Heart healthy cooking
keeps heart healthy foods...healthy.

The key to heart healthy cooking and healthy cooking recipes is...healthy cooking methods and healthy cooking oils.

Because, if you’re not using healthy cooking methods and healthy cooking oils, the heart healthy foods are not going to be healthy. No matter how organic or fresh they started out.

But anyone can learn how to cook to keep their heart healthy food super tasty...and super healthy.

The benefits: weight loss and a healthier, happier body, and what's not to like about that.

Some simple healthy eating guidelines for cooking vegetables, cooking rice, cooking meat and cooking fish.

Do always start with fresh organic meats. Find a butcher that can help you with this. This is key in cooking meat.

Then get the healthiest vegetables and whole grains you can get your hands on. Heart healthy cooking depends on this.

Don’t ever use processed, bleached grains (they have the nutritional life sucked out of them and should be avoided).

Do cook meats in a covered glass-baking dish at 350 degrees F, or cook on your stove top in water or stock on low heat in a covered pan.

Don’t cook meats at high temperatures. This can cause the formation of carcinogens. So if you do broil or grill because everybody loves a barbeque, keep an eye on your meat and don't let it get charred. The burnt and charred crust is carcinogenic.

Do cook vegetables in waterless cookware or steam vegetables with a good quality stainless steel steamer. Heart healthy cooking is timing it so they come out crisp and tender for maximum nutrition.

Don’t boil your vegetables. You lose the most nutrients when you boil them. But, if you do boil your vegetables try drinking the water later to get those nutrients back. It works and tastes sooooo good..

Do use good quality cookware, preferably surgical stainless steel.

Don’t use a microwave. In fact think about getting rid of it. Because of all the methods of cooking, micro waving results in the greatest loss of nutrients from your food. Nutrition and microwaves don’t go together. In fact microwave cooking has been shown to convert naturally occurring fatty acids into the harmful trans-fatty acids found in hydrogenated fats. Bad mojo.

See how easy it is to follow our simple healthy eating guidelines. Anyone can keep heart healthy foods full of nutrition. Just steam, sauté, simmer or bake your foods. Throw in some herbs / spices and you’ll always end up with a great tasting, healthy meal.

Here’s to heart healthy cooking. Smiles…Gigi

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