Low-fat office snacks

Appetizing crackling chips, chocolates and fat popcorn - here are snacks people of any age and social status cannot resist resist. They are especially dangerous to those who try to grow thin or supervise a diet.

For some of us such snack - original therapy, a medicine for stress, boredom or bad mood. But whether it is possible to take pleasure in eating of snacks and thus to keep a harmonous figure? The secret consists in a rational choice of snack.

Try to replace harmful fat and high-calorie snacks by low-fat, helping to support healthy power level. In our article you will find some healthy and tasty snacks with low fat content, which you can eat, without being afraid weight gain. So, it is time to release kitchen regiments and a refrigerator from chips, nutlets and other popcorns and fill vacant space with low-fat snacks that will cause no harm either to your health, or figure.

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Frequent low-fat snacks help keeping energy, supporting normal level of sugar in blood, and also constrain appetite. However, snack should be indispensable healthy and low-fat.

Some low-fat snacks satisfy hunger well, therefore you eat less at dinner or supper. Result - reduction of general daily quantity of consumed calories.

On the other hand, a hobby for unhealthy snacks with the high maintenance of trans-fats can cause acute differences of sugar level in blood, what, in its turn, can lead to acute changes of mood, apathy and irritability. Fat maintenance in a product influences its taste, consistence, structure, period of storage and appearance. But it is not necessary to forget that all products with high maintenance of cholesterol, sated and trans-fats can affect cholesterol level in blood, what, in its turn, increases probability of heart diseases development. Therefore both children, and adults should only buy low-fat snacks, but also learn cooking them independently, as it is very simple.

Healthy snacks
Choose snacks containing complex carbohydrates, for example, peanut oil, cheese or low-fat yoghurt. Forget about products with high maintenance of simple carbohydrates and glucose, for example, sweets, sweet water, etc.

At purchase of any products familiarise with information on packing (components, period of storage).

Granola stick (sweetened porridge with addition of nuts and raisin) can contain trans-fats, however it is an considered excellent healthy snack. Check up information on packing.

Choose snacks with such combination of components, which provides an organism with necessary quantity of carbohydrates (providing with energy), fibers (slowing down sugar emission in blood and by that keeping energy), cellulose (causing feeling of saturation) and healthy nonsaturated fats.

Low-fat snacks
Fresh fruits, crude vegetables, nuts, crackers or bread from integral grain flour, low-fat popcorn and cheese - here are the most healthy snacks recommended by dieticians. Some fruits, slices of vegetables, a small amount of nut kernels, low-fat spicy попкорн and cheese - here are quite accessible and useful snacks.

Other simple low-fat snacks:

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Corn chips, correctly cooked.
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Bagels from integral grain flour with natural peanut oil
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Wheaten сухарики with salsa sauce
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Middle-sized roll with bran
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Boiled egg with salt, pepper or mustard
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Pretzel, banana or stalk of celery with natural peanut oil
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Crude vegetables with hummus, yoghurt or low-fat cheese, fresh fruits with yoghurt
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Cocktail with yoghurt, ice and slices of fresh fruits (smoothie) (try various combinations)
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Small cut tuna fillet and celery, filled with low-fat mayonnaise
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Pita, filled with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber with low-fat seasoning
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Flakes ready to use from integral grain flour with soya milk
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Low-fat popcorn, low-fat cheese, low-fat yoghurt, rice pies - excellent snack after supper.
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Apple slices, grapes or berries with honey
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Crude vegetables of any type with fat-free sauce
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Pretzels, popcorn of fast preparation, rice pies
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Milk cocktail (from low-fat milk) with banana, berries or grapes, you can replace milk with a low-fat yoghurt or orange juice.

Secrets of low-fat snacks cooking

Low-fat snacks should not be absolutely tasteless. You can independently cook healthy low-fat snacks and treat your friends and relatives with them.

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Not to use sunflower or olive oil, cook non-stick cookware.
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Instead of frying vegetables or fish on a frying pan, take advantage of a microwave owen - so you can do without oil.
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Mozzarella of average hardness, fibrous cheese (cheese roll), cottage cheese contain few fat in comparison with other sorts of cheese.
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Replace cheeses from cow milk with cheese from goat milk - it contains less fat.
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Try to choose low-fat potato or corn chips
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For preparation of sandwiches use bread from integral grain flour.
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Try to eat cold and hot porridges of fast preparation more often - they practically do not contain fats.
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Replace margarine, butter, mayonnaise and sour cream with sauces on the basis of yoghurt and spices.
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Replace fat sauces with seasonings, spices and low-fat marinades.
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If you need to use eggs, it is better to replace two egg whites with one whole egg.
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It is better to replace sour cream with simple low-fat yoghurt or cottage cheese.
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Baking, frying on open fire and steam roasting - here are the healthiest ways of poultry cooking.

