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As discussed in the Natural Eating section of our Personal Health Program, it’s possible to follow a vegetarian diet in the HumanaNatura approach, and notably without relying on unsustainable monoculture grains and beans. This form of eating can be more efficient, and not just more compassionate, than meat-rich diets overall, since vegetable foods are eaten directly, and eggs and dairy can be produced sustainably from foods that people cannot or often will not eat on their own. To help you explore the practice, we’ve provided an example of a delicious vegetarian meal made the HumanaNatura way and 100% following HumanaNatura’s OurPlate healthy eating guidelines.

For this HumanaNatura sample meal, we start by steaming a root base of diced white sweet potato and onion or shallot, along with a bit of crushed and finely chopped garlic and a dash of cayenne pepper, for about two minutes (see our Cooking With Steam Overview for guidance if you are new to food steaming). Then, a handful of well-chopped broccoli is added and two raw eggs, yolks broken, are layered onto the broccoli and potato mixture. Everything is steamed for another three or four minutes, some finely sliced red pepper is added with about a minute to go, and then this warm part of the meal allowed to cool slightly for a few minutes.

As the cooked egg, potato, and vegetables cool from hot to warm, a salad base of mixed garden greens is arranged on a dinner plate, and a veggie mix of halved grape tomatoes, diced cucumber, and diced orange is prepared. The cooked foods are then plated on one side of the base of greens, and the veggie mix on the other. The raw portion of the meal is dressed with olive oil and white balsamic vinegar, and the cooked side with a bit of soy sauce, a splash of sesame oil, and small zig-zags of oyster and chilli sauces. Lastly, the entire meal garnished with parsley and black pepper, and it’s then served promptly. Simple, easy, efficient, compassionate, sustainable…and delicious!

Learn more about creating naturally delicious and optimally nutritious meals like this via OurPlate, HumanaNatura’s simple natural eating guide for designing optimally healthy modern meals. Experience how this science-based and 100% natural approach to our daily meals can change the way you eat, feel, and live. Sharpen your skills at making delicious and naturally healthy Salad Meals via our Salad Meal Overview. And explore the science and key principles of optimal Natural Eating through HumanaNatura’s comprehensive Personal Health Program.

Once you have begun eating the HumanaNatura way, you can explore your many opportunities for new, more natural, and healthier life between meals – via HumanaNatura’s comprehensive four-part system for modern natural life and health. Check out the overview of our health techniques and programs at Welcome.

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In much of the world, spring and early spring vegetables are solidly with us. To mark and encourage awareness of this yearly change in regional foods, we prepared a meal made mostly of them – and also one that is about as healthy as a meal can be. While healthy and inviting meals are a natural part of eating the HumanaNatura way and following HumanaNatura’s OurPlate healthy eating guidelines, our use of low-in-the-marine-food-chain shrimp, along with generous leafy greens and fresh veggies, makes this Salad Meal both spring-timey and extra-healthy.

We start by steaming a root base of diced white sweet potato and onion or shallot, along with a bit of crushed and finely chopped garlic and a dash of cayenne pepper, for about three minutes (see our Cooking With Steam Overview for guidance if you are new to food steaming). Then, a handful of medium-sized raw, shelled (but tails-on), and deveined shrimp, along with some julienne-cut carrot and red pepper, and chopped baby broccoli, are placed on top of the root vegetables. Everything is steamed for another three or four minutes, and then this warm part of the meal allowed to cool slightly for a few minutes.

As the cooked shrimp and vegetables cool from hot to warm, a salad base of mixed greens is placed on one side of a dinner plate, and some halved grape tomatoes and diced cucumber are added. The cooked foods are then plated to the side of the greens. The raw portion of the meal is then dressed with olive oil and white balsamic vinegar, and the cooked side with a bit of soy sauce, a splash of sesame oil, and small zig-zags of oyster and chilli sauces. Lastly, the entire meal garnished with some dried berries, parsley, and black pepper, and served promptly. Simple, fresh, easy to make, amazingly healthy, and a celebration of spring!

Learn more about creating naturally delicious and optimally nutritious meals like this via OurPlate, HumanaNatura’s simple natural eating guide for designing optimally healthy modern meals. Experience how this science-based and 100% natural approach to our daily meals can change the way you eat, feel, and live. Sharpen your skills at making delicious and naturally healthy Salad Meals via our Salad Meal Overview. And explore the science and key principles of optimal Natural Eating through HumanaNatura’s comprehensive Personal Health Program.

Once you have begun eating the HumanaNatura way, you can explore your many opportunities for new, more natural, and healthier life between meals – via HumanaNatura’s comprehensive four-part system for modern natural life and health. Check out the overview of our health techniques and programs at Welcome.

