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Easy Home
Cooking
10 Secrets For Cooking Up Better Weight Loss
Results
From eDiets - The premier online diet, fitness, and healthy living
resource For
a great meal that won't cause the numbers on your scale to skyrocket through
the roof, there's no place like home.
Unfortunately, not everyone buys
into that sound philosophy. According to the National Restaurant Association,
the average person consumes a little more than four meals per week prepared
away from home. That's 218 meals a year!
You don't need to be a
mathematician to calculate how quickly the dollars and the pounds add up.
One study discovered the average person spends about $900 a year dining
out. If fast food joints are your favorite dining room away from home, you're
probably on the fast track to extra fat. After all, a Big Mac and a large side
of fries add up to 1,130 calories and 60 grams of fat.
The nutritional
dangers of dining out still aren't a deterrent for men and women who detest
cooking. Were talking about those who can rationalize their outside-the-home
eating habits with excuses like, "I'm tired!" "I don't feel like cooking
tonight!" or "Its already too late to start dinner!"
Some folks have
buried their head even deeper in the sand. They've convinced themselves that
restaurant cuisine helps lighten their workload.
Not so, says celebrity
Chef Kathleen Daelemans, author of Cooking Light With Chef Kathleen (Houghton
Mifflin). Daelemans, who also serves as host of the Food Networks Cooking Thin
show, wants you to stop spending dollars and start making sense!
She
says the first step to proper eating is eliminating costly restaurant meals. By
making the most out of the food resources in your refrigerator and pantry,
you're already minimizing the effect on both your wallet and scale.
"There's just no way that you would ever use high-calorie ingredients
in the quantities that restaurants do," Chef Kathleen tells eDiets. "We'd all
go broke!
"Besides, it's just a habit you need to embrace. The only way
to control what goes into your body -- and your overall health (as much as we
can) -- is to eat most meals at home."
Daelemans is living proof her
kitchen tips work. She dropped 80 pounds practicing what she preaches.
Chef Kathleen says once you've made your kitchen user friendly (i.e.
you've stocked it with the right tools and ingredients) you've already won half
the culinary battle.
In our time-crunched society, most people are
quick to argue they just don't have the time to cook up a meal from scratch.
But Chef Kathleen is just as quick to point the proven ways to get around time
constraints.
"Everyone can master a few basics!" she insists. "Once you
get the hang of things, it's just practice, determination and common sense.
Cook recipes with ingredients you like. Read the recipes through start to
finish, visualize yourself going through the motions, make ingredient
checklists, get out your tools the night before, and challenge yourself to get
ahead on some of the prep.
"Sometimes I start the next night's meal as
soon as I get the supper dishes washed and put away or right after breakfast."
We believe that no matter how kitchen-challenged you are, you'll want
to kiss the cook once you get a taste of Chef Kathleen's 10 secrets for cooking
light and easy.
1. Lose the complicated entrée mindset!
Keep dinner simple, especially if you're starved for time. Oven-broiled
fish with a side of microwaved veggies make for a fantastic dinner.
2. Who’s on the sauté station tonight? Build your
culinary team!
Enlist help, divide up the chores, make lists, delegate
tasks and follow through. Every able-bodied family member should participate in
some aspect of the meal whether it's planning, shopping, cooking or cleanup.
3. Build menus around naturally healthful ingredients!
Three
ounces of steak can be consumed in a few bites and a few minutes. A heaping
bowl of Sesame Ginger Shrimp and Spicy Black Bean Salad will keep your mouth
moving a lot longer. Never underestimate the psychological and emotional
reasons we eat -- they're just as important as our nutritional needs, Chef
Kathleen says.
4. Cheat any way you can, but don’t compromise
your waistline!
Any shortcut you can pull off is worth it. If something
from a can, bag or box will mean the difference between your eating in or
ordering out, by all means go for it. Read product labels carefully though and
make the healthiest choices you can.
5. Fill up on the good
stuff!
Increase good calories wherever you can. Can you get an extra
serving of veggies by tossing a handful of corn into your salad? How about peas
and mushrooms in the mac 'n' cheese? Roast asparagus in the same pan as the
potatoes and you've got two veggie sides in the same amount of time.
6. Utilize high-impact flavor ingredients!
Resuscitate,
invigorate and acidulate your diet with sea salt, kosher salt, ginger, citrus,
vinegar, garlic, anchovies, olives, fresh spices (no, they don't have the shelf
life of books) and freshly cut herbs. Grow your own. They're pretty and cheery.
If the plants die, just plant new ones. Seeds are cheap and dirt is free.
7. Pare down prep time!
Ten minutes in the kitchen after
dinner tonight is easier to pull off than 10 minutes before dinner tomorrow
when you're tired and starving. Peel the potatoes tonight. Cook the noodles.
Whip up the dressing. Wash the veggies. Marinate the chicken. Were not talking
about making the entire meal ahead of time. A task or two done in advance makes
for a more appetizing meal preparation.
8. Morph your meals!
Plan tomorrows supper today by making a double batch. A salad can
become an entrée if you add a piece of chicken or fish. Grill extra
veggies tonight and top your pizza with them tomorrow. When you're cooking
black beans from scratch, they can morph from soup to chili and from salad to
salsa. Challenge yourself. See how many meals you can make from a single
recipe.
9. Make your own TV dinners!
Attack an overscheduled
week head-on. On the nights you're not so rushed, make a double batch of
something you know freezes well. Store the leftovers in microwave-proof
containers, clearly marked with the full title of the dish and the date. A
sumptuous title will inspire you to actually take the frozen dinner out of the
freezer and eat it on one of those nights you're tempted to pick up the phone
and call for delivery.
10. Work with the right tools!
Use
the right tool for the task and you'll slash culinary frustration. Dull knives,
the wrong spoon, a melted spatula, a fork with a broken handle, or a pot that's
too small creates kitchen stress. Who needs it? Keep your tools handy and in
good working condition |
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