Not to eat after six, avoid anything farinaceous, stick to a diet … Agree, it is a doubtful pleasure, but we always want to look perfectly, especially when nature itself provokes on short and open skirts and T-shirts. To keep yourself in tone, you should eat balanced, rational food.

But it turns out, there are drinks that help to suppress feeling of hunger and settle down appetite. It is much easier than starving yourself with malnutrition and all kinds of diets. Consider a list of 5 miracle drinks - and who knows, perhaps, you will like this method a lot more …

1 . Lemon and honey

Hydromel discourage appetite excellently - water with a slice of lemon and a tea spoon of honey. If you want to eat a lot, you can drink this cocktail - typically, its effect is enough for an hour, then, if your diet does not have a meal, you can drink water with lemon and honey again.

Take gidromel better right from the morning, while nothing and no one has managed to ruffle you. After a couple of months of such therapy any tiger tamer may envy your composure.

If you set out to lose weight, then the drink is for you too! But in order to change weight, you will have to change time of drinking. The best is to take it on an empty stomach in the morning, at 16.00 and 18.00. Replace your favorite coffee with this drink, and walls of your vessels will become strong and flexible. Prepare this drink for the whole day and make a gulp in those moments when you want to smoke.

But there are some secrets of hydromel cooking. At the first signs of cold, many of us drink hot tea with honey. But few people know that honey loses its medicinal properties in hot tea. Even at 50 degrees all useful substances are destroyed in sweet product - enzymes, vitamins. Your boiled water with honey will only contain glucose and sugar. Therefore, remember before you cook hydromel, that it will be useful, if water temperature is no higher than 40 degrees.

2. Decoction

Our grandmother used decoction of dried fruits - apricots, apples and prunes. For 1 l decoction you will need a handful of dried fruits, previously thoroughly washed. Throw them into boiling water, boil for 10-15 minutes and put in cold to cool. Drink a glass when you want to eat.

Incidentally, with regard to dried fruits, drying of fruits - one of the ways to store them. Even in «dry balance», they retain a sufficient amount of vitamins, what is their value. Additionally, dried fruits are among the sweetest of products that do not raise blood sugar levels. In short, they are very good for the body and very high-calorie.

It must be remembered that dried fruits belong to the category of concentrated and sweet products. However, there is not sugar, which we are accustomed to put in tea, but fructose and glucose, which are useful carbohydrates, not increasing level of insulin in blood. Dried fruits are high-calorie, but these are not those «harmful» calories in candy and pastries. Broths and compotes of dried fruits are used, for example, for therapeutic feeding, against heart, kidney, liver, stomach diseases. Due to high content of calcium, regular use of dried fruits has a beneficial effect on skin, strengthens hair and nails.

Attention should be given to qualitative indicators of dried fruits while their purchase. If fruits are too dry, then this indicates a violation of conditions of manufacture or storage. Wine flavor shows a lack of high-quality processing of raw materials. Black grains of poppy in the product indicate contamination by larvae of insects.

3. Compotes

Maybe you’re surprised, but compotes are able to saturate perfectly. Especially if you cook them from fresh apricots, raspberries, strawberries, cherries. Sugar is not necessary, it is possible to add a tablespoon of honey for 2 liters of water- then compote will gain more intense flavor.

Compote of fresh apricots or plums

Wash apricots and plums in cold water, make lengthwise cuts on them and remove pits. Pour sugar in a saucepan, 2 cups hot water, stir, put fruits and boil. For 500 g apricots or plums - 3 / 4 cup sugar.

Fresh peaches compote

Put peaches in boiling water. After 2-3 min remove them from water, peel off, cut fruits into halves and remove pits. Pour sugar in a saucepan, 2 glasses of hot water, mix, put peaches and bring to a boil. Then remove a saucepan from heat and add vanillin. For 500 g peaches - 3 / 4 cup sugar.

4. Full sour

It is especially good, if you do it by yourself. It not only alives and refreshes, but also reduces appetite. It is better to forget about purchased soda full sour - it contains too much sugar.

Trying to revive full sour, start learning to cook it by yourself. After all, this ancient, more than a millennium years drink, not only perfectly quenches thirst, but also is the basis for various dishes, especially for refreshing summer soups. You can soak and stew meat in full sour, make batter for mushrooms and fish. In addition, Kvass long drink is considered to be «polzitelnym».

General rules

1. Full sour should not be misused while chronic ulcer and gastritis, high acidity, colitis, gout and liver disease. To reduce acidity, add honey to your taste.

2. Full sour is prepared on cooled boiled water.
3. Store full sour in a cold place.
4. Ready full sour should be used for 2-3 days. With longer storage, it loses flavor and becomes sour.
5. Champagne bottles with compact and reliable polyethylene plugs are most convenient for cooking full sour.
6. Dishes should be glass or enamel, do not use aluminum utensils, as full sour is oxidized in it.
7. Chilled full sour is tastier.
8. To prepare berry full sou,r use only ripe berries.

5. Dogrose on honey

Pour a teaspoon of hip with 0.5 cups of boiling water, leave for half an hour, add half a spoon of honey and drink, unless you work up an appetite in time.

Briar in ancient times was famous for its high and multilateral medicinal properties. The fruits are rich not only in vitamin C, but also provitamin A (carotene), vitamin B2, P, K, and their seeds contain vitamin E. Thus, hips are a natural fruit concentrate of vitamins and are rich also in aroma, citric acid, mineral salts, tannins.

Vitamin drink from hips with honey is prepared as follows. Put a tablespoon dried hips, washed with cold water fragmented in enameled saucepan, brew in a glass of boiled water and boil for 10 minutes. Then pour broth along with hips into clean glass ware and, covering with gauze, leave in a warm place for 10-12 hours, then filter the mixture through a double layer of gauze, and squeeze hips.

Add a tablespoon honey, and stir carefully. Vitamin honey beverage should be used within 24 hours after its creation, while vitamin C is not destroyed. Adult can take 2 glasses a day, children - a glass.