Fertility Friday: Tips for Cooking at Home

 

 When trying to enhance overall health, here are a few tips to try at home:

• Use olive oil, greapesee oil, or rice bran oil instead of canola oil, peanut oil, or butter.
• Never use shortening (Crisco)
• Avoid deep frying or frying foods
• Be careful of how long a food is cooked in oil for, don't over cook foods, especially vegetables. Check the cooking time on vegetables.
• Steam things when you can
• Avoid trans fats at all costs
• Add good carbs, like beans and legumes to change up old recipies
• You don't need rice or pasta, vegetables and legumes are great sides