Childish sports is better than jogging

Physical activity is necessary at any age. What kind of exercises is better for preferring? Experts managed to find out there is a kind of gymnastics, which is much more effective, than habitual run or driving on a bicycle.

Usual childish sports are more useful to health, than any other physical activity. So, only six 30-second jogs 3 times a week can replace several 45-minute trainings a week.

Besides, such «children’s exercises» will help getting rid from overweight easier.

Certainly, it is better to do them together with children - this gymnastics will cheer up perfectly.

According to statistics, small amount of adult people pays worthy attention to their physical form. For example, daily short jog is done only by 29 % of men and women. And after all insufficient physical activity can lead to development of various diseases of muscular and bone systems of organism.

Varnishing at home. Pictures in your interior

According to designers, even most refined modern interior will seem faded and not finished, if it is not recovered with such elements of decor, as a picture, a print or an art poster. Cloths — whether these are reproductions of great pictures or intricate posters in pop art style, will help to make house conditions cosy and original, tell a lot about house owner. However, placing “house varnishing” in an interior correctly is the whole art demanding certain skills.

House ego

Today you will hardly find persons wishing to buy pictures by a principle “as everyone”. Everyone wishes to decorate his house with something unique, original, “author’s”, and there are lots of variants now — for any purse. But in such situation each chosen picture, as litmus piece of paper, reveals presence (or absence) of taste and degree of our art sophistication. And the matter is not that subjective predilections can expose our aesthetic simplicity, after all a bought picture needs also to be entered in an interior organically, and this can be uneasy. For this reason more and more people today trust selection and placing of pictures to interior experts.

Carbon copy masterpiece

Pictures certainly give special cosiness to interior. And it is not so obligatory to have expensive originals at home. Various reproductions, posters, prints — copies of known cloths or posters-photos, original prints with images of beautiful city landscapes, unusual subjects, landscapes are no less attractive from the point of view of design. However, irrespective of whether this is a valuable family relic or inexpensive colourful poster, they should be placed where they will look well.

Be cautious, modernist style!

For example, classical painting is successfully entered in a classical interior with a fireplace, silk wall-paper, furniture from massive wood, crystal and gilding. Bible and antique plots bring an element of luxury and continuity of traditions in a house. Genre sketches can underline a house owner’s occupation or hint about sphere of his hobbies. Smart portraits of household members will give sensation of own importance to a family. And landscapes will remind of favourite corners of the nature, transfer spectator to the world of illusions.

There are also no less variants for admirers of modern styles. Bright vanguard pictures will complete a minimalist interior well. Cloths of impressionists and easy water colours with vegetative drawing will decorate conditions in a modernist style. Such works are good not only as a separate work of art, but also as a colour stain, giving special colour to any premise.

Mount

However, works of art are whimsical subjects. Some especially valuable copies “dictate” conditions approaching for them. And if you get under their charm, it is necessary to change an interior. Anyway, you cannot avoid expenses on a noble frame. A frame (baguette) for a picture is like clothes for a person. It should correspond to size, colour of a picture and style of a room by all means.

Cloths written by oil should not be placed under glass. For modern pictures use smooth colour frames, and for ancient — carved gilt. A drawing (including a water colour) should not be inserted into wide frames “ala bronze”, and they are usually placed on mount (colour fields). Colour mount should be in harmony with colour of a picture and frame. It is possible to insert graphic sheet between two glasses and fasten clips.

Keep at a distance

— Choosing a picture (a reproduction, a poster, a print), it is important to represent accurately, what room it is meant for. For example, an optimum variant in a bedroom — image of colours, and also landscapes and portraits executed by pastel or water colour.

In a drawing room big bright cloths creating atmosphere of solemnity, cheering up mood are better. In a dining room still-lifes (baguette with glass will protect them from stains, which occurrence is quite possible in this premise) are logical. In a hall and an office graphic works and gentle water colours, prints with city landscapes will be pertinent.

Drive into a corner

Another important question: how to place pictures indoors correctly? After all, well-placed cloths will help underlining advantages of an interior, without breaking its integrity.

— It is natural that the one and only picture in an interior always draws attention to itself. Therefore, single works are also placed usually on a foreground. But thus they necessarily should be in harmony with other subjects of an interior.

For example, one cloth will be lost and seem alien, casual on an absolutely empty wall.

Try to find a place over lunch or a desk, a sofa, a sideboard, a bookcase or a fireplace — as a matter of fact, over any furniture or an architectural detail, which will visually help to allocate it. Especially it concerns reproductions or prints of the small size.

