by Vicki Peel | Jun 9, 2022 | Food |
Is you snacking healthy? Try packing your snacks for the day, like this!
What about you? How are you managing your snacking? Is it an issue for you? Comment!
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by Vicki Peel | May 30, 2022 | Food |
Can you name the 5 best cooking oils for your health?
And are you cooking with any of them?
I suppose I need to list the 5 best cooking oils for your health before you can answer those two questions!
The 5 best cooking oils for your health, in no particular order, are:
- Avocado oil
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Coconut oil
- Macadamia nut oil
- Almond oil
To list the reasons these oils are good for you, we need to refer to the previous blog post, “The 5 Worst Cooking Oils for Your Health” and the 4 factors to consider when purchasing cooking oil.
Taking into account the 4 factors related to purchasing oils, the best cooking oils for your health would have:
- A high smoke point,
- No GMOs,
- Healthy omega 3 fatty acids, and
- Minimal processing.
And here is how these 5 best cooking oils stack up to the 4 factors.
Avocado oil has a high smoke point and monosaturated omega 3 fatty acids. It also has antioxidants, polyphenols, and carotenoids, and that means it has properties shown to prevent disease and slow the aging process. Purchasing cold-pressed, unrefined avocado oil optimizes its beneficial qualities.
Avocado oil is one of my go-to oils! I love its versatility and the fact that it doesn’t flavor foods cooked with it. The first avocado oil I purchased was very expensive, but I’ve since found one that I like a lot – Primal Kitchen Avocado Oil! Click on the name to check it out. It is cold-pressed and minimally refined, which means the process was done via centrifuge and not high heat.
The next good cooking oil is probably the one you guessed first – extra virgin olive oil. The smoke point of olive oil is lower that avocado oil but is still pretty stable. Olive oil is full of antioxidants and monounsaturated fats, which may allow it to stay stable at higher levels of heat.
Look for cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil to ensure the antioxidants were not damaged in processing.
There are also a lot of “fake” olive oils on the market, which makes it difficult to select a really good one. So you may want to do a little research before purchasing.
I like Costco’s Kirkland extra virgin olive oil. It is very reasonably priced, certified organic by the USDA, and was rated 5-stars by 73% of purchasers who reviewed it. If you are not near a Costco, it is listed on Amazon, though not available right now, but you can check it out here.
Amazon does show an alternative olive oil to the Kirkland brand, which was listed as very good in one of my sources, Amazon Fresh Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
A good extra virgin olive oil is sensitive to light and should be used with a few months of purchase. Notice how bottles of olive oil are packaged in opaque or dark glass. Your olive oil should be stored in a cool, dark place.
The third good cooking oil is coconut oil. Unrefined, cold-pressed coconut oil is best. Coconut oil contains MCTs (medium-chain triglycerides), which are fatty acids that may help with weight loss and cholesterol. Although there has been some disagreement about the health benefits of coconut oil, most sources still recommend it used in moderation.
Unlike most other oils, refined coconut oil is still good for you, and a major draw of refined coconut oil is that is doesn’t have the coconut taste in cooking. Here are two good ones to check out: 1) Vita Coco Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil can be found at Wal-Mart and Walgreens; and 2) Nutiva Refined Coconut Oil (Amazon link). Nutiva can also be found at Wal-Mart and Target.
The final two best cooking oils are macadamia nut oil and almond oil, which are less prevalent in the marketplace, but still available.
Check out macadamia nut oil at Amazon, (the highest rated macadamia nut oil by Consumer Reports) and the second highest rated macadamia nut oil by Consumer Reports is also available at Amazon. Wal-Mart carries macadamia nut oil, but I couldn’t verify its quality.
Almond oil is recommended more for skin and hair care than for cooking. See this highly rated almond oil (by bestreviews.com) at Amazon.
What are your thoughts now about the oil you are cooking with? Do you have any concerns?
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by Vicki Peel | May 28, 2022 | Food |
If you looked no further than this first sentence, could you name the 5 worst cooking oils for your health?
