healthier foods EMERGENCY?

Question

i want to start cooking healthier foods...any suggestions....any interesting websites where i can find healthy recipes.

Answer 1

Cooking Light is a good magazine and has a website with recipes. I bake a whole chicken with rosemary and fresh garlic (and carrots, onions, celery and potatoes sometimes) and after the initial meal, use the leftovers for healthy salads and chicken vegetable soup. I poach fish, or bake it, covered, with a little olive oil, fresh dill and garlic. Steamed veggies, oven roasted veggies, salads, lots of fruit for dessert. Switch to brown rice. Baked potatoes and sweet potatoes are also healthy starches. I make a lot of homemade vegetable, lentil or black bean soup and freeze in individual servings for convenience. Hope this helps...good luck!

Answer 2

The first place to start although expensive is a place like whole foods. All of what they sell is organic. In other words no pesticides or growth hormones to get the product to market faster. If that is not possible(I know the feeling about finances) start use fresh or frozen vegetable. Use a sunflower oil for most things. Do not use anything that has been processed. Most can goods have preservatives and alot of salt. Check your labels on the things you buy. Sugar,sodium,carb rates. Also stay away from lunch meat and try to but fresh/frozen meat from store or butcher. There are always sales every week on something. Pork chicken better than beef. However some studies have shown you need some red meat in your diet.

Answer 3

You can go to allrecipes.com and just do a search for more healthy recipes. Search for recipes/food items that are healthy and you know you will eat them. Just make sure you get a variety of fruits, veggies, whole grains, protein (beans and lentils if you don't eat chicken/beef) and some dairy if you're not lactose intolerant.

My sister just goes to the store and makes sure that at least 70% of her groceries are purchased raw even if she plans on cooking them later. She claims she has more energy. She spends most of her time in fruit and vegetable section, cereal aisle, whole grain breads (Pepperidge Farms?), yogurt, skim milk, fruit juices and vegetable juices and frozen healthy foods including Banquets new frozen meals you put in your crock pot and cook.

Because she knows she likes to snack, she buys those small ready-to-eat carrots in a bag, celery and she puts peanut butter in the crevice and raisins on top, and she buys a variety of nuts from Dollar General since they're usually pretty expensive at your regular grocery stores.

Answer 4

Kraft.com and also Kraftcanada have great, easy, healthy recipes.

But the first trick to healthier eating is to know that almost anything you make yourself will be healthier than buying it already prepared. Even pizza, fries, cookies, etc.

Answer 5

Pick up a copy of Vegetarian Times and learn how to keep you, your family and your friends happy, content and healthy. Recipes included in the magazine.

Answer 6

I like epicurious.com. When you go to the advanced search page, you can put in the main ingredient, check off boxes on what other stuff you want to use, etc. And there's a section to exclude certain foods. And you can also pick low-fat, low-cholesterol, low-calorie, things like that. It's a life-saver.

Answer 7

just eat more friut and vegtibles and use more in your cooking and cut out all fatty foods or just cut back like if you use bacon start using none then after awhile you can go back to it but then use turkey bacon.