Parable about food and dishes

They say that in ancient times there lived a husband and wife who had several beautiful little children.

Once they had to leave for a short time, but they did not have the opportunity to take their children with them. They did not want to leave them with strangers and therefore decided to invite their wife's sister, who lived far away and had not been with them for a long time, to stay with them. They wrote her an invitation and she happily agreed, because she so wanted to see her sister and get to know her nephews.

She arrived soon after, and just in time. The couple were supposed to leave that evening. And the aunt was left alone with her little nephews. The children immediately fell in love with their aunt, because she was kind and affectionate, and she, in turn, could not stop looking at such small, beautiful and lovely children.

Evening came and my aunt made pilaf for dinner. She put plates of pilaf on the table and invited the children to supper. They came running, sat down, but for some reason did not start eating.

"What's the matter? Why aren't you eating? " - asked the aunt.

“This is not the right pilaf,” the children said.

It turned out that every child considered food to be correct only if it was poured into a plate with his favorite pattern. One had a cross drawn on a plate, another had a seated man in orange robes with his eyes half-closed, the third had a four-armed man with a disc, a mace, a shell and a lotus in one of his hands, etc. At first she thought that the children, thus, decided to play a trick on her, but, looking at the serious expression on their faces, she realized that this was a serious matter. She began to explain to them that the food in all plates is the same, but they did not want to listen to anything.

For a long time she tried to persuade them, but the children stubbornly resisted, and even began to cry. Then the aunt simply rearranged the plates so that each child had a plate familiar to him, because she loved children and decided that it was better to give in to them than to leave them hungry. She could not understand in any way why the children considered the food to be wrong, when it was poured in a dish that was not their usual one, because she knew that the food was the same, because she cooked it herself. But maybe they don't know about it, she thought.

The next day, she tried to explain to the children that the food is the same for everyone, and that its taste does not depend on the plate in which it is served. But the children stood their ground. Day after day, the aunt repeated her attempts to teach this to the children, but nothing came of it. And then one day she figured out how to do it.

One fine day, when it was raining outside and the children were bored to stay at home, she called the children into the kitchen and, referring to her discomfort, asked the children to help her prepare dinner. The children were happy to help their beloved aunt and agreed with pleasure.

Aunt came up with the idea of ​​cooking food in game form... “I will be the commander, and you will be my loyal soldiers,” she said. She commanded them like a real commander, and the children regularly performed all her commands. They were delighted with this game. And now dinner was ready, and the table was laid.

“Now let everyone come up with their own plate, and I’ll pour you all,” the aunt commanded. They lined up cheerfully and, having received food, began to eat with great pleasure.

After lunch, my aunt said: "Now you know that all the food you get is the same, that it is not prepared for each separately according to different recipes."

The children understood what she wanted to say and agreed with her, for they themselves prepared their own food for everyone. Since then, they paid less and less attention to their plates, and soon the drawings on the plates ceased to interest them, because the plates became common.

Manners and food (Taoist parable)

The Wise Pig was asked:

Why do you eat with your feet while eating?

I love to feel food not only with my mouth, but also with my body, - answered the wise Pig. - When I, while being full, feel the touch of food on my feet, I get double pleasure from it.

But what about the manners inherent in a decent upbringing?

Manners are for those around you, and pleasure is for yourself. If the basis of pleasure comes from my nature, then pleasure itself benefits, - explained the Wise Pig.

But manners are also useful!

When manners bring me more benefit than pleasure, I do not put my feet in the food, - the pig answered proudly and went about her business.

Endless bread

Once upon a time there was a poor old woman. She was so poor that sometimes she didn't even have anything to bake bread from. And she had a sinister neighbor who constantly reproached this old woman for her poverty. And somehow a neighbor noticed that as soon as she started baking bread, the old woman also had smoke coming out of the chimney, as if bread was being baked.

Has this beggar got rich too? - the neighbor was surprised. - We ought to look at her, check.

A neighbor comes in to an old woman and sees that she is really taking a loaf out of the oven.

The old woman put the neighbor at the table, treats her with fresh bread.

The neighbor is surprised:

Where did you get your bread? Recently you were poorer than the poor, and now you bake bread every day?

And the old woman told her that she was tired of being incessantly reproached for her poverty. And she began to put a smoking brand in the oven when the neighbor was taking bread to the oven. A week goes by like this, another, so the old woman came up with:

And let me ask God for mercy every time I put a brand in the stove.

And she began to do so. She put the brand in the stove, prayed, and suddenly someone was knocking on the window. There is an old beggar man, all in rags, asking for bread. And there is not a piece of bread in the house. The old woman gave the old man her last potato. He ate it and asks for bread again.

