Changing the way we cook our food can have a dramatic impact on our health. If we make wiser choices with our food and the way we cook, we can significantly reduce the risk of contracting cancer and heart disease.

Here are some top tips for healthy cooking: —

1. Invest in non-pans – With quality non-stick pans you can get with no oil at all or by a low-fat cooking spray. You can also 'fry' some foods in a little water so they do not burn. If youhave to oil, use olive oil and pat food with kitchen roll after cooking to remove excess oil.

2. Look through your recipe collection for diet recipes and low fat recipes. Cook them in batches and freeze, so you always a healthy meal option available.

3. To get steam or stir fry vegetables – it will cook the vegetables with the help of these methods to help their nutrients, color and flavor. Look for healthy recipes such as Chinese stir-fries and invest in a wok and steamer. YouBuy a can of Chinese bamboo steamer, which only sit on a boiling water, or you can buy e-pan liner. You can use a good electric steamer for less than the cost of a meal out and the ease of use is a real time saver.

4. Use olive oil – Replace other oils or fats with olive oil, which is a monounsaturated oil, and actually helps to lower cholesterol levels. Share your own salad dressings from olive oil and balsamic vinegar, is a Mediterranean flavor to your salad, and thisless fat than commercial salad dressings. Search online for free recipes with olive oil. Some muffin recipes using olive oil or corn oil instead of solid fats.

5. Use fat-free milk for cooking and baking, cut the fat content of your healthy recipes.

6. Replace fat in baking – Look for low-fat recipes for cakes and biscuits, or replace half the fat in recipes pureed prunes, yogurt or mashed banana. Search for diet recipes for sweet treats.

7. Use non-fat yogurt orCreme fraiche instead of cream for the filling of fruit or dessert recipes.

8. Add more vegetable stews and soups and fresh or frozen vegetables for canning.

9. Do not add salt in food – Season food with herbs, spices, garlic and lemon juice instead of salt.

10. Trim visible fat from meat and use lean meat in your low-fat recipes. Before you reduce the amount of red meat you consume and replace it with fish and chicken or turkey.

Remember, cooking and eatinghealthy diet is not hard work and much less expensive. If you play your cards right you can change the family diet and they will not suspect a thing.
That's not to say that they are anything but, because they will notice – they can also see that they lose weight, feel better and fewer minor illnesses.

If that's not reason enough to try a few of these tips, I do not know what is!