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How To Cook Much Healthier Meals Without Stressing About It

If you want to be healthy, then you’re obviously going to need to focus on what you eat. Diet is the number one concern here. So as long as this is good, the rest will surely follow. Cooking your own meals at home is a good start. Especially because you can control exactly what goes into them. But how you cook those meals also matters, and you might find it can be quite stressful trying to keep them truly healthy. Here are some ideas for you to consider, to help you cook healthier meals without the stress.


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Keep It Fresh

Freshness is your friend. The less time there is between plucking an ingredient out of the ground and cooking it, the better. There are obviously numerous impediments to this, or else we would all be eating completely fresh food every day. It is ordinarily quite pricey to eat fresh, and it can sometimes just be logistically impossible. Nonetheless, as far as possible, aim to use the freshest ingredients you can. Growing your own veg is a good start. And something you can do even with only a little space in your garden.

Swap The Deep Fat Fryer For An Air Fryer

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll have heard about air fryers in the past few years. Despite the name, they do actually require a dash of oil to get going – but it’s only a dash, not the huge vat of fat required for a deep fryer. The joy of an air fryer is that you can cook anything you could cook in a deep fryer. But much more simply and with considerably healthier outcomes. To get started, try these delicious air fryer sweet potato fries, or crumb a filet of fish and fry that. The sumptuous results will be sure to convert you.

 

Do Less

There is a great rule of thumb that you might want to think about following when it comes to cooking at home, and especially if you want to be healthier: just do less to the ingredients you are using. In other words, when you have natural whole foods that are already full of goodness, every single thing you do to them will take some of that goodness away. In fact, the less you cook a vegetable, the better it is for you. That’s why steaming is such a great way to cook your greens, for instance. Do less, and your body will feel more.

Remember Portion Control

Even while cooking and before anything goes onto a plate, you have to try and remember portion control. If you are able to bear that in mind, you’ll find that you end up with a much better portion on the plate, and any nutritionist will tell you just how important this is to keeping healthy. This doesn’t mean starving yourself, just that you should take care not to overeat, if at all possible. That alone is going to help you be a lot healthier with your meals.

 

For more on this topic, check out the full Staying Healthy collection


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