Where can I get you bread from, old man? - says the old woman.

And you get it out of the oven, - the old man answers.

The old woman looked into the stove, and there really was a ready-made loaf. She gasped, took the loaf out of the oven and began to feed the old man. He ate the whole loaf and asks for more.

I have no more bread, - says the old woman.

And you get it out of the oven again, - says the old man.

The old woman looks, and there is again a loaf.

She takes a loaf out of the oven, and she herself is surprised aloud:

Until when will God give me bread?

And as long as with a pure heart you will share with all the hungry, - replied the old man.

Since then, bread has never been translated in the house of a good old woman.

Parable Taste of Air

One day Master asked me:

Can you taste the air?

I sniffed the forest air and named several smells.

Yes, you have a good sense of smell. But what about taste?

I stuck out my tongue a few times like a dog, but remained at a loss.

Okay, - Teacher smiled and, jumping up from behind, grabbed me and clamped his mouth and nose.

I realized that resistance was useless, but after a minute the instinct of self-preservation made me jerk my limbs and wriggle. Then the Teacher let me go and I breathed in Life deeply.

The taste of life, - I said, catching my breath a little.

Right. You should always feel this taste. It also tastes like water, food, and more. Don't eat something that doesn't have the main taste. Don't talk to someone who is mentally dead. Drink from the Chalice of Life with pleasure, but do not rush, because you can empty it ahead of time, or you can completely spill it.

The parable about the food and the eater, or about who eats and who is eaten

A bird has grabbed a worm somewhere,
And the cat was watching her on the sly.

And the bird became, for everything here is perishable,
Food and eater at the same time.

Who will distinguish food from eater -
Their difference is not too great! ..

The construction of a building starts from the foundation. If the foundation is bad, nothing will save the house from rapid destruction. So is human health. If a strong foundation has been laid since childhood, then a person will “creak” throughout his long or short life.

The human body, especially in childhood, very sensitive to all violations hygiene rules nutrition. These violations do not always immediately affect the state of health, often their harmful effect affects later. About the right one healthy eating say not only doctors, nutritionists, but also the common people. So, Russian proverbs read:

As food and drink are, so is living.
The belly is stronger, so the heart is lighter.
The nightingale is not fed with fables.
On an empty stomach and the song is not sung.
You won't be full from one berry.
Everyone needs lunch and dinner.
Trouble is trouble, and food is food.
It does not matter that the food is bad, but the trouble is when it is not.
What you put in the cauldron, you take it out.
The street is red with houses, and the table is red with pies.
There is no better share than to eat your fill.

He who does not smoke or drink protects his health.
Health is close: look for it in a bowl.
Appetite from the patient runs, and rolls to the healthy.
Keep your head cold, your belly hungry, and your feet warm - you will live a hundred years on earth.
The more you chew, the longer you live.
Cleanliness is the key to health.
Healthy everything is great.
The bow cures seven ailments. Onion for seven ailments.
Horseradish and radish, onions and cabbage - they won't let a dashing one.
Eat half-drunk, drink half-drunk (don't drink half-drunk), you will live a century to a full.
Where feasts and teas are, there are sicknesses.
Lie down after lunch, walk after dinner!
Keep your head cold, your stomach hungry, and your feet warm!
Sick - get well, but healthy - beware.
Healthy in food, but healed in work.
Any food tastes good to a healthy person.
A healthy sleep is better than a good dinner.
You start to value your health when you lose it.
Health comes in days and leaves in hours.
You will be healthy, you will get everything.
Titus, go thresh! - The belly hurts. - Titus, go and have some jelly! “Where’s my big spoon?”
Eat onions, go to the bathhouse, rub with horseradish and drink kvass.
Honey is not tasty for a sick person, but a healthy person eats a stone.
What's in your mouth is useful.

To sit at the table is what to visit in paradise.
Where is the cabbage soup, look for us too.
Cabbage soup and porridge are our food.
There is porridge - no teeth needed.
You can't spoil porridge with butter.
Kissel does not spoil the teeth.
Without salt - that without will: you can't live life.
Butter cow, eat it for health!
Where there are pancakes, there we are, where there is porridge with butter, there is our place.
Appetite comes with eating.
When I eat, I am deaf and dumb.
Long speeches You will not be full.
At work "oh", but eats for three.
You can't spoil dumplings with sour cream.
Whoever chews, he lives like that.
Drink some tea - you will forget the melancholy.
We don't miss tea, we drink three cups.
It is sweet to drink - to live happily.
And good food becomes boring.
The more you eat, the more you want.

