Top 10 Healthy Cooking Tips Nutrition by Natalie Here are 10 simple tips that you can use in the kitchen to make more healthy foods; lose the calories and fat, not the taste. By replacing unhealthy foods with healthy alternatives in a recipe, you can cook healthy food, reduce fat, increase nutrients, lower calories and improve your diet.
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Healthy Cooking: Top 10 Tips – Nutrition by Natalie
August 16th, 2010 by libertees
Cooking Spray Diet Dangers
August 13th, 2010 by libertees
They’re convenient, but are cooking sprays really fat free? Better TV goes behind the label to reveal what’s really in the can.
The Low Carb Stevia Tortilla Treat
June 23rd, 2010 by libertees
Here is a quick recipe for a light, low carb treat to try. It’s like toast with cinnamon and sugar. First the recipe and how to make it, then a couple of additions and changes to expand on the idea to make more use of the ingredients in meals and snacks.
This cool treat works great for low carb and low glycemic eaters.
The Necessary Ingredients:
1 Mission Brand Carb Balance Fajita size Tortilla
These are low carb tortillas. They come in 3 sizes, fajita, soft taco, and burrito. And two varieties, regular white or whole wheat, both have high levels of fiber.
The white fajita size shows 5g net carbs for one tortilla, which is 12g carbs total, but 7g dietary fiber. The whole wheat fajita has 4 net.
Ground cinnamon, any good one will do.
Powdered Stevia
Try Optimum Nutrition Stevia Powder or another good brand. For those not familiar with stevia, it is a plant extract that tastes sweet but has no calories.
Stevia originates in South America, but has spread all over the world. In Japan, for instance, diet beverages use it as a sweetener. It is not a concocted or chemical created sugar substitute, but a plant extract.
It has a slight aftertaste, but comes directly from nature. You could, of course, substitute nutrisweet (aspartame), or Splenda (sucralose) as a sugar substitute. Or even xylitol or sorbitol, which are low glycemic, but not low carbohydrate.
To make the treat:
Fry or butter the tortilla. When frying, stop while the tortilla is still flexible, but has some golden spots on it.
To make this extremely low fat, use that butter spray or just warm the tortilla. As another option, cook the tortilla in a hot frying pan without oil, or even toast it in a toaster for about half the time needed for a slice of bread. But without the oil from frying or the butter or spray, the cinnamon and stevia probably won’t stick.
Sprinkle on some cinnamon, about a quarter of a teaspoon over the tortilla, to taste.
Sprinkle on some stevia, just a little. It is something like 500 times as sweet as sugar, so use it sparingly. About half a teaspoon or less should be plenty.
This makes a nice low carb snack. The tortilla even has 3 grams of protein.
Other Ideas
Use these tortillas for other things as well. Try making tacos and quesadillas.
For quesadillas, just put about one quarter cup of shredded cheese on the tortilla after frying or cooking it, then heat in the microwave for about 30 seconds. This is similar to a cheese sandwich. Eat open or folded. Try putting in a slice of turkey, ham or roast beef, and create a great hot sandwich.
For tacos, just use regular taco fillings, but using the low carb tortilla as a shell and cut down or eliminate the beans – hardly any difference. And they make great low carb chips. Cut them into chip shape and just fry them till crispy. Most salsas have few carbohydrates. These tortillas make Mexican food work great for low carb and low glycemic eaters.
Also, stevia fits into tons of things, for example, homemade lemonade, like this: A glass of water, add about 5-10 drops of stevia liquid, and a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice, to taste. A very refreshing lemonade.
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Healthy Urban Kitchen Cookbook.
June 17th, 2010 by libertees
A Simple, Step-by-step System For Shopping, Cooking & Eating The Worlds Healthiest Foods (all Natural, Organic Produce & Grass Fed Meats). Gluten & Soy Free.
Healthy Urban Kitchen Cookbook.
Low Carb Cookbooks For Easy Japanese Recipes
May 30th, 2010 by libertees
Low Carb Cookbooks – Great Tips
Japanese food, as we see it as a plain eater, is carefully prepared and very interesting to the senses. In fact, to the very appreciative diner, it may be known as a culinary masterpiece, although it is probably just very popular to a Japanese household.