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For fun or other reasons, sometimes we want or need to dine out. But restaurant meals are often among the least healthy foods we eat – frequently low in fiber and high in saturated fats, sugars, and salt – especially if we are health conscious in our at-home meals. Given this, it’s worth identifying at least one and ideally several restaurants and menu items in our area that allow us to eat the HumanaNatura way and follow HumanaNatura’s OurPlate healthy eating guidelines when we dine out. To underscore this idea, today’s example meal comes from a local bistro. As you will see, it scores high on the OurPlate rating scale, and is nutritious, delicious, and easy to prepare.

This sample HumanaNatura Salad Meal is remarkably simple and has many potential variations. It begins with a grilled chicken breast, which is allowed to cool for a few minutes if freshly cooked or warmed if previously cooked and refrigerated. The chicken is cut into bite-sized pieces and placed atop a salad base of spring greens, along with a few small cubes of feta cheese, diced apple, dried cranberry, and sliced avocado. It’s then dressed with a champagne vinaigrette, or just olive oil and white balsamic vinegar, and garnished with parsley and black pepper. Easy variations include using salmon instead of chicken, pear or another fruit instead of apple, and chopped dates or figs in lieu of cranberries. Were we making this at home, we might also garnish the salad and any of these variations with a small nut – shelled pistachios or pine nuts would be an awesome addition. In any case, a delicious, healthy, and satisfying meal, whether at or away from home.

Learn more about creating naturally delicious and optimally nutritious meals like this via OurPlate, HumanaNatura’s simple natural eating guide for designing optimally healthy modern meals. Experience how this science-based and 100% natural approach to our daily meals can change the way you eat, feel, and live. Sharpen your skills at making delicious and naturally healthy Salad Meals via our Salad Meal Overview. And explore the science and key principles of optimal Natural Eating through HumanaNatura’s comprehensive Personal Health Program.

Once you have begun eating the HumanaNatura way, you can explore your many opportunities for new, more natural, and healthier life between meals – via HumanaNatura’s comprehensive four-part system for modern natural life and health. Check out the overview of our health techniques and programs at Welcome.

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We thought we’d start off our 2017 posts with a healthy, delicious, and fairly elegant salad meal, and one that is easy to prepare too. Though in truth, healthy, satisfying, and elegant meals are always easy to create when we eat the HumanaNatura way and follow HumanaNatura’s OurPlate healthy eating guidelines. In this case, our meal involves low-in-the-marine-food-chain shrimp, generous leafy greens and veggies, and vegetable fruits and berries – all among the healthiest foods we can consume.

Our example HumanaNatura Salad Meal begins with a handful of medium-sized raw, deveined, and fully-shelled (tails-off) shrimp, which are tossed in a well-combined provençal marinade – comprised of two tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil, one tablespoon of soft butter, black pepper, finely chopped garlic, a scattering of small capers, a squeeze of lemon juice, and about a tablespoon of finely chopped parsley. The marinated shrimp are allowed to sit, covered and refrigerated, for an hour or so.

When the shrimp mixture is ready, we begin by steaming a root base of diced white sweet potato and onion or shallot, along with a bit of crushed and finely chopped garlic and a dash of cayenne pepper, for about two minutes (but with about half the water as usual – see our Cooking With Steam Overview for guidance if you are new to food steaming). Then, a small bed of finely shredded cabbage, the shrimp mixture, the liquid marinade (why less water is needed), and some coarsely-chopped baby broccoli are placed on top of the root vegetables. Everything is steamed for another three or four minutes, and then this warm part of the meal allowed to cool covered for a few minutes.

As the cooked shrimp and vegetables cool, a salad base of mixed greens is placed on one side of a dinner plate. The cooked foods are then plated to the side of the greens, some halved grape tomatoes and dried berries are added, and the entire salad is dressed with olive oil and white balsamic vinegar, and garnished with parsley and black pepper. So simple, but an amazing and amazingly healthy meal too, and a great way to start the year. Enjoy!

Learn more about creating naturally delicious and optimally nutritious meals like this via OurPlate, HumanaNatura’s simple natural eating guide for designing optimally healthy modern meals. Experience how this science-based and 100% natural approach to our daily meals can change the way you eat, feel, and live. Sharpen your skills at making delicious and naturally healthy Salad Meals via our Salad Meal Overview. And explore the science and key principles of optimal Natural Eating through HumanaNatura’s comprehensive Personal Health Program.

Once you have begun eating the HumanaNatura way, you can explore your many opportunities for new, more natural, and healthier life between meals – via HumanaNatura’s comprehensive four-part system for modern natural life and health. Check out the overview of our health techniques and programs at Welcome.

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Do you or those around you struggle with the desire for traditional meat and potato meals on one hand, and for healthier salads and green meals on the other? When we eat the HumanaNatura way and follow HumanaNatura’s OurPlate healthy eating guidelines, we don’t have to choose between these two seemingly competing desires. While our best science does suggest limiting red meats – see red meats and carnitine – this does not mean eliminating them completely, especially when they are extra-healthy and ecologically sustainable grass-fed meats – and as long as they are not processed meats, which indeed should be removed entirely from our diets.

