Three meals for a healthier thyroid – an example of a menu for one day |
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You are ready to modify your eating habits in order to strengthen your thyroid gland, but you don't know how to correctly combine the foods?
Then you may find helpful this example of a one-day menu printed in the book by dr. Lejla Kažinić Kreho "Hranom do zdrave štitnjače" (Food for a healthier thyroid).
These three meals perfectly balances foods which will provide you with nutrition, protection from inflammation, natural energy and an excellent taste you will relish whole day.
Breakfast:
Quinoa with an apple, cinnamon and nuts + one glass of fresh pineapple juice
Ingredients (for one person):
- 70 g bio quinoa
- bio rice milk – add at the end of cooking
- 1/2 soup spoon dried cranberry
- 1 green apple, grated
- 1/2 soup spoon chopped almond
- 1 dessert spoon honey
- 1 soup spoon mixed seeds (sesame, sunflower, pumpkin)
- pinch of cinnamon
Preparation:
Place the quinoa in a bowl into which you have poured twice as much water and cook for about 15 minutes.
Don't stir the quinoa during cooking, because it wouldn't cook uniformly.
When cooked, add dry cranberries and milk, cook all together for 1-2 minutes and then remove from fire.
When it has slightly cooled, add grated apple, banana, cinnamon and honey. Lightly stir all together and place in a bowl. Top with seeds and nuts.
Lunch
Legumes and seaweed stew
Ingredients (for 4 people):
- 100 g oat flakes
- 2 soup spoons seaweed
- 50 g chickpea
- 150 g red or white beans
- 2 large onions, chopped
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
Preparation:
Soak the chickpea and beans overnight.
If you forget this, soak these ingredients in the morning and let them sit for about five hours.
In the cooking pot sautee the onions, add the legumes and the oat flakes and pour boiling water over it.
Add the turmeric and season.
Cook for about an hour or a couple of minues more, stirring frequently.
Wash the seaweed, add them to the stew and cook them all together for another 10 minutes.
Optionally, add a bit of red bell pepper powder and a freshly chopped garlic.
Dinner
A calming mixed vegetables salad
Ingredients (for 2 people):
- 1 grated carrot
- green leaf salad
- grated celery root
- 1/2 cucumber
- 4-5 spoons of cooled brown rice (basmati)
Preparation:
Mix all the ingredients and season them with lemon juice and olive oil.
This salad is a great dish with a low glycemic index and glycemic load.
You may find more reccipes in the e-book by dr. Lejla Kažinić Kreho "Hranom do zdrave štitnjače".
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