Start to have high-Fibre Diets

BREAKFAST

We must have breakfast everyday. After 8 to 9 hours of sleep, human body requires the energy from breakfast to energize up and prepare for a day's hard work. Also, it is a good time to absorb fibres in the morning. Only carefully choosing breakfast food can the body benefited.

1) Choose wheat products sunch as oatmeal, oats, whole wheat biscuits, wheat bread, five-grain bread, bran noodles and congee.

2) Cut fruit into pieces and serve together with yoghurt or eat an apple as a breakfast.

AFTERNOON TEA

Many people love to have afternoon tea to squeeze for rest in the hustle and bustle. However, it is a branch of knowledge to enjoy tasty food and maintain health at the same time.

1) Choose fruit instead of artificial snacks because snacks are rich in sugar and salt that would harm the body in long run. It is a good idea to have an apple or orange as a healthy afternoon tea n the office.

2) Eat fruit skin as well since its fibres content is more than half of that of flesh. Do not waste the skin.

3) Choose sugar-free preserved apricot and raisins for snacks.

LUNCH AND DINNER

People in the city have their lunches hurriedly. They "pour" the lunch box into the stomach within a few seaconds and do not care the nutrition value of food. They eat hurriedly to strike for more recess or go back to work quickly. When go back to home after back, most people prepare their dinner with much meat but few vegetables. Although this impresses your tastebuds, it harms your body.

In fact just know how to choose food and match them well, you can absorb enough fibres within a short lunch and also cook a healthy and tasty meal.

1) Choose beans and vegetables as the main course of lunch with some meat and a glass of high-fibre fruit juice.

2) Choose different kinds of food, especially vegetables and beans to enjoy different flavour and refresh the taste buds.

3) Replace some rice with red rice or brown rice and make a bowl of colourful rice to whet the appetite.

Where to find FIBRES ?

WHOLE-WHEAT FOOD

Wheat or bran products such as whole wheat bread, wheat biscuits, naked barley bread, whole wheat noodles, italian noodles, red rice, brown rice, wild rice and five-grain rice.

VEGETABLE

Different kinds of vegetables and fruit are welcomed. Boiled vegetables and salads are good choices. Serving fruit with skin can absorb fibres and do not just drink fruit juice as it lacks fibres.

BEANS

Red kidney beans, bloack-eyed peas, red beans, mungbean, peas, long beans and honey beans.

HEALTHY NIGH-FIBRE SNACKS

Hard-shelled nuts, preserved apricot, prune, raisins and sweet corn.

Cook Easy & Eat Easy - Vegetable

Vegetable has a high water content of over 90 percent, it provides the body with non-organic salt, iron, copper, potassium, vitamins A,B,C,D and E. Vegetable is to be cooked with appropriate heat and duration as heating it too long wll damage its vitamin C content.

However, if eatern raw, be careful with the germs that hide in the leaves. The common vegetables are Spinach, White Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage, Mustard Green, Cauliflower, Kale, Chinese Spinach, Watercress, Lettuce and Dried Lily Flower ......

Cookware Shop - Pressure Pot

By raising the boiling point by high pressure, they enhance the cooking efficiency greatly. Pressure pots have low aeration and lock the steam inside the pots. As steam increases, the inside pressure becomes higher and higher.

So you need to reduce the preessure before opening the lid after cooking; either by opening the valve and let the steam comes out to reduc e the pressure inside or set the pot aside for a period to let the inner pressure lowered down automatically. Thus pressure pots are fit for long-boiled soups.

Cookware Shop - Vacuum Pot

They come with two parts, namely the outer and inner pots.

Firstly bring soup ingredients and water to the boil over heat with the stainless steel inner pot. Then place the whole pot of soup into the outer pot instantly after removing heat and when the soup is still in the boiling state.

