Eating healthy is a click away

MANILA, Philippines - Searching for healthy recipes online? Eating healthy should not be hard or expensive. A Google Chrome web app Good Food offers recipes that list the nutritional information and the step-by-step methods to cooking each dish. Plus, you can view each recipe even when you’re offline, so you can easily access the recipe from the grocery store.

Easily store recipes in Google Docs. Found a great recipe online that you want to try during the weekend? Instead of printing the recipe or copying the details using a pen and paper, import your favorite recipes into Google Docs using the gRecipes Chrome extension and access it from your home PC without having to remember any URLs.

Learn more about the additives in what you eat. Taking your healthy diet up a notch? Get more information about the additives in your food by installing the Additives Info extension.

Know if you’re refueling properly. Water is an essential part of our diet and a vital factor in a healthy lifestyle. Are you consuming the right amount of water in a day? The Everyday water app can help you track how many bottles of water you drink each day so you can stay hydrated. 

Succeed at losing weight. Having a hard time losing all the calories and carbohydrates you’ve packed after days of eating out? Set a goal and track your food intake and exercise time using the Lose It! application. The app claims that 85 percent of its most active users have lost more than 12 lbs.

Have you found yourself consuming tray after tray of food you don’t even really like because you’re out of ideas on where to go? Before you become a case worthy of the documentary Super Size Me, check out these Google Chrome tips that’ll help you get the food you want, faster.

Directions are only a click away. Need directions to where you and your friends will meet up for dinner? Simply highlight the address, whether it’s in your e-mail or on a website, right-click, and select ‘Search google.com for ___’, and Chrome will display search results, including a map for the address.

Share your passion for food online. The myeatbox app allows you to chronicle the meals you’ve cooked or eaten, document your diet, or share your kitchen skills with your fellow foodies online.