Launching “Healthy Cooking In A Jiffy”: A Complete No Fad No Diet No Nonsense Handbook

“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. — Albert Einstein, physicist

If you have ever wondered how you can be healthy without dieting, following any peculiar fads, eating any esoteric foods, injecting any hormones or downing any pills, potions or supplements, you have come absolutely to the right place.

Just launched on Amazon, in paperback as well as Kindle formats, this book, without bothering about the risk of sounding so old fashioned, declares that you don’t need to be on a perpetual diet to stay healthy. “Healthy Cooking In A Jiffy”  in fact recommends that you do not follow any of the rather peculiar diet regimes such as a low carb high protein diet, low fat diet, Vegan diet (unless you truly believe in the vegan philosophy) or any kind of crash diets.

From my own experience, I know that that they will all do you more harm than good.

Plus they will take away all the pleasure of eating and stimulating your taste buds that God has endowed you with. Can you imagine a life eating only meat, eggs, fish and chicken and not fruits and vegetables (high protein diet)? Similarly, can you truly enjoy surviving only on bland boiled or steamed vegetables and meat dishes without the goodness of cheese, chocolates or even a little butter (low fat diet)?

At least, I can’t.

The book discusses all these, and many more such debates and highlights with candour some of the negative effects of following any such fad diets.

Instead, the book recommends going to the basics, that of following a balanced diet regime. “Healthy Cooking In A Jiffy” believes that, unless you have a medical condition that includes food allergies that you have to be aware of, your body needs everything: carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, minerals, fat…..

This means that you should include fruits and vegetables, nuts, milk and dairy products, eggs, meat, fish and poultry, in short everything, in a balanced manner or if you have a medical condition, in the proportion advised by your Doctor.

In that background, the book presents a veritable cornucopia of easy recipes to give you an idea of what you can cook to achieve your target of having regularly a balanced diet. You will find ideas on how to cook your vegetables in a simple and tasty manner, how to handle pasta recipes, chicken recipes, fish recipes, mutton recipes, milk shakes (even if you hate  drinking plain milk), breakfast recipes, lunch and dinner recipes and some Asian recipes when you feel the need to have something different and exciting.

Surprisingly, you will find some supposedly “unhealthy” recipes as waffles, pancakes, French toasts, lasagna and lamb moussaka too in this “healthy” cookbook. The book’s short answer is, that the wonderful taste of these dishes makes you happy and being happy (and full of serotonin) is more than half way to being healthy.

However, if you look closely, you will find that everywhere the oil and butter levels have been reduced compared to traditional recipes, whole wheat or multi-grain flour is used as a substitute for refined flour in pancakes and waffles, frying may have been substituted by baking and so on. Moreover, as the book believes, any sensible person will have these dishes only once-in-a-while when you are bored eating your regular stuff.

Personally I don’t count calories in my diet, oops recipes. I feel that counting calories can actually drive you mad. I earnestly believe that such an obsession takes you unnecessarily away from enjoying your meals and feeling good about it.

This book celebrates exactly this very viewpoint and deliberately with some justifiable pride eschews providing any calorific or nutritional information for the listed recipes. If you want to still count calories, feel free to do so by taking advantage of so many tools that are readily available on the internet.

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