Food supplement in winter is inseparable from meat. Although generally speaking, eating less meat is good for health, the elderly are weak and it is difficult to meet the needs of tonic by vegetarian diet. In winter, they should eat some meat properly. However, different meats are different. Chinese medicine studies meat very carefully. Different kinds of meat have different properties and tastes, so there is no need to eat all kinds of meat for tonic.
People who are healthy, not weak and not dry can eat more chicken in winter. As the saying goes, "every 9/kloc-0 chicken will make you healthy in the coming year." Chicken is warm and flat, which is very irritating to human body. Chicken can provide rich nutrition, slightly resist the cold in winter, and will not make people eat internal fire. It is a good product for health preservation in winter. Chicken is best stewed, and stewed chicken with mushrooms is a classic chicken stew.
Chicken soup, boiled rice with milk and stewed mushrooms with chicken are all good tonic dishes, which are simple and convenient. Besides stewing, stewing chicken soup is also a good method. Chicken soup is a kind of broth and the raw material of many dishes. I usually buy fresh chicken. I can cook soup with bones and other parts I don't eat, or I can make chicken soup specially. For example, you can add sea to chicken soup and stew it into sea cucumber chicken soup. Chicken soup with sea cucumber: half a grass chicken and 2 sea cucumbers. Soak the sea cucumber clean. Boil water, add sea cucumber, cook for 10 minute, then take it out, let it cool, and cut it into small pieces; Wash grass chicken, cut into pieces, blanch, add cooking wine, salt and soy sauce for curing; Add water to the pot, add chicken nuggets, sea cucumber, ginger slices and onion segments, and stew over high fire; When the water boils, turn to low heat and cook for 30 minutes. Season with salt.
Dairy products, honey and other sweets do not stimulate the stomach and are rich in nutrients, so the elderly should eat more. However, drink milk, just one or two cups a day. The key is persistence, and perseverance can play a nourishing role.
Cooking with milk: when cooking, change half of the water into milk, and the cooked rice has the function of nourishing qi and blood.
Spiced milk tea: Renshou Lu also records the nourishing spiced milk tea made of milk. The practice is: put tea and honey into the pot; Pour in milk and cook milk tea with low fire; Season with white sugar, then add ground almonds and sesame seeds. Besides milk, tea, honey, almond and sesame all have nourishing effects in this drink, which is especially suitable for the elderly with spleen and kidney deficiency in winter.
Afraid of cold: it is best to eat ginger to drive away the cold.
Fear of cold is a common feature of many elderly people. Because people's metabolism slows down after aging, it is easy to form qi and blood deficiency. Therefore, autumn and winter are very rare opportunities for the elderly to treat diseases. When it comes to tonic, some people think of ginseng, velvet antler and cordyceps sinensis, which are precious medicinal materials. Every time I go home to honor my parents during the New Year, I will buy these tonics. This is a wrong concept, the most common food and the best medicine, the cheaper the food, the better the curative effect.
Tip: Drinking ginger tea, Jiang Shui soaks his feet as the saying goes: "There is ginger in winter, and he is not afraid of wind and frost." It is just right to eat ginger in winter. Because ginger is pungent, it can produce hot air in the body in winter and dispel the cold, so patients who are frozen can often drink ginger soup to drive away the cold and prevent common diseases such as colds. Pay attention to eating ginger. First, peel ginger in winter. Second, don't eat ginger at night. Ginger is peeled when it is hot, and it must be peeled in winter to drive away the cold.
Pay attention to the time when eating ginger. The so-called "within one year, don't eat ginger in autumn; Don't eat ginger at night for one day. " Therefore, it is not appropriate to eat ginger in autumn, and it is best not to eat ginger at night in winter tonic, and put the time to eat ginger in the morning or at noon. Fresh ginger can be eaten directly or added to various dishes, such as adding shredded ginger when cooking, or adding shredded ginger and sliced ginger when stewing. Fresh ginger can also be made into nourishing drinks such as ginger juice milk and ginger black tea. Ginger jujube tea: washed ginger and sliced; Wash red dates and remove the core; Put ginger and red dates in a cup, pour them into boiling water, cover the pot and stew for 10 minutes, then let them cool and serve.
Tonifying kidney: chestnut porridge
Winter is the season of tonifying kidney. Kidney is very important in the five internal organs and is the foundation of health. People's aging is simply the weakness of the kidney. Therefore, winter is a good time to tonify kidney, resist aging and keep fit. However, you can't eat supplements indiscriminately. There is also a misunderstanding among the people that tonifying the kidney requires eating organs related to reproduction, such as the kidneys and external genitalia of male animals. This is actually biased. The genitals and kidneys of male animals can't be eaten casually, and many vegetables and fruits also have the function of tonifying kidney. It is particularly important to note that it is not suitable for eating kidneys in winter, which is harmful and does not make up.
Tip: Eat more chestnuts. Although many meats have nourishing effects, from a health point of view, vegetarianism is more beneficial to health than meat. If you want to tonify the kidney in winter, you can eat more vegetarian food with the effect of tonifying the kidney, such as chestnuts.
Chestnuts are sweet and warm, and have the effects of nourishing the stomach and strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidney and benefiting qi, and are not as greasy as meat. It is often used to tonify kidney in health care and dietotherapy. Eating chestnuts in winter, you don't need to stick to the practice. Sugar-fried chestnuts can be eaten as snacks, chestnuts and meat can be mixed together to make dishes like chestnut chicken, and chestnut noodles can be used instead of staple food. The most famous one is chestnut noodles with steamed buns.
If you often eat chestnuts, it is more convenient to make chestnut porridge. Chestnut porridge also has a prominent kidney-tonifying effect. There is a folk saying: "waist soreness and leg weakness and kidney deficiency, and chestnut porridge is a tonic." After entering the winter, meat in the diet increases, and drinking chestnut porridge regularly nourishes the spleen and stomach, which can reduce the burden of meat on the spleen and stomach. Chestnut porridge: chestnut 10, japonica rice100g, and proper amount of sugar. Chestnuts and japonica rice are shelled and cooked until they are sticky. Add sugar to taste. In addition to chestnuts, walnuts are also a good kidney-tonifying food. Walnuts, like chestnuts, can be eaten as snacks, or crushed and added to porridge to make walnut chestnut porridge.