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Prevention Healthy Favorites: Chicken Recipes: 48 Easy and Delicious Meals!

Like good cooks everywhere, the editors of Prevention magazine love nothing more than sharing their favorite healthy and delicious dishes. That�s the whole idea behind the Prevention Healthy Favorites series of essential cookbooks, each one gathering 48 of the best Prevention-tested recipes that make it easy to enjoy wonderful homemade food fast.

Chicken is versatile and tasty, making it the centerpiece of many family dinner. The challenge is making it flavorful and satisfying, not boring or packed with unhealthy ingredients. No home cook wants to hear �Chicken�again?�

At Prevention magazine, we do love rising to meet a challenge! So we focused this recipe collection on taking dinner from dull to delightful with fabulous flavor. You�ll find a delicious variety of tastes and textures, from Chicken and Portobello Mushroom Pasta Bake to Lime-Marinated Chicken with Salsa. You�ll even discover some lovely twists on old favorites, including versions of Oven-Fried Buttermilk Chicken and Chicken-Spinach Parmesan, that are incredibly satisfying and unbelievably healthy for you and your whole family. Whatever your favorite taste combinations, all of our recipes were created to nourish both body and spirit and to be as simple as possible to prepare.

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Healthy Food For Kids - How to Inspire Children to Cook

I am often asked when is the right time to start cooking with children and my response is simple. Now. It is like the old saying, "When is the best time to plant a tree?, thirty years ago; when is the second best time?, now!" Similarly, it is ideal to start an interest in food and being in the kitchen when children are really young - but if you have not done that, and indeed many of us have not, now is certainly the second best time.

I am not suggesting you swing into a major campaign to make them totally competent cooks. But I am saying, if there is any glimmer of interest then encourage it. And if there is no interest, then look for ways to create it. It might be something as simple as involving them in deciding to have for dinner or asking them to stir or cut something while you fix their favorite meal. Children need to feel confident to cook in order to reach the ultimate goal of healthy food for kids, cooked by the kids.

From my perspective, as a parent I want to give my kids as many advantages in life as I can. I want my kids to be able to cook because success in any skill builds self esteem and cooking is absolutely no exception. I believe that imparting food skills also fosters personal responsibility so I feel confident that they will be better equipped to look after themselves. They need to be able to cook easy kids recipes.

Cooking is one of those essential life skills - it is like riding a bike, once they have 'got it' they are away. Cooking with children may better be described as 'assembling' - but that too requires skill. There is little point in expecting children to start from scratch when there are so many fabulous products available. Easy cooking for kids means they still need the basic food skills - how to chop an onion, bake a potato, make an omelette and so on.

An even more compelling reason is that teenagers that can cook are far more likely to make better food choices and hence healthy meals. Of course, an added bonus if your teen is able to cook a meal then you are able to get the odd night off!

My children like it when I give them some space, freedom to choose what to cook and let them go for it! I think this is good part developing independence. Although they usually like it if I am around so I can answer any questions. If you think a meal is too much, involve them to stir frying vegetables or mashing potatoes. Step one has got to be interest, before you can move on to engagement and participation.

I have found with many parents that deal-making works well. Along the lines of "If I do this for you, could you possibly make dinner". You may be surprised to find how teenagers respond to this, many are masters of negotiation in other things so they will quickly work it out. My son used to cook a meal in return for money to go to a movie, and my daughter would cook us a fabulous meal if she wanted to borrow the car!

I laugh when my children say one of the main reasons they wanted to be able to cook was because it gave them leverage. If that is what motivates them, then that is fine. After all, I am teaching them a skill for a lifetime and they are getting what they want - a win:win for everyone.

Glenda Gourley is a food and nutrition educator who has a passion for getting kids into the kitchen cooking and having fun. She has developed a strategy specifically for teenage children. Her website http://www.TeachChildrenToCook.com is designed to help parents and teachers to teach kids to cook: from this site you can access the site hosted by her teenage daughter Claire, which aims to inspire kids to cook with easy, fun, healthy recipes. Together, Glenda's experience in practical food skills and nutrition education, combines brilliantly with Claire's ability to motivate and engage teenagers. This is a totally unique approach which is having overwhelming success. If you are serious about inspiring kids to cook so they can have control of their life, check out http://www.TeachChildrenToCook.com.