Just guessing, but I would bet that even if you could name them, you still regularly consume at least one of them. And if you eat in restaurants often, you most assuredly consume some of them.
If you research the topic of cooking oils, you will find varying opinions and “facts”. And if you read labels on the food you purchase, you will also find them among the ingredients in many, many foods.
But the oils I list in this post were the ones most named by nutritionists as being bad for your health. I also spoke with a Certified Nutrition & Wellness Consultant to verify that these cooking oils are not healthy ones.
In no particular order, these are the 5 worst cooking oils listed by reputable sources:
- Sunflower seed oil
- Canola oil
- Palm oil
- Corn oil
- Soybean oil
You may be surprised to see canola oil and corn oil, probably because in the past they have been purported to be healthy oils for cooking. And you might think that “vegetable” oils would be healthy. But don’t let that terminology fool you.
Let’s back up and talk about what you should consider when choosing a cooking oil. There are 4 main factors that affect the healthiness of a cooking oil. (If you want more information on any of the following factors, just click on the underlined term.)
The first is smoke point. That means when an oil with a low smoke point is heated to high temperatures, it becomes oxidized and damaged, causing it to generate free radicals. Free radicals in your body can cause inflammation, raise cholesterol levels, and contribute to the development of cancer.
Therefore, for cooking at high temperatures, you need an oil with a high smoke point because it remains stable at high temperatures.
The next factor to consider is fatty acid ratio. The most important fatty acid ratio to consider is omega 6 (polyunsaturated) fatty acids to omega 3 (monounsaturated) fatty acids. You may have noticed labels that tout omega 3 fatty acids in them, such as eggs.
Omega 6 fatty acids are very common in foods, and while that is not a bad thing, it is easy to overeat a high ratio of omega 6 fatty acids to omega 3 fatty acids, which can cause inflammation in the body
What you should be aiming for is a more balanced ratio of omega 6 to omega 3 fatty acids, which may mean you need more omega 3 fatty acids added to your diet.
The third factor to consider when choosing a cooking oil is GMOs. Corn and soybean oils are very likely to be GMO (genetically modified organisms), as 94% of cooking oils from these two sources in the U.S. are genetically modified. Genetically engineering these crops makes them more resistant to herbicides and pesticides that are sprayed on crops to prevent weeds and bugs from attacking them.
Although we still don’t know the long-term effects of GMOs, there is enough evidence to support avoiding them altogether.
The final factor that should affect our choice of cooking oil is how they are produced and processed. Many oils are extracted by using high heat and/or chemicals. This means they may become oxidized (see smoke point information above) before being bottled.
Therefore, the safest oils should be unrefined to preserve their nutritional benefits.
So, if the aforementioned oils are bad for your health, what should you do?
Check out my next post on “The 5 Best Cooking Oils for Your Health”!
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by Vicki Peel | May 25, 2022 | Food |
What about it? IS breakfast the most important meal of the day?
It depends.
The data show that breakfast eaters are generally healthier and leaner than breakfast skippers. But that may be because the breakfast eaters have healthier lifestyles anyway.
Another important issue to consider is what you are eating for breakfast. A muffin or doughnut as you run out the door in the morning is not contributing to the argument for eating breakfast. The old breakfast staple – cereal – can be added to the poor breakfast choice category. Most cereals today have lots of added sugar, not to mention flavorings and preservatives we may not even be able to pronounce!
Many of the reasons breakfast is supposed to be the most important meal of the day still hold true. Breakfast eaters may:
- find that breakfast jumpstarts your metabolism, helping your burn more calories throughout the day
- tend to have a lower BMI
- consume less fat through the day
- meet recommendations for fruit and vegetable consumption
- have higher daily calcium intake
- have higher daily fiber intake
- reduction of “brain fog”
Perhaps one of the most important reasons to eat breakfast is how it affects performance for school-aged children. Children who eat a nutritious breakfast have better memory and attention at school. They may also be less cranky. One study showed that children who ate breakfast had higher test scores.
