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Healthy Cooking Tip: Start With Cold Water
Hot water boils faster, so to save time in the kitchen, you might be tempted to cook your pasta with hot tap water. This time-saving trick is bad for your health. The problem is lead.
Healthy Cooking Tip: Olive Oil Shelf Life
Being the cornerstone of the Mediterranean-style diet, olive oil tastes great and offers a wide variety of health benefits. But that bottle that has been in your pantry for two years — not so much. As olive oil ages, it loses its nutritional potency.
Healthy Cooking Tip: Slow Cooker and Steaming
To me, falling temperatures at sunset mean cooked veggies for dinner. Raw carrots just don't cut it when it is sweater weather inside my house. But don't just boil your vegetables, because how you prepare your produce affects its nutritional quality.
Healthy Cooking Tip: Boil Potatoes Whole
Potatoes, reviled during the low-carb days of yore, are once again showing up on many American plates.
Labor Day means potato salad, and potato salad means boiling potatoes. I just read in the Berkeley Wellness Letter that you should boil your potatoes unpeeled and whole, which is easy to do if you buy the small red-skinned variety.
Healthy Cooking Made Easy: Pacific Broth
Since Thanksgiving is almost here, I'm sure you're all thinking about the delicious food you'll be making. If you're like me, I know you have a lot to prepare, so whatever makes things easier is always a plus. That's why I love the broths made by Pacific.
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Healthy Cooking Tips From Cat Cora
Food Network personality Cat Cora, and author of the book Cooking From the Hip, has given eDiets these healthy cooking tips:
- Buy Seasonal, Fresh Ingredients. Cat says using fresh ingredients is one of the best ways to ensure your meals will be healthy and taste great. She frequently visits her local farmers' markets to find foods to include in her recipes, especially fruits and vegetables at the peak of their season.
- Use Organic Products.
Tips to Make Any Dish Healthier
If you like to cook, you may have a hard time doing it in a healthy way.
Luckily, Cooking Light has shared some great tips for making dishes more nutritious and still tasty.
For all recipes:
- Study the recipe.
Healthy Meals Made Easy: Plan Ahead and Pre-Cut
You are busy all day long, it is a part of these modern times. You're at school or work full-time. You have meetings and a workout to fit in - so who has time to prepare a healthy meal?
Smarter Eats: Use Chalkboard Labels on Jars
Take a peek into my kitchen cabinet for a healthy eating tip. If you can't tell from the picture those are jars with chalkboard labels. I've been using them for almost a year now and for two good reasons: health and money.
Healthy Eating Tip: Add Chopped Veggies to Your Cooked Grains
Whole grains are so healthy for you because they contain the bran, germ, and endosperm that naturally occur in the grain seed. That means they're full of fiber, protein, and other essential nutrients.
To make whole grains even healthier, while at the same time adding a little more flavor, color, and exciting texture, add chopped veggies while they're cooking.
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