavor to relatively neutral rice is to simply toss it with some of these ingredients: butter and Parmesan, broccoli and cheese, scrambled eggs, toasted sesame seeds, peanuts or cashews, and curry, pesto, or alfredo sauces ( cream cheese sauce).
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