Lack of available time in the mornings is a common complaint of busy moms who are struggling to get everyone dressed and out of the house on time for school and work.
But lack of time doesn’t have to be an issue. It simply takes a little planning. Breakfast doesn’t have to be a full sit-down meal every day.
Here are a few nutritious breakfast ideas that are nutritious and time-savers:
- Mason jar oatmeal breakfasts prepared the night before and refrigerated.
- Whole-grain cereals with fresh fruit
- Fresh fruit and raw nuts
- Hard-cooked eggs (commonly referred to as boiled eggs, although boiling actually toughens them)
- Smoothies with high-quality protein powder and fresh fruits or vegetables
- Greek yogurt with fresh fruit for added sweetness and raw nuts for crunchiness
- High-fiber whole grain toast with natural nut butter
What if you don’t feel hungry in the morning? Then you shouldn’t stress over it. Just be sure to eat nutritious foods at other meals throughout the day.
Some people skip breakfast because their eating patterns include intermittent fasting, which has been shown to be a healthy way to manage your weight.
Take a look at this video. My husband demonstrates one of his favorite quick and easy breakfast options.
Are you a breakfast eater? What concerns do you have about eating breakfast?
Whether or not you eat breakfast is not as important as optimizing your nutritional choices in other meals throughout the day.
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by Vicki Peel | May 19, 2022 | Food |
Preparing vegetables is about the least interesting topic I can think of!
What a way to start a blog post about something I’m supposed to know something about and share it with you enthusiastically!
I wonder if my dislike for vegetables comes from the fact that every day of my life growing up, my Grandmama served string beans (that’s green beans for non-southerners) and boiled potatoes! I didn’t like them then and I haven’t changed much.
Soon after I was married, I found myself as the “cook” for the tobacco crowd. Translation/explanation: my husband and I worked the summers helping his parents “put in” tobacco. Of course, you needed a crew of people to get that done, and my mother-in-law served them lunch, as was the custom back then.
When I asked my mother-in-law how to prepare something, usually vegetables, her reply was “just put them in the pot and boil them”! And that was basically the way our parents and everyone else cooked vegetables. And they were often cooked to mush!
But now, there are so many ways to cook vegetables that bring out their flavors so much better than boiling them! And with appliances like the Instant Pot and air fryer, it is much easier to cook vegetables and the flavors are better preserved.
You’ve probably heard this phrase about how to eat healthy – “eat the rainbow”. It is referring to all the brightly-colored vegetables you should eat to get the variety of nutrients you need to be healthy.
When reading about nutrition and healthy eating, the trend today is to eat more plant-based foods. And it’s more than a trend. Eating more plant-based foods is not a fad. It is the basis for building a healthier body. And more and more people are embracing that concept.
This is such an important topic, even if vegetables are not my favorite foods. So, I went to the experts for the best information and advice about vegetables – selecting, preparing, and the nutritional benefits of including more vegetables into your daily diet.
When it comes to nutrition and healthy eating, my go-to source is my friend, Cheryl A. Major. Cheryl is a Certified Nutrition and Wellness Coach, and I encourage you to read her excellent post about plant-based foods on her website, Thin, Strong and Healthy.
If you would like to know more about eating plant-based foods, check out Cheryl’s post, “Plant-Based Diet”. Read it HERE!
And if you’re interested in how to prepare vegetables for more variety in your cooking, I suggest you read the post about preparing vegetables from Denise at Sweet Peas and Saffron. It is a comprehensive article about how to prep vegetables with great links to recipes and additional information. It is a great reference article! Check out “How to Meal Prep Vegetables” by clicking HERE!
What’s your favorite way to prepare vegetables? Do you have a go-to recipe? Leave your comments below!
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by Vicki Peel | May 11, 2022 | Food |
We’ve all heard the quote attributed to Hippocrates around 400 BC – “Let food be thy medicine and thy medicine be food”. Although there is no hard evidence that Hippocrates actually said it, the significance of it cannot be ignored.
