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    Fiddle Fit & Food Fabulous: Lifestyle Tips & Healthy Recipes for Achieving and Maintaining a Healthier You
    Fiddle Fit & Food Fabulous: Lifestyle Tips & Healthy Recipes for Achieving and Maintaining a Healthier You
    Fiddle Fit & Food Fabulous: Lifestyle Tips & Healthy Recipes for Achieving and Maintaining a Healthier You
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    Fiddle Fit & Food Fabulous: Lifestyle Tips & Healthy Recipes for Achieving and Maintaining a Healthier You

    By Alison Cox

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    If youve been struggling to make better choices when it comes to eating smart and staying fit, this inspirational book will help you to discover your own secret recipe to leading a healthier lifestyle. Forget the latest dietary fads or short-term health solutions, Fiddle Fit & Food Fabulous will show you that the true secret to a healthier lifestyle can only be found by making smarter choices when it comes to food as a way of life. Are you tired of dieting only to gain back that unwanted weight? Have you been looking for a way to stay fit and trim and keep the weight off? Are you in need of a food fabulous lifestyle makeover? Fiddle Fit & Food Fabulous will not only give you the inspiration you need to start leading a food-smart lifestyle, it will also give you the necessary health conscious foundation to manage your weight for life.

    After years toiling with her own battles to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle, Alison Cox found success by making smart health conscious modifications to her diet and lifestyle. Determined to help others achieve the same success, Alison Cox reveals her frank and honest approach to eating right, incorporating fitness into a daily routine, and staying healthy for life. With obesity rates soaring to epidemic proportions in North America, it is more important than ever to change the way we look at food in relation to our own bodies and lifestyle.

    In this book, Alison Cox shares her own personal journey of conquering the ongoing battle to lose weight and keep it off for life. Alison has spent several years developing recipes that offer simple alternatives to some of todays most popular foods. With over 80 recipes that include organic foods, gluten-free options, and a wide variety of healthier ingredients, Fiddle Fit & Food Fabulous maintains the flavour of all your favourite dishes and makes changing your lifestyle into a fun and rewarding experience.

    Fiddle Fit & Food Fabulous offers a wealth of inspiration, healthy recipes, and alternate lifestyle strategies for anyone seeking a healthier lifestyle through nutrition and better food choices. This book is also for those who have been trying to maintain a healthier weight, but have fallen victim to the latest dietary fads that never seem to work. Alison Cox takes a simple approach to preparing food with a strong emphasis on making the right choices that work for you. You dont need to give up all of your favorite foods to lose weight, keep it off, and maintain a healthier lifestyle; you just need to look at what you eat and how you live from a different perspective. As Alison reveals in Fiddle Fit & Food Fabulous, the answers to a healthier lifestyle are often right in front of us, If youre burning more calories than youre consuming, youll lose weight. Its not rocket science.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateFeb 20, 2007
    ISBN9781425194178
    Fiddle Fit & Food Fabulous: Lifestyle Tips & Healthy Recipes for Achieving and Maintaining a Healthier You

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      Book preview

      Fiddle Fit & Food Fabulous - Alison Cox

      Copyright © Alison Cox, 2006

      Cover artwork and design by Alison Cox

      Illustrations and layout by Alison Cox www.alisoncoxart.com

      Copyediting and back cover photo by Reginald Seeton

      © Copyright 2006 Alison Cox.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      Note for Librarians: A cataloguing record for this book is available from Library and Archives Canada at www.collectionscanada.ca/amicus/index-e.html

      ISBN 1-4120-9109-8

      ISBN 978-1-4251-9417-8 (ebook)

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      Contents

      Preface

      Introduction-Where I’ve Been

      The Four Essentials to a Healthy Lifestyle From Fiddle Fit & Food Fabulous

      Chapter One   Essential # 1-Healthy, Nutritious Eating

      Chapter Two   Essential # 2-Exercise

      Chapter Three   Essential # 3-Sleep

      Chapter Four   Essential # 4-State Of Mind

      Food Fabulous

      Breakfast

      Snacks & Beverages

      Snacks & Beverages

      Salads

      Main Meals

      Veggie Sides

      Potatoes and Grain Sides

      Fun Night Meals

      Desserts

      For the Winhams, for sharing their passion for living and for always having something interesting and inspiring cooking in their kitchen.

      For Reg, whose persistence & determination showed me that it is okay to think outside the box.

      And for Mom and her legendary meatloaf

      With love,

      Alison

      Preface

      For years I have dreamed of writing a recipe book. Cooking is an absolute passion of mine. Being a self-taught chef, the introduction of the Food Network on TV gave me the visual tools and tips necessary to take my culinary skills to new levels. The great thing is, cooking is ever changing.

      With unbridled passion, I began writing down my creations. It’s time to share some of that creativity. It is possible for food passionate people to eat amazing cuisine while maintaining a healthy weight. I am living proof.

      Based on my own successful weight loss transformation after years of the typical struggles experienced by many, my dream of writing a recipe book evolved into not only recipes, but a healthy lifestyle guideas well.