Everyone carries a mouth where the water is pure.
Drink water, water will not confuse the mind.
Swing in, just turn around.
As long as there is bread and water, it doesn't matter.
Clean water is a disaster for ailments.
Bread will nourish, water will water,
Hot water does not cloud the mind.
Boil water - and there will be water.
What a problem if you drink water.

I drank vodka and amassed consumption.
Vodka does not heal, but cripples.
Vodka spoils everything except the dishes.

Eat porridge instead of gingerbread.
Spruce, pine - the same firewood; pancakes, pancakes - the same food.
Bread and water are healthy food.
He who chews lives like that.
What they give, then eat.
A guest with varnish for honey, and drink water for him.
I got sick to the point of ill health.
The tidbit is rather in the rotochek.
The bear has nine songs, and everything is about honey.

You work until you sweat, and you eat while hunting.
You can't eat for a century.
Do not eat and the flea will not jump.
Don't feed me what I don't eat!
It’s not a problem that the food is bad, but it’s a problem when it’s not there.
To eat a lot - not a great honor, not great to become - and have not eaten to sleep.
As food and drink are, such is life.
A person cannot live without food: while you eat, you live.
The mill is strong with water, and man is strong with food.
If you don't eat properly, you will be a wolf.
What we eat, it flows down the collar.
I ate a bite from a bird's sock.
So he eats, almost swallows his tongue.
Not eating lighter, but eating stronger.

The lip is not a fool, the tongue is not a shoulder blade, knows what is bitter and what is sweet.
The well-fed one counts the stars in the sky, while the hungry one thinks about bread.
Hunger is not an aunt, she will not put a roll.
Hunger is not your brother.
They will be hungry, eat and cold.
Sing, feed, and then ask.
Be angry, angry, and sit down at the table.
What food is like walking.

And the rolls become boring.
Bread on the table - so the table is a throne, not a piece of bread, and the throne is a board.
Bread is the edge - and paradise under the tree, but not a piece of bread, and longing in the plate.
When there is an edge of bread, so is paradise under the spruce.
Lunch is bad if there is no bread.
A cow in the yard - grub on the table.
The cow is in the yard, and the water is on the table.
What is in the oven, all swords are on the table.
Do not refuse bread and salt.
When I eat, I am deaf and dumb.
Eat today and leave it for tomorrow.
We ate the sun, but we haven't eaten yet.
There is - not to give birth, you can wait.
A little bit of good, sweet not enough.
The porridge is sweet, but the mahot is small.
A good porridge, but a small cup.
Do not open your mouth on someone else's loaf, but get up early and sing your own.
Your bread is nourishing.
Eat the pies and take care of the bread.

They cooked for three - and the fourth was full.
I don't eat raw, I don't want fried, I can't stand boiled.
If he didn’t eat, he couldn’t, but didn’t eat - without legs.
Don't break the loaf, but cut it with a knife and eat it.
Eat - do not drip, take a spoon and eat a little.
To trample bread underfoot - to starve the people.
The agreed piece will not fit in your mouth.
Well, lunch: one eats, and two fall on their feet.
Eyes saw that they were buying, even if you burst and eat.
It's cheaper to bury you than to feed you.
No pancake - no Shrovetide, no cake - no name day.
Eats and drinks - and sings.
On an empty stomach and the song is not sung.
You cannot bake bread out of flour alone.
Everything is useful that got into the mouth.
Hunger is the best seasoning.
No salt, no bread, a thin conversation.
Half lunch without salt, without bread.
The nightingale is not fed with fables.

The porridge is thick, but the bowl is empty.
Shchi henbane, no porridge - this is a girl's lunch.
There was no poppy dewdrop in my mouth.
Granny cooked jelly for grandfather for dinner.
Whoever has honey is sweet all year round.
Those who have honey and butter have a feast day.
The baked-boiled one did not last long, they sat down and ate - and that's it.
Rye bread roll my grandfather.
Cabbage soup and porridge are our food.
Without cabbage and cabbage soup are not thick.
Wisdom is in cabbage, all strength is in cabbage.
He ate the cabbage soup - as if he were wearing a fur coat.
The fish is small, but the fish soup is sweet. Option: The fish is small, but the abalone is sweet.
And the bony ruffs - yes, the ear with the ruff is as good as it gets.
Krupina after grain is chasing with a club.
One broth, eat it and add it again.
Kulesh, kulesh! comfort my heart.

