Healthy recipe card handmade

The core logic of hand-made healthy recipe cardboard is to use the lowest-cost manual method to transform abstract dietary health requirements into visual dietary tools that can be viewed at any time and flexibly adjusted. An ordinary novice does not need to prepare complicated tools and can complete an exclusive handmade cardboard that fully adapts to his or her dietary needs in an average of 20 minutes and is three times more practical than electronic recipes.

The first time I did this was when I was diagnosed with high uric acid during a physical examination the year before last. The doctor gave me a bunch of dietary taboos. I saved a dozen pictures in the photo album on my mobile phone, and it took me half a day to look through them every time I bought food or ordered takeout. Then I simply found a piece of cardboard removed from a delivery box and divided it into three columns with a marker: Eat with confidence, eat in small amounts, and don’t touch it. After writing it, I posted it on the refrigerator door so I could count it at a glance before cooking. After using it for more than half a year, my uric acid has really stabilized a lot.

It's interesting to say that people who often make this kind of recipe jam are actually divided into two obvious ways. No one is right or wrong. It all depends on personal needs. One type is pure pragmatism. They think that the core of the paper is that the information is accurate and easy to view, and there is no need to do any extra work at all. Cut the A4 paper into palm-sized pieces and write the key points with a black pen. You can also put a few sticky notes next to it. If you have allergies during the recent change of seasons, you will add "avoid mangoes and seafood". Recently, if you are working out and gaining muscle, you will add "add 1 egg and 300ml of milk every day". It is not burdensome to change it. This is the way I made it for my grandma. She has type 2 diabetes. I deliberately used the thickest markers. The red pen wrote the porridge, candied fruits, and sugary drinks that must not be touched. The green pen wrote unlimited green leafy vegetables, konjac, and tomatoes. The yellow pen wrote the required amount of rice, lean meat, and apples. The writing was bigger than a one-yuan coin. Now she can tell how much rice should be put in at a glance before cooking, which is much more useful than the dozens of pages of meal manuals I printed for her before. By the way, if you have children at home, you can definitely do it with your child. During the process of painting and drawing, your child can slowly remember what healthy food is, which is much more useful than you chasing after you and talking about it.

The other type is the aesthetic type who likes to make notebooks. They will buy thick white cardboard, colored ink, hole punches and loose-leaf rings, and divide the cardboard into several sections for breakfast, lunch and dinner, home-cooked dishes, takeaway options, and emergency fast meals. They will also put some food stickers and draw some small illustrations and hang them on the sideboard. They are both recipes and small decorations. My colleague just made a set last week for her child who has just entered elementary school. There are cartoon tigers drawn next to each dish, and there is also a small rule of "you must eat a bowl of vegetables before you can eat snacks." Her child actually takes the initiative to eat vegetables when he eats, saying that he will compete with the little tiger on the cardboard to eat vegetables. The effect is unexpectedly good.

But no matter which path you take, there is one pitfall that you really need to avoid: don’t try to pile up all the health knowledge. When a friend of mine made it before, she copied the entire content of the 2022 version of the Chinese Residents' Balanced Diet Pagoda. The words were densely written, and the intake of various nutrients was also marked. She posted it on the refrigerator. Within a week, she used it to place takeout boxes - who has the patience to read hundreds of words of popular science before cooking? The core of paper jam is "lightweight". It is best to keep the information in each column within 30 words. Only state the conclusion but not the principle. For example, if you want to control sugar, just write "milk tea ≤ 1 cup / week" instead of "excessive addition of sugar will cause glycation reaction to increase blood sugar." That is what public science accounts should do, and your paper jam should only work.

In fact, you really don’t need to buy special materials. Unused cardboard at home, leftover watercolor pens from children, and useless refrigerator magnets can be used as raw materials. If you are afraid of making mistakes, buy an erasable marker. Recently, if you want to adjust your diet, just erase it. If you are clumsy and can’t draw, it doesn’t matter. Printing some small food pictures and pasting them is just as useful. I have also followed the trend and bought ready-made healthy recipe refrigerator magnets. They all have the same template. I am lactose intolerant and they recommend drinking whole milk every day, which is of no use at all.

To put it bluntly, there is no standard answer for this craft. If you like to mess with it, just make it beautifully as a home decoration. If you are lazy, just take a piece of sticky note and put it on the refrigerator. As long as the information on it is what you really need, it can save you a few seconds when buying food and cooking, and can help you slowly develop healthier eating habits. This is already a perfect work, right?