First, beginning of autumn eats cucumbers. Because the weather is very hot in summer, people consume a lot of energy in the body, which leads to many people's loss of appetite and a serious shortage of calories in the body. When the weather turns cold in autumn, people's taste is enhanced, their appetite is greatly increased, their diet will be unconsciously excessive, and their calorie intake will be greatly increased. Coupled with the pleasant climate, people get enough sleep and sweat less. In autumn, people get fat carelessly, which is a threat to obese people. Therefore, obese people should pay more attention to losing weight in autumn. It is a good choice to lose weight and eat cucumbers in autumn. Cold cucumber ingredients: 2 cucumbers, a little garlic. Exercise 1. Wash the cucumber and cut it open. Pat it with a knife. Cut diamonds. Anyway, I cut it anyway. It doesn't matter. I ate it myself anyway. 2. Then add a proper amount of salt and marinate for about 10 minutes. Then cut garlic into powder and introduce minced garlic into cucumber. Add appropriate amount of sesame oil, vinegar and chicken essence, stir well and serve. Second, people in beginning of autumn say that eggplant grows in summer, and beginning of autumn eats eggplant. Early autumn is a good time to eat eggplant. Eating eggplant this season can reduce "excessive internal heat" and eliminate autumn dryness. The eggplant just harvested in autumn is called "Kandelia candel", which has a unique fragrance and delicate taste, so it tastes better than ordinary eggplant. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eggplant is cool and sweet, and has the functions of clearing heat and stopping bleeding, relieving swelling and pain, expelling wind and dredging collaterals, moistening intestines and benefiting qi. Besides being rich in vitamins and trace elements, it is different from other vegetables in that it is rich in vitamin P, which is a flavonoid and helps to maintain the normal function of the cardiovascular system. Therefore, eggplant is very beneficial to patients with arteriosclerosis, hypertension, coronary heart disease and scurvy. In addition, foreign research results show that eggplant is also a "strong anti-cancer hand" in vegetables, and its solanine component can inhibit the proliferation of digestive system tumors and play a certain role in preventing and treating gastric cancer. There are many ways to cook eggplant. No matter whether it is fried or fried, it can cook a wonderful taste, but it is worth noting that we must choose a correct and healthy way to eat it. When making eggplant, many people like to fry or "oil" eggplant. Although delicious, high temperature will cause serious loss of nutrients in eggplant and greatly reduce its health care function. And high calorie and high oil intake is also harmful to the body. It is recommended to steam eggplant at home. Homemade steamed eggplant ingredients: sauce (soy sauce, soy sauce, bean paste with water), chopped green onion, oil. Practice: Wash the eggplant, cut it into pieces, put it on the plate and code it. After adding water to the steamer to boil, put the eggplant into a plate and steam it (about 15 minutes, depending on the size of the eggplant). Put oil in a hot pan, saute chopped green onion, pour in the evenly stirred sauce and bring to a boil. Turn off the fire, pour the cooked sauce on the steamed eggplant and serve. Third, beginning of autumn eats pumpkins. In beginning of autumn, people want to eat pumpkins, which is considered as the first choice for "grabbing the autumn harvest". This is because after autumn, the climate is dry, the water in the skin mucosa evaporates quickly, and the body is easy to get hot and dry. Pumpkin has the function of moistening dryness, and at the same time it can give people a feeling of fullness. People think that eating pumpkins can store energy for winter. Of course, the effect of pumpkin is far more than that. Chinese medicine believes that pumpkin is warm and sweet, enters the spleen and stomach meridian, and has the functions of tonifying the middle energizer, diminishing inflammation and relieving pain, detoxifying and killing insects. Eating pumpkin regularly can also prevent cancer and is the first choice for diabetic patients. Introduce the method of pumpkin. Pumpkin lotus root and Dutch bean raw materials: pumpkin, lotus root, Dutch bean, vegetable oil, ginger and salt. Practice: Wash the pumpkin and cut it into long strips for later use, slice the lotus root obliquely, cut each piece into three long strips for later use, and wash the peas for later use. Put vegetable oil and ginger into a small rice cooker. When ginger tastes like ginger, add pumpkin and lotus root, cover for a while, and add a little water in the middle to avoid burning the bottom of the pot. When the pumpkin is almost ripe, add peas, salt and a little soy sauce, stir, cover for a while, and serve. 