The community publishes a guide to nutrition, purchase and easy kitchen for young people.

-Offers advice from the weekly purchase until the development of complete menus plan

Madrid, October 2011.- the director-general of primary care in the community of Madrid, Antonio Alemany, yesterday presented the guidelines on nutrition, purchase and easy kitchen for young peoplea publication edited by the Ministry of health addressed to young people who live alone and have no time to cook and buy fresh food.

The guide provides the basics needed for adequate food, from the time of planning the purchase until the development of different recipes. The guide is distributed at the universities of the community and through the website of the Ministry of health.

The director of primary care highlighted that the development of this guide sought to respond to the needs detected among many young people, who often change their eating habits by new labour and social needs that generated changes in lifestyle. We wanted that the guidelines on nutrition, purchase and easy kitchen for young people is a tool for guidance on nutrition, from the time of purchase until the way of cooking a food ”, said Alemany.

The presentation of the guide is part of the celebration of world food day and as one of the first activities of the madrilenian network of healthy universities (REMUS) created jointly by the Ministry of health and the 13 universities public and private community of Madrid and aims to achieve healthy University environmentswith activities in the field of nutrition, physical activity, tobacco, alcohol and other drugs and health and leisure.

Clear concepts list of shopping and menu

The guidelines on nutrition, purchase and easy kitchen for young recalls basic concepts of the balanced nutrition, since the number of servings of each food group that must take a day to what foods are included in each group (farinaceous)(, fruit and vegetables, dairy products, meat …) or how to combine them throughout the five meals per day and per week.

The second part of the guide is devoted to the preparation of the shopping list, tips to know in what order to choose the food in the shop or how choose judiciously from the wide variety of products that we offer, for example, some integral varieties among farinaceous (NAP)(, rice, pasta, cookies ….) or some dairy products with less fat. How to sort the purchase, both in the refrigerator as in the pantry, are other explanations offered publication.

In addition, the guide is dedicated to the preparation of menus, starting with a sketch of what groups of foods combine well at different meals or what forms of preparation are the healthiest.

The guide offers menus for breakfast, lunch and dinner with three options which can be exchanged for dozens of different end menus. Each recipe includes your nutritional profile, as well as the list of ingredients and the way of development.

Finally, the guidelines on nutrition, purchase and easy kitchen for young people offers answers to some common questions about issues of nutrition, measures of what is considered a ration of different types of food and what nutrients has and what are needed.