Please share an interesting fact about cooking healthy recipes.

Ignore: Spicy foods cause you to savor the meal and eat fewer calories than bland food!

Ignore: Reading labels is probably the most important skill you can learn for healthy cooking and eating.

Ignore: Cooking healthy recipes can also be tasty too.

Most: Most healthy recipes are easy to cook, and take very little time to prepare.

Healthy: Healthy recipes are not expensive to cook, and they are easy to eat on the go.

Roosting: Roosting garlic for 20 minutes will make it easy to peel and mash into your potatoes.

Substitute: Substitute chicken broth for milk in mashed potatoes.

Substituting: Substituting olive oil for half of the butter will make chewier cookies.

Dark: Dark leafy greens like kale, collards, or spinach are a great source of methylfolate.

Save: Save calories, add flavor. Use low fat chicken or vegetable broth instead of oil for pan sautees.

All: All oils contain about 130 calories per tbsp, so when cooking to lose weight, use non stick spray.

Ignore: Can be fun and exciting to cook own.

Proper: Proper fatty acid composition = high omega 3 vs omega 6 fats, low in saturated fats & no Trans fats.

Over: Over browning of foods cause buildup of acrylamides, which are carcinogenic byproducts of cooking.

New: New information on grilling meats, as well as vegetables are showing possible links to carcinogens forming from over charring.

Ignore: Minimize the use of processed food in cooking as much as possible.

Ignore: Buy everything fresh, nothing packaged, no preservatives, not even bottled sauces to avoid allergens.

Ignore: Start with olive oil. Use meats sparingly, or not at all. Colorful vegetables for flavor.

Ignore: Do not add lots of sodium (salt). Avoid overcooking green vegetables (can inactivate some vitamins).

Ignore: The less processed the ingredient, the more likely it will be healthy.

Ignore: Be careful of the oil that you use stay away from canola or vegetable oil use coconut oil.