Healthy Eating Guidelines
Top 20 Healthy Cooking Tips

These healthy cooking tips form part of my healthy eating guidelines and are designed to help you retain the nutritional value of your food, preserve or enhance its flavor and ensure your cooking habits are hygienic. Sometimes we can buy healthy ingredients and then reduce their healthiness by the way we prepare and cook them.

My Top 20 Healthy Cooking Tips will ensure this doesn't happen...

1. Use fresh, organic and locally produced products whenever possible
2. Invest in a good non-stick frying pan and/or wok, then...
3. Dry fry food that has it's own fat content e.g. chicken
4. If stir frying low or non fat foods, then use a small amount of pure vegetable oil such as rapeseed, sunflower or olive oil
5. Cook vegetables so they are still a little firm - it retains the flavour and the nutrients
6. Try steaming food such as vegetables and fish - the taste is amazing and it's low in fat
7. Use fruit juices as natural sweeteners to replace sugar
8. Grill meat products to allow the fat to drain away
9. Have one chopping board for meat and another for fruit and veg - don't mix the 2
10. Always prepare food with clean hands and utensils
11. Don't refreeze food once it's been defrosted
12. Try powdered sweetener instead of sugar to sweeten your dishes
13. Always rinse meat, fish and produce thoroughly before preparation and cooking
14. Don't wash it under a running tap - the water splashes and spread germs around your kitchen
15. Wash your hands immediately after handling raw meat
16. Use herbs and spices to flavour your food instead of salt
17. Use vegetable water to make stocks, gravies and sauces - it's full of vitamins and minerals lost in the boiling process
18. Eat food by the sell by date
19. Cook more than necessary then freeze the leftovers for days when you are too busy to cook and might be tempted to buy fast food
20. Replace creamy sauces using skimmed and low fat dairy products with a little flour or cornstarch to thicken

If you like these healthy cooking tips and would like to find out more about healthy cooking and eating, then visit the Womens Health Coach pages on:

Healthy Balanced Diet
Healthy Foods to Eat, and
Healthy Eating Habits

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