Low Fat Vegetable Cooking

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You may be looking at ways to cut back the fat in your diet and total miss looking at your vegetables, after all vegetables are healthy, good for you and you are suppose to be eating them in a decent quantity every day. However, you may be adding a significant amount of fat to your diet with the vegetable dishes you are serving. There are a few ways that you can easily cook vegetables without creating any added fat to your diet.

The first thing is to avoid store bought side dishes with vegetables, the kind that come with sauce and are designed to provide elegant sounding or expensive sounding side dishes that are quick and easy to prepare. They are loaded in fat and while you are providing vegetables are killing the nutritional value. If you are going to choose frozen vegetables then consider choosing ones that are individually packaged or meal sized packages but that do not contain sauce. It does not take much to whip up a low fat alternative to most of the sauces that are added to these vegetables if necessary.

How many times have you or someone you know done this, when cooking corn or green beans or even peas on the stove they and things like bacon fat or butter while it’s cooking. Sure it adds great flavor but you are adding a huge amount of fat to the vegetables as well. Fat that is not necessary and you probably are not counting in your diet plans. If you are boiling vegetables simply avoid adding these things into it.

When ever possible steam vegetables this not only helps to retain the nutritional value but it also produces better tasting vegetable dishes that can usually be eaten with a minimal of additives. Cheese and cream sauces should be avoided unless necessary and if they are added should be made from low fat or no fat ingredients.

For salads, and this is one of the biggest places where fat is added to the diet, consider instead of creamy dressings, something that contains red wine like a vinaigrette or an olive oil and vinegar based dressing. They can take a bit of getting used too however they are usually lower in fat than cream based dressings. Look for low fat alternatives if the dressing you uses is an absolute necessity for your salad. They also make spray dressings which can help lower the amount of dressing and thereby the amount of fat that ends up added to your salad.