Weight loss

The low-cal diet

Put simply, the low-cal diet depends on the fact that in order to diet successfully, the important thing to take in fewer calories than your body normally needs.

What is a calorie?
The calorie is the unit used for measuring the amount of energy in food. A food calorie is the the energy required to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at normal atmospheric pressure. If something contains more calories, then it will will give you more energy when your body digests it.

Low-cal foods include brussels sprouts, bell pepper, apricot, steak and burger based meals, and low-fat cheese.













Quesadillas with Cheese Recipe
Quesadillas with Cheese Category Mexican Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

25 g Butter

275 g Grated cheddar cheese

1 Beaten egg

100 g Sliced button mushrooms

12 Uncooked 15cm tortillas

Heat up the butter in a frying pan and saute the mushrooms until soft. Spread a spoonful of cheese on half of each tortilla leaving a 1cm margin around the edge. Top with the mushrooms. Brush the edges of the tortilla with beaten egg, then fold in half and push the edges firmly together to seal. Pour vegetable oil into a deep frying pan to a depth of 1cm. Heat until a cube of bread goes brown in 1 minute - then fry the quesadillas, 2 or 3 at a time for 2 minutes on each side until browned. Drain on kitchen paper and serve with tomatoes, cucumber and coriander sprigs to garnish Calories: 320 per serving

 
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