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EspañolHealthy Meal Options While Traveling
posted by sfharper - private message on November 21, 2008 around 3 pm
We’ve learned to save costs and reduce our calorie intake by eating our major meal around lunch time. Most restaurants offer smaller portions and smaller price tags on lunch menus. Your brain wants protein and sugar after your sleep to kick you into motion. Use your cooler to supplement your travel diet with healthy options.
Watch Your Fats and Carbohydrates
Tip One: Don’t eat fried potatoes.
A study in the UK showed a correlation between foods especially potatoes fried in oils and increased carcinogens implicated in colon and other internal cancers. For me, this is the primary reason for avoiding fried foods.
Tip Two : Select whole grains in freshly baked loaves of bread
Add a dash of salt or eat rice for your carbohydrates. This saves those nasty fats for other portions of your menu.
Tip Three: Selecting a variety of grains
Whole wheat, rye, as well as sour dough on your sandwiches for the week will help your meals seem different and more tasty, a tough thing to accomplish while traveling.
I try to keep my carbohydrate intake to four portions per day. If I have a hamburger and fries, that wipes out two of the four, leaving me scanty choices of a snack for dinner.
Tip Four: Throw half your bun away.
Pull out the center piece of toast on a club sandwich, and don’t have a sandwich with a breaded filet.
Manage Your Protein Portions
One way people lose control of their weight is to make the mistake of eating larger portions of protein than they really need for their activity level, which while traveling is often really low because of all the sitting you do. Keep your protein portions below 8 ounces unless you’re expending large amounts of energy.
Tip One: Don’t eat meat and cheese at the same meal.
This is a harsh suggestion but the truth is that most meals with both are really high in calories. Save your cheese for a dinner time snack. The milk will help you sleep.
Tip Two: Select meal entrees that promise six to eight ounces of protein or less.
Avoid restaurants where you’re encouraged to eat large portions that are unhealthy for you. When those extra ounces are provided they add to the cost of the meal and make you feel guilty if you don’t consume them.
Each Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
One way to ensure you get your fresh fruits and vegetables in your diet is to bring or buy plastic storage bags with you on your trip along with a cooler. Then augment your diet by stopping at the grocery store and buying some healthy precut selections of fruit and vegetables and taking them with you. Your body will love you for it.
Tip One : Add grated vegetables to your sandwiches.
Consider carrots, beets, sprouts along with the more common lettuce and tomato.
Tip Two : Stop at the fruit stands.
Fruit Stands usually have great prices and tasty selections of fruit and vegetables.
Tip Three: Swap starch calories for higher fiber fruit choices
Forego those French fries for apple sauce, green salad or fruit cups.
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We offer:
• Sight Seeing
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Sightseeing in Nepal
Draped along the greatest heights of the Himalaya , the kingdom of Nepal is a land of eternal fascination, a place where one visit is rarely enough. It’s a land of ancient history, colourful cultures and people, superb scenery and some of the best walking on earth.Sight Seeing Points in Kathmandu Valley : Durbar square, Kumari Courtyard , Bouddhanath, Swayambhunath, Pashupatinath, Balaju water garden, National museum, Budhanilkhantha. Patan Durbar square, Industrial state, Chaitya and Bihar around Patan. Bhaktapur Durbar square, Changu Narayan. Dhulikhel, Banepa, Panauti.Sight Seeing Points in Pokhara: Lakeside Area, Sarankot,Kahun, Danda, Mahendra Gufa, Rupa and Begnas Tals, Devi Falls .Other Locations: For those who can not withstand the rigorousness of mountain climbing, there are mountain flights which fly around the mount Everest and provide a close look of the top of the
world. Also from Nagerkot, Daman , Dhulikhel and Kakani offer distant view of beautiful Himalaya ranges, excellent sunset & sunrise and Picturesque landscape.
Lumbini is the birth place of Siddhartha Gautam - the founder of Buddhism, known as Buddha.
Trekking
A fully organized trek is one which is self sufficient. There are guides, cooks, sherpas and porters to take care of all the technical and logistical aspect of the trip. All food and camping equipment is provided. Porter carry everything, including your personal gear. All you have to do is walk with your camera, meet the local people, take in the breathtaking views, and eat three healthy meals a day ! You trust your diet to cooks who can bake cake on the hillside stove.
We can camp at “wilderness” sites away from the main trails, a fact you will particularly appreciate especially when awakened by the kitchen hand armed with a steaming mug of tea- there’s nothing better than snuggling in your sleeping bag looking out at the first rays of sun of the peaks.
We will recommend you to make this type of trek if you are doing trek to non tourist area where there are no hotel.A Tea House Trek can be done only on the popular trails, such as the Annapurna , Langtang, Helambu or the route to Everest. A guide and some porters take care of leading the tour and carrying the luggage and equipment respectively. As each day comes to an end, the guide will manage to provide you accommodation and food. This is most popular type of trek these days if you are doing trek on a popular trail. Since there are no needed of cook, Kitchen crew and many porter, this trek is cheaper than camping trek.
Major Trekking Region: Everest; Annapurna , Langtang, Mustang, Manasalu, Kanchanjunga, Helmbu, Sailung
Rafting in Nepal
Rafting on the rivers of Nepal is one of the unique gateways. It is the best way to see a cross-section of the mid-hills of Nepal , it’s culture and heritage. The wild night camps on the abundant beaches provide excellent opportunity for fishing, swimming, sight-seeing around local villages, studying Geological formations, photographing or relaxing after a hard days paddling.
Major River of Nepal for Rafting
• The Sunkosi River
• The Trishuli River
• The Kaligandaki River What to bring for the River Trip Bathing suit, T-shirts, cap, sun-glass, sun-tan lotion, sneakers, flip-flops, flash-light, camera, fishing-rod, warm clothing for cool nights, books perhaps a walk-man with small speakers for longer river trips. Expensive ornaments, jewelry and other items are to be brought at you own risk.Wild Life Safari in Nepal
Nepal is a land full of Natural heritages, snow capped Himalayas in the north and tropical low-lands with patches of dense forest in the south. These dense forests shelter the exotic wild-life of Nepal . The Royal Chitwan National Park and the Royal Bardia National Park are among the best reserves in South Asia and Nepal too. These Parks shelter a large variety of animals such as the rare one-horned rhinocerous, the Royal Bengal tiger, leopard, sloth bear, deer wild boars, gaurs, monkeys etc. 400 different species of birds also inhabit these parks. The two types of crocodiles-Gharial and Marsh Mugger are also present in the Parks. Both these parks can be visited separately and package programmes of 2-nights 3 days (extendable) are organised during which all the jungle activities, lodging, food and transportation are provided.
Jungle SafariTwo nights three days-package programme
• Elephant – Safari
• Bird-Watching
• Jungle – Walk
• Canoe-Ride
• Tharu Village Visit and Tharu Stick Dance
• Jugle Drive
Peak Climbing in Nepal
• Parchermu peak
• Island Peak
• Mera Peack
• Tharpuchuli peak
• Chulu West Peak
Ticketing
Air Tickets (Domestic and International)for more detail: email:narba@hotmail.com, cell phone no. 9841342188
mailling address: Nar bahadur gautam GPO box no 2369thamel,kathmandu,Nepal