When You Need To Make Your Own Individual Meals

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Home Cooking Is The Best:

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Ten Main Benefits of cooking at home:

1. Saving money-

• Main reason to cook at home
• control of what you shop for and
• spend store sales and coupons
• portion control while learning to cook
• make and freeze meals
• always having something on hand in case you need “fast food”

2. Knowing exactly what’s in the food you’re eating-

• Knowing exactly what’s in the food you’re eating
• life saver for allergies
• high blood pressure and migraines
• by removing salt and MSG from your diet can help

3. A Balanced diet –

• Consume less calories
• carbohydrates
• less sugar and
• less fats in those who don’t cook

4. Being an educated “Consumer” –

• Making healthy recipes
• learning about food and nutrition and
• calorie counts through a good food database
• helping you to eat in a healthier manner

5. Staying Heart-Healthy –

• You are what you eat
• so a balanced diet full of nutrients can help you best stay healthy and slim
• prevent high blood sugar leading to insulin resistance and Type 2 Diabetes
• cook your own food to help be ‘heart smart’

6. “Slow Food” Verses “Fast Food” –

• Eating slowly to eat less
• feeling full on less food intake
• as it takes 20 minutes for your stomach to register as full
• studies show that fat and fiber fill you up
• with 30% less of the food you usually eat

7. Go For Filling Foods Low In Calories and Cost-

• Feeling stuffed after a restaurant meal after soup and salad
• which are cheap foods full of water and fiber
• make your own healthy soups and salads
• without using a creamy soup base or
• a creamy dressing making you feel full before the entree arrives
• or try the Italian way of eating the salad at the end of the meal
• helping you to feel full and satisfied
• it also helps you feel less cravings for dessert

8. Controlled Portions –

• Use a kitchen scale and measuring cup when cooking
• while looking up the caloric and nutrient values of the recipe
• dividing it up into portions suitable for your diet

9. Food Safety –

• Food borne illnesses are everywhere.
• keep yourself and your family safe
• by keeping your kitchen and hands immaculately clean

10. Food Freedom –

• Cooking at home allows you to make gluten-free
• meat-free or dairy-free as you choose
• with experience your meals will improve with practice
• with online recipes
• tried and proven to be successful
• digital cookbooks are available on Amazon
• helping you to become a pro in the kitchen in no time
• another benefit is making and eating together as a family

DB: I have been a home cook for decades now. I greatly benefited by transitioning from traditional foods to an alkaline diet/vegetarian prescribed by my doctor.

Transitioning to an individualized diet mostly in the form of Paleo cooking has benefited me with anti-aging meals keeping me looking younger than expected biologically.

Yet another benefit of home cooking as well is AIP meals, Autoimmune Protocol, which is more specific but very helpful to study.

I live between both cooking styles.

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