Healthy Cooking

Here are some tips on shopping, food safety, meal planning and general tips for cooking healthy foods in your kitchen.

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Cooking with Garlic
Use garlic to enhance the flavor of your cooking. Garlic may help to lower your cholesterol and has been used as a medicine for centuries. Learn how to use garlic in your kitchen.

Hummus and Complementary Proteins
Plant proteins are incomplete proteins because they don't contain all of the essential amino acids you need. Vegetarians and vegans need to eat a variety of complimentary proteins to get all of the amino acids they need.

What are Processed Foods?
You read about processed foods and how bad they can be for a healthy diet. Find out what processed foods are.

Are Fully Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil Shortenings Any Better?
Fully hydrogenated vegetable oil can be used in place of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil if it is blended with other oils to get the desired texture. Are they any healthier than partially hydrogenated oils?

Do I Need to Watch Portion Size for Vegetables?
For people watching their calories, the portion sizes of vegetables may matter greatly. Learn more about portion sizes and vegetables.

Protein Combinations for Vegetarians
Vegetarians and vegans need to be sure that they eat a variety of plant proteins to get all of the amino acids that they need for a healthy diet.

What Are Some Healthy Breakfast Foods?
Not sure what makes up a healthy breakfast? Here are a few examples of healthy breakfast combinations.

Do Microwaves Reduce Nutritional Value?
Using a microwave makes cooking and heating foods very convenient. How does microwaving foods compare with boiling or frying as far as retaining nutrient value?

How to Ruin a Healthy Breakfast
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so why do so many of us ruin our healthy breakfast with loads of unhealthy fat and sugar?

Makeover Ramen Noodles
Ramen noodles are the cheap tasty staple of a college student's kitchen. They are cheap but they don't have much nutritional benefit. Here is how to take the venerable ramen noodle and make it just a bit healthier.

Top Five Ways to Ruin a Healthy Salad
Salads can be low in fat, low in calories, low in carbs, plus high in minerals, vitamins and phytochemicals. Sounds perfect, but here are five ways to turn a healthy salad into an unhealthy salad.

Cooking Calculator
Use this handy cooking calculator to help make common conversions between assorted measuring systems.

How to Cook Healthy Foods on the Grill
Don't save your grill for summers only. Your grill can be a great tool for cooking healthy foods any time of the year.

Top Picks for Healthy Cooking Gifts
Looking for gift ideas that will promote good nutrition and a healthy diet? Here are some great items to give as gifts for that special someone who cooks healthy foods or wants to start cooking healthy foods.

Are You a Healthy Cook?
Use this quiz to help you decide if you are a healthy cook.

Introduce Your Child to Healthy Cooking
Good nutrition may be more interesting for a child if they know a bit more about how to cook. Cooking is a fun family activity and here are some easy steps to introduce your child to healthy cooking.

How to Prepare a Healthy Balanced Menu
Here is one example of how to prepare a balanced menu for an entire day.

How Can I Tell if a Recipe is Healthy?
How to look at a recipe and know if it is a healthy recipe for if it needs a little tweaking to become a healthy recipe.

Don't Skip Breakfast
Eating breakfast is necessary to start your day off right. A healthy breakfast will help children learn better at school and will help adults think better at work.

Watch Portion Size at Meal Time
Portion size of foods at meals are getting bigger and this is one reason too many people are gaining too much weight.

Healthy Methods for Cooking Meat, Poultry and Fish
Frying your meat in oil is not a healthy way to cook meat, poultry or fish. Here are four healthier ways to cook them.

Quick and Healthy: Food for the Fast Lane
Do you find that you just don't have enough time to cook dinner every night? This article from Education World offers plenty of tips for healthy meals with no stress.