Calories, carbohydrates and fats have a bad reputation. You need calories for energy, you need carbohydrates for stamina, and you need fats for satiety and flavor. If you worry about counting every calorie, if you avoid carbohydrates, if you try to eliminate every gram of fat from your food then you are paranoid and obsessed. Is that working for you? Are you able to lose weight and keep it off? Does it make cooking easier for you?
It is hard enough to figure out what to make for dinner and to find time to prepare it, if you also have to count every calorie, avoid carbohydrates, and eliminate all fat then cooking becomes a Herculean task. Only a magician can create flavor with nothing to work with and only a chemist really knows the calorie and fat content.
Let’s Cook Tonight® teaches a common sense approach to cooking and eating. If being paranoid and obsessing over calories, carbohydrates, and fats is not working then why are you doing it? It makes sense to try something new. Cook and eat real food. Real foods do not come with a label; they have all of the nutrition and fiber they were born with. If what you are about to eat has a label it has been altered in some way. You have lost control because someone else put in ingredients you do not want like salt, sugar and preservatives and took out ingredients that you do want like antioxidants and fiber.
Eat a wide variety of colorful foods as close to their natural state as possible, cook them simply and dress them lightly. Enjoy sweet, salty and snack foods sitting down at the table, slowly, and in modest quantities. If you must be paranoid and obsessed, then make it about eating real food that has real flavor.
Do you ever worry about the calories and amount of fat in your food?
Cooking is easier than you think and you are worth the time and effort it takes.
Simple cooking idea: The more colorful your plate the more nutritionally balanced it is.
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