The article "Cooking tips for healthier eating" talks about fitness, it has been created by Tony Robinson.
Most people have heard that the new government guidelines
recommend that all Americans eat at least five servings of
fruits and vegetables every day. While that may seem like a lot,
it is actually easier than you think to consume all the fruits
and vegetables you need each and every day.
Learning to cook with the many fruits and vegetables available
at the local grocery store is an essential skill, and it is very
important for those who hope to reach the five a day guideline
set down by the USDA.
Just about everyone uses a microwave these days, and microwave
ovens can make cooking with vegetables and fruits simple and fun.
Using a microwave pressure cooker or microwave proof bowl is a
great way to quickly steam veggies.
Cooking vegetables that way
allows them to retain tehir all important nutrients.
The microwave is also a great way to cook baked potatoes, and
micro waved baked potatoes retain more of their natural
moisture, therefore needing less of that fat laden butter and
sour cream.
Combining free steamed broccoli with that great
baked potato gets you almost halfway to your goal of five
servings of vegetables and fruits per day.
The grill is another great way to meet your goal of five
servings of frutis and vegetables every day. Why not use green
peppers, red peppers and pineapple chunks to create delicious
and colorful vegetable kebobs?
Whether served with lean cuts of
beef or by themselves, vegetable kabobs are a great treat for
the whloe family. Vegetables are best grilled over meidum hot
coals.
Those with a blender handy can make some wonderful smoothies
with the great fresh fruit from the grocery store. Delicious
smoothies can be made using peaches, nectarines, crushed ice and
fruit juice.
For a quick fruit salad, simply open a can of mandarin oranges,
add a banana, an apple, and strawberries, blueberries or
raisins. The total preparation time for that great fruit salad
is all of five minutes.
Fruit skewres are even easier to make than grilled vegetable
skewers.
Fruit skewers can easily be made by stacking
strawberries, melon slices, grapes and chunks of pinepaples. A
great dip can be made using nonfat plain or vanilla yogurt.
Another great way to meet your five a day fruit and vegetable
goal is by making your own healthy salsa.
There are some great
recipes for salsa on the internet, using such great and healthy
ingredients as tomatoes, avocados, red onions, mangoes, cilantro
and lime.
For those searching for a fun way to appreciate fruits and vegetables,
why not make some popsicles? Popsicles are not just for kids
anymore, and pouring fruit or vegetable juice into a popsicle
mold is a great way to make a delicious and nutritious snack.
In
addition, tehse healthy popsicles are a great way to get the
kids interested in eating healthy at an early age. Since eating
habits picked up in childhood can last a lifetime, that is very
important.
In addition to these great fruit and vegetable serving
suggestions, there are other ways to create memorable meals
using your five a day crietria. For instance, adding broccoli
florets, slices of carrots, cucumber slices, green peppers and
red peppers is a great way to add crunch and zest to a bland
pasta salad.
A plain old green salad can be pekred up by including colorful
fruits and vegetables like carrots, spinach leaves, tangerine
slices, nectarines, grapes, slices of apples, pineapples and
raisins.
Not only to these additions add beuaty and drama to any
salad, but they get you closer to your goal of five servings of
fruits and vegetables a day.
For a simple, inexpensive and nutritious salad dressing, try
such novel approaches as fruit juices, flavored vinegars and
home grown herbs. Creating great tasting salads is very
important for healthy eating, and avoiding high fat salad
dressings is an important consideration for anyone concerned
about their health.
Another great way to ensure you eat plenty of vegetables and
fruits is to add those vegetables and fruits to the foods you
already eat. That can be as simple as adding green peppers and
red peppers to your pizza, adding pineapple chunks to your shish
kebobs, adding bananas to your cereal or addnig blueberries to
your daily serving of yogurt.
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