Easy & Cheap Ways To Health & Beauty

Most of us already know that health and beauty go hand in hand, 

however we sometimes forget to practice a healthy lifestyle or some 

of us find it hard to continue healthy lifestlye because we have no 

time or simply it just takes so much effort and such a hassle.

Yes. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle seem to involve a lot of work, 

cost money and not easy. Such as doing a regular exercise, eat well 

balanced diet, take enough nutritions, sleep enough, no stress ...  

the list can go on.  

If there is a way to maintain health and beauty in an easier way, 

the natural way, cheap and proven to work (well, it works among 

women here), would you like to try?

First, here are the keywords to remember:  

*Collagen, *Black and White Sesame, *Royal jelly

Collagen

Most of us know that it keeps our skin & bones healthy. We also 

know that as we get older collagen level drops, therefore we need

to take special care to maintain collagen in the body to maintain 

skin health and prevent ageing (wrinkles).

Here is an easy to get and cheap food that contains lots of 

collagen: chicken wings, minced pork,　lever (pork), spare 

ribs, prawns and the less commonly available at supermarket 

and may be slightly offensive to some of us, chicken  feet, pork

hand/pettitoes (!) and sharkfin.

Black & White Sesame

Sesame, which contains a lot of vitamin E, is more widely known as a health supple ment than beauty supplement. Also, most people are more familiar with sesame oil 

than sesame powder. There is a limitation intake when it comes to sesame oil because most people are concerned with calories intake. However, in Japan black and white sesame are widely used in various dishes, especially 

Japanese sweets. Check out: "Breakfast With Black Sesame"

Royal Jelly

The common royal jelly you will find are available in tablets and often expensive. The best and reasonable

substitute of royal jelly is actually pure honey.  Honey also contains the benefits similar to that of royal jelly.

Do you know that the use of honey for beauty treatment

was known from long time ago, even during Cleopatra 

era?

Easy to make recipes containing collagen, using black/white sesame

and honey are coming soon.

B a n a n a Juice For Breakfast

Ingredients (serve 1 person @ 200 kcal):

1 medium size bananas

1 tbsp of honey (dilute it with 20ml of warm water)

1 tbsp of soybean powder (or alternatively white sesame powder)

low fat milk or soymilk (200mL or adjust consistency according to preference)

How to make:

1. Prepare a juice mixer/blender

2. Peel bananas (it tastes better when they are sweet)

3. Add soybean powder (sesame powder), put honey mixture, and milk/soymilk

4. Blend them well

In the summer time you may want to add one or two ice cubes if you like to drink it cold.

Tuna & Mayonaisse Spaghetti (2 steps)

It is time for lunch.   You open the fridge and find mayonaisse and Welsh onions and in the cupboard you have a can of tuna.   What can you have for lunch?  Yes, a tuna mayonaisse spaghetti - my favorite, easy to make dish.

Ingredients:

Spaghetti 200 grm

Tuna 1 can (160grm)

Welsh onions 1 (15cm)

Sauce:

Sesame oil & Mayonaisse 1tbsp each

Soy sauce 1 tsp (if any) OR alternatively salt 1/2 tsp

Pepper (adjust according to taste)

Black sesame powder and white sesame powder 1 tbsp each

How to make:

1. Prepare the sauce, by combining sesame powders, soy sauce, pepper, oil & mayonaisse in a large bowl.     Cut the welsh onion into very fine little slices and mix together with the sauce.

2. Prepare boiling water for spaghetti as usual.   Boil spaghetti well and drain the water using a strainer.  Quickly move the cooked spaghetti into the large bowl and mix with the sauce well.

Ready to serve!  Taste best when it is warm.

Y O K A N (ref. January 20th 2009)

Yokan is a low calorie sweets that is good for your health.  It is made of red bean, which is known to lower cholesterol and contains high level of protein.   It is very easy to make.   Those who have made jelly (hard type) before, can easily make yokan.

Ingredients:

Canned "cooked" red beans 1

Jelly powder (do not use instant powder that does not require boiling)

Water 400 cc

Warnings: 

*Make sure that the amount of jelly powder and water match.  You can adjust your own recipe depending on the type of jelly powder you use.

*You may need to put the red beans in the blender first, if you like the yokan to come with soft texture  (see photo)

How to make:

1. Prepare ingredients to make jelly as usual - but this time make sure that you do not put too much water.   Adjust the first step according to the type of jelly mixture you use.

2. After bringing the mixture to boil, turn off the fire, then pour the whole red beans into the jelly mixture.

3. Stir well and taste it (you can add sugar according to taste).   If the red beans is already sweet, you probably do not want to add sugar.

Note that the jelly you made may not have the same color as the one in the photo.   The more red beans you put, the darker color the yokan will be.

Salmon and Potato Gratin

Serve 1 person, 627kcal, salt content 1.8gr

Ingredients:

Raw salmon 2 slices (about 200g)

Potato 2 (about 300 gr)

Onions  1/2 (about 100 gr)

Cream 1/2 cup

Milk  1/4 cup

Pizza cheese 3-4 tbsp (about 40gr)

Salad oil 1 tbsp

Salt

Pepper

Breadcrumbs 2-3 tbsp

No white sauce needed therefore very simple and easy to make 

How to cook:

1. After peeling the potatoes, cut them into 1 cm cubes.   Put them in the water for 5 minutes and rinse them with water.    Peel onion and cut into thin slices

2. Put them in the pot with some water (the amount of water should be just covering these potatoes) and boil them for 10 minutes until they become soft enough (check softness using a stick)

3. Prepare a frying pan, put 1 tbsp of salad oil and turn the fire to medium

4. Fry the raw salmons 2-3 minutes after seasoning them with a pinch of salt and pepper, until they turn golden brown.   Then put them aside.  

Also fry the sliced onions.   Then pour milk and cream into the frypan together with onions and heat the mixture on low fire for 2 minutes.

5. Prepare a heat-proof bowl and put the golden brown salmon (including the sauce left in the frypan), fried onions, boiled potatoes and then pizza cheese, breadcrumbs in this bowl

6. Bake at 180-200 degrees Celcius for 10-15 minutes  

Check: before the top part gets burn, make sure to cover the bowl with aluminium foil and continue baking.   Top it off by sprinkling some pepper.