Spring recipes
Last reviewed: 20.11.2021
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Spring recipes are a specific update not only in the dietary sense, changes occur throughout the body, and even the wardrobe needs to be revised. Thus, the spring recipes that we offer are related to diet, cosmetology, general health promotion.
Problem number one is the spring deficiency of vitamins. Therefore, spring recipes concerning nutrition should include a maximum of vitaminized foods. It can be salads from a young carrot, it's okay that it is not grown in natural conditions. Modern agricultural technologies allow growing vegetables in greenhouse conditions so that the early harvest is in no way inferior in quality to the autumn harvest. Greens, the first radish, lettuce leaves - all this can be included in the menu as often as possible. But from the use of tomatoes and cucumbers it is better to refuse, as these vegetables are often grown with the help of chemical fertilizing.
Problem number two is slagging the body. Spring recipes that neutralize winter stocks, absolutely useless in the spring, include a plentiful drink of compotes, juices and purified water. Compotes are better to cook from dried fruits, so you and vitaminize the body, and quench your thirst, and bring out excess toxins. Juices should be freshly squeezed, all varieties of apples, oranges and grapefruit.
Problem number three is apathy and lethargy, which are so characteristic of the spring period. The main spring recipes that eliminate fatigue and fatigue, oddly enough, relate to motor activity. It would seem, a paradox - the body is already tired, so why overexert it? However, it is the feasible physical exertion that will help to quickly remove fat deposits, slags and toxins accumulated over the winter, restoring strength and adding the right "portion" of energy.
Spring recipes, which are sufficiently universal, do not require a lot of time and will suit literally everything from small to large:
- Mandatory breakfast, which includes the necessary vitamins, minerals and fiber. As one option, which can be modified daily with additives - cottage cheese. Cottage cheese with honey is an excellent combination of calcium, potassium and B vitamins. Cottage cheese with a grated apple will give energy, add vitamins and provide the body with fiber. Cottage cheese with raisins, with a banana, with greens, with nuts - a lot of options. Instead of cottage cheese, you can use oatmeal, which is also worth "coloring" with all kinds of additives.
- Spring recipes for giving a charge of vivacity, activity include cleaning the body - both intestines and blood. Blood is purified by regular intake of nettle tea. It is prepared simply: 1-2 teaspoons of dry nettles (it is better to buy it in a pharmacy) is poured with a glass of boiling water, it is infused for 15 minutes and filtered. Drink can be during the day, in small sips, every day a fresh drink is prepared. The course of cleansing with nettle decoction is 14 days, it is better to start cleaning in late March - early April.
- Spring recipes should provide for the possibility of allergic reactions. Spring is the time of hay fever, even those who have not previously had an experience of an allergic response to flowering plants need to protect themselves from possible risks. All allergists advise to strengthen the immune system two weeks before the beginning of flowering and the appearance of pollen. Typically, this is the period from mid-April to early May. One of the most effective methods of preparing the body for a possible allergic attack is chamomile tea with yarrow. Spring recipes, designed to combat allergies, include a course of eating phytonutrition during the 21st day. The broth is prepared as follows: 1 teaspoon yarrow and a teaspoon of chamomile flowers pour 500 ml of boiling water, the broth is infused for 30 minutes, filtered and divided into two parts. One glass should be drunk early in the morning, before breakfast, the second - two hours before bedtime.
Spring recipes, relating to appearance, include facial masks from cottage cheese with honey, compresses from medicinal herbs and rubbing the skin with ice cubes.
The mask is prepared as follows: 50 grams of low-fat cottage cheese mixed with a teaspoon of honey, add half a teaspoon of olive oil or any other vegetable oil. The mask is applied to the cleansed skin of the face, avoiding the area of the upper and lower eyelids. This tool, used twice a week for a month, will restore the radiant complexion. In order to look like the "May Rose" by May holidays, you can start the mask in early April or a little earlier. The compresses will cleanse the pores of the face, restore the skin turgor, I make them like this: a teaspoon of chamomile and a teaspoon of calendula is brewed with a glass of boiling water, insist the hour. The broth should be filtered and slightly warmed, moistened with a gauze cloth and put on the face, the compress lasts 15-20 minutes before the tissue cools. This "warming up" of the facial skin will improve blood circulation, restore a healthy blush, you can do it twice a week for a month. In the morning and wake up, and remove puffiness will help ice cubes from decoction of linden or yarrow. The broth is prepared according to the above method, it is poured into small forms and frozen.
The problem of seasonal vitamin deficiency will help to solve vitamin teas. Spring recipes for the use of teas:
- Ingredients - 250 grams of apple peel, 200 grams of dried apricots, 100 grams of raisins, 100 ml of lemon juice (pour in at the end). All except lemon juice is poured with a liter of purified water, brought to a boil and boiled on very slow heat for 15 minutes. In the end, you need to add lemon juice and 2-3 teaspoons of honey. Please note that spring recipes do not presume the use of sugar and limit salt to the maximum. To drink vitamin tea it is possible without restrictions, it and will deduce slags, and will add vitamins in an organism.
- Ingredients - three oranges, a tablespoon of honey, juice of half a lemon, raisins -100 grams. In the juicer, prepare juice from oranges and lemon. Separate boil with boiled water rinsed raisins, flip it on a sieve and add honey. Transfer the raisins with honey in a large cup and pour citrus juice, gently stir, preferably a wooden spoon. A metal spoon and rapid mixing can accelerate the breakdown of the valuable vitamin C contained in the orange and lemon. Drink this drink in small sips for two hours. The intake of such a vitamin "bomb" should be daily until the beginning of the summer season, when natural vegetables, fruits and berries appear - natural sources of vitamins and microelements.
Spring recipes are quite simple and universal, the main thing is that the body adequately took a seasonal update and was ready for a magnificent, bright summer season.