Simply, without a bow, on the peasant's hand.
No bread to eat, no change to see.
You can swallow it with honey and a chisel.
Eat grandma's bast with butter and sour cream.
With butter and a lamb sole will seem.
With butter and sour cream, mushrooms are good.

The water will wash, the bread will feed.
The piece is not big - the pie, but there is a lot of trouble behind it.
Potatoes save bread.
Nesolono has something to kiss with an unwelcome one.
Drink tea - do not chop wood.
You can't spoil porridge with butter.
Good food calls for cabbage.
And good food becomes boring.
Cucumber is not a tenant in the stomach.

Bread is the head of everything.
You will not be full without bread.
You cannot bake bread from flour alone.
Man does not live by bread alone.
As long as there is bread and water, it doesn't matter.
Bread is father, water is mother.
The bread in a man is a warrior.
The bread will nourish, the water will wash.
Bread and water are good food.
Our daily bread: even black, but tasty.

No salt, no bread - half lunch.
It is tasteless without salt, but unsatisfactory without bread.
Without salt, the table is crooked.
Drinks on salt, sleeps on bread.
No matter how you think, you can't think of better bread and salt.
Bread and salt - and dinner went.

You will be punctured without your mind, but you will not live without bread.
Without bread, everything will become boring.
You won't be full without bread and honey.
There would be bread, but there would be porridge.
A hungry godfather has all the bread on his mind.
Good salt, but if you shift it, your mouth turns up.
Mice are found near bread.
Fish is not bread, you will not be full.

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Needle, mallet and wand

Once a peasant rescued a Taoist when he was drowning. The Taoist decided to thank the peasant for his good deed and took him to his cave. There he took out a huge pumpkin from a cache and took out three magical things from it: a needle, a mallet and a rod. The Taoist put them at the feet of the peasant and said:
- Although these things are unprepossessing in appearance, it is enclosed in them Magic power: the needle gives life and heals all diseases, the beater carves gold and silver coins on impact, and the wand gives the power to defeat any army and destroy enemies. You saved my life and as a reward you can choose one of them.
The peasant, without thinking twice, took the needle and hid it in his belt.
“You made a decision too quickly,” the Taoist was surprised. - Are you not attracted by wealth or power?
“I chose life,” the wise peasant replied, “since neither power, nor wealth have no value without it, and saving the lives of others, I, if I wish, will have both power and wealth. That is why the needle is prettier to me, and as for the baton and the mallet, you won't get away with them.

Parrot and cough

The old sailor had to give up smoking after his beloved parrot began to cough constantly. The old man was worried that the cigarette smoke that constantly filled the room could have a detrimental effect on the health of the parrot.
He consulted a veterinarian for help. After thorough examination the veterinarian said he did not find any parrot disease or pneumonia. The bird was simply imitating a smoking owner's cough.

Eye disease

A man comes to the doctor.
“I'm dying,” he says. - Oh, my stomach hurts! Doctor, save me, I beg you!
The doctor looked at him:
- What did you eat?
- Yes, I, - he says, - I work as a baker. An entire oven of bread burned out. Well, there are a few not completely burnt loaves left there, so I eat them every day. It’s a pity for the good!
Then the doctor says to his disciple:
- Bring me the cure for blindness. Let three drops drip into your eyes every day.
The baker asks:
- Are you kidding me? I'm sighted! My stomach hurts!
- Well no! If you are sighted, then why did you eat burnt bread?

One ox complained to the second:
- Why is it, brother, it turns out that you and I work all day, and the owners feed us only grass and straw, but they just feed the piglet, which never does anything, with fatty rice porridge with saffron and spices. ?!
“Do not envy him,” answered the second ox, “for our food, though not tasty, is simple and healthy, and gives us longevity, while the piglet, which is being prepared for an imminent feast, truly eats the food of death.

The habit of running in the morning

The teenage son came home with the smell of cigarette smoke. The father joyfully exclaimed:
- Son, I thought that you were still small with me, and you are already an adult - you are trying to smoke! I didn’t know where to get myself a running partner in the morning, but he grew up! One problem, I get up early, because by eight in the morning I have to work. But nothing, since you smoke, it means that the guy you are already an adult, you will wake up. We'll get up early tomorrow morning and start!
For several years they ran together. The father is no longer alive. The son is already raising his children, but he still runs in the morning - a habit.

Once the Old Man was asked:
- How did you manage to hold tightly in your body until old age?
And he said:
- Because I lived in spring with flowers, in summer - with berries, in autumn - with vegetables, and in winter - with cold.

