Cooking at home can be an effective way to avoid extra calories, fat, and sodium from fast food dinners. Here are some tips to remember that will help your home-cooked dinner be even better for you:
- Preserve
the nutrients and colors in veggies. Cook them quickly by steaming or
stir-frying.
- Prepared
seasonings can have high sodium content and increase your risk for high
blood pressure. Replace salt with herbs and spices or some of the
salt-free seasoning mixes. Use lemon juice, citrus zest or hot
chilies to add flavor.
- Canned,
processed and preserved vegetables often have very high sodium content.
Look for "low-sodium" veggies or try the frozen varieties.
- Choose
whole grain for part of your ingredients instead of highly refined
products. Use whole-wheat flour, oatmeal and whole cornmeal.
- Switch
to fat-free milk or 1% milk instead of whole or reduced-fat (2%) milk.
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