The Right Diet For Those Over 50

There is a common saying that you are what you eat. For a healthy lifestyle, it is important for us to watch what we eat especially at certain stages of life so that we are not pre-disposed to ailments and diseases. I am a believer of the fact that ‘everything God has created is good’ and also that ‘things must be done in moderation’.

It is healthy to eat at least one living food per day. That is, food in its edible raw form such as fruits. A typical daily diet could be:

Breakfast

Oat, Milk & Banana/fresh juice/ Whole wheat Bread buttered with Avocado Pear & topped with tomatoes & lettuce, Tea or fruit juice

Lunch

Rice, Fish & Vegetables/ Pounded Yam with Vegetable Soup/ Beans porridge cooked with corn/Beans with Plantain & Fish/Rice with Beans and Fish

Dinner

Boiled Yam or Plantain with Fish stew/onion sauce

Dinner is better taken 4 hours before bedtime. Subsequently, tea, fruits, other light snacks may be taken. Excess liquid should not be taken too close to bedtime.

Snacking in between meals can be nuts, fruits & salads.

Onion Sauce (Onion lightly fried in oil, seasoned with crayfish & salt) can be eaten with Yam, Boiled Plantain, etc.

A quick beef/ chicken sauce that can be used to accompany Boiled Rice, Yam, Plantain, etc.

1/4 kilograms chicken strips (Boneless)

2 cups carrots (Cubed)

½ cup green peas

2 capsicum (Tatase, Sliced)

1 cabbage (Grated, medium size)

3 spring onions (chopped)

2 garlic cloves (chopped)

4 large onions (large cuts)

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 teaspoon pepper (tiny bits/grated)

4tablespoons corn starch (dissolved in chicken stock)

cooking salt (to taste)

Directions

*Place oil in frying pan

*Pour in the onions, green peas, capsicum, carrot & pepper

*Fry for 2-3mins

*Place chicken strips, cabbage & garlic

*Fry for 2-3mins

*Crumble & sprinkle bouillon seasoning cubes for taste

*Add corn flour solution, spring onion

*Allow to boil together.

Sauce is ready

Receive REST in your health as you feast in life with Christ.