miBook Healthy Cooking

miBook? Healthy Cooking Memory CardPre-loaded with 150 healthy recipes from Food Network favorites such as Healthy Appetite with Ellie Krieger and Quick Fix Meals with Robin MillerRecipes include hearty healthy soups, calorie crunching salads, satisfying meals and sin-less dessertsMove through each recipe step-by-step, seeing how it should look at every turn Meal planner option helps you select recipe options based main ingredient, cooking method, nutritional concerns and time

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Dr. Fuhrman's Secrets to Healthy Cooking DVD

This DVD serves as an introduction to a world of great taste and superior health. Only through making the world s healthiest foods in your own kitchen can you really experience all the pleasure that the Eat to Live diet-style has to offer. Once you understand these basic techniques and principles of high nutrient food preparation, you can take your health to the next level of nutritional excellence. Dr. Fuhrman and his wife, Lisa, take you into the kitchen to demonstrate the techniques and principles behind preparing nutrient dense foods. Learn how to prepare great tasting and high nutrient recipes. By incorporating these recipes into your daily menu, you'll take your health to the next level of nutritional excellence! Dr. Fuhrman reveals his favorite recipes and general formulas for making: Salad Dressings & Dips, Soups & Stews, Main Dishes, Vegetable Smoothies, Ice Cream & Sorbets.

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Healthy Chinese Recipes - Cooking With Rice

Okay, let's start off with some simple healthy Chinese recipes, boiled rice and fried rice. One is the quintessential accompaniment to a Chinese dinner, while the other is your classic takeaway dish from the local Chinese restaurant.

But, with just a little tweaking we can make the former have a bit of life and color, and the latter an easy to knock up dish after a long day at work.

Now, these are both suitable for beginners and vegetarians.

Boiled Rice... with a difference

Right, this is using a rice cooker. All cup measurements refer to the rice cooker cup, which is about 3/4 size of a US measuring cup.


Measure the rice. 1 1/2 cups is enough for two people.
Wash the rice until the water runs clear.
Put the rice in the pot and add water. 2 cups of water per cup of rice is enough.
Add some extras - sweet corn, peas, sun-dried tomatoes, diced carrots, pineapple chunks. These will add flavor, color and nutrition to the rice!
Put the pot back in the cooker, close the lid and switch on the cooker.
Don't open the lid until the cooker switches itself off. That's right, it will do the rest of the work for you.
Dish up.
Please remember, if the cooker doesn't keep the rice warm, to refrigerate all uneaten rice ASAP.

Do you like your rice hard or soft? I'm a hard man myself, but enough boasting, ha-ha! Basically, if you like your rice soft then add more water, and vice versa.

Fried Rice

Right, this is great for using leftover rice. You can add loads of stuff. This recipe will be a simple, egg fried rice. For you meaties you can add pre-cooked shrimps or meat strips to the wok in step 5.


Prepare your ingredients - beat one egg per person, chop up some spring onions, dice up some veggies (or use canned or frozen ones).
Add a little oil to the wok (or large frying pan). Heat up high and when the oil is hot, add the eggs. Cook until set and then remove from wok and put to the side.
Add some more oil and let it get hot. Fry your onions until they just start to turn golden. Remove from wok and set aside.
Add more oil if needed and keep the heat medium-high. Put in your veggies and cook until tender, but not too long. We don't want to lose all their goodness!
Add a bit more oil. Throw in the rice, eggs and onions. Add a teaspoon of soy sauce (or more if you like it). Cook through, and make sure to keep an eye on the rice to stop it burning. You'll need to do lots of tossing and flipping with the rice to make sure everything is getting cooked through. It's sweaty work!
Serve.

Please note, many Chinese people like to add a teaspoon of crushed red chillies at step 5. If you're feeling adventurous or you've got a cold, I suggest you do the same!

What, no meat?

Now the beauty of rice is that apart from being a gorgeously healthy Chinese food, simple to cook, and cleverly versatile, it is also a perfect vegetarian food. So, the recipes above are all Chinese vegetarian recipes, too, though they can be easily adapted to include meat if that's your cup of... um... gravy?

So, there you go two healthy Chinese recipes that you can go and make straightaway!

The author has lived in China since 2004, which means in the last 6 years at an average of a couple of meals a day (excluding holidays and sick days) he has eaten about 4,000 Chinese meals/dishes/snacks. He thinks he can share some of that experience with you by introducing you to the incredible variety inherent in Chinese cuisine and also to show you how you these can be made. Read more to see how he's doing:

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