Today’s sample HumanaNatura Salad Meal combines meat and potatoes with a selection of vegetables and fruit to create a hearty, satisfying, and healthy meal. We begin by steaming a few cubes of ground grass-fed beef on top of a base of diced sweet potato and onion or shallot, along with crushed and finely chopped garlic and a dash of cayenne pepper for about five minutes (see our Cooking With Steam Overview for guidance if you are new to food steaming). When done, the beef and root vegetables are allowed to cool for a few minutes. As the cooked beef and vegetables cool, a salad base of mixed greens is combined with a simple veggie mix of halved grape tomatoes and cut and de-seeded orange pieces. The cooked foods are then added, and the entire salad is dressed and garnished with parsley, black pepper, and shelled pistachio nuts. Lastly, the beef and potatoes are further seasoned with a zig-zag of chili sauce, and the meal is served promptly. A delicious blend of traditional cuisine and healthy modern natural eating!

Learn more about creating naturally delicious and optimally nutritious meals like this via OurPlate, HumanaNatura’s simple natural eating guide for designing optimally healthy modern meals. Experience how this science-based and 100% natural approach to our daily meals can change the way you eat, feel, and live. Sharpen your skills at making delicious and naturally healthy Salad Meals via our Salad Meal Overview. And explore the science and key principles of optimal Natural Eating through HumanaNatura’s comprehensive Personal Health Program.

Once you have begun eating the HumanaNatura way, you can explore your many opportunities for new, more natural, and healthier life between meals – via HumanaNatura’s comprehensive four-part system for modern natural life and health. Check out the overview of our health techniques and programs at Welcome.

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Optimal natural eating first involves care, and then balance. After we remove harmful sugar-rich foods, nutritionally and ecologically less desirable grains and legumes, and other unnatural or unadulterated foods from our diets, we must still achieve a balanced mix of natural foods – with neither too many nor too few natural fats, proteins, and carbohydrates, and ensuring adequate natural fiber, vitamins, and minerals. Fortunately, when we eat the HumanaNatura way and follow HumanaNatura’s OurPlate healthy eating guidelines, creating naturally balanced and nutritionally optimal Salad Meals and Steam Meals quickly becomes second nature.

The simple, rustic HumanaNatura Salad Meal we have featured today begins by steaming a serving of wild salmon and some chopped broccoli on top of a base of diced sweet potato and onion or shallot, along with crushed and finely chopped garlic, for about five minutes (see our Cooking With Steam Overview for guidance if you are new to food steaming). When done, the salmon and root vegetables are allowed to cool for a few minutes. As the cooked salmon and vegetables cool, a salad base of mixed greens is combined with a simple veggie mix of grape tomatoes, chopped red pepper, and diced avocado. The cooked foods are then added, the entire salad is dressed and seasoned with parsley and black pepper, and the meal is served promptly. Fast, delicious, satisfying, and naturally balanced!

Learn more about creating naturally delicious and optimally nutritious meals like this via OurPlate, HumanaNatura’s simple natural eating guide for designing optimally healthy modern meals. Experience how this science-based and 100% natural approach to our daily meals can change the way you eat, feel, and live. Sharpen your skills at making delicious and naturally healthy Salad Meals via our Salad Meal Overview. And explore the science and key principles of optimal Natural Eating through HumanaNatura’s comprehensive Personal Health Program.

Once you have begun eating the HumanaNatura way, you can explore your many opportunities for new, more natural, and healthier life between meals – via HumanaNatura’s comprehensive four-part system for modern natural life and health. Check out the overview of our health techniques and programs at Welcome.

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Readers from the UK, or ones who have traveled there, will probably understand our title right away. There, the ‘full’ breakfast is a common feature in many restaurants and inns. Typically referred to as a Full English or Full Irish, these meals come laden with an assortment of breakfast foods, and are filling but far from healthy. Our Full Natural breakfast is a Steam Meal intended as a still rich but far healthier alternative, one that is consistent with HumanaNatura health principles and that follows HumanaNatura’s OurPlate healthy eating guidelines.

Our Full Natural breakfast begins by steaming some diced yam, onions, and garlic, seasoned with red and black pepper, for about two minutes. A bed, or nest, of shredded cabbage is then added, 2-3 cracked eggs are placed on top, and the meal is steamed for another two minutes. Chopped red pepper and broccoli florets (or your favorite cookable veggies) are added, and the meal is steamed for two more minutes and then allowed to sit covered for about another minute. The cooked meal is then plated and served promptly, after being garnished with splashes of soy sauce and sesame oil, a bit of black pepper, a scattering of sesame seeds, a zig-zag of chili sauce (or ketchup), and peeled and chopped orange. This morning meal will fill you full and keep you healthy!