Big cloths can decorate an empty wall, but not all houses have places for pictures of such impressive size, which can occupy whole wall entirely.

In the thick of the press

If there is a lot of furniture in a room, it is difficult to find a place for a picture. After all squeezed between regiments, it looks not too aesthetically. In that case it is better to choose a small picture of light tones. But it is possible to place any pictures over fashionable today low furniture.

Drawing, water colour, and also modern painting in pop art style are combined practically with any furniture. In this case cloth can be hung up over furniture on the centre or displaced in one side for the best visual perception. it is preferably to place pictures on walls with monophonic wall-paper.

Large and bright patterns are incompatible with pictures.

Make a single picture a part of interior composition. It is necessary, that the cloth will supplement or underline this or that element of decor — a vase with flowers, floor lamp, bowl.

Picture family

If there are several cloths, they will look most effectively in the groups united on subjects, style, technics of execution. Isolated pictures can be inserted into same frameworks. When you cannot find a link between pictures, try to unite them, having arranged inside an accurately designated contour.

One more of widespread receptions — to organise small pictures round large. Such composition will look especially advantageously ina room with high ceilings. But it is not necessary to hang up big pictures in small rooms with low ceilings, as one can estimate their colour and composition only from a distance of two-three metres. For such rooms small cloths will approach.

Pictures in light pastel tones will visually expand a premise. By the way, on ladders and in small rooms it is possible to hang up a landscape. It will visually make a premise more spacious.

Size at size

Cloths identical in size should be hung out on a wall abreast, equally spaced, and possibly symmetrically, in the form of “grid”. Success of a composition is defined by severity of vertical lines and identical intervals between pictures. An official look will be given to an interior by two identical pictures located symmetrically, for example, over a sofa or a table …

Rehearsal on the floor

In general experts advise to hang up pictures always slightly lower, than it would be desirable. Especially in a dining room, after all here visitors will see it, most likely sitting at a table. Designers do not recommend to hang out a picture on room perimetre (on each wall), as this interferes with creation of unity of premise composition.

Very often pictures, in itself not too interesting, win from the neighbourhood with each other, creating unique combinations of colour stains. However, the return result, when interesting products “eclipse” , “interrupt” each other is also possible also. You can check up compatibility of pictures, preliminary having spread prospective group of cloths out to the floor in the conceived order — the sight “from above” will reveal all merits and demerits of composition.

To see better

By the way, recent trends in interior design assume spacious placing of each picture, so that a spectator could concentrate attention to a cloth and estimate its originality without hindrances. The same purpose is served by illumination, though in a light premise you can manage without it. Nevertheless the system of picture illumination, built in a frame, will give you a chance to enjoy favourite product all day and night. And if it is necessary to move work of art once, illumination will not need to be transferred.

But keep in mind — illumination of pictures should be approached to natural as much as possible. An ideal variant, especially for cloths under glass, — dot fixtures, and not with yellow, but with white luminescence, directed on each picture. To avoid effect of a mirror, use special glass “antipatch of light” for a picture.

Vampires from art

Psychologists and experts in painting are assured that some pictures take away energy from a person, while others generously share it. Products that can be called “vampires” - pictures in styles of abstractionism, constructivism, cubism. Avoid their placing in a bedroom, children’s room, an office and a dining room — that is in places of “constant dwelling”. “Donors”, good in any premise, are creations of artists-impressionists and realistic cloths written in light and warm colours. Prints, posters, collages with images of children, animals, the sea and sea inhabitants, summer and spring motives strengthen vivacity of spirit and inspire optimism.

The main thing is that pictures should cause emotions, conformable to character and a way of life of a house owner. When pictures cause feeling of discomfort, it is better to remove them, despite of their art value.

Flat stomach diet

All products and drinks listed below can be used in food without restrictions: dried and fresh grasses, lemon juice, lettuce leaves of all sorts, grassy teas, fruit teas, water and mineral water. And the most important thing – eat slowly, quietly and with pleasure!

Day o1

After dream.
A cup of lemon tea

Breakfast
150 ml orange juice,
150 ml yoghurt,
1 banana.

Snack
1 rye crispbread with 50 g squeezed cottage cheese.

Lunch
50 g firm cheese,
2 rye small loafs with low-fat margarine,
Salad from tomatoes, lettuce leaves, sweet pepper, cucumbers and crushed basil with low-calorie “French seasoning” (sauce for refuelling of salads from olive oil, mustard and vinegar),

1 peach or apple.

Snack
15 g sunflower seeds,
Cup of grassy tea.

