Tips for Low Fat Cooking Success
From edition 4 of our newsletter

Healthy eating is a must for anyone wanting to lose weight or stay in shape.

To eat well, you have to adopt a well balanced diet that is low in saturated fat and high in nutrient dense foods.

In today's fast food society, it is often hard to make low fat food choices.

It is even harder to take time out of our busy schedules to take a moment to make food selections that are healthy.

The good news is that there are several very simple things you can do to lower the amount of fat in the foods you cook.

Simply adopting one or two of the above strategies will go a long way toward improving your health and well being!

Tips for Low Fat Cooking

• Use mono-unsaturated or poly-unsaturated food products.
• Use a little bit of high quality olive or truffle oil to enhance.
• Choose lean cuts of meat, including fish or pork.
• Trim the fat from high fat cuts of meat.
• Select skinless chicken, or remove the skin before eating.
• Use cooking spray instead of butter.
• Broil instead of fry.
• Try stir frying vegetables and meats in broth not oil.

Use spices to enhance the flavor of foods including:

• Thyme
• Cilantro
• Rosemary
• Allspice
• Oreganos
• Parsley
• Cumin
• Onion
• Garlic

Adopting these simple measures alone can save you hundreds of calories, and several pounds, each and every year!

Copyright © 2005 Beverley Brooke, Health & Finesse

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