Have a big meal during Chinese New Year and don’t lose weight! These New Year dishes are must-eats this year!

The Lunar New Year is coming, and it’s inevitable that we’ll have some feasting and drinking! It is common to gain 2 or 3 kilograms during the Chinese New Year. However, who says that the only option during the Chinese New Year is to "get fat"? As long as you eat smartly, the New Year can be a good time to lose weight! Here are some tips for controlling calories in common Chinese, Western, and hot pot dishes! Finally, I would like to recommend some delicious New Year dishes that you must try!

【Chinese food】

(The following content is from Chinese medicine practitioner Zhang Ruowei)

1. Chinese New Year dishes are bound to include fish and meat, and they are often high in oil. It is recommended to choose more non-fried chicken, duck, and seafood, and reduce the consumption of red meat such as pork, beef, and lamb, so as to reduce the intake of calories and saturated fat.

2. Foods that require thickening, such as soups, risotto, braised cabbage, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, etc., usually contain a lot of cornstarch and oil, and are very high in calories, so it is recommended to eat less. If you really want to taste it, you can drain the soup first, or rinse it with water and remove the starch on the surface before eating.

3. Many people like to eat melon seeds and chat about family matters after dinner, or eat a bucket of peanuts or pistachios while watching TV. careful! Nuts such as peanuts, melon seeds, cashews, pine nuts, pistachios, etc. are high in fat and calories. 15 peanuts are approximately equal to 1 teaspoon of oil! It's easy to eat too many calories without realizing it, so remember to eat in small amounts.

【Western food】

1. Western-style soups such as corn soup, seafood soup, and pumpkin soup are often made with flour, butter, cream, and fresh cream. They are high in calories. It is recommended to choose clear soups, such as onion soup, mushroom soup, and seafood soup.

2. When eating salad, since most salad dressings are made with oil, sugar, and eggs and are high in calories, it is recommended to replace them with vinegar, lemon juice, and an appropriate amount of olive oil.

3. It is recommended to choose chicken, fish and shellfish instead of steak as the main course, and the best cooking method is steaming or boiling. The common French fries in Western cuisine can be replaced with baked potatoes (without cheese) or macaroni to greatly reduce the calories.

4. For the final dessert, you may choose fresh fruit or sugar-free jelly. For drinks, unsweetened black tea or black coffee are recommended as the perfect ending to the meal!

(The following content was consulted by Chinese medicine practitioner Zhang Ruowei and nutritionist Sun Yuming)

【hot pot】

1. It is recommended to start with soup bases made from fresh ingredients such as seafood hotpot, vegetable hotpot, tomato hotpot, kelp clear soup, etc., which have low fat and sodium content, and drink 1 to 2 bowls before eating the meat. As for spicy hot pot soup base (bean paste, chili oil), shacha hot pot (shacha sauce), milk hot pot (fresh cream), and curry hot pot (cooked with curry cubes with high oil content), these four types of hot pot bases themselves have a high oil content, and drinking the soup is almost the same as drinking oil!

2. For meat, it is recommended to replace beef and pork with seafood and chicken, and pair them with rich vegetables. You can order 3 to 5 plates of vegetables and mushrooms of "different colors", such as dark green chrysanthemum, light green cabbage, red tomatoes, orange-yellow corn shoots, as well as black fungus, enoki mushrooms, etc., to supplement different types of phytochemicals.

3. Avoid processed foods with high sodium and oil content, such as meatballs, tofu, fish dumplings, bird's nest dumplings, tempura, cheese balls and other hot pot ingredients.

You can’t eat this, you can’t eat that, what should you eat during the Chinese New Year? I would like to recommend to you the carefully designed New Year dishes! If you want to eat meat, we recommend the low-fat and nutritious drunken chicken . This delicacy even won the first place in the "poultry category" of the Apple Daily's New Year's Eve dinner evaluation!

If you want to eat, we offer you healthy high-fiber red quinoa and black olive oil traditional rice cakes ; if you want to taste the texture, we give you the chewy low-fat vanilla Matsusaka pork ; if you want to have a snack, we serve you the fragrant rock sweet potato cheese . Let your family reunite and have a happy New Year, and eat these for this year's New Year's dishes! 《》Wish you a happy new year and good luck in the Year of the Rooster! 2017 Healthy Chicken, please continue to pay attention to " " for more high-quality health content!