Dinner
Middle piece of chicken fried on grill or baked,
75 g young potato,
Salad from 1 celery, half of apple, 12 g kernels of walnuts with 1 dessertspoon low-calorie mayonnaise, 1 dessertspoon natural yoghurt and 1 teaspoon lemon juice, and also chopped parsley to taste

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1 portion of hen with saffron and orange,
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1 portion of hen in honey with 5 table spoons brown rice,
225 g melon

Day 2

After dream
Fruit tea at your choice

Breakfast
Fruit salad from slices of melon, strawberry or kiwi, pineapple, an apple and banana – gross weight – 275 g,
50 g cottage cheese or house cheese,
1 teaspoon honey.

Snack
2 fresh cookies with 1 dessertspoon nut oil

Lunch
Salad as in 1st day,
Half of small avocado watered with low-fat “French seasoning”,
1 small piece of bread with bran with light margarine.

Snack
Fruit yoghurt

Dinner
175 g fillet of any sea fish, fried on grill or boiled,
100 g potato “in jackets”,
150 g boiled broccoli with 75 g boiled string bean.
Pour with lemon juice

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1 portion baked fish fillet plus 75 g young potato and 100 g broccoli,
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1 portion flounder in mushroom sauce plus 100 g young potato and 75 g string beans, an orange or 1 kiwi at your choice.

Day 3

After dream
Lemon tea

Breakfast
Half of grapefruit,
35 g unsalted muesli in 100 ml skim milk

Snack

50 g house cheese or cottage cheese,
1 celery and 2 dates.

Lunch
Boiled egg on lettuce, watered with 1 table spoon low-calorie mayonnaise,
Kress-salad or parsley for garnish,
1 small piece of bread with light margarine,
1 orange.

Snack
25 g kernels of wood nuts,
150 g natural yoghurt

Dinner
1 middle fast mutton chop fried on grill,
100 g peas,
100 g boiled carrot,
75 g mashed potatoes without salt,
2 teaspoons mint sauce

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1 portion stewed beef with citrus plus big bunch of greens and 75 g young potato, 100 g cherry or 1 apple.

Day 4

After dream
100 ml orange juice

Breakfast
150 g soaked and cut dried apricots which has been filled in 100 g kefir or yoghurt.

Snack
1 apple,
1 fresh cooky with 50 g skim milk, cotton cheese and a cucumber.

Lunch
225 g melon,
75 g boiled hen,
Salad from tomatoes and cucumbers with crushed basil,
1 small bran roll with light margarine
Or
1 portion of salad from hen with rice.

Snack
1 orange

Dinner
Half of grapefruit,
100 g salmon fillet or 175 g trout, stewed or baked in an oven,
100 г peas,
75 g young potato with 10 g butter, lemon juice to your taste
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1 portion of trout with fennel with 75 g young potato watered with light kindled margarine, plus 75 g peas,
100 g strawberry, raspberry or cherry and 1 kiwi.

Day 5

After dream
Lemon tea

Breakfast
35 g any unsalted cereals from ready breakfasts in degreased milk.

Snack
225 g melon or 1 orange,
25 g cheese “Edam”

Lunch
Salad from 50 g tuna in oil or sardines with cut cucumbers, celery, an apple and 100 g boiled macaroni, watered with fast “French seasoning” and decorated with lettuce and crushed parsley.

Snack
Melon or water-melon slice,
Cotton cheese with fruits.

Dinner
1 average chicken fillet, watered with a mix from 50 ml natural semiboldface yoghurt and 1 dessertspoon flour, - fry on gril within 30 minutes or bake in an oven for 45 minutes,
75 g boiled crude rice,
2 table spoons cut cucumbers with yoghurt or kefir,
1 tomato cut in slices with chopped basil,
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1 portion hen with sweet pepper,
Or 1 portion turkey in sherry.
Serve with 100 g young potato and salad from greens, watered with lemon juice

Day 6

After dream
100 ml orange juice.

Breakfast
150 ml natural low-calorie yoghurt decorated with 100 g strawberry, raspberry or kiwi slices, plus 15 g oatmeal flakes.

Snack
1 rye crispbread with a dessertspoon of nut oil

Lunch
Melon or water-melon slice,
Salad from 50 г kernels of wood nuts or unsalted peanut, 175 g grated carrots and 25 g cut dates, watered with a mix from 1 dessertspoon of olive oil with about 50 ml orange juice, pepper,
1 small roll from bran or half pita.

Snack
1 orange or 1 banana.

