Sep
11
Filed Under (Low Fat Cooking) by admin on 11-09-2008

Easy Tips for Healthy Cooking

We all know we should be eating healthier. But it’s not just changing our eating habits in restaurants that needs to be done. We can also change how we cook our food at home. Healthy cooking at home doesn’t need to be bland or boring! In fact, you may find some of these tips will add more flavor to your dishes!

The first thing to do is choose leaner cuts of meat. The obvious choices for low fat cooking are chicken and fish, but other meats can be lower in fat as well. When shopping for red meat, the words ’sirloin’ and ’round’ are cuts which are naturally lower in fat. Check the meat and choose the one with the least amount of marbling and trim off any excess fat before cooking. Look for ground beef that is 95% lean. Pork is also another great lean meat.

The problem most people have with lean meats is that they will dry out easily when cooking. To avoid this, try a marinade. Marinades aren’t just for flavor (although that is a great benefit!). Using acidic liquids will actually help break down the tougher connective tissue in the meat. Try one of the many low fat marinades available in your grocery store, or make up your own with ingredients such as balsamic or red wine vinegar, herbs and spices. Depending on the size of the meat portion, you can marinade from 20 minutes to several hours. A great marinade for chicken is yogurt. Mix fat free yogurt with some lemon juice, salt, pepper and any other spices you like and coat your chicken breasts. Yogurt marinades are best after 8 hours or overnight.

Tired of bland vegetables? Try sautéing your vegetables in a little chicken broth (or vegetable broth) instead of oil. Then sprinkle on herbs. Even just a sprinkling of chopped chives can add a zesty new taste to your vegetables. Another great option is roasting vegetables. This works wonderfully with root vegetables or other very firm ones such as cauliflower and squashes. Simply cut the vegetables into large chunks, spray with cooking spray and toss on seasoning. Curry powders, cajun blends or Italian seasonings are great. Roast in a 450 degree oven until the vegetables are tender. You can also place the vegetable pieces on a skewer and roast on your grill! more…

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Filed Under (Low Fat Cooking) by admin on 11-09-2008

Making Your New Vegetarian Lifestyle Work For You!

You’ve finally made the decision to change your eating habits and dive head first into a vegetarian lifestyle. Congratulations! You have made a wise decision. Now you have to decide whether to go ‘cold turkey’ or make the transition gradually. Whichever way to choose to start your vegetarian lifestyle, you can will notice the health benefits of vegetarianism more quickly by firstly significantly reducing the amount of meats consumed, and making vegetables, fruits, legumes, and whole grains the focus of your meals.

Take your time when shopping for food, plan ahead, and make sure you read food labels to ascertain information about food additives, food coloring and hidden animal ingredients. If you decide to eat dairy products, choose non-fat or low-fat varieties.

There is a wide variety of vegetarian foods available in most grocery stores, however, some of the more uncommon items may need to be sourced from one of the many specialty vegetarian food stores. Eat a wide variety of foods, and don’t be afraid to try vegetables, fruits, grains, breads, nuts, or seeds that you’ve never tried before. Convenient, ready-to-eat, whole-grain breakfast cereals, and quick-cooking whole-grain cereals such as oatmeal, whole-grain breads and crackers, such as rye, whole wheat, and mixed grain and other grains such as barley and bulgur wheat are readily available.

You should give consideration to the following foods:

* Canned beans, such as pinto, black beans, and garbanzo beans
* Rice (including brown, wild, etc.) and pasta (now available in whole wheat, spinach, and other flavors) with tomato sauce and canned beans and/or chopped veggies
* Vegetarian soups like lentil, navy bean, or minestrone
* A wide variety of plain frozen vegetables, and canned and frozen fruit
* Fortified soymilks and soy cheeses, should you choose to not eat dairy
* A wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, which should be the core of any diet

Once you have mastered the art of cooking delicious vegetarian meals you will soon realize that a meatless diet does not have to lack variety. As a matter of fact you will find it easy and fun to serve up such healthy, tasty and perhaps life prolonging meals that you and your family will thoroughly enjoy. more…

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Sep
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Fat is in the news again. Especially, we are being urged to purge something called trans fats from our diets. Cities such as New York have even started banning restaurants from using trans fats.

What are trans fats? Although some trans fats occur naturally–primarily in certain animal-based food products–most of them are made when manufacturers add hydrogen to vegetable oil. Hydrogenation increases the shelf life and stabilizes the flavor of foods, but at a health cost, scientists have learned.

Trans fats raise the level of bad cholesterol in your body, increasing your risk for heart disease, much the same as saturated fat does. Now, some dietary fat is good and necessary for us, but to the extent possible it should be the unsaturated, non-hydrogenated kind.

Trans fats are most frequently found in vegetable shortenings, some margarines, cookies, crackers and other foods made with or fried in partially hydrogenated oil. As a response to the growing recognition of the health risks of both trans fats and saturated fats, low-fat cooking is again coming into vogue in the home kitchen.

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