Prepare for winter – healthily
The days are getting shorter, the temperatures are falling, weariness is on the up – slowly but surely, winter is approaching. This month, many people fall into a kind of ‘November hole’. Now in particular it is important to ensure you eat the right foods to maintain the energy reserves you need.
As well as getting enough sleep and regular exercise, eating food with sufficient vitamins and nutrients is essential. The right nutrition provides the body with important vitamins and nutrients that it needs in winter.
Building up your vitamins: these vegetables are the best way
To eat well and to feel good, you should eat plenty of vegetables. Vegetables are truly all-round talents – and a firm component of healthy, balanced nutrition. But which vegetables contain the most of these valuable vitamins?
The following types of vegetable are among the richest in vitamins:
- Spinach
- Carrots
- Broccoli
- Kale
- Zucchini
- Pumpkin: find simple, delicious pumpkin recipes here for the fall season!
- Asparagus
- Beet
Keep to a varied diet with plenty of vegetables in order to stay healthy and cheerful through the cold winter months. Green vegetables are particularly good for you because they are rich in various vitamins such as Vitamin A, C and K and also contain important minerals including iron, calcium, and potassium. This blog post provides more information and gives suitable recipes.
How do you cook vegetables such that they retain their vitamins? Find out below.
Gentle cooking with AMC
Modern methods of cooking have the potential of fundamentally changing the ways food is prepared. A particularly effective, healthy method is to cook with AMC without adding water. With this method, food is gently cooked with steam, without the addition of extra water. This retains far more nutrients than is the case with conventional cooking; the natural aromas are also preserved better.
This method of cooking is particularly suitable for preparing vitamin-rich vegetable dishes. Additionally, this method ensures that the ingredients retain their natural color and texture.
The AMC Cook & Go App offers step-by-step instructions for preparing many recipes, and in particular for vegetables. With this app you can’t do anything wrong. You’ll also find tasty recipes for a vitamin-rich supper further down in this piece.
AMC promotes intensive cooking techniques with the aim of offering you an optimal cooking experience. Find out more here about the smart AMC cooking system and its variety of cooking methods.
As well as cooking without adding water, there are other ways you can prepare vegetables carefully and nutritiously with AMC. Find out about the benefits of steam cooking with AMC and why you should make regular use of the AMC EasyQuick steaming lid here.