Dinner
100 g very fast roast beef,
50 g young potato,
100 g cauliflower,
100 g greens,
100 g grated swede or turnip,
1 dessertspoon of grated horse-radish.
Seasoning from meat juice, half of meat broth cup and 1 teaspoon flour
Or
1 portion fried beef in oyster sauce,
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1 portion mushroom pilaf

Day 7

After dream
Fruit tea

Breakfast
Half of grapefruit,
1 boiled egg,
1 rye small loaf with light margarine

Snack
1 peach,
1 cotton cheese

Lunch
50 g “Mozarella” cheese,
2 average tomato,
chopped basil,
1 dessertspoon olive oil,
Lettuce

Snack
1 rye small loaf with 50 g semiboldface processed cheese,
1 orange.

Dinner
100 g mutton liver or 2 mutton kidneys, fried on grill or teflon frying pan in a teaspoon of corn oil,
75 g young potato,
150 g broccoli,
50 g string bean,
1 average tomato.
Seasoning from meat juice and 25 ml red wine, some water, 1 teaspoon tomato paste and 1 teaspoon corn flour
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1 portion fried liver with 4 table spoons boiled brown rice,
Or
1 portion stuffed pepper with salad from greens,
50 f ice-cream or 1 glass any dry wine at your choice.

Day 8

After dream
Fruit tea

Breakfast
150 g kefir or natural yoghurt, mixed with 175 g fresh cut fruits and 1 teaspoon honey

Snack
1 banana,
25 g dry dried apricots (soak or boil)

Lunch
2 rye small loafs with light margarine,
Salad from fruits and cheese: mix 50 g slices of “Edam” cheese with 100 g melon or water-melon cut in slices, 1 circle of fresh or tinned pineapple, 150 g cut cucumbers and sprinkle all with lemon juice with a pinch of grated ginger. Decorate with chopped parsley.

Snack
1 orange,
1 small cotton cheese with fruits

Dinner
175 g low-fat fish fillet baked in foil,
100 g green sweet pepper and 100 g tomatoes fried in 1 dessertspoon vegetable oil,
75 g boiled rice
Or
1 portion shish kebab from fish with 3 table spoons boiled brown rice
Or 1 portion flounder under a piquant sauce plus 100 g young potato and 75 g broccoli

Day 9

After dream
Lemon tea

Breakfast
As in 1st day

Snack
1 rye small loaf,
1 celery with 50 g cottage cheese

Lunch
“Greek” salad: mix 1 boiled chopped egg with 75 г tuna in oil (sardines, sprats) and 75 g cooled boiled potato,
75 g cooled string bean or peas, 1 mature strong tomato and 100 g lettuce – chop all and water with fast “French seasoning”

Snack
1 orange,
1 apple or peach

Dinner
100 g roast chicken,
150 g marrows and 1 tomato, fry with 1 dessertspoon vegetable oil,
75 g string bean,
75 g sweet corn,
1 teaspoon flour for meat sauce
Or
1 portion hen under nut sauce,
Or
1 portion stuffed chicken fillet with 50 g sweet potato and salad from greens.

Day 10

After dream
Fruit tea at your choice.

Breakfast
As in 2nd day

Snack
50 g cottage cheese with 1 celery.

Lunch
1 small piece of bread with light margarine,
Salad from 75 g grains of young corncobs, 100 g string bean and 50 g peas – boil for a while and cool, then add 15 g kernels of walnut and water with natural low-calorie yoghurt or kefir mixed with 1 dessertspoon low-fat mayonnaise, lemon juice and a pinch of Cayenne pepper.

Snack
1 dessertspoon nut oil on 1 rye small loaf

Dinner
150-gramme fried beef cutlet from very fast meat with greens, 1 teaspoon of tomato mashed potatoes and soya sauce,
25 g grated “Edam” cheese, warmed up slightly,
100 g potato in jackets,
150 g eggplants fried in a dessertspoon of vegetable oil
Or
1 portion stuffed eggplants,
Or
1 portion mutton shish kebab with mint sauce with 6 table spoons boiled brown rice and salad from tomatoes.

Day 11

After dream
Lemon tea

Breakfast
As in 3rd day

Snack
25 g “Edam” cheese and 1 celery.

Lunch
350 g home lentil soup,
1 orange

Snack
25 g sunflower seeds

Dinner
100 g fast mutton meat baked in foil with 50 g cut Bulgarian pepper and 1 teaspoon crushed fennel,
100 g string bean,
100 g broccoli
Or
1 portion veal with eggplants with 75 g boiled brown rice or macaroni from not sifted flour,
175 g any fruits plus 25 ml low-fat cream or yoghurt

Day 12

After dream
100 ml orange juice

Breakfast
As in 4th day

Snack
1 banana

Lunch
Half of small avocado with stuffing from 50 g crab meat, 1 table spoon low-calorie mayonnaise and 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Serve on lettuce leaves, having strewed with parsley,
Melon slice.

