| Do you sometimes feel like cooking, especially cooking | | | | nature. Cooking healthy meals is the easiest way to |
| "healthy" foods, is a chore? - Not to mention | | | | keep track of the nutrients that your family is eating. |
| expensive. Or do you get frustrated at the end of the | | | | Rachel Ray has become a celebrity with her "30 |
| week when you have to throw away unused, rotten | | | | Minute Meals" TV show. It is more than possible to get |
| vegetables that you purchased to make a healthy | | | | a good nutritious meal on the table for your family in |
| salad and never found the time to put it all together. | | | | under an hour. It would take you that long to get the |
| Most households are just trying to stay above water. | | | | kids together into the car to go to the neighborhood |
| With our already over booked schedules, it seems | | | | fast food joint. So put on your apron (don't have one?) |
| impossible to add another task. Trying to shop and | | | | and get to the kitchen, it is time to cook healthy. |
| prepare healthy meals is not on our number one | | | | Here are five quick ways to prepare healthy meals. |
| priority list. | | | | 1)Include fruits and vegetables in your meal plans. |
| But the truth is there is a little voice inside our heads | | | | Fruits require no cooking skills but can beprepared as |
| that always makes us feel guilty about our eating | | | | deserts or added to salads. |
| habits. The fact is everyone really does want to eat | | | | Baked vegetables are delicious and nutritious and easy |
| healthier because we really want to be healthier. | | | | to prepare. |
| Because of recent scientific evidence supporting the | | | | 2) Use more chicken and fish, beans and nuts in your |
| importance of a healthy diet for longevity and health, | | | | cooking. |
| our priorities need revising. It is a fact that Americans | | | | Bake, steam, grill, or broil meats instead of frying or |
| have a hectic stressful lifestyle. | | | | sautéing. |
| There may be little time available for healthy cooking. | | | | 3) Reduce fats, use Olive Oil rather than saturated |
| But again, the warning is clear - we must eat healthy in | | | | fats, trans fats. |
| order to live lives free from the risk of chronic | | | | 4) Avoid products that have high sodium and |
| devastating disease. Eating healthier starts in our own | | | | excessive sugar content. |
| kitchens. Cooking healthy nutritious meals at home is | | | | You will also save money by preparing meals at home. |
| possible. | | | | For those individuals who are concerned about their |
| Healthy cooking will actually make our lives less | | | | cooking skill, there is no need to worry. If you can turn |
| stressful. The more we learn concerning nutrition, the | | | | on an oven or a microwave, you can prepare healthy |
| more important it becomes to incorporate healthy | | | | meals. |
| choices into our lives. | | | | Anyone can learn to cook healthy meals. There are no |
| Cooking healthy meals does not have to take up a lot | | | | magic formulas or complicated diagrams required. |
| of time and energy. With just a little and planning, | | | | Shopping healthier will result in healthy cooking which |
| cooking healthy nutrient rich meals will become second | | | | result in a healthier family. |