Light Dinners: Healthy and Delicious Meal Ideas

• Dinner should complement our daily diet, seeking balance with the rest of the day's intakes.
• It must be a light and easily digested intake since it is usually the meal prior to rest.
• Going to bed without dinner is not a healthy habit that will help us lose weight but a bad habit that causes us to spend too many hours of fasting until the next meal.

What conditions must a dinner meet?

Dinner is usually the last meal of the day, precedes rest and should be enjoyed calmly but without excess. We must make an easy to digest intake to avoid overloading it before going to sleep. Nutritionally, dinner should complement the possible deficiencies of the day and end up rounding the balance of the day. For example, if we usually eat meat at lunch, at dinner we opt more for it; If during the day we consume little dairy, let's finish dinner with one. If we haven't had citrus fruits during the day, let's include one at dinner. If we have a salad to eat, let's opt for cooked vegetables, etc. at dinner.

Common problems at dinner

This meal is done after the entire day, when we are tired, we relax, we release tensions and sometimes we get carried away by the accumulation of feelings and sensations of the whole day. For one reason or another, it is an intake that is often not done correctly. Some of the main problems are:

• At the end of the day, tiredness does not invite us to get into the kitchen and continue working. Except for those who take cooking as a hobby or a moment of relaxation and disconnection, cooking can be just another job and sometimes we don't feel like doing it. This leads us to make nutritionally uninteresting quick dinners based on pre-cooked meals, ready meals, envelope soups, bread, cheeses, sausages, etc.
• We know that dinner has to be light and that eating a lot makes you fat and, in order to take care of ourselves, we either skip dinner and go to sleep on an empty stomach, or we opt for dinners that are too monotonous, not always nutritionally adequate and little correct to do daily: fruit, cereals with yogurt ...
• In the opposite sense to the previous example, at the end of the day we sometimes relax and let ourselves be carried away consuming as an escape route for our nerves and anxiety, nothing is further than recommended ... The result is usually copious dinners, compulsive pecking, binge eating , etc.

How to make a healthy light dinner without much effort?

To avoid coming to dinner too hungry and succumbing to ill-advised foods, we must take into account:

• If we arrive home late, we can choose to prepare the dinners at another time and that we only have to heat what we have already done.
• We can use the resources that the market offers us to make light dinners without much effort using clean and cut salads, diced frozen vegetables to sauté, meat or fish fillets to grill ...
• Don't come to dinner too hungry. For this we must eat five meals a day and not spend too many hours without eating anything.

EXAMPLES OF LIGHT DINNERS

• Vegetable soup (leeks, zucchini, pumpkin, asparagus, etc.)
  • Grilled chicken or turkey or rabbit with lemon, with garlic, with fine herbs ...
• Assorted green salad (lettuce or endive, tomato, carrot ...)
  • Grilled chicken chips or grilled or natural tuna or a boiled egg.
• Omelettes or vegetable scrambled: mushrooms, asparagus, artichoke, etc. trying to sauté the vegetables, without frying them.
• Assorted green salad or gratin spinach or sautéed chard
  • Fresh cheese cubes.
• Sauteed or grilled vegetables and vegetables (pepper, aubergine, zucchini, etc.)
  • Grilled or steamed fish or in papillote: sole, hake, turbot, cod, eel, sea bream, rooster, sea bass, whiting, grouper, monkfish.

The dessert can be dairy-based (better skimmed) or fruit.