Create New Year's menu - definitely a challenge. But there are lots of ways to make the process easy and entertaining. Using the principles of proper nutrition and traditions of different peoples of the world and following a particular algorithm compiling the menu, you can get useful and tasty treats without much cost, including material.

Principles of a New Year menu

The key to successful preparation of the menu is a competent data collection and processing. First of all, you need to specify the number of visitors and to calculate their share of food. For one person should have about six hundred grams of food, along with fruit and dessert.

You also need to decide on a New Year's budget. Calculating and comparing it with the preparation of the list of products is easy to adjust the possible costs. It's enough to replace expensive products cheaper analogue or even exclude it from the menu.

It is appropriate to ask the guests their food preferences. Perhaps someone on a diet, fasts or is allergic to certain foods.

In addition to food, the important place occupied by drinks on the menu. Their number is also calculated. If mineral water and juice for one person need about a liter, the alcoholic preferences and highly individual dose. They, too, should clarify, not forgetting to highlight this menu item a certain part of the budget.

Composing New Year's menu are also worth considering the preparation of meals, giving preference to those that are prepared quickly. Well, if the list of treats are appetizers that you can prepare in advance.

The New Year's menu must be present standard components:

• Starters cold and hot. This is all kinds of tapas, sandwiches, slicing;
• Salads can be offered as a with snacks and treats with key;
• Hot dishes - meat, fish or one complicated thing;
• Dessert should be easy, since it is preceded by a large number of nourishing food;
• Drinks are selected respectively dishes. By the red meat - red wine, white - white meat and fish. Water should be present at the table required.

The choice of dishes and you can focus on the culinary traditions of the peoples of the world. This will help not only to diversify the menu, but also to give some flavor of the holiday.

Christmas culinary traditions in the different countries

In each country in its own way to celebrate New Year, and also different dishes everywhere.

• In Germany, for example, on New Year's table, certainly there must be pork. A person who ate a piece of meat pigs, next year will be hard to move forward in all of their endeavors;
• In Hungary and Austria, the holiday goes without poultry. Luck can fly on who will feast on dishes of chicken, goose, duck or turkey;
• In Norway and Greece to the New Year baked pies with a surprise. In one country - with almond nut in the other - with a coin, but all people who have got such a piece is considered to be lucky;
• In Bulgaria, pies, Banjica also hide a coin and rose petal;
• In Portugal, Spain and Cuba grapes is considered a symbol of good luck. If you eat twelve grapes at the banquet table, the new year is sure to be all right;
• The Japanese prefer fish, mostly cooked - a symbol of peace, sea kale, bringing joy and chestnuts, implying success in business;
• In Russia, Switzerland and taken to a table crammed with treats. The abundance and variety of gourmet dishes symbolizes prosperity in the next year;
• In Finland, on the festive table must be plum pudding and rice porridge.

You can follow the above examples, but you can create your own personal family traditions. The main thing is to bring the joy of a festive meal and not become a cause of heaviness in the stomach. To do this, do not neglect some of the rules of healthy eating.

Separate food as an alternative to a traditional feast

Proper organization of the Christmas meal - a pledge of good mood Good mood: Secrets positive   and a nice feeling. Of course, it is not necessary to make such dietary, but it is quite possible to use the principles of healthy and separate food to the outcome of a festive night not have digestive problems.

On New Year's table is usually going to a lot of tasty, but at the same time not very useful, and often incompatible foods. The salads alone accumulated mass of incongruous components. The problem is compounded by different kinds of sandwiches and mayonnaise as dressing.

But that does not mean you have to give up the festive meals that many are waiting for the whole year. You just need to learn how to combine food and put food on the table one by one, guided by the same principles of compatibility. That is, you can not combine proteins with carbohydrates and dairy products and the melon is generally better with nothing to combine.

To embody this plan into practice is quite simple. You just have to set a time serving specific product categories.

• Snacks are served with six to seven hours. Among them, there should be a variety of sandwiches and puff salad with mayonnaise. You can replace them with vegetable salads Vegetable salads: the generous gift of nature , Meats, mushrooms, olives, caviar, and as the use of low-fat sour cream filling Smetana: untold riches of Russian cuisine ;
• Hot in this case is available from nine to ten hours. It is best if the dish is stewed or baked. Garnish should choose easy, vegetable;
• At midnight, the champagne. To him fit snacks;
• For dessert, about three hours is to abandon the multilayer cakes and rich cream cakes, opting chocolates and fruit.

Adhering to this scheme, it is possible not only to prevent backfire abundant feast, but also enjoy the original, with nothing mixed taste of each product.

Maria Bykov

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