ArtsAutosBooksBusinessEducationEntertainmentFamilyFashionFoodGamesGenderHealthHolidaysHomeHubPagesPersonal FinancePetsPoliticsReligionSportsTechnologyTravel

Cooking Healthy: Cooking habits to keep your heart healthy

Updated on May 24, 2011

Ingredients required for healthy heart cooking

What I'm going to say here about cooking for healthy heart requires no secret ingredients. It simply means recipes of lower saturated fat, cholesterol, and total fat, and also reduceding slat "Sodium".

An extra plus here, is that these recipes will have fewer calories and that leads to weight loss in advance.

Eating low calories or healthy food doesn't mean we should starve or eating tasteless food!

Eating heart healthy meals doesn’t mean giving up some of those too-rich favorite family recipes.

With a few changes, you can keep your heart healthy and keep your family safe too. Here is a recipe for diet pizza which can be made for 6-8 persons.

 

Eating healthy, living healthy

Tips for healthy life style

You just need to practice some habits that makes it easier:

  • Plain water instead of sweetened drinks, reduces extra unwanted calories
  • practice drinking tea and coffee with no or low sugar
  • Whole grain bread makes you feel full for a longer time
  • Don't eat too much fruit but you can eat more vegetables
  • Choose lean meat instead of fatty meat
  • Eat skinless chicken
  • Eat more fish "2 times a week or more if you can"
  • Use low fat or skimmed dairy products.
  • Use less dangerous fats.

Substitutions of fats, grease, eggs, dairy ... etc

Here I don't want to make it difficult for "and myself too"

we'll follow our ordinary recipes with little substitutions :)

Substitutions of milk, cream and sour cream

  • Use low fat milk in stead of whole milk
  • Blend low fat cottage cheese with 1 cup of low fat milk to get healthy cream
  • If you need sour cream, you can use skimmed yogurt instead of milk, or you can add 2 tsp lemon juice

Substitutions of Oils/Butter

  • Use cooking oil spray instead of regular one
  • use small amount of vegetable oil instead of butter, margarine, or any fats that are hard at room temperature.
  • Use margarine made of veg. oil for bakings (read the ingredients well, should have vegetable oil as a first ingredient)
  • Use 3 egg whites and one egg yolk instead of 2 whole eggs

For Sandwiches and Salads

  • Use fat free or lowfat dressing,yogurt, or mayonnaise, instead of regular versions.
  • For Salad dressing, use equal parts of water and vinegar,and half as much oil.

For Desserts

● To make a pie crust, use only 1/2 cup margarine for every 2 cups flour.

● For chocolate desserts, use 3 tablespoons of cocoa, instead of 1 ounce of baking chocolate.

"If fat is needed to replace that in chocolate, add 1 tablespoon or less of vegetable oil."

● To make cakes and soft-drop cookies, use no more than 2 tablespoons of fat for each cup of flour.

working

This website uses cookies

As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.

For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy

Show Details
Necessary
HubPages Device IDThis is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons.
LoginThis is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service.
Google RecaptchaThis is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy)
AkismetThis is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy)
HubPages Google AnalyticsThis is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy)
HubPages Traffic PixelThis is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized.
Amazon Web ServicesThis is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy)
CloudflareThis is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy)
Google Hosted LibrariesJavascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy)
Features
Google Custom SearchThis is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy)
Google MapsSome articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy)
Google ChartsThis is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy)
Google AdSense Host APIThis service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy)
Google YouTubeSome articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy)
VimeoSome articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy)
PaypalThis is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy)
Facebook LoginYou can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy)
MavenThis supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy)
Marketing
Google AdSenseThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Google DoubleClickGoogle provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Index ExchangeThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
SovrnThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Facebook AdsThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Amazon Unified Ad MarketplaceThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
AppNexusThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
OpenxThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Rubicon ProjectThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
TripleLiftThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Say MediaWe partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy)
Remarketing PixelsWe may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites.
Conversion Tracking PixelsWe may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service.
Statistics
Author Google AnalyticsThis is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy)
ComscoreComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy)
Amazon Tracking PixelSome articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy)
ClickscoThis is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy)