Don’t eat fatty food during New Year’s Eve dinner, lose 3 kg with these 5 tips! Gao Minmin teaches you how to read the calories of New Year dishes with a table

It’s New Year’s Eve, when everyone gathers around the fire to reunite. After a busy year, do you decide to reward yourself with a feast? Nutritionists remind us to be careful not to consume too many calories at once, which would result in obesity and weight gain. People with high blood pressure, high blood sugar and high cholesterol should pay special attention and adhere to the dietary principle of "three lows and one high" (low oil, low sugar, low salt and high fiber).

In order to let everyone have a happy and healthy New Year, nutritionist Gao Minmin has specially provided a "New Year's Eve Dinner Calories" illustration to teach everyone how to calculate how many calories the whole family will eat in the New Year's Eve dinner? In particular, we share the dietary strategy for losing 3 kg, staying away from obesity and avoiding health burdens.

New Year's Eve dinner calorie chart (Photo provided by nutritionist Gao Minmin)

New Year's Eve dinner calorie chart

Pork trotter with bamboo shoots (1500g) 4103kcal

Spicy rice cake with oil (1000g) 2607kcal

Braised Pork Belly (8 pieces 800g) 2536kcal

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall (2480g) 2532kcal

Dongpo Pork (550g) 2448kcal

Chicken Soup (2500g) 1683kcal

Sweet and Sour Fish (750g) 1198kcal

Eight Treasures Taro Paste (650g) 1092kcal

Hong Kong style carrot cake (1000g per piece) 1010kcal

Scallop seafood vegetable soup (1200g) 818kcal

Mullet roe (200g per piece) 800kcal

Steamed fish (600g) 768kcal

Golden fried shrimp balls (10 pieces 300g) 729kcal

Medicinal Drunken Shrimp (about 15 pieces, 500g) 510kcal

Fruit platter (1050g) 400kcal

Nutritionists recommend healthy ways to eat New Year dishes

What many dishes have in common is that they are high in oil and sodium, which is fattening. The calories a person may consume in one meal may exceed 2,000 calories!

You should eat New Year's dishes wisely, understand the nutritional prescription portion guide, and remember it first. It is a must-have before New Year's Eve. Take it out and read it when you gather around the fire. It is a guide to losing 3 kg. The following is the best way to eat New Year's dishes recommended by nutritionists:

Tips on how to eat the New Year's Eve dinner without getting fat (Photo courtesy of nutritionist Gao Minmin)

1. Eat 80% of the bowl of whole grains

Try to replace rice cakes and eight-treasure taro paste with whole grains, brown rice, barley, pumpkin, taro, yam, water chestnut, and red beans.

2. Eat one palm of bean, fish, egg and meat

Just eat the thickness of one palm. Pork trotters, Dongpo pork, pork intestines, lion's head, bacon and sausages are replaced with fresh shrimp, squid, fish, beef tendon, chicken and pork tenderloin.

3. Eat 1.5 fists of vegetables

Eat hot pot dishes, plated dishes, broccoli, mushrooms, hanging vegetables and other dishes, the more the better.

4. Eat one fistful of snack after meal

Various snacks, nougat, peanut candy, biscuits, and candies are replaced with fresh seasonal fruits.

5. Sugar-free beverages

Drink sugar-free drinks and dairy products: Replace sugary drinks and soda with sugar-free tea, water, fresh milk, yogurt, and soy milk.

Apart from adults, what makes children most excited during the Chinese New Year is that they can be more unrestrained than usual, eat different foods, and play with different things. However, when parents pick up Chinese New Year food, they will constantly think, "Can the children eat it?" Who understands the inner struggle? The following are "Foods for Children to Watch and Listen During Chinese New Year". It is recommended that you eat in the healthiest way:

Children's Chinese New Year food (Photo provided by nutritionist Gao Minmin)

Children's New Year Food Stop and Listen

1. Try not to eat in red-light districts

Staple food: Reduce the intake of difficult-to-digest starches, such as rice cakes, oily rice, and eight-treasure rice.

Beans, eggs, fish and meat: Eat less processed foods, such as bacon, bacon, sausage, processed hot pot ingredients, pork jerky and beef jerky.

Beverages: Do not drink sugary drinks or carbonated drinks.

Snacks: Try not to eat fried rice cakes, mochi, various candies, etc.

2. Eat less in yellow light areas

Staple foods: fried rice, fried rice cake, and fried radish cake.

Beans, eggs, fish and meat: Eat less high-fat foods such as pork trotters, pork belly, offal, and fried foods.

Beverages: lactic acid drinks, blended fruit juices, flavored milk, sports drinks.

Snacks: shredded squid, seaweed, nuts.

3. The green light area is appropriate

Staple food: whole grain rice, boiled corn, steamed radish cake, taro, pumpkin, sweet potato, and porridge.

Beans, eggs, fish and meat: It is recommended to use original ingredients as the main ingredients, such as tofu, dried tofu, stewed chicken and steamed fish.

Beverages: water, freshly squeezed juice (without filter residue), yogurt, fresh milk, long-life milk, and unsweetened soy milk.

Desserts: fruit, tofu pudding, yogurt, and grass jelly.

Nutritionist Gao Minmin reminds that it is recommended to choose whole foods as the main food during the Chinese New Year, and try to give children snacks that are non-fried, less seasoned, and in controlled portions. More importantly, parents should also set a good example by not eating too much themselves.