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Healthy Cooking for Weight Loss


Healthy cooking is simple when you focus on three basic healthy eating tips that simplify shopping for food, preparing meals, and eating healthy. It's less about the food and more about the choices you make before you stock up on ingredients for your healthy meals.

Choose Your Healthy Meal Plans Style
Choosing a style of eating is just as important as cutting down on fat, calories, and sugar because it simplifies grocery shopping and cooking. How you choose to eat determines what you will buy at the store and how you will cook it. If you choose low carb then you’ll focus mostly on healthy proteins and veggies. Choosing vegetarian or low fat meal plans means you’ll be buying a lot of fruits, veggies, whole grain carbs, and certain types of lean proteins. Balanced eaters have more freedom but have to pay special attention to portion sizes and calories of processed foods. Choosing a healthy eating style is the first step to getting started with healthy cooking so take your time and choose something that fits your lifestyle and your preferences. Choose something that you can stick to long term and meal planning and cooking will be super easy.

Perfect a Handful of Quick Healthy Meals
Most of us live busy hectic lives that don’t leave us a lot of time for cooking elaborate fancy dishes like the ones you see on the Food Network. Cooking like all those fabulous chefs on TV is definitely fun but not practical most days of the week so save the fancy cooking for holidays and special occasions and instead perfect 8-10 quick healthy meals that you can throw together without much work most days of the week.

Hearty 25 Min. Soup: Here’s a recipe that you can make in less than 25 minutes. In a deep pot, sauté onions, carrots and celery in 1 tbsp of olive oil until soft. Add 16 oz. of organic chicken or organic beef broth to the pot then quickly add 1 lb of lean ground bison meatballs or organic chicken and bring to a boil. Turn the temperature back down to med/low as soon as it starts to boil and add 1/2 cup of whole grain rice or whole grain pasta and 2-3 cups of kale and any spices you like then cover and cook until rice or pasta is soft and kale is wilted. My son came up with this recipe one day and now it’s a favorite quick healthy meal that we make together (serves about 4-5).

Supplement Your Healthy Cooking with No-Cook Meals
Cooking healthy meals doesn’t mean you have to use pots and pans on a stove all the time. A no-cook meal that you can throw together in 5 minutes using just 5 ingredients can be just as healthy and filling as something that requires more time and effort. Find a balance of healthy cooking and no-cook meals that works for you. For example at our house we eat all our meals at home but usually only one of those meals each day is a meal that requires actual cooking. Most of our meals and snacks are no-cook meals and that works really well for us. Decide on a ratio that will help you stay on track with healthy eating. The more practical and satisfying your healthy meals are the more likely you are to stick with your healthy cooking plan for weight loss.
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