This Christmas season is all about spending some good quality time with the family, shopping and buying presents for the ones you loved, taking a break from work, and eating delicious, crispy and scrumptious food. Perhaps the bane about eating during Christmas season is ruining your weight loss plan.
Fatty foods, calorie-laden foods and foods rich in sugar and sodium is a dieter's worst nightmare, and will surely make one closer to getting a heart attack, after a mighty meal. Even the Italian tradition of having about seven varieties of seafood dishes, with its fried fish, shrimps, crabs and lobsters, will surely skyrocket make one's blood pressure. The trick in healthy cooking, most especially during the holidays, is to minimize everything that is bad for our health. The following are some tips for cooking crispy healthy food without the fats, sweets and added calories:
It is all about your meat choices. Make sure that when you cook your pork or chicken, remove the skin. All that skin may look crispy and tasty, but it will increase your cholesterol levels high enough for arteries to handle. Skin is often the source of fatty oils, and it is best that we minimize it. Choose white meat over dark red meat. Instead of pork or beef, choose chicken breast or turkey. Lay off on the fatty layers as well. Another type of meat to watch out for are sausages and hotdogs. They contain preservatives high in sodium and some of them have too much fatty meat inside.
How do you cook your meat? Instead of frying them, why not bake, saut or gratinate them. A lot of foods - meat, fish and vegetables - can be baked. Also, baking stores some of the nutrients in the food, making them healthier. A lot of meat can be baked by removing the fatty skin. For vegetables, they are best cooked when sauted in canola oil or olive oil. You can also add a bit of butter to make them more tasty. That way, you can still have fried foods, but with less fats.
What kind of cookware do you have? Good quality cookware made in good quality metal called Teflon can fry foods without the need to add cooking oil. Some cookware also allows heat to be equally distributed so as to ensure that the food is cooked easily. Dutch oven and crockpot can be used to boil food. Check out any dutch oven guide or dutch oven recipe book for more tips on how to boil foods, and get less-fatty dinner during the holidays.
Fatty foods, calorie-laden foods and foods rich in sugar and sodium is a dieter's worst nightmare, and will surely make one closer to getting a heart attack, after a mighty meal. Even the Italian tradition of having about seven varieties of seafood dishes, with its fried fish, shrimps, crabs and lobsters, will surely skyrocket make one's blood pressure. The trick in healthy cooking, most especially during the holidays, is to minimize everything that is bad for our health. The following are some tips for cooking crispy healthy food without the fats, sweets and added calories:
It is all about your meat choices. Make sure that when you cook your pork or chicken, remove the skin. All that skin may look crispy and tasty, but it will increase your cholesterol levels high enough for arteries to handle. Skin is often the source of fatty oils, and it is best that we minimize it. Choose white meat over dark red meat. Instead of pork or beef, choose chicken breast or turkey. Lay off on the fatty layers as well. Another type of meat to watch out for are sausages and hotdogs. They contain preservatives high in sodium and some of them have too much fatty meat inside.
How do you cook your meat? Instead of frying them, why not bake, saut or gratinate them. A lot of foods - meat, fish and vegetables - can be baked. Also, baking stores some of the nutrients in the food, making them healthier. A lot of meat can be baked by removing the fatty skin. For vegetables, they are best cooked when sauted in canola oil or olive oil. You can also add a bit of butter to make them more tasty. That way, you can still have fried foods, but with less fats.
What kind of cookware do you have? Good quality cookware made in good quality metal called Teflon can fry foods without the need to add cooking oil. Some cookware also allows heat to be equally distributed so as to ensure that the food is cooked easily. Dutch oven and crockpot can be used to boil food. Check out any dutch oven guide or dutch oven recipe book for more tips on how to boil foods, and get less-fatty dinner during the holidays.
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