Causes of happiness and unhappiness

Once, Hin Shi found his students in the courtyard, heatedly arguing about something. Approaching them, he asked about the subject of their dispute.
“We argue about what is the essence of human happiness and unhappiness,” the students answered.
- And how did you find them? - asked the Teacher.
- We think that the reasons for a person's happiness and unhappiness are in what surrounds him and happens to him: in wealth and poverty, in health and illness, in love and loneliness, in wisdom and stupidity, in old age and youth.
“Walk the streets, take a closer look at the faces of those you meet,” Hin Shi replied, shaking his head. - I am sure you will see laughing old people and crying young men, and cheerful poor and sad rich people, full of health, but sad passers-by, grieving lovers and a peaceful hermit. How can you explain this?
“It means that we were looking for the reasons for happiness and unhappiness in the wrong place,” the disciples lamented.
- Your mistake is not where you looked, but what you found. The true causes and essence of a person's happiness and unhappiness are only in himself. And everything that you have found is nothing more than a consequence, or circumstances.

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Thanks to the useful, proper nutrition well-being improves and diseases pass, decreases excess weight, a lot of energy appears, the mood rises.

It's not difficult to start eating right, the main thing is to have the desire and understand how important it is for your own health.

Today I decided to place parable about healthy eating.

In the beginning, God covered the Earth with greens, cauliflower, broccoli, spinach, all kinds of red and yellow vegetables so that Man and Woman can live long and healthy lives.

But Satan took advantage of the abundance of God's gifts and created Milk Ice Cream. And Satan said: "Would you like some syrup?" And the Man replied: "Yes!" And the Woman said: "And I have one thing with a chocolate chip!". And they gained 10 kg of weight.

And God created the Useful Yogurt so that the Woman could maintain her figure, which the Man liked so much.

But Satan brought white wheat flour and cane sugar and combined them. And the Woman changed size 44 to 48.

And God said, "Try my green salad." And Satan served garlic croutons with Blue Cheese sauce. And Man and Woman relaxed their belts, enjoying their meal.

Then God said: “I have sent you vitamin-rich vegetables and olive oil to cook on it. "

And Satan brought deep-fried king prawns, buttered lobsters, and a large fried chicken. And the Men’s cholesterol level went up the roof.

Then God brought potatoes, low in fat, rich in potassium and nutrients.

But Satan peeled off a wholesome rind, cut the starchy middle into chips, and fried it in animal fat, seasoning with plenty of salt. And the Man put on even more weight.

Then God brought sneakers so that his children could lose those extra pounds.

But Satan came with cable TV and brought a remote control so that the Man would not bother himself switching channels. Man and Woman laughed and cried in front of the flickering screen. And they began to wear stretch tracksuits.

Then God gave the Man dietary meat so that he would consume fewer calories and satisfy his appetite.

And then Satan created McDonald's and a double cheeseburger. And Satan asked: "Do you want fries as well?" "Yes! - answered the Man, - The largest portion. “This is good,” said Satan. And the Man and the Woman got a heart attack.

God sighed ... and performed a heart bypass surgery.

And Satan grinned and created the Department of Health.

The basis proper nutrition is a set of products.

The benefits of proper nutrition have been known from time immemorial. And although each generation put its own meaning into its foundation, some common truths remained unchanged. No wonder many centuries ago Socrates said a phrase that is relevant to this day: "You need to eat to live, not live to eat" ... By transforming the absorption of food into gluttony, you can not only undermine your health, but also completely deprive the body of that balance and lightness that are inherent in it by nature. The principles of good nutrition are read between the lines folk tales and legends, stories and parables, but they are most clearly demonstrated by proverbs and sayings - real pearls folk art and wisdom.

Proverbs and sayings about healthy eating. What is their value

At all times, a lot of attention was paid to the composition of the diet, albeit unconsciously. Remember, our grandmothers also said: "Shchi and porridge is our food" - emphasizing the importance of a balanced diet, daily consumption of first courses and nutritious grains. They knew that for full development, active work and a cheerful spirit is necessary not only enough, but also to eat right.

Indeed, today dietetics has become one of the most demanded areas of preventive medicine. Therapy of any disease associated not only with the gastrointestinal tract, but also with the cardiovascular, genitourinary, nervous and other systems of the body cannot do without compiling an appropriate diet, which will include only healthy food. However, this does not mean that proper nutrition becomes relevant only after the appearance of any health problems - you need to pay attention to this aspect of your life from the first day, otherwise there is a great risk of encountering violations, which will not be as easy to fix as to prevent.

