Tips for healthier cooking

[JVKn'CVO 11]

Hi Everyone!

I'm a big believer that changing your eating habits is far more effective than dieting in the long run

So for everyone interested in healthier cooking, let's share tips and recipes!

For example:

Cut the fat out of any meat before cooking, is much more effective than cutting it afterwards (and definetly healthier than eating it!)

Instead of mashed potatoes, try half potatoes - half butternut squash: tastes great! (and needs less butter)

Saludos,

Caro

[Amby 490]

instead of mash potato - steam cauliflower until very tender. add s&p, bit of butter & mash like potato

marinade veggies like zucchini, squash, eggplant, bell peppers, mushrooms, red onion overnight in equal parts soy sauce & balsamic vinegar and a bit of olive oil. roast at 450 until done

[JVKn'CVO 11]

Thanks Amby!

Make your own hamburgers with extra lean meat (98%)

Ingredients:

gound beef, extra lean (98%)

1 egg

mustard and/or worcestershire sauce

salt, pepper

plain bread crumbs

Mix all the ingredients, add enough bread crumbs so that the mix is firm and holds together well. Cook as ussual.

Saludos,

Caro

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

eat more honey.

[Amby 490]

I put honey on strawberries instead of sugar to sweeten them. mmmmmm

[JVKn'CVO 11]

Yes! go Honey! use it instead of refined sugar to sweeten tea!

Tuna and brocoli pie

-Ready pie crust (like pillsbury's)

-Brocoli

-Tuna (2 cans)

-white onions, red peppers, green peppers, green onions

-tomatoes

-1 egg

-salt and pepper

Dice the brocoli and tomatoes, reserve. Dice the onions and peppers, lightly cook on a frying pan with some non-stick spray (like PAM). mix everything with the Tuna, egg, salt and pepper. On a pie mold, set the pie crust and fill in with mix. bake at 400 until crust turns golden.

Saludos,

Caro

[JVKn'CVO 11]

How many calories in your drink?

Calorie count for popular cocktails

Serving size is one glass (200 ml)

Margarita 453

Martini 413

Mint Julep 143

Old Fashioned 206

Pina Colada 297

Screwdriver 200

Singapore Sling 230

Sloe Gin Fizz 120

Tequila Sunrise 253

Tom Collins 120

Black Russian 291

Whisky Sour 166

Blue Lagoon 179

White Russian 360

1 mug of beer (250 ml) (150 calories)

1 glass of white wine (200 ml) (120 calories)

1 glass rum and diet Coke (133 calories)

1 glass of martini with one olive (184 calories)

1 tequila shot (100 calories)

1 glass of gin and tonic (178 calories)

1 glass of Bailey's lrish Cream (468 calories)

1 glasss of Cosmopolitan (151 calories)

1 glass of Zima (rum cocktail) (185 calories)

Saludos,

Caro

[nana_356 0]

use olive oil to cook your food VS vegi oil, but remember it is better to drizle the oil over the food VS over a hot pan. That way the meat or vegies will absorb all of the great anti oxidants in olive oil. But if you put the olive oil in a hot pan, many of the great nutrients will burn off.

Flax seed oil, by far one of the greatest things, it has improved my skin hair nails, lowers bad cholesterol levels ad blood pressure

well here is a link to the benefits,

http://www.healthcastle.com/flax.shtml

You can get the seed or oil version, but if you get the seeds make sure to grind it up.

[Welshcookie 17]

Serving size is one glass (200 ml)

Margarita 453

Oh #######!

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

eat more honey.

Now thats a diet I could live with!

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

One of the best things to do is to eat smaller amounts of tastier more satisfying food.

Make sure to enjoy every piece of food you eat, only eat when you're hungry, and eat slowly. Stop as soon as you're full. Don't just eat out of boredom.

[JVKn'CVO 11]

Grat tips guys!

Here's a trick to try instead of frying:

Get an oven pan, paint it lightly with the oil of your choice. get an aluminum sheet, paint it lightly with oil as well. put the food on the pan and cover with the aluminum sheet, close it tighly (so the food is sealed between the two oiled surfaces). It is almost as effective as frying, same taste, but a lot healthier.

Another plus: no oil dumping dilema

Saludos,

Caro

[JVKn'CVO 11]

Serving size is one glass (200 ml)

Margarita 453

Oh #######!

I knoooow!

Switch to red wine: 120 calories, and you get a lot of healthy antioxidants...cheers people!

Saludos,

Caro

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

eat more honey.

Now thats a diet I could live with!

so far, i think you're the only one who's gotten it

edited for stupid typo.

Edited June 8, 2008 by charlesandnessa

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

eat more honey.

Now thats a diet I could live with!

so far, i thing you're the only one who's gotten it

Eat out more often!