5 Must-Have Essentials For Healthy Cooking


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Essential Tools For Healthy Cooking

When it comes to healthy cooking, I'd be a wreck without my must-have kitchen tools. From gadgets to cookware basics, these items help keep my fat, sugar, and sodium levels down while making sure that my nutrients for the day are always maxed out. Keep reading to see which kitchen essentials help inspire every meal to be a healthy meal. Source: Thinkstock Read more

Useful Cookbooks For Vegetarian Newbies


Updated 12/22/11 11:56 AM · Posted by Heather Dale · 1 comment

Cookbooks For New Vegetarians

Perhaps you've vowed to become a vegetarian by the New Year, but want to make sure it's right for you. Once you've decided to make the switch to a plant-based diet, your new lifestyle will require lots of patience, time, and helpful cookbooks to help make the transition a smooth one. Here are five cookbooks that will not only teach you how to prepare delicious vegetarian cuisine, but will also Read more

Keep All the Nutrient Goodness in Your Food When Cooking


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How to Keep Nutrients in Food When Cooking

What's great about cooking vegetables is that less really is more. What I mean by this is the less you tamper with your vegetables, the more you'll get from them. When you boil vegetables in a pan of water, you're actually stripping them of vital nutrients. This can lead to a loss of water-soluble vitamins like vitamin C and folate. Here are some quick tips to ensure you retain the nutrients in Read more

How to Cook With Less Oil


Updated 09/09/11 2:17 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

How to Use Less Oil When Cooking

Often, cooking at home is healthier than dining out. But if you're not careful, cooking with too much oil can lead to a lot of added calories (more than 100 per tablespoon for many oils; read this for our full nutritional breakdown of different types of oils) and fat. While cooking with oils can be beneficial — many contain healthy monounsaturated fats that help lower your cholesterol — if Read more

Do You Cook Now That You Have Kids?


Updated 08/05/11 8:23 PM · Posted by LilSugar · 3 comments

Learning to Cook After Having a Baby

Decades ago, women were expected to be masters of domestic trades — like cooking and baking. Many women today don't know how to cook or choose not to on a regular basis. Then they have children and their lil ones arouse an awareness of health and nutrition that may have been dormant pre-baby. Moms want their kids to be healthy, eat right and exercise. And a growing number of studies show that Read more

Healthy Time-Saving Cooking Tips


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Healthy Time-Saving Cooking Tips

The other day I popped into Trader Joe's for the usual essentials, and I immediately zeroed in on a new product — prewashed, precut kale in a bag — heavenly! I'm not a big pre-packaged kind of girl, but Trader Joe's always offers a variety of bagged lettuces, and veggies, sliced, diced, washed, and ready for eating. What's great about kale is you can do so much with it and it is full of Read more

How to Cut Sodium Without Sacrificing Flavor


Updated 04/15/11 5:42 PM · Posted by · 7 comments

How to Cut Sodium From Your Diet

Readers, fuzzles wants your advice! She loves food and cooking, but needs to cut down on the salt. "What are your favorite low sodium products and tricks for a tasty lower sodium diet?" she asks. "I've had to get serious about this issue!" We couldn't agree more. Just like sugar, salt has snuck its way into our diets in every way possible, so we've been watching our sodium intake, too. FitSugar Read more

What's an Easy, Cheap Way to Feed a Large Crowd?


Updated 04/04/11 7:19 AM · Posted by · 9 comments

How to Feed a Crowd Affordably

Readers, myhousemd needs our help. She recently uploaded a serving question to the community. She asks: "What is the cheapest and easiest way to feed 100+ people? It is for a service event that I am organizing on my area." Although we don't know what time of day the food is going to be served, I recommend that she do a giant taco salad with lettuce, beans, rice, shredded cheese, tomatoes, Read more

Stay Motivated to Cook by Spicing Up Your Kitchen


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How to Make Cooking at Home Fun

When I used to fantasize about my dream home, I would picture a massive sunken living room where everyone would congregate and socialize. But now that I'm getting wiser older, my visions have shifted from having my living room be the focal point of the house, to making my kitchen the "it zone" where everyone wants to gather. The thing is, I'm a decent cook and I enjoy whipping up new dishes. But Read more

Do You Enjoy Reading Recipes?


Updated 03/18/11 4:17 PM · Posted by · 7 comments

Do You Enjoy Reading Recipes?

When I decide to make something, say an angel food cake, I start by searching for a recipe. Then I read as many angel food cake recipes I can find and select the one that sounds the best. This can take hours because I love reading recipes! It's a crazy addiction, but I know I'm not alone: Susannah also enjoys reading recipes. How about you? Do you like reading recipes? Do You Enjoy Read more