Snack
1 cup strawberry or 1 orange,
1 cotton cheese.

Dinner
Omelette from 2 eggs, roasted on 10 g butter, with 75 g cut field mushrooms and 50 g grains of sweet corn,
Salad from greens,
1 small piece of bread with light margarine
Or
1 portion of fried eggs
Or
1 portion of fried marrows

Day 13

After dream
Lemon tea

Breakfast
As in 5th day

Snack
1 orange,
15 g sunflower seeds

Lunch
1 portion salad-soup,
50 g “Bri” cheese and 2 rye small loafs.

Snack
1 apple and 50 g cherry or grape.

Dinner
1 average trout (nearby 200), fried on grill or with 1 teaspoon vegetable oil,
25 g slightly roasted almonds,
50 g young potato,
75 g string bean or chopped spinach,
75 g peas
Or
1 portion salmon under lemon sauce with cream plus 100 g young potato and 75 g siliculose string bean.

Day 14

After dream
100 ml orange juice

Breakfast
As in 6th day

Snack
2 unsalted crackers with 1 dessertspoon nut oil.

Lunch
Salad from chopped celery, lettuce leaves, Bulgarian pepper and cucumbers with 50 g grated “Edam” cheese,
1 rye small loaf with light margarine

Snack
1 apple,
1 cotton cheese with fruits.

Dinner
1 average boiled or fried chicken fillet, smeared with garlick paste, and with 1 teaspoon ground rosemary,
75 g string bean,
100 g carrot or chopped spinach,
75 g boiled rice
Or
1 portion hen with ginger,
Or 1 portion liver with sage with 75 g young potato and 75 g spinach,
1 orange

Day 15

After dream
Fruit tea

Breakfast
As in 7th day

Snack
1 fruit low-fat yoghurt,
1 apple.

Lunch
Salad from 100 g boiled broccoli and 50 g peas, mixed with 50 g Bulgarian pepper, spinach and 25 g almonds, seasoned with 1 table spoon olive oil, mixed with lemon juice and spices,
1 orange.

Snack
50 g squeezed cottage cheese,
2 rye small loafs with light margarine

Dinner
150 g fried fast beef,
75 g string bean,
50 g young potato, 10 g butter
Or
1 portion stake with mustard, string bean and potato, but without butter,
225 g any fruits.

Cocktail dresses: you will charm anyone!

Who said you would not go out during cold season? Maybe someone feel cold and chilly, and (he)she will spend young years sitting under a blanket with a coffee cup, pack of cakes and old movie. But we will go out! To fascinate and enthral, enjoying sights of passing men. How? Read below about it…

A woman’s image consists of many components: these are make-up, hairdress, smile, but the most important place is taken by, certainly, her dress. And not just a dress, but cocktail one, after all we go on reception!

Let’s designate a cocktail dress concept, what’s its difference from an evening one?

Cocktail dress — a truncated female dress for solemn occasions without collar and sleeves. It initially appeared in USA in a heat of “dry law» in the course of evening dress democratisation. As alcohol was forbidden, parties with booze were spent in private houses or coded bars. There they served alcohol, played jazz, people came there to have a good time and get acquainted. It is natural that such actions demanded special form of elegant clothes: less formal and smart, than evening, however, more elaborate and bright, than daily. Thus, a cocktail dress was born.

Calculated on a very young person, it hardly closed knees, followed last styles and was sewed from expensive, but not magnificent fabrics. Initially you could dance Charleston in it. Cocktail dresses were accompanied by special accessories: tiny handbags embroidered by bugles for money, powder box and a cigarette case; open shoes with thongs matching a dress colour; long gloves, reaching elbows; tiny hat-helmet. By 30ies, thanks to Coco Chanel taste and persistence, “little black dress” - an example of cocktail dress dress that is “always at hand” - became an invariable component of each woman’s clothes.

Being a variant of a so-called “formal” clothes, subordinated to strict “dress-code”, today a cocktail dress is a standard dress for special cases (not demanding, however, a smart long dress with a loop): a corporate party in honour of firm anniversary, family celebration, national holiday or New year celebration. A cocktail dress is intended for visiting solid night clubs and casino or for appointment at the restaurant and will hardly approach for a disco, friendly sit-round gathering, picnics or children’s holidays. As a rule, it is put on for official solemn actions beginning before 7 P.M.

Today cocktail dress should be little, modest, perfectly sitting, sewed of good fabric (unessentially black or velvet). Style - elegant and womanly. These principles should not be neglected, as dress is a part of celebratory report. Unlike smart evening dresses, cocktail dress is short, without plentiful furnish. Length - approximately to a knee (not below calf’s middle, but also not above a knee). One more important point - it is always made from elegant fabric: atlas, velvet, taffeta, lace or silk.