Proverbs about healthy eating allow you to teach a child from a young age to correct eating behavior, a kind of respect for food, a rational approach to the choice of food. With their help, you can convey to the baby what is so difficult to explain in scientific language - the basics of digestion, the structure of the body, the harm of the wrong foods. If you do not explain to the little person what you can eat and what you should give up, he will live in disharmony with himself, with his body and physiology for a long time, which in the process of formation can lead to serious consequences. Yes, and during adulthood will definitely come in handy - they will remind you that food is not the meaning of life, but rather a way to maintain it.

"Not everything is in the mouth that the eye sees", - tells us an old Russian proverb, which is extremely difficult to argue with. Food must be approached wisely, and then it will become the basis of active life, good spirits and excellent health for many years.

Dietetics Principles Through Healthy Diet Proverbs

To draw up a rational menu, you need to know the basic principles on which it is based. Moreover, for this it is not at all necessary to shovel mountains of literature, read scientific manuals and treatises on nutritional science - it is enough to use the wisdom of our ancestors, having studied proverbs about the rules of healthy eating:

1. "The trouble is when the stomach is more stubborn than the mind.". If, without hesitation, there is everything that comes to hand, putting gluttony at the forefront, you can lose not only health, but also harmony in your life. Constant overeating, eating junk food will sooner or later lead to metabolic problems, cardiovascular abnormalities, a sharp change in body weight and other physiological disorders, as well as disrupt the balance of energy and vitality, cause insomnia and depression.
2. "Belly is not a bag: you can't eat in reserve" ... You should not arrange too dense meals, sacrificing their amount: the only thing that you will achieve is a distended stomach and a constant feeling of hunger. It is better to eat a little 4-5 times a day - then the food will be the most balanced.
3. "What a problem if you drink water". Drinking regime is just as important as regular meals. Drinking at least 1.5-2 liters per day, a person saturates cells with life-giving moisture, allows the circulatory system to function “like a clock” and replenishes its deficit in the body.
4. "Do not swallow without chewing, do not talk without thinking". As well as expressing your opinion, without first thinking it over thoroughly, you cannot neglect the correct chewing of the write. Swallowing large chunks will overwhelm your stomach, cause your digestive tract to malfunction, and end up with digestive problems.
5. "There are no bad products - there are bad cooks". Even the healthiest and healthiest food can be spoiled by improper cooking. For example, fried foods will be much more harmful than those cooked in the oven or steamed. And if you know special technologies and delicious recipes, you can learn how to create real masterpieces without using excessive heat treatment.

Proverbs and sayings about healthy eating: making a menu

Whatever one may say, the basic rule on which dietology is based is wholesome, rich in vitamins and minerals, nutritious and at the same time easily digestible foods. To include in your diet fast food, caffeinated products, and even more so meat or fish that gets on the table through violence, cruelty and murder, is a fundamental violation of the norms. healthy way life, moral principles and foundations of a humane, harmonious spiritual personality. In addition, a variety of fruits, vegetables, cereals, nuts, legumes and other plant crops can fully provide a person with everything necessary for a full life, and sayings clearly confirm this.

Vegetables on the table - health at home

The vegetable menu is perhaps the healthiest thing that Mother Nature has to offer us. Their composition is rich in plant fiber, life-giving moisture, nutrients, easy for digestion, minerals, amino acids and vitamins. They are good both by themselves and as ingredients for delicious dishes: remember what is the spring-summer aroma of cucumber salad, the spicy taste of vegetable stew or an autumn mix with carrots and cabbage? And a light lean borschik, ratatouille or marrow jam for dessert? Fresh or cooked vegetables can replace the first, second and third dishes, and our ancestors knew about this for a long time. And numerous proverbs about the benefits of vegetables are a clear confirmation of this:

1. Horseradish and radish, but dashing cabbage will not be allowed.
2. Cabbage is not empty, it flies itself into the mouth.
3. Beets are a red maiden, but with a green plait, on the table she is a queen, useful for health.
4. Carrots add blood.
5. Seven changes, and all one radish: tricha radish, chunk radish, radish with kvass, radish with butter, radish in pieces, radish in cubes and whole radish.
6. Greens on the table - health for a hundred years.
7. Well done, what a cucumber, and a cucumber, what a good job.
8. Lunch without vegetables is a holiday without music.
9. Vegetables are a pantry of health.
10. Not a single horn lives without cabbage.

Fruit and berry abundance

Proverbs about healthy eating could not ignore the benefits of fruits and berries. Juicy, ripe and incredibly tasty fruits are an irreplaceable source of vitamins and vegetable fiber. If you replenish your diet with apples, you can forget about weakness and anemia, bananas will help to improve digestion, citrus fruits - to make up for the deficiency of vitamin C, pears - to get rid of diarrhea, pomegranates - to raise hemoglobin ... In a word, correctly selected fruits and berries can cure ailments and improve work organism. True, you should pay attention only to seasonal fruits, since when buying them in supermarkets it is impossible to be sure that there are no pesticides. This rule also applies to vegetables: a crop harvested from one's own garden or bought in trusted places will be much more useful than an imported one.