Lastly cover the lid of the outer pot. Since there is a layer between the outer and inner pots, it avoids the heat of the inner pot contact with the air outside the outer pot. This makes the soup at the boiling state without any fuel or electricity and saves energy. Vacuum pots are fit for long-boiled soups.

Note that the soup inside vacuum pots would not be evaporated away. So if you prefer a richer taste of soup, cook the soup over heat for a while right before serving.

Cookware Shop - Stainless Steel Pot

As the commonest pots in the market, they are supplied in various sizes and always available in the market. Since they transmit heat quickly and their prices are not expensive, they are wildly adopted. Yet they are not suitable for cooking Chinese herbal medicines since the medicines may have chemical reactions with stainless steel during heating and affect their curing effects. Thus they can be used for quick-boiled or long-boiled soups but waste the heat energy relatively.

Cookware Shop - Clay Pots

Soups made from them reserve the original taste and flavor. Made from clay and burned over high heat, clay pots have high heat resistance and you can always place them over medium-low heat for a long period of time. They also have good aeration but low heat radiation and thus fit for cooking long-boiled soups and stewed soups.

Preparation

Rub a layer of oil at the outside of the clay pot and pour in water until 80% filled before use. Set it aside for a night and bring to the boil over low heat. Set aside to let cool, and remove the water. Then the pot is ready for normal use. This way prevents the clay pot from breaking easily. Or you can soak the clay pot in water from rinsing rice for 1 ~ 2 Days to let the water blocks any small holes or cracks at the outside surface of the pot. it also makes the pot more durable. Always cook from cold water and add in hot water when the inside of the pot is hot so as to avoid the pot cracked due to large temperature difference.

COOKING TECHNIQUES - KEYS OF SLICING

Before thoroughly studying the technique, please pay attention as below :-

1) Hold the handle of a cleaver tightly with your palm.

2) Bend your palm and make an"ARCIFORM" shape. Position the first two joints of your fingers (except the thumb) against the blade efore cuttng food. Move your fingers gradually and cut the meat into the appropriate side. It is very east to get hurt when your fingers are placed in a wrong post (not in an"ARCIFORM" shape).

Please try to practice more when you have time.

COOKING TECHNIQUES - FISH

Here we would share some cooking techniques with all the readers, today the topic is FISH .......

TIPS TO PREVENT FISH FROM LOOSENING DURING STIR-FRY :

1) Cut the flesh across the horizontal grain into thin slices

2) Scald, deep fry in the warm oil or fry for a while until the flesh is nearly done

3) Do not stir fry frequently.

Latest, fish will not stick to the wok when the wok is dry and heated before adding in oil.

DIFFERENT STYLES OF COOKWARE IN MARKET

You know there are many different kinds & brands of cookware available in the market.

It comes with different materials & cooking utensils, it includes the basic utensils you will use every day, including stockpots, saucepans, roasting pans, frying pans, griddle, skillets, woks as well as other important entertaining pieces of bakeware, like bread pans, muffin pans, pizza pans, and pie pans, barbecue grill box or cast iron griddle for outdoor Camping together. Here we would like to recommend few styles for your evaluation.

The first style we would recommended is the traditional STAINLESS STEEL COOKWARE, this is multi-functional, it is specially good for making the seafood, most of the chefs are using this style for their kitchen.

Another style is ENAMEL COATING COOKWARE, this ENAMEL COATING come with fashionable designs, they come with different patterns, different sizes of sauce pots, frying pan and skillets as well as other ENAMEL TABLE TOP decoration, it is easy to find anyone of them to match your home & kitchen style.

The last one we would offer is the NON-STICK COATING COOKWARE, if you are the first user or not alway to cook, NON-STICK COATING is your best choice. Because it is no sticky and it is very easy to clean up. Furthermore, it is good for you to prepare the low fat meals as well, since you can put less oil for cooking. You are easy to keep the healthy life.

Today, we just would show either three styles for your study and we will keep continues to recommend our others cookware and cooking utensils as well as other buying tips to fit your personality.