Low Fat Cooking Recipes

When It's Too Hot to Cook  I live in the Seattle suburbs, so we are used to gray skies and rain for about nine months of year, followed by three months of blue skies, sunshine and moderately warm temperatures. So imagine our discomfort, when we experienced five consecutive days of 90 degrees plus, with "cooler" days hitting the mid-80s. Few of us have air conditioning so it's hard to escape the heat, unless we decide to spend whole days at the mall. And the last thing we want to do come dinner time is turn on the oven, or even fire up the grill. So what are we to do? Fiona Haynes Low Fat Cooking Expert

When It's Too Hot to Cook When it’s just too hot to cook, and you don’t want to resort to delivery pizza, there are plenty of healthy and delicious low-fat meals you can make without going anywhere near the stovetop or oven. READ NOW Share

10 Summer Recipes It might be too hot to cook on some summer days, but there are plenty of other days when it's cool enough to want to have a cookout. READ NOW Share

Make a Leaner Burger The trouble with most hamburgers is that a burger made from 4 ounces of regular ground beef (70 percent lean, or 30 percent fat, depending which way you look at it) can contain as much as 34 grams of fat, which is more than half the daily value of fat and almost two-thirds the daily value of saturated fat. And that's before adding cheese, bacon, mayo or other fat-laden toppings. Here's how to make and enjoy a leaner burger. READ NOW Share

How Many of These Super Foods Are You Eating? No matter what kind of diet you follow, even a low fat diet, there are some foods that you should try and include. These so-called super foods are chock-full of healthy nutrients -- even "fatty" fish and nuts. READ NOW Share

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