Chestnut is also a very nutritious tonic for autumn and winter. After beginning of winter, the weather gradually turned cold, "cold is yin evil, easy to hurt". Because Yang Qi's root lies in the kidney, cold pathogen is the most likely to hurt kidney yang. At this time, it is best to eat nuts such as chestnuts in time to nourish kidney qi.

In addition to sugar-fried chestnuts, it is a good choice to eat chestnuts raw or into vegetables: middle-aged and elderly people develop the habit of eating 5~ 10 pieces of air-dried chestnuts every morning and evening, which can effectively prevent kidney deficiency, backache and leg pain; Stewed chicken and meat with chestnuts as auxiliary materials are also rare.

2. Tangyuan

Eating glutinous rice balls in early winter and winter solstice is more popular in Jiangnan. The materials commonly used to make glutinous rice balls, such as glutinous rice, sesame seeds and red beans, are also warm and have a good spleen-strengthening effect. When the spleen and stomach are healthy, dietary nutrition will be absorbed and utilized by the body, improving the cold resistance of the body and preventing diseases. Best for winter.

Pay attention to the soup when cooking jiaozi. Tangyuan is sweet, and there is no need to add sugar to the soup to reduce calorie intake; If it is a small dumpling without stuffing, the soup can be replaced by longan jujube soup or longan ginger soup, which can play a role in tonifying the body and dispelling cold; Steamed buns without stuffing can also be cooked with scented tea, which tastes fresher. Brown sugar and ginger slices can also be used to cook jiaozi to dispel cold, or longan, red dates, tremella and so on. It can be added to increase nutrients. When making salty dumplings, you can add some vegetables to increase the cellulose.

3. Mutton hotpot

As the saying goes, "Eat mutton for ginseng in winter, and eat it in spring, summer and autumn to keep fit." Sheep are purely herbivores, so their meat is tender, and their fat content and cholesterol content are less than those of pork and beef. It has the characteristics of high protein, low fat and polyphosphate. In winter, mutton can be used as a warm tonic to keep out the cold, which can not only replenish deficiency, but also keep out the cold.

But because mutton has an unpleasant smell, it has been left out in the cold by some people. In fact, if one kilogram of mutton can be cooked with 10g licorice, proper amount of cooking wine and ginger, the smell of mutton can be removed and the flavor of mutton can be maintained.

4, eight-treasure porridge

Hot eight-treasure porridge is very suitable for a warm diet in winter. Chinese medicine believes that eating porridge can strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, and it has a certain effect of nourishing yin, just against the characteristics of dryness in winter.

In order to keep out the cold, you can choose warm or mild foods that can strengthen the spleen and stomach, such as coix seed, jujube, walnut, peanut, chicken, mutton, glutinous rice, longan, yam, tremella and so on. We might as well be creative and mix these ingredients into delicious porridge, such as mutton porridge, chicken porridge, jujube glutinous rice porridge, yam millet porridge, jujube tremella porridge and rice porridge.

5. jiaozi

Every year in early winter, every household will pack jiaozi at home, commonly known as "pinching ears". It is said that this custom also comes from the folk language of "where to eat, where to put on makeup". I hope that jiaozi, where meat and vegetables are warm, will be warm all winter.

Jiaozi is one of the most distinctive foods in China. We always eat jiaozi at some important times, such as beginning of winter and Spring Festival. There is a folk saying that it is lucky to have children and eat jiaozi. Beginning of winter is the transitional season of autumn and winter. Therefore, Jiaozi can't help eating when having sex.