Healthy Meals

Cooking Healthy Meals does not have to Take Up A Lot of Time and Energy

Executive Summary by Pardeep Kaur

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Do you sometimes feel like cooking, especially cooking “healthy” foods, is a chore? Trying to shop and prepare healthy meals is not on our number one priority list. There may be little time available for healthy cooking. Eating healthier starts in our own kitchens. Cooking healthy nutritious meals at home.

Healthy cooking will actually make our lives less stressful. Cooking healthy meals does not have to take up a lot of time and energy. Cooking healthy meals is the easiest way to keep track of the nutrients that your family is eating. Here are four quick ways to prepare healthy meals.

1. Include fruits and vegetables in your meal plans.


2. Use more chicken and fish, beans and nuts in your cooking. Bake, steam, grill, or broil meats instead of frying or sautéing.


3. Reduce fats, use Olive Oil rather than saturated fats, trans fats.


4. Avoid products that have high sodium and excessive sugar content.

The top 3 keys to a healthy meal

Executive Summary by Bettina Berlin

If you want your meals to be healthy all you need to do is to choose the right ingredients. If you stick to these recommendations, your meals will be healthy.

Key 1: Loads of cereals, fruit and vegetables

Your meal also needs to offer a big portion of vegetables and/ or fruit. These are the healthiest foods we can find, packed with highly important vitamins, minerals and fiber. Most of them contain only little fat and rather the healthy fats. You can barely eat too much of these foods.

Key 2: Animal products, legumen and nuts – in moderation

The second key to a healthy meal is to use meat, fish, poultry, milk products, legumen, nuts and eggs – but all in moderation. We do need these foods, but we don’t need so much of them. They also contain important vitamins and are an excellent source for proteins as animal proteins are much more similar to what our body needs then vegetable proteins. But they also contain quite a bit of fat, and unfortunately that kind of fat is not as healthy as the fat in vegetables.

Key 3: Sweeteners, fat and luxuries – as little as possible

Thirdly, you should use as little as possible sweeteners and added fat like oil in your meal.

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