Chronic disease and disorders, such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, gastrointestinal disorders, hypertension, and others are increasingly linked to the unhealthy lifestyles that so many of us are living. The COVID pandemic has only worsened the situation, as we increasingly became even more sedentary and tried to drown our fears in junk food.
Is this situation concerning to you? It concerns me, and I, like many others, have not been eating healthy foods or engaging in what I would define as a healthy lifestyle. I’ve spent far too much time sitting and working on my laptop, and too little time moving my body. I’ve eaten far too much junk food because I’ve been too “busy” or mentally apathetic to prepare the foods I should be eating.
What are we doing about it? At the very least, it becomes crucial that we recognize the preventive role that nutrition can and does play in improving our lifestyles and lengthening our lives.
As we are cautiously and hopefully coming through the worst of the pandemic, it is time to be more cognizant and proactive about improving our diets and ultimately our health.
I have created a free cheat sheet of some of the best foods to eat to help prevent and/or improve specific diseases or disorders. The recommended lists of foods are not by any means exhaustive. But even if a reference article listed the top 25 foods you should eat for healthier results, I only listed the first 5 or 6.
The recommended food lists are in a checklist format so you can check the ones you like and want to try. There is also a note box beside each list of foods to encourage you to think about how to incorporate each of your checked foods into your diet or how you can prepare them in ways that fit into your lifestyle.
At the end of the document, there is a list of references/resources if you are interested in finding out more about how food can help you with a specific disease or disorder. Click on the links to the resource articles to read more. The URLs are clickable even though they don’t look like it.
Please note:
The information provided in the “Food As Medicine Cheat Sheets” is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice. You are urged to seek help from a medical professional or healthcare provider for medical advice, diagnoses, or treatment.
Below is a sample page from the free “Food as Medicine Cheat Sheets”.
There are 9 cheat sheet pages and 2 pages of resources/references in the document. You may download your free copy HERE!
Are you eating specific foods to help with any condition you may have? How can you use this freebie to make improvements that positively impact your health?
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by Vicki Peel | May 5, 2022 | Food |
An Instant Pot is a wonderful appliance that can save you time and money. It is an electric pressure cooker, but is also a saute pot, slow cooker, steamer, rice cooker, yogurt maker and warmer! It’s versatility makes it an invaluable addition to anyone’s kitchen.
I remember pressure cookers from “the old days”! My grandmother had a large pressure cooker that was used to can string beans (green beans for non-Southerners), corn and tomatoes. She watched the pressure gauge carefully for safety reasons.
When I was first married, I had a small pressure cooker that I used for tenderizing meat and cooking it quickly. When the steam started rising from the lid, I covered the opening with a weight that helped to create the pressure. When it started “jiggling”, I would increase or lower the temperature of the range to keep the timing of the “jiggling” safe. I was always fearful that it would blow up all over the kitchen. I did not really like to cook with it.
But today’s Instant Pot is so far advanced beyond pressure cookers of my grandmother’s and my day!
For today, we’re going to use the Instant Pot as a pressure cooker to prepare Orange Chicken.
I call this video “The Blooper Version”! You’ll see what I mean when you view it!
Check out the video below!
See what I mean by “blooper version”!! A little feedback? Comment below!
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by Vicki Peel | Apr 21, 2022 | Food |
What?? Eating one hotdog can cut 48 minutes off your life?!
We all know that eating the wrong foods can affect your health, but to what extreme?
Have you ever said any of these things to yourself?
Well, I blew today – I just as well have that Dairy Queen blizzard.
I can’t look like I’m anti-social. I have to eat Grandma’s chocolate cake. It will hurt her feelings if I don’t.
I’ll eat better starting tomorrow.
I just can’t give up ice cream! (or buttered popcorn, or chocolate, or pizza – or HOTDOGS!)
But now the good news – improving your health may take less effort than you thought. You don’t have to give up everything you love to get healthier. Simple daily food swaps will reap benefits.