Low carb Japanese food also look to be a large factor in Japanese life expectancy. Fresh vegetables like bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, string beans, mushrooms and cabbage make an main part of their low crab daily diet. And while red meat is not excluded from their diets, it is only taken in smaller quantities. By contrast, fish makes up a big part of their diet and is taken 3 times more than meat.
To us who loves and enjoying the art of Japanese food, we are probably make a searching for easy Japanese recipes. There are various ways to go about this – enroll in an expensive cooking course; check out bottles, boxes or cans of Japanese products for easy Japanese recipes; discover cooking shows on television; purchase; or, go through food and cooking websites on the Internet to get easy Japanese recipes.
To those who are really serious about preparing wonderful easy Japanese recipes, or those really passionate about Japanese food, they would most probably invest and get the Japanese low carb cookbooks.
There are 2 ways to get start with. One is, you might want to go to your favorite book shops (even book bargain shops where you can just find a treasure), study and buy your best option. The criteria you can utilize probably depend on your favorite preparing method (hot pot recipes, grilled recipes, deep-fried recipes, etc.); your alternative ingredients (beef, seafood, chicken or vegetables), your “health criteria” or dieting needs (vegetarian or on Atkins diet perhaps); your time limitations (some likes easy Japanese recipes but delicious while some prefer to challenge in Japanese culinary recipes); amongst many others. Of course, your budget for the best low carb cookbook is as well an important consideration.
Another easy way, is to purchase the low carb cookbooks online which is in e-books format and you can just download instantly from the comfort of your home. In any case, whatever low carb cookbooks it may be, it must be noted that Japanese dishes are great because of their varied and interesting ingredients, and the careful preparation required for it to be enjoyed. Most importantly it is low carb and healthy dishes among other cuisines.
Are you passionate about preparing a wonderful easy Japanese recipes, find more or more .
How To Make Low Carb Pasta Substitute
May 30th, 2010 by libertees
www.AnabolicCooking.net One of the most challenging aspects of improving your diet is giving up foods that you have come to rely on as part of your everyday eating routine. A main staple food for a lot of people (that also happens to be quite fattening) is pasta. But here in this video I’m going to show you how to actually make your own “Low Carb Pasta” that actually tastes good and will make a good addition to your bodybuilding nutrition program. Give this a try for your next healthy low carb pasta meal and then leave me a comment below to let me know how you like it…
Information About Low-carb Cooking
April 3rd, 2010 by libertees
Have you ever thought about trying a low-carb diet? You want to get going but you don’t know where to start? You can always try low-carb recipes for a few weeks to see if the diet program will work for you.
When trying a low-carb diet, you must eat fewer carbohydrates in your diet. When eating a low carb diet, some diabetics experience a drop in blood sugar and the ability to experience blood sugar stability. The weight loss benefits are also apparent.
Breakfast meals are usually the hardest on a low carb diet because many people like to have their donuts, muffins and toast – but these are found to be high in carbohydrates.
For more details go to: Carbohydrates turn into sugar within your body and then your energy crashes, sending you on a hunt for more food.
Low carb breakfast options are limitless. Several companies make low carb breakfast alternatives and you can even eat eggs. There are many recipes for muffins and other foods that are low in carbs and appropriate for breakfast.
Another food that many find comforting is mashed potatoes. On a low carb diet, potatoes aren’t really a good choice so try mashed cauliflower. You can steam it, mash it and add the same things you would to mashed potatoes and you have an alternative to potatoes.
If you’re a dessert lover, there’s no need to give up desserts on a low-carb diet. There’s a low-carb recipe for almost any dessert you can think of – including strawberry shortcake, cheesecake, brownies, Bundt cakes and even pies!
Some people love to eat rice. The white rice that’s normally used in our favorite dishes is high in carbohydrates. For help visit: if you use brown rice instead of the white, you’ll be eating fewer carbs – and eating healthier too.
Eating out at restaurants, it can be difficult to discern what’s high in carbs and what’s low. Many restaurants have low-carb menu sections, but if they don’t, just try to steer clear of the foods you know are laden with carbs – and load up on healthy proteins instead.
It is important while on a low carb diet that you make sure not to over do it. You still have to have certain levels of carbs in your daily diet. You can’t stop all carbs because it’s not healthy, use good sense when dieting so you don’t become unhealthy.