Usually cocktail dress has no sleeves and collar, however it is not necessary to forget one “magic” rule: the more a dress is opened from below, the more closed it should be from above, and on the contrary. Summer cocktail dress is more open. It is sated by bright colours and made from light silk or chiffon. Traditional winter colours are black and red, however, deep dark blue and violet are also used actively. It is better to choose velvet or atlas.

In winter naked shoulders are covered with palatine. You can put on a silk evening coat or bolero with open dress. Shoes and stockings are very important elements of cocktail attire. Shoes should be graceful, of classical form, with closed toe cap and matching dress color (though golden or “silver” models are also admissible). Do not put on fishnets and also dense opaque stockings with cocktail dress.

Buying a handbag, present yourself on a drink reception: here you stand in a crowd of visitors, with a glass in one hand and bag in another, and see off appetizing sandwiches floating by you on a tray with a hungry look … For this reason we like now handbags on a chain (it is reeled up on a wrist) and flat bags-purses (they are clamped under the arm), leaving one hand free. Handbag should not necessarily be of same colour, as dress. For a successful combination pick up a dress and shoes of one colour, and handbag and palatine – of another. Ornaments should be reduced to a minimum. An ideal variant for all occasions are still sea pearls.

Unfortunately, a cocktail dress, as a variant of formal clothes, cannot be cheap by definition. If you consider purchase of a 400$ dress absolutely unacceptable, you can try to hire something. Tuxedo for a gentleman can be bought practically in any wedding salon, in the same place, probably, you will find a cocktail dress. You also can enquire in studio. Cost of dress hire can make 20%-50 % of its price. In a good salon they will also pick up accessories, fast dress adjustment on a figure is also possible. Choosing a dress on hire, examine it on presence of defects attentively: at return you will not manage to prove they presented before.

How to prepare a future father

Surely, you can just pin him down to facts. Under scenario, in that case, a man needs to give a delightful grunt and, start whirling you with joy. However, though all women expect such behaviour at heart, reaction of your beloved for a message on outlined addition, is not always so nice.

All centers of family planning blow unanimously: discuss conception of successors together.

All right, together. But what to do, if you crave for family continuation with all passion of a typical woman of reproductive age, and your reckless hubby waves away from tempting prospect, like from a plague? It is not excluded, that quantity of sexual intercourses reduced because of his phobia? And if there are rare minutes of intimate affinity, a man looks nervously in a condom after it and recalculates feverishly all spermotozoa.

There can be few occasions, when a man does not want children. It is fear to mature and incur responsibility for someone’s small life more often. Such guy cannot be presented with a fait accompli of pregnancy. He, maybe, will not banish you and force to do abortion, but a kid also will not bring pleasure to him: such daddy will just start running from a house. It is necessary to prepare such subject long and gradually, painting paternity and motherhood charm, inviting him accidentally in places, where nice babies live. It is possible to palm him off idyllic pictures with charming babies “casually”. When he starts doubting, there will come a turning-point. Catch him lukewarm!

The first thing you should do is definitely look at your financial situation. Will you and your partner have enough money to take care of a baby? Will you have to get a new job? Will you have to change your career? Will you have to buy a house, or rent a bigger apartment? Will you need a car? I am sure you all have heard it before, but babies do cost a lot of money, let me say that again babies do cost a lot of money, and if you think babies’ are expensive, wait until you get into the toddler years and so forth. Children come with a lot of unexpected expenses, so keep that in mind. Take this survey to find out how much it will cost to raise a baby for a year. Remember that you must keep a consistent cash flow.

Many men are jealous, believing that their wife’s attention will not belong only to them in case of childbirth. The lack of desire to have children often stems from selfish motives. Some people do not want children because they want to focus on themselves, their careers, and their money. Others do not want children because of fears about not being able to parent successfully, not being able to afford to raise the child properly, or fears about childbirth itself.

Marriage is about compromise. He does not think of kids, you want kids. You both have to work it out and be rational. You can certainly let him know how you feel but getting all ‘teary eyed’ and trying to guilt him into it is the wrong way to go about things. You can’t be pushy and he needs to be more understanding.

Anyway, when a child is born - there is no way back. Very few people, who really love their ladylove, remain indifferent to this event. Time goes, offsprings grow, turn to pimply youths and uncontrollable guys, but they will always remain that invisible thread, which connected you once and for ever.

Femme fatale secrets

Who is “femme fatale”? This is far not only a literary character, though poets of all times, since Homere, sang hymns to her… Some call her “rival in love “, some sighs delightfully, and others spit in her face. She does not keep account of her victories, walks along life easily and confidently, breaking hearts all the time. Being a subjugator and ruler of man’s destinies is so tempting. At least for a minute!