“Now scientists have estimated down to the minute the benefits of swapping out just 10% of your bad food choices for healthier items.” (Click underlined phrase for article.) The researchers of this study divided food into three groups: green, yellow and red food zones.
Simply substituting fruits or nuts or other foods in the “Green Zone” can get you back those 48 minutes of your life taken away by eating that hotdog!
Green zone: Fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, and some responsibly harvested seafood.
Yellow zone: Poultry, grains, and most dairy.
Red zone: Meat, especially red meat, and most especially processed red meat, plus sugared beverages and most processed foods.
As you become more aware of the foods you’re consuming, simply start swapping out foods in the red zone for the yellow zone and the green zone. Every time you think about and make a simple swap away from red-zone foods, you’re taking a step toward a healthier life.
And every step you take toward eating healthier has a cumulative effect. No one can eat “perfect” all the time. Cut yourself some slack. But don’t throw in the towel when you make a bad choice. Start with making more good choices (yellow and green zone foods) than bad ones (red zone foods).
Before you know it, you’re adding minutes and hours and days to your life!
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by Vicki Peel | Apr 12, 2022 | Food |
Remember the GEICO commercial that it was “so easy a caveman could do it”? How about “so easy a husband could do it”?
All kidding aside, my husband started learning to cook when I had my knee replacement surgeries. And I am still amazed at how far he’s come and how interested he is in trying new things!
In this video, he demonstrates how to cook chicken wings in the air fryer and roasted potatoes in the oven. I’m also impressed with his video presentation skills!
Take a look!
Do you have an air fryer? Do you use it often? If you don’t have an air fryer, but are interested in purchasing one, download this free Air Fryers Buying Guide. I did all the research for you and highlighted the top 5 air fryers recommended by 4 sources: Women’s Health, Food Network Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, and C-NET Home.
Go ahead and download the Air Fryers Buying Guide HERE!
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by Vicki Peel | Apr 5, 2022 | Food |
Air fryers – they appear to be the hottest kitchen appliance on the market!
They are basically convection ovens on steroids. The formula? High heat + circulating air = crispy food.
The variety of air fryers on the market is overwhelming. And the prices vary from about $40 to $300 or more. And do you even need one?
While air frying is certainly a healthier option than frying in oil, it cannot make frozen fried foods steeped in processing and chemicals a healthy choice. So, a little label reading will help determine which frozen foods are actually healthy choices. But air frying can make vegetables crisper and tastier for kids (and adults) who hate veggies.
If you have an air fryer, or intend to purchase one, here are some “to do’s and to-don’ts”.
DO:
- Preheat your air fryer unless the recipe specifically says not to.
- Grease/spray oil on the air fryer basket to keep food from sticking, but DON’T spray with aerosol spray cans (like Pam), which contain harsh ingredients that may mess up the coating on baskets.*
- Use oil on food to crisp it, unless it already has some fat on it like chicken.
- Shake or turn food during cooking.
- Spritz food with oil halfway during cooking for crispier foods.
DON’T:
- Use loose aluminum foil, will fly around the basket from the air circulation. If you do use foil, make sure the food is heavy enough to keep it in place.
- Use shredded cheese, which will also fly around the air fryer and get stuck on the bottom of the fryer and not on the food.
- Set it and forget it – stopping and flipping or tossing food makes it cook more evenly.
- Crowd food. Food needs room for air to circulate.
- Use loose seasoning. Dry rubs end up like shredded cheese – all over the basket instead of the food. However, food that has been covered with oil that allows it to adhere to food is fine.
Do you have an air fryer? Do you use it regularly? What do you like about air frying? What are your concerns? I know – I’m just full of questions today! Please comment in the Comments section below or reply to any email I send to share your thoughts. As always, I really want to know. It helps me determine what you want to know and how I can help.
* Here is a good option for spritzing oil on your food. I have one like this. And this option gives you two bottles for about the price of one in other options! Click HERE for purchasing information.
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