And in order not to doubt the benefits of fruits and berries, read what the proverbs say about it:

1. An apple for dinner, and you don't need a doctor.
2. Grapes are not hail, they do not beat, they do not fall, but they put them on their feet.
3. Oranges help with colds and sore throats.
4. I ate a pear and brushed my teeth.
5. The most ancient fruit, the fig, is famous for the whole world.
6. If you go for berries, you will find health.
7. A pear - to me, an apple - to me, and a quince - my heart wants.
8. Plum does not praise itself, and the path to it is always trodden.
9. For the sake of strawberries, you will bow to the earth more than once.
10. A good doctor apple is worth it.

Proverbs about the rules of a healthy diet from cereals

What could be healthier for the stomach than porridge? Light oatmeal is the best breakfast, nutritious buckwheat rich in iron and minerals is an ideal main course for lunch, and quick-digesting rice is a great dinner. However, although these are the most popular, they are far from the only cereals: those who prefer a cereal menu can change the varieties of dishes at least every day. And how much can you cook from cereals? Buckwheat cutlets, rice meatballs, oat bars with dried fruits, corn cookies ... All these dishes will not only be healthy, but also incredibly tasty. One has only to read the proverbs about the rules of healthy eating related to cereals - and everything will immediately fall into place:

1. A good porridge, but a small cup.
2. Buckwheat porridge is our mother, and rye loaf is our dear father.
3. Lunch is not for lunch without porridge.
4. Any belly that the eyes see porridge.
5. Porridge is our mother, and bread is our breadwinner.
6. The cook lives better than the prince.
7. Our health is oatmeal.
8. Our mother - buckwheat porridge: not a couple of pepper, will not burst belly.
9. Thick porridge will not disperse the family.
10. Bread and cereals for the health of lupi.

Proverbs about healthy eating: we make the right regimen

No matter how trite it may sound, it is not only the quality of food that is important, but also its regularity. Skip breakfast in order not to be late for work, neglect lunch due to heavy workload during working day, and in the evening to eat off, trying to compensate for the feeling of hunger that followed during the day is far from the most best idea... At night, the body must rest, including the digestive tract. Therefore, dinner should be light and not too late so that all the food eaten has time to be completely absorbed before going to bed. But breakfast must necessarily be nutritious - it is necessary for the metabolism to wake up, and the nutrients eaten provide energy at least before lunch. Read what the proverbs say about it:

1. You need kefir for dinner.
2. Eat breakfast yourself, share lunch with a friend, and give dinner to the enemy.
3. On an empty stomach and the song is not sung.
4. Going to bed with an empty stomach, you wake up vigorous.
5. Dinner is not needed - lunch would be friendly.
6. He sat down and ate, and dinner is not needed.
7. Shortening your dinner will lengthen your life.
8. After dinner, the pillow turns under your head.
9. A full stomach has nightmares.
10. Everyone needs lunch and dinner.

Proverbs about the dangers of overeating

Any excess cannot go unnoticed, and overeating is no exception. Golden Rule dietetics is based on the fact that "You need to leave the table with a slight feeling of hunger" - then digestion will be normal, and excess weight will be bypassed, and overall well-being will always be vigorous and active. However, you should not confuse a slight feeling of hunger and malnutrition: if the first is the physiological stage of satiety (after all, the feeling of satiety comes about 20-30 minutes after a meal), then the second is a restriction in necessary nutrients, which cannot be called correct.

Our ancestors knew about this - it's not for nothing that there are so many sayings among the people about the dangers of gluttony:

1. Large satiety - to harm the belly.
2. Those who are greedy for food will come to trouble.
3. A large lump gets stuck in the throat.
4. Moderation in food is healthier than a hundred doctors.
5. A large piece will break your mouth, and a small piece will feed you to your fill.
6. Moderate food is a delight to the mind.
7. Be moderate in food, but not in work.
8. If you want health, don't eat a lot; if you want honor, don't say a lot.
9. Eat half as much - you will live a century to a full.
10. The glutton's stomach is a bottomless gorge.