Learn more about creating naturally delicious, inviting, and nutritious meals like this via OurPlate, HumanaNatura’s simple natural eating guide for designing optimally healthy modern meals. Experience how this science-based and 100% natural approach to our daily meals can change the way you eat, feel, and live. Sharpen your skills at making delicious and naturally healthy Steam Meals via our Steam Meal Overview. And explore the science and key principles of optimal Natural Eating through HumanaNatura’s comprehensive Personal Health Program.

Once you have begun eating the HumanaNatura way, you can explore your many opportunities for new, more natural, and healthier life between meals – via HumanaNatura’s comprehensive four-part system for modern natural life and health. Check out the overview of our health techniques and programs at HumanaNatura.

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Nothing says New Zealand like kiwifruit, except that kiwis are originally from China and today are grown around the world. In any case, the good news is that many of us have access to this delicious fruit throughout the year. And like other fruits, kiwis are easily made a part delicious, inviting, and extra-healthy meals, when we eat the HumanaNatura way and follow HumanaNatura’s OurPlate healthy eating guidelines. Our Chicken and Kiwi Salad Meal is a great example of how fruit can naturally improve and enliven our daily meals.

Our featured HumanaNatura Salad Meal begins by steaming some bite-sized chicken pieces, seasoned with red pepper and a Mediterranean herb mix, on top of a base of diced carrots, white sweet potato, and red onion, along with crushed and finely chopped garlic, for about five minutes (see our Cooking With Steam Overview for guidance if you are new to food steaming). When done, the chicken and root vegetables are allowed to cool for several minutes or are chilled, covered, for an hour or more. As the cooked chicken and vegetables cool, a salad base of mixed greens is combined with a simple veggie mix of chopped tomatoes and cucumber. Arrange the cooked chicken and root vegetables on top of the salad, and garnish it with sliced kiwi, finely diced red onion to taste, chopped cilantro, and a scattering of seeds or nuts. Dress and season the salad with herbs and black pepper to taste, and serve promptly. Fast, delicious, and satisfying!

Learn more about creating naturally delicious, inviting, and nutritious meals like this via OurPlate, HumanaNatura’s simple natural eating guide for designing optimally healthy modern meals. Experience how this science-based and 100% natural approach to our daily meals can change the way you eat, feel, and live. Sharpen your skills at making delicious and naturally healthy Salad Meals via our Salad Meal Overview. And explore the science and key principles of optimal Natural Eating through HumanaNatura’s comprehensive Personal Health Program.

Once you have begun eating the HumanaNatura way, you can explore your many opportunities for new, more natural, and healthier life between meals – via HumanaNatura’s comprehensive four-part system for modern natural life and health. Check out the overview of our health techniques and programs at Welcome.

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For many of us, the dog-days of summer are here, with warmer temps and maybe extra humidity. But wherever we are, and whatever the weather, delicious, satisfying, and extra-healthy meals can be prepared in minutes, when we eat the HumanaNatura way and follow HumanaNatura’s OurPlate healthy eating guidelines. Our Salmon and Mango Salad Meal is a great example of modern natural eating, anytime and anytime of the year.

Our featured HumanaNatura Salad Meal begins by steaming part of a salmon fillet – cut into bite-sized pieces and seasoned with red pepper, basil, and coriander – on top of a base of diced carrots, sweet potato, and onion, along with crushed and finely chopped garlic – all for about five minutes (see our Cooking With Steam Overview for guidance if you are new to food steaming). When done, the salmon and root vegetables are allowed to cool slightly (or are chilled, covered, for an hour or more, if the weather is especially warm). As the cooked salmon and vegetables cool, prepare of salad base of mixed greens, along with a veggie mix of diced tomatoes, cucumber, avocado, and bell pepper. Arrange the cooked chicken and root vegetables on top of the salad, and garnish it with slivered fresh mango, chopped cilantro, and a scattering of seeds or nuts. Dress and season the salad with herbs and black pepper to taste, and serve promptly. Tasty, healthy, and satisfying!

Learn more about creating naturally delicious, inviting, and nutritious meals like this via OurPlate, HumanaNatura’s simple natural eating guide for designing optimally healthy modern meals. Experience how this science-based and 100% natural approach to our daily meals can change the way you eat, feel, and live. Sharpen your skills at making delicious and naturally healthy Salad Meals via our Salad Meal Overview. And explore the science and key principles of optimal Natural Eating through HumanaNatura’s comprehensive Personal Health Program.

Once you have begun eating the HumanaNatura way, you can explore your many opportunities for new, more natural, and healthier life between meals – via HumanaNatura’s comprehensive four-part system for modern natural life and health. Check out the overview of our health techniques and programs at Welcome.

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