Healthy Cooking Tips

Eating health food doesn’t mean giving you’re your favorite foods and switching to bird food. Healthy cooking is easy. In many cases, your favorite recipes can be modified so they offer a healthier alternative. If you have problems perfecting transitioning your recipes over please contact @health, we specialize in this process.

General suggestions
General suggestions on healthy cooking methods include:

• Steam, bake, grill, braise, or boil your foods.
• Modify or eliminate recipes that include butter or ask you to deep fry or sauté in animal fat.
• Be aware of the burning point for the oil you are cooking with. Our goal is to eliminate and avoid all trans fats. Do not take beautifully healthy oil and turn it into a trans fat by over heating it. It will smoke when it is too hot.
• Don't add salt to food as it is cooking.
• Remove chicken skin, which is high in fat. However, to retain the moisture in the chicken meat, remove the skin at the end of cooking.
• Eat more fresh vegetables and legumes.
• Eat more fish, which is high in protein, low in fats and loaded with omega 3 fatty acids.

Other tips
Suggestions include:

• Spend a little time on presentation. You are more likely to enjoy a meal if it's visually appealing as well as tasty.
• Make every meal an occasion. Set the table. Eat with your family. Give yourself the opportunity to enjoy your food without distractions like television.
• Long term deprivation, such as crash dieting, doesn't work. Allow yourself the occasional guilt-free treat.
• You are less likely to overeat if you eat slowly and savour every mouthful.

Where to get help

• Nutritionist, like Tamara Renee from @health
• Your doctor.
• If you run short of time and creativity @health offers a Diet Meal Service with Nutritious & Delicious Meals, give us a call today 858.864.9333.

Things to remember

• In many cases, favorite recipes can be modified so they offer a lower fat or better type of content. Call @health today and ask them to do your favorite recipe a make over.
• Choose to steam, bake, grill, braise, or boil your foods, rather than deep-fry them.
• Use non-stick cookware.
• Steam your vegetables instead of boiling them to retain the nutrients.