Top Foods For Bigger Muscle Gain

By Author: Robert Locke
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Everyone knows by now that your hard lean body will depend mostly on what you eat! I want to give you some ideas in this article for healthy foods which will help you to reach your goal. Here are some thoughts on what I keep in my fridge and my food cupboards. Any junk in the house will only tempt you to eat it so the first step is just not to have junk around the place. Chances are that it will get eaten ! Healthy food in the house will make you eat wisely - it is dead easy - you just eat what you have in the house. I suppose the vital thing really is not to make mistakes when you go food shopping. These are some ideas I have adopted over the years and they may encourage you to
experiment to suit your tastes.

I always make sure that my fridge is stocked with loads of fresh vegetables. My supplier will change depending on the season but I always try to have the following basics in the fridge.
I usually have zucchini, spinach, broccoli, red peppers and mushrooms. I use these with my breakfast eggs every morning. Sometimes I can put some lean chicken (diced) along with Swiss or goat cheese just ...
... to vary the thing a bit. I love coconut milk which is always in my fridge and I use this for mixing it in to my smoothies, yogurt, oatmeal. This stuff is great because it is full of healthy fats and gives a great creamy taste.

What else will you find in my fridge? I love cottage cheese and ricotta is a great favourite of mine as well. I can mix in chopped nuts and berries into these or into a yogurt for a great snack. As regards nuts, I use pecans, walnuts and almonds - these are a great source of ‘good' fats. I also grind flax seeds in a coffee grinder and add them to a salad. You must use them fresh, though. Eggs are another favourite because they can increase your good cholesterol. As for peanut butter, well, I am not a great fan but I like to use almond butter with sesame seed butter. What about normal dairy butter ? Nothing wrong with it but is fairly dense in calories but if you eating healthily, why not?

What do I have in my kitchen cabinets? I have dark bitter chocolate for a start- always great for a quick jolt of insulin. Actually I am a chocoholic so this satisfies my desires but you have to watch it as it is fairly dense in calories but full of antioxidants. Anyway, it is much healthier than having a cream cake. I keep a few tomato sauces handy - this stuff is full of lycopene which is also very good if you have prostate gland troubles. Kidney beans are great as they will fill up wraps and they also are full of antioxidants so you will live a long time! Brown rice is another staple in my cabinet- the white rice is not a very healthy option. I have whole wheat pasta - again this is much healthier than the white pasta because the wholegrain has lots of fibre. Raw honey is great for sweetening things up and don't bother with the highly processed stuff. The same goes for maple syrup - you want the organic kind. Aunt Jemina's maple syrup is full of fructose so you will want to avoid that like the plague. Actually raw honey is great to add to a smoothie or yogurt when you want an insulin surge to put nutrients into your muscles. I also keep Stevia - this a natural sweetener and has none of that saccharine which you find in commercial sweeteners which are deadly. This is great for adding to tea. I am a great tea drinker and my favourites are green tea, oolong, white and rooibos. Coconut milk is also there - when I open it I put the rest in the freezer. My cereals are oat bran - again these are much healthier than the instant oatmeal kind because of the higher fibre content.

I hope you enjoyed looking inside my fridge and kitchen cabinets and that this will give you some great ideas when you go to your grocery store to stock up. Just eat some or most of the stuff above and you will be well on your way to a healthier, leaner you.