Simple Advice on Healthy Cooking

category: MyDocHub, Nutrition & Wellness
by Priscilla,

As people shift from the reactive to the preventative, Chef Walter Husbands, Executive Chef for Scott and White Hospital located in Temple, TX, is frequently asked to provide simple advice on healthy cooking. Here are some of Chef Husbands’ simple and quick tips:

Forget the “crisper drawer” and put all of those beautiful, fresh fruits and vegetables on the counter. Earn extra points by putting the chips and snacks in that crisper where you will most likely never see them again.

Drive by the drive in. Fast food is loaded with saturated fat, is high in sodium and designed to encourage poor choices — nothing you throw together at home on a regular basis could be that bad.

Keep a squeeze bottle (they look like those old condiment bottles) of olive oil on your stove top. If a recipe calls for fat you can just use a squeeze of ‘mono-unsaturated goodness,’ he says. “If you don’t care for the strong flavor, use a lighter colored oil that tastes less like olives.”

If you haven’t switched to a calorie-free carbonated drink, do it today.

Buy yourself a heavy bottomed non-stick pan. If you’re adding fat while cooking to keep food from sticking to the pan you are adding fat for no reason at all, he says. “Change the fat in your home-cooked meals from a tool to keep cooking surfaces from sticking, to an ingredient. The great thing about ingredients is that you get to decide their quantity and quality.”

And, finally, try a lot of new things. The American Heart Association recommends moderation, exercise and variety. Break the same ol’ high fat rut with some new flavors, he says.

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