      With obesity rates reaching epidemic proportions in parts of the world, the cost of health care is also escalating. It’s no secret that being overweight or obese can have serious implications on one’s health. Obesity, like smoking, is a preventable cause of death.

      I feel there is a direct correlation between the food we eat, exercise, sleep and our state of mind as it pertains to our health. With a balance in these four areas, we can strive to live life to the fullest. I have included helpful information on all of these areas in Fiddle Fit & Food Fabulous.

      No one wants to ever feel deprived of his or her favourite foods. I certainly don’t. It’s been an ambition of mine to re-create the foods I’ve loved, by simply using healthy ingredients and preparation. I don’t want to sound as though I’m tooting my own horn, but I eat great every single day.

      I’m passionate about shopping for, preparing, and of course, the enjoyment of healthy food. I love to sample all types of cuisine, from all corners of the globe. Whenever possible, I strive to use real, fresh and natural ingredients in my cooking.

      I have also spent years researching both nutrition and health. During my research, I elected to have food sensitivity testing done. The results showed that I have an intolerance for gluten. That imbalance branched into a whole new world of research and re-invention of recipes. Further information on gluten can be found in Fiddle Fit & Food Fabulous. The Food Fabulous recipes, if not gluten-free, contain gluten-free alternatives and can be enjoyed by all.

      My focus for the recipes in this book centres on a variety of ethnic cuisine, cooked with low fat and no added sugar. I’ve also included healthy re-makes of popular North American dishes and a few interesting inventions to pique your interest.

      This book is all about finding your own healthy balance for living well and enjoying everything along the way with Fiddle Fit & Food Fabulous.

      Introduction-Where I’ve Been

      I could not very well set out to write a healthy lifestyle and recipe book without telling you where I’ve been. Perhaps my story mimics your own journey.

      I grew up in a small and friendly town on the eastern seaboard, where kids walked safely to school with their lunch boxes full of various goodies. Often they were filled with peanut butter and jam sandwiches on white bread, or bologna with mayonnaise. Some kids had moms who loved to bake—cookies, muffins, cakes, pies and squares. These all seemed to find their way into the lunch boxes, too.

      In a typical North American kitchen back in the 1970’s, the staples were bread, butter, peanut butter, processed cheese spread, packaged macaroni and cheese mix, canned baked beans, wieners and ground beef.

      As a child, I remember my brother’s favourite snack was ketchup on toast. I can’t recall if it was his own creation, or if somehow Mom introduced the combination. Unfortunately, Mom wasn’t a cooking enthusiast. Instead, she preferred the simpler the better approach, often using pre-packaged mixes cooked with ground beef or the trusty boiled dinner. I think we may have been the only kids on our street that regularly ate boiled pig’s feet and cabbage. Young girls often tend to adapt their own style of cooking from their mothers; however, things were different in my case.

      My inspired relationship with food was born across the street at my best friend Karla’s house. One afternoon, I watched Karla’s mother make a pasta sauce. It was a simple event, but it had a huge impact on my life. She opened the fridge, grabbed some leftover chicken, chopped it up, and threw it in the sauce. I remarked, "You don’t put chicken in pasta sauce. You’re supposed to put hamburger in it! That’s when she set me straight, Of course you can put chicken in pasta sauce—Why not?" At that moment, I didn’t have an answer.

      Although it may seem insignificant, that’s when my food passion and creativity were born. All food didn’t have to be boiled or made with ground beef. I had no idea that you could change things, add ingredients, and most of all, create!

      Every day, Karla and I would come home from school and make the wildest concoctions for our snacks. At her house, the ingredients were far more interesting than at mine. Thinking back now, I’m sure we ate more than an entire meal as our afternoon snack. Perhaps our simplest, yet most decadent invention (which I’ll leave nameless for now as it wasn’t an appetizing name, but a visually descriptive bad name to two giggly little girls) was a mixture of butter and brown sugar stirred together into a paste. It was definitely salty sweet, to say the least. We loved the addictive flavour. Sure, it tasted fantastic! Healthy? Absolutely not.

      On Tuesday nights when Dad worked late, Mom would take my brother and I to McDonald’s for supper. I remember my regular order: 2 cheeseburgers, small fries, a Coke and a sundae. Honestly, I don’t know how, as a little girl, I could eat that much! The regular Tuesday nights at McDonald’s were a guilty treat for all of us, especially Mom, as it was her night off from being a full-time housewife. It’s too bad it had to be McDonald’s and not a healthy restaurant, but that’s a perfect example of how McDonald’s has infiltrated the public consciousness and culture of food in relation to work and days off.

      Luckily, we were very active kids. By playing sports, riding bicycles, walking to school, playing outdoor games and doing yard work, we managed to escape the obesity tag that is now plaguing so many North American children.

      In this day and age, numerous advancements in technology have been both a blessing and a curse in our daily lives. In relation to food, health, and weight, technology has led to a generation of computer bodies, what I coin The Computer Bod, physically unfit people who are that way because they spend too much time at the computer. There’s one simple solution to shed The Computer Bod: Pry yourself away from the computer and get moving.

      Habits can be hard to break and by the time

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