Let's sum up

If you collect everything proverbs and sayings about healthy eating together, you can release a whole cycle of volumes of folk wisdom - in one book this bottomless storehouse useful tips clearly will not fit. And, if you look at it, all modern dietetics is based on the same principles that are promoted in the proverbs: eat healthy foods, use the right cooking methods, do not overeat, but do not starve, do not turn food into the meaning of life - and you will be able to keep your food. health, youth and vitality for many years.

For what everyone loves parables - it is for the brevity of presentation and depth of thought. Moreover, this depth changes over time - each time we see something new in them. They teach and entertain, but at the same time they do not strain at all - this is how you want to learn from life.

How do words affect us?

Two friends are talking:
- My wife is so untidy and sloppy! I tell her about this all the time, but every year it only gets worse and worse.

To which the second answers him:
- And my so clever and wonderful hostess! And every year it gets better and better! I also constantly tell her about it.

What the soul is filled with ...

Several people once deliberately loudly condemned wise man when he passed through their block. He heard everything, but answered them with a smile and wished to be well. Someone asked him:
- You smiled and wished these people health, didn't you feel anger towards them?

To which the man replied:
- When I come to the market, I can only spend what I have in my wallet. Likewise, when communicating with people - I can only spend what my soul is filled with ...

Always start with yourself

One married couple moved to live in a new house. In the morning, barely waking up, the wife looked out the window and saw a neighbor who was hanging out the washed laundry to dry.

Look how dirty her laundry is, ”she told her husband.
But he read the newspaper and did not pay any attention to it.
- Probably she has bad soap, or she doesn't know how to wash at all. We ought to teach her.

And so it was every time: when a neighbor hung up the laundry, the wife wondered how dirty it was.

One fine morning, looking out the window, she exclaimed:
- O! Today the linen is clean! Probably learned to wash!
- No, - said the husband, - I just got up early today and washed the window.

About food and dishes

They say that in ancient times there lived a husband and wife who had several beautiful little children. Once they had to leave for a short time, but they did not have the opportunity to take their children with them. They did not want to leave them with strangers and therefore decided to invite their wife's sister, who lived far away and had not been with them for a long time, to stay with them. They wrote her an invitation, and she happily agreed, because she so wanted to see her sister and get to know her nephews.

She arrived soon after, and just in time. The couple were supposed to leave that evening. And the aunt was left alone with her little nephews. The children immediately fell in love with their aunt, because she was kind and affectionate, and she, in turn, could not stop looking at such small, beautiful and lovely children. Evening came, and my aunt made pilaf for dinner. She put plates of pilaf on the table and invited the children to supper. They came running, sat down, but for some reason did not start eating.

- What's the matter? Why aren't you eating? - asked the aunt.

“This is the wrong pilaf,” the children said.

It turned out that every child considered food to be correct only if it was poured into a plate with his favorite pattern. One had a cross drawn on a plate, another had a seated man in orange clothes with half-closed eyes, the third had a four-armed man with a disc, a mace, a shell and a lotus in one of his hands, etc. At first she thought that children were like this decided to play a trick on her, but, looking at the serious expression on their faces, I realized that this was a serious matter. She began to explain to them that the food in all plates is the same, but they did not want to listen to anything. For a long time she tried to persuade them, but the children stubbornly resisted and even began to cry. Then the aunt simply rearranged the plates so that each child had a plate familiar to him, because she loved children and decided that it was better to give in to them than to leave them hungry. She could not understand in any way why the children considered the food to be wrong, when it was poured in a dish that was not their usual one, because she knew that the food was the same, because she cooked it herself. But maybe they don't know about it, she thought.

The next day, she tried to explain to the children that the food is the same for everyone and that its taste does not depend on the plate in which it is served. But the children stood their ground. Day after day, the aunt repeated her attempts to reason with them, but nothing came of it. And then one day she figured out how to do it.

One fine day, when it was raining outside and the children were bored to stay at home, she called the children into the kitchen and, referring to her discomfort, asked the children to help her prepare dinner. The children were happy to help their beloved aunt and agreed with pleasure. My aunt came up with the idea of ​​cooking in a playful way.

“I will be the commander, and you will be my loyal soldiers,” she said.

She commanded them like a real commander, and the children regularly performed all her commands. They were delighted with this game. And now dinner was ready, and the table was laid.

- And now let everyone come up with their own plate, and I'll pour you all, - commanded the aunt.

They lined up cheerfully and, having received food, began to eat with great pleasure. After dinner, my aunt said:

- Now you know that all the food you get is the same, that it is not prepared for each separately according to different recipes.

The children understood what she wanted to say and agreed with her, for they themselves prepared their own food for everyone. Since then, they paid less and less attention to their plates, and soon the drawings on the plates ceased to interest them, as the plates became common.