Why You Need Lemon in Your Fridge?

Lemon is a versatile fruit; that can be combined with various foods starting from grilled meats to  delicious cakes and pies. But there is more to find out about the usefulness of lemons. It can be surprising for you to know that lemon juice helps to boil eggs.

There are many reasons why you should keep a few lemons in your refrigerator. Lemons are well preserved in the fridge so that you can keep them for a few weeks and they won’t get spoilt. However, to sweep away your doubts about the usefulness of this bitter fruit in various occasions, we have pointed out in the article several interesting ways to make use of this versatile food.

Lemon is a versatile food and lemon juice helps to boil eggs.

 Adding Zest

Lemon zest has a strong citrus flavor for which it is mostly applied as a garnish. Depending on the recipe, lemon zest can be minced or cut into long strips. You can get the zest of lemon in a proper way when peeling or cutting with a sharp knife. The white underside of the lemon will add bitterness to the food you combine with, so that try to avoid the white by cleaning it.

However, if you have problems with getting the zest with a peeler or a sharp knife, in that case, you should use a tool called zester. Orange and lime zests are also combined with food to add amazing flavor.

Boiling Eggs

If you already have your own technique of boiling eggs, this method with lemon will be an additional way to handle food. A well-known way to prevent eggs from cracking is to add some salt when the water with the eggs is about to boil. This time you should brush some lemon juice over the shells to avoid cracking. Moreover, you will manage to peel the eggs even easier if you add a teaspoon of lemon juice in the water. You shouldn’t worry about the taste of the lemon juice transmitted to the eggs, if you do not go overboard.

The amazing facts about lemon juice is that it helps to prevent the rice from sticking to the pot if a spoonful of it is added to the boiling water. A spoonful of lemon juice will keep boiling potatoes from turning brown.

Preventing Fruit Color

Besides the uses mentioned above, lemon juice is also a perfect way to prevent recently cut fruits from turning brown. Regardless of  the fact that the fruit is fresh, it is unpleasant to eat it because of its brown color. Lemon juice will preserve the produce for a short while, but will give you the possibility to enjoy your fruit salad to its best.

The usage of lemon is not limited to the ones mentioned above. Continue reading our upcoming articles to get to know more about the reasons why you need lemons in your fridge.

Best Foods to Burn Calories

The great news is that it is not that difficult to eat tasty food and at the same time burn calories for having a perfect body. These kind of foods that are not only tasty, but also beneficial for your health should be added to your daily or weekly meal plan to ensure you an easy weight loss and lightness. The food alone will not be as effective if you do not  exercise regularly. This way you will burn your extra calories (and not only) and improve your health. The article goes further to point out some of those super foods.

                                                                                                                              

Grapefruit. The bitter taste of grapefruit should not make you stay away from consuming it, perhaps, on a weekly scale. This fruit will help you to feel faster, as well as, it will help you to burn more calories than you have imagined. Due to the great amount of fiber containing in grapefruits, you will stabilize the sugar level in your blood. Try to dress your salads with it or mix it with your fruit salad. The perfect thing to do is to start your day with a cup of grapefruit juice.

Celery. The celery contains a lot of water with which it assures you a balanced diet. There is no secret in how it contributes to your health; celery contains less calories and helps to burn more of them. However, this food does not contain all of the necessary minerals and nutrients for the body to benefit. Accordingly, you should not rely on a celery diet, so that the best thing to do is to combine it with some other foods.

Whole grains. This kind of food is good for your diet, as it takes a long time to digest it by keeping you full for a long time. A study has revealed that whole grains are healthier as compared with the refined ones. The health benefit of whole grains is that it will help you to avoid chronic diseases. This type of food boosts in various vitamins and minerals, but contain low fat.

Green tea. The most important thing to know about this Asian hot drink, is that green tea is a perfect metabolism booster. You have already learned about it, so that hurry to make it a part of your daily meal plan. Though for the most of us it has become a part of our regular diet, sometimes we forget about its super power to boost metabolism. Simply enjoy your hot green tea and help your body to benefit the green tea antioxidant nature.

Coffee. Most people can hardly imagine their lives without this magic substance. Coffee helps us to wake up and have a cheerful morning. We know that it’s the caffeine that keeps us alert and makes us lively. Caffeine increases the heart rate due to which blood takes more oxygen and more calories are burnt. To keep this effect of the coffee, you should avoid adding various creams and sugar to it. However, if you do not want to feel the bitterness in the coffee, what you can do is to add some cinnamon to it. 

Keep up with this simple tricks to make your weight loss both easy and healthy.

Fitness Basics

The interactive fitness equipment, workout techniques and accessories, may sound  fancy, but what delivers us big results are the fitness basics. If you are googling my blog, it means that you are well-aware of physical fitness and healthy eating, and you are ready to share with the other readers some of your skills in your fitness activities.

Sometimes we are so focused on our main goal like how to get stronger, huge or fast, which takes us back from a critical approach to what we do as fitness exercise and what are the basic components of fitness.

