How to Prepare Yummy Flat-belly Diets? Do You Know What Mufa is?

The ancient Greeks considered olive oil as liquid gold; the Aztecs felt chocolate was sacred, the Egyptian pharaohs treated almonds priceless and you should have definitely heard how avocados symbolized fertility in ancient times.

What is MU FA?

MU FA stands for Monounsaturated fatty acids. The pronunciation is Moo-fah. These mono unsaturated fatty acids are good for your body and protect you from chronic diseases and can help you lose fat.

Olive oil, almonds, avocados and chocolates have rich MU FA content, you can now know why they share something more than history, and they share unique health properties. There are five major categories of MUFA’s: 

1. Oils
2. Nuts
3. Seeds
4. Olive and
5. Chocolate.

How to pick your MU FA?

Oils: Canola oil, flax seed oil, olive oil, peanut oil, pesto sauce (basil + pine nuts + olive oil), sesame oil, Soy bean oil, mustard oil, and ground nut oil. You can

1. Stir or fry with sesame, peanut or canola oil
2. Pan fry in olive oil
3. Spread pesto on a sandwich
4. Drizzle ground nut oil on soups or toss it with rice or pasta
5. Add sesame or olive oil to marinades
6. Cook with Soy bean or mustard oil
7. Use flax seed oil in salad dressings as it cannot be used for cooking.

Nuts: Almonds, almond butter, cashew butter, natural peanut butter, dry-roasted cashew, dry-roasted peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, pistachios, and walnuts.   You can

1. Eat as a snack; sprinkle on a salad
2. Crush and use as a crunchy topping for fish or chicken
3. Spread nut butters on crackers, bread, or fruit
4. Stir nut butters into soups and sauces

Seeds: Dry-roasted sunflower seeds, roasted pumpkin seeds, sunflower seed butter, and tahini (sesame seed paste). You can

1. Add as a topping for scrambled egg.
2. With brown bread it gives you to about 120 calories more.

Olives: Black olives, black olive tapenade (paste form), green olives, green olive tapenade. You can

1. Serve them plain as a snack
2. Spread tapenade on sandwiches or crackers
3. Stuff tapenade into chicken breasts or fish fillets.

Chocolate: Dark or semi-sweet chocolate chips, shavings or chunks. You can use them in “Any way you crave!”

The Perfect Meal

Eating one serving of any of these at every meal will help to reduce the accumulation of belly fat. It will help you to control calorie intake and you will lose inches around your waist line in a short span of time.

How to make a perfect Dessert?

Mix quarter cup of fate-free ricotta cheese with one tablespoon honey and top with half cup of pear slices. Have a look on the approximate calorie count of this dessert.

Ricotta cheese              :           approx 50 calories

Honey                          :           approx 20 calories

Pear slices                    :           approx 50 calories.

This is how you make a perfect belly flattening dessert less than 125 calories that can very well be added to your meal.