And she is not a man-hater at all, sometimes you’ve got an impression she does not realise her force to the full, this woman behaves so easy and naturally. And why, actually, - “fatal”? Well, because a man will remember even a fleeting meeting with her for a long, as something very important personally for him…

Perhaps she can be rather called a “Real Woman”? What’s her secret? What is it - a congenital quality or skill got meaningly? Is it possible to become “femme fatal”? As one classic said, “femme fatal is a trade”. And you can and should study a trade.

Not a beauty

First of all, let’s specify at once: beautiful and “fatale” are absolutely different concepts. To make it clearer, I will describe a situation each of us faced in those or other variants. So, a Beauty suddenly appears in your company. First ten minutes no other women can count even on a second of attention to herelf from outside men. Their looks are chained to the beauty.

However, after half an hour, and even less, men for some reason cease paying attention to the Beauty. And here she already sits, necessary to nobody, in loneliness.

Like a beautiful vase you admired, and then put on its place and went to communicate with live people. A heroine of our story - a Beauty, but not “femme fatal”. And therefore, any attention to her is literally passes in indifference in half an hour. And men love real “femmes fatales” for years. And decades. Thus these women are not beauties at all, more truly, this is not an indispensable condition. They can have an ordinary appearance, nevertheless, best men are at their feet.

Assured and self-sufficient

One of “femme fatale” secrets is that they know one simple rule precisely: not fullness, not curve feet and not a big nose make us ugly! But our feeling of uncertainty, coming from comprehension of own”lameness”. There is no point to be angry with destiny and take offence on whole world: this makes us closed, vulnerable, spiteful and sensitive. A woman with such qualities will hardly attract someone’s attention, and appearance is of no meaning here.

A real woman knows well: her lacks can be pleasant no less, than advantages, and at times and even more. Advantages glorify us, belittling another involuntarily. And lacks allow another laughing mildly over them, lift associates in their own eyes.

Game by rules

One more “femme fatale” secret consists in the fact that she knows (or feels) man’s psychology in detail. At dialogue with any man she uses (not always meaningly!) same scheme, consisting of four steps. This is a real scheme, because its filling - is especially individual and creative business.

Step first: “You are so unusual!”. Step second: “Why nobody, except me, notices this?”.Step third: “Do you want me to help you becoming even better?”.Step fourth: And now look, how unusual I am! “.

A very unpretentious scheme by sight, but it operated smoothly on any man in all centuries. You just should use it competently and without falseness. “Fatal women” can do this.

«Vamp» – does not mean fatale

For many people a “fatal woman” image is identified with “vamp” style, full of cold, severe attractiveness. It is not necessary to confuse these two concepts. Vamp does not resemble a terrestrial woman. Her cold dispassionateness, inaccessibility, elegant leanness, of course, draws, but not all men. And to be even more exact - very few.

Vamp can be worshipped from afar and platonically, but you cannot love her, wish to live your whole life with her, seeing her nearby every day. In this role “fatal woman” is much more attractive. She is terrestrial. Coldness is attractive only at initial stages of dialogue (and only for fans to overcome absolute obstacles). And further you need warmth, participation and simplicity in dialogue.

Laughing together

One more secret of a real woman - sense of humour. This is not such a trifle as it seems. For men sense of humour is an integral part of their psychological warehouse. It is necessary for them, because men are constantly under responsibility cargo - necessity to succeed, reach, provide prevails over them. And sense of humour, laughter, helps being discharged, treating yourself, a situation much easier.

Women who do not have sense of humour, as a rule, cause irritation in men. Too serious women remind men of school teachers, strict mothers, and other furious ladies dressed by power. Men, laughing, as though turn to little boys, therefore, refusing to joke together with them, we will wound their gravity. They are revealed in front of you, and you do not. Then they feel less protected and trust you less!

And, besides, a woman possessing sense of humour just cannot be a silly woman. “Fatal woman” never can be silly and superficial. It is a myth that men like charming little fools. They can “condescend” to them from time to time, but they will never break life and lose sleep at night because of them!

Use your riches tactfully

One more property of “fatal women” - feeling of step. Any of them never starts using appeal, sexuality to manipulate a man. Because they know precisely: men hate empty sexual advances. They instantly distinguish it and even if they outwardly show they like such behaviour, inside they will not apprehend this woman seriously. Clever women make all this in more delicate manner.

And the last: clever women, who mastered secrets set forth above, become “fatal”, able to understand and accept men the way they are. They are real Muses of great fulfilments and opening, they are worthy of it!