In general, it is well-acknowledged that physical fitness is one of the key roads to a healthy life. It’s so interesting that one being indulged in fitness exercises for so many years, sometimes faces difficulties to give a definition of fitness. Fitness is simply the power of doing physical exercises with the fitness health-related components, that include

    

     Aerobic Fitness

     Muscular Strength

            Muscular Endurance 

     Flexibility 

     Body Composition

The well organized fitness program should cover all of the components mentioned above. Before getting to know each of these components, I am willing highlight some of the fitness basics that are the must-read tips for getting the best results. However, these basic fitness tips may seem simple and elementary, but as a trainee you should always remind and utilize them.

1.     Enjoy Your Exercise

If running in the gym seems to be the most boring activity to do ever, then do not do it! Instead, join a running club or go for hiking, take some yoga lessons, as while you are having fun with whatever exercise you do, it will keep you consistent.

2.    Map Out Your Goals

Depending on your particular need you may have different goals to accomplish in fitness; you have got a small dress you want to fit in, you want your leg muscles to be featured or you want to run longer. These can determine your goal to which you should give a set deadline like three months or thirty day, to which you should be ready with your goals achieved.

3.    Drink Water!

Again and again it is worthy to mention that drinking enough water is the important component of a healthy diet and proper exercise. Sometimes it seems to dieters that they are still hungry, though what the body needs is enough water. Accordingly, try not to mix the feeling of hunger with being thirsty.

4.    Cherish Greens

If you are new in the world of green products you should keep in mind that vegetables are a huge source of fiber, vitamins, antioxidants and minerals. Greens are good for dieting as they also keep you full for a long of time.

5.    Get a Good Sleep

To help your body to lose weight easily and build up muscles in a short period of time, you will need to have a good slumber of 6 to 8 hours, if you can sleep even more that’s for your good.

To keep your daily fitness basics, you will need to look back to the small but important steps and tips from time to time, in order to accomplish your desired goals of keeping fit.

Upcoming Spring & Summer Fashion of 2014

Spring is not far away. It's the reason I am  coming across the upcoming Spring and Summer Fashion trends, willing to share it with you. In this regard, the Cambridge News has the following coming fashion season illustrations:

1) Alexia Parmigiani’s new spring/summer collection.

 After producing her Alexia brand in 2005, Parmigiani has created a range that offers infinite styling opportunities, and each creation has its own branded bag. The collection is produced in the UK and India. The fabrics are of a fine quality where they produce fabrics of  100 percent cotton, silk georgette, silk chiffon, silk satin, modal to a lightweight cashmere mix.

This season the collection of Alexia Parmigiani is produced in luxury fabrics, in the UK. 

2) Plum Cardigan

This lovely cardigan will keep you cozy during the spring. It’s available in La Redoute.

3) Alice Menter’s ‘Washer’s’ jewelry collection

In Alice Menter’s new collection, the ordinary is transformed into something unique. Each piece is handmade created by her and her small team. It explores bold designs, geometry and symmetry. She works with everyday objects such as zips or washers. Alice appears regularly at London Fashion Weekend, and her new collections have sold out within a few hours. You can see the full collection in the Alice Menter online store. They are created in her Bristol studio.

4) Lemiena’s new i-pad Clutch Bag

Lemiena’s new i-pad Clutch bags feature a detachable shoulder and wrist strap. It will be perfect for a summer capsule wardrobe.

5) Leather jackets by Francis Leon

Francis Leon’s inspiration is found in the pages of old pages of old superhero comic books.

She sources the materials from around the world from supple Italian leathers too quirky woolen knits from Europe. According to Niji Magazine, each garment incorporates Francis Leon’s mandatory texture mash-up.

6) ‘’Reset’’ is the 1st woman’s collection from German designer Tim Lambenda. He completed the process with a shoot in London. Tim has created new patterns and starts over with his designs. The collection is a contrast of tight blousers with narrow button panels and collars. On the half of his collection, there is a skinny rubber pant combined with an egg-shaped jacked/oversized double breasted blazer.

The interior of each garment is always cozy and comfortable as they are double faced.

7) Bevza, the Ukrainian Womenswear brand, was founded by Bibi Bevza in 2006. It explores simplicity, minimalism, noble accuracy, sensuality. She focuses on clean lines, monochrome colors and strict cuts. The collection is inspired every morning-the signal of a new day. Hints of transparency add sexiness to the collection. The collection offers must-have clutches used with 3D printing technology.

The full collection will be in stores February 2014.

8) Spring Summer 2014 collection by Joanne McGillivray .

The collection is inspired by the colors, shapes and textures of the sea. Each piece has been carefully designed from the flowing wavelike maxi-dress to the clear Perspex jackets. A palette color of various captivating blue shades is mostly used in her collection.

9) Fiorucci's new collection for summer 2014.

The collection has 4 key themes and classic brand like The Angels series.

1. Cherry love-a mix between good taste and style classic lolita girl,

2. Pop safari-that includes graphic patterns and ironic multicolor flashes,

3. New vintage- includes fluttering dresses in light fabrics, lots of lines, patterns of one color, Hawaiian floral, gabardine pants and denim printed with lines and palm trees.

4. Out of Water-devoted to the sea and the great glamorous summer.

The entire collection contains handbags, shoes, sunglasses and matching accessories.

10) People Tree T-Shirts

Simeon Ferrar, the founder of Black Score, collaborates with Fair Trade and Fashion pioneers People Tree. His new released collection comprises of three different prints which give twice look.