the Rice Diet solution

Alberto Roycor — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:39:01 +0000

Posted by Alberto Roycor updated on February 21, 2017
Updated on February 21, 2017

The Rice Diet Solution

The Rice Diet is a fad diet. It means only empty promises to lose weight. In fact they guarantee you to lose between 2-3 pounds the first day alone on the rice diet. The rice diet is very simple to follow. You can stuff yourself of rice providing you don’t put any salt in it. As you cannot put proteins and fats, the rice diet is completely unbalanced. You eat rice at breakfast, at noon, at lunch time, in the afternoon and in the evening. As much as you wish or… can. The good news is that you can have fruit and vegetables, whole grain, beans, starch, light dairy product. But choose these products carefully as some of them have salt. Yo can find up to 2 grams per liter of milk.

From 800 to 1200 calories

At the beginning, you cannot get more than 800 calories a day. Gradually, you will reach 1200.

After a few weeks with this diet, you will lose a few pounds more… of water! As soon as you come back to you normal diet, you’ll recover it in matter of days.

There is a book about it: The Rice Diet Solution by Kitty Gurkin Rosati and Robert Rosati. The most important thing you can find in it is the statement that most of us eat seven or eight times more salt that we need. If this is your case and you cut the salt, you’ll feel better specially if you suffer from blood pressure. Anyway, if your health is alright, it will not do you any harm to eat just unsalted boiled rice for a couple of days… if you can stand so long!

If you find the diet very boring, you can change the type of rice: brown, integral, etc. There are more than forty thousand different varieties of it!

One of the most significant recipes of Mediterranean Diet: Paella

Alberto Roycor — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:10:23 +0000

Updated on March 25, 2017

March 25, 2017
Paella, or Rice in paella, it is the most popular dish in Spain
Posted by Alberto Roycor Updated on March 25, 2017

Paella, One of the most significant recipes of Mediterranean Diet.

There is a complementary post about paella here.

The real name is Rice in Paella, that is the name given to the special flat wide frying pan. In Spain it is the most popular dish and its origin is in Valencia region. There are many ways of doing it, according with the personal preferences. All of them follow the Mediterranean Diet pattern. We offer the more classic one, not well accepted by people who dislike escargots.

INGREDIENTS FOR 4 PORTIONS
1,5 dl. Olive oil
1 Kg. Chicken (one)
500 gr. Rabbit
20 units Snails
200 gr Green beans
120 gr Beans (Garrofó)
160 gr. Tomato
400 gr. Rice
8 gr. Spice of red pepper
3 gr Saffron
3 cloves Garlic
2 l Fumet or water
a/p Salt
HOW TO PREPARE THE VALENCIANA PAELLA
– Clean and cook the snails.
– Clean and cut the chicken and rabbit into pieces and then season
– Peel and mince the garlic and the tomato.
– Remove the string from the green beans and cut them into pieces.
– Prepare the fumet.
– Cook the beans (garrofó).
– Put the paella (pan) with oil onto the stove.
– Add the chicken and the rabbit and when it goes brown, add the minced garlic and green beans
– Cook it for a while and then add the tomatoes, red pepper and snails.
– Mix it well and add the rice.
• Wet it with water or fumet which has been previously seasoned and perfumed with saffron.
• The amount of water should be double the amount of rice.
– Add the beans (garrofó).
– Cook it at a high temperature at the beginning.
– Test the seasoning and put it in the oven.
– Remove it from the oven when the rice is cooked.
– Allow to stand for five minutes.

The ingredients can be varied and can also vary from a restaurant-made paella to a home-made paella which is similar to the one explained here. The one in the picture was specially ordered with sea food.

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the Rice Diet solution