4. Eating watermelon in beginning of autumn is similar to "biting spring" in Lichun, and beginning of autumn in Beijing, Tianjin and other regions has the custom of "biting autumn". It is said that eating melons in beginning of autumn can avoid diarrhea in winter and the next spring. Guinness miscellanies. /kloc-Customs at the age of 0/8: Eating melons and biting autumn in beginning of autumn can avoid diarrhea. Watermelon was introduced into the Central Plains from the northwest, so it is called watermelon. There is a poem that says: if you swallow it, you will get rid of the smell of fireworks. If you bite it, you will make the sound of ice and snow. Watermelon in Northwest China has just entered the picking period around beginning of autumn, so it is an early adopter to eat watermelon in beginning of autumn. This custom influenced the south in the Qing Dynasty. At the beginning of autumn, watermelons from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai entered the final market. People have various explanations for why beginning of autumn eats watermelon. Some people say that eating watermelon in beginning of autumn can eliminate the stagnant air accumulated in summer, while others say that it can accumulate "prestige" for winter. In fact, it is only the influence of northern customs. However, it should be admitted that after beginning of autumn, the weather became colder and the number of watermelons on the market decreased. People eat watermelon again in early autumn, which means saying goodbye. China reminded me that watermelon is a good summer solution. After beginning of autumn, the weather began to get cold. Even though it was still hot during the day, the temperature difference between morning and evening began to increase. Watermelon can't be eaten unscrupulously like summer. Watermelon is wet and heavy, which will make people catch cold and cold. After autumn, their resistance will drop and they will get sick easily. How to eat watermelon? First, wash the melon, cut a triangular small mouth on the melon with a knife, pour a few spoonfuls of white sugar and a few drops of soju, and then cover the incision with peeled melon to let the white sugar melt and penetrate into the pulp. When you get to beginning of autumn, cut it open and eat it. The taste is really unusual. 5. beginning of autumn eats pumpkin flowers. Here, I'm going to tell you about a kind of food with rural characteristics-pumpkin flowers. Pumpkin yellow flowers are dotted among green leaves, which is one of the important signs of summer. In recent years, pumpkin flowers has become more and more respected, and many big hotels can see its shadow. Pumpkin flowers is both a vegetable and a medicine. It is rich in minerals such as protein, vitamins, plant fiber, iron and calcium, carotene and amino acids. It also has the effect of clearing away damp-heat and can treat various inflammations. It can not only beautify and moisturize the skin, strengthen health care, but also help to improve the quality of sleep and help children grow their intelligence. There are many ways to do it. The most common ones are stir-fried pumpkin flowers, pumpkin flowers cake and pumpkin flowers soup, which are rich in nutrition and fresh in taste. Eat more in summer. Recommend the practice of pumpkin flowers omelet. Pumpkin flowers omelet ingredients: pumpkin flowers, flour, eggs, pepper, cornstarch, salt. Practice: pumpkin flowers washes and drains water after removing stamens; Eggs are made into batter with flour, corn flour, salt and a little pepper; Let pumpkin flowers coat the batter evenly, and fry it quickly in the oil pan for a few seconds to drain the oil. Six, beginning of autumn eat red beans Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, there has been the custom of drinking autumn water red beans in beginning of autumn-take seven to fourteen red beans and swallow them with well water, facing west when taking them. It is said that dysentery can be avoided in one autumn. Red beans are sweet and flat. It can strengthen the spleen, promote diuresis, promote blood circulation and detoxify. Adzuki bean contains more saponins, which can stimulate the intestine, so it has a good diuretic effect, can relieve alcoholism and detoxify, and is beneficial to heart disease, kidney disease and edema. Adzuki bean contains more dietary fiber, which has good effects of relaxing bowels, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipid, regulating blood sugar, detoxifying and resisting cancer, preventing calculus and keeping fit and losing weight. We can also follow the example of the ancients and eat some adzuki beans in beginning of autumn to make nutrition porridge, which tastes better. Ingredients: 50g of adzuki bean, 0/00g of coix seed/kloc-,30g of lotus seed, 20g of lily, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Practice: Wash adzuki beans, coix seed, lotus seed and lily, and soak them in clear water 1 hour; Boil the above raw materials for 10 min, then cover and stew for 1 hr; Boil the soup again, then add the crystal sugar, turn the heat down for 20 minutes, then turn off the heat and stew for 30 ~ 60 minutes.