How often do you eat legumes?
If the only time you’ve ever eaten them in the form of baked beans, it’s time you stepped out of your comfort zone!
Legumes are a great way to add more variety to your diet.
They are extremely nutritious, being an excellent source of protein, low in fat, high in fibre, and other nutrients and antioxidants, and they’re cheap.
If you’ve been avoiding this wonderful food group, you’ve certainly missing out!
Today’s challenge is to include legumes in one of your meals
So, what are legumes?
They are made up of peas, beans and lentils, and can also be referred to as pulses.
A serving is roughly 3-heaped tablespoons of beans. You should try to add legumes to your diet at least two or three times per week.
6 ways to add more legumes into your diet today:
- Replace half the meat in your recipes with beans, peas or lentils
- Serve pureed beans with raw veggie crudites, or bread sticks
- Have baked beans on toast
- Make lentil soup or lentil curry
- Add a mixed bean salad to your lunchbox
- Add legumes to all soups, stews, casserole, and curries
Will you try adding a legumes to your meals?
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Baby Lima Beans — they cook in an hour, turn out white and creamy, and can be a good substitute for potatoes (boiled or mashed), when you are trying to get better carbs in your diet. They taste great with just a TINY& bit of bacon.
Legumes should always be considered one of the nutritious food that may be included in our meal. It gives us many health benefits. You could also obtain all the amino acids necessary for your body to form complete proteins. There are alternatives to fight illnesses and there are some treatment when eating healthy foods such as this legumes. Legumes are also rich in copper,folic acid,that would turn to be the most powerful source of nutritional value, iron,that continues your blood circulation and magnesium,that serves as the dietary supplement that regulate our hearts, these four nutrients could use more than in our diets.
Family Nutritionist,
Good tip! I’ve put them in curries before, but I don’t use them often. I usually resort to chick peas or kidney beans.
Teavalize,
Yeah, like I said, by avoiding this food group, you’re certainly missing out!
Thanks for the comment.