Cooking Mistakes

" It's just when you think you're doing something healthy like cooking your own meal at home you might be surprised at -- you find out Jennifer -- low otherwise known as this skinny chef is here. With the top five cooking mistakes that could adding inches to your waistline welcome back. So surprise speech here as always making some good and some bad news is well you always bring us alternatives though so you're you're home you're trying to save some money and cook for yourself -- I -- looking at home is really the healthiest weight -- and it's the easiest way to lose weight as long as you watch out for the pitfalls. So today I'm gonna show you how to avoid. The five biggest cooking mistakes that could be making you fat okay you have an acute way of remember helping us remember the first one is don't be TV. This I know and I love grilled -- who doesn't love we could lead melted cheese but always opt for the 2% -- are part skim mozzarella. I made this beautiful throw cheese. With Turkey and arugula and he's part skim mozzarella because unseating a third of the calories and fat it's okay and a lot of people cook with -- I mean it's hardly what I'll -- you sign up a lot of traditional one pot -- used cheese but you're gonna save on fat calories and also in saturated fat. Which can't be that your heart okay the next if you -- is don't be picky when you're eating you mention that -- child you selected you have a glass of wine into every home cooked -- to taste if they go -- if you're. Taking too much that can add up to hole meals worth of calories so as -- child says I always have a little glass of wine. But I make -- small only four ounces that way it's around eighty calories OK if you have to grains. Go for raw veggies you're getting an extra serving of vegetables. And not a lot of calories and you'll still safe space for that delicious meal that your committee that really does help -- to eat out along the way right I munch away keeps my mouth busy while I'm making that big plate of lasagna with a look Sheila -- remember you -- an exit here you've got a lot of vegetables don't get a color blind a blind. Wanna make sure to get as many veggies on that plate gorgeous colorful vegetables. Green are really great for your house. Cooked on the low fat away it could -- to your waistline and just a couple of months. Question beginning all the vitamins and antioxidants -- unique. These festivals dishes only took me five minutes to prepare. And with -- it is and a little bit of garlic and add a little -- scarlet -- actually -- of drizzle of olive -- little -- so easy I slice -- up -- few minutes the -- and should we have one -- two servings of two at least isn't the issue can come and play and then of course you know go -- your card in -- okay now don't be washed out as the next section of what exactly does that mean when it comes -- well when I think of washed -- I think -- white process -- and people are used to cooking fat white flour. Wait race but Iowa's go for the whole grain because it has brand in it that's the brown park and brown is better because it's high in fiber. Minerals helps to fill you up. And these things are so easy to -- Fastenal swift we have whole week he got. And whole -- couscous again. Cook up a meal in five minutes pack your lunch get the fiber and every it was telling that antioxidants you guys and that is that it's full of minerals -- this is really important for intestinal hope this well and has a lot of new varieties out there at the stores well there are placed and make sure that it's a 100%. Whole grain or whole wheat and there's also a whole. Craig Counsell -- that you can look for TL a stamp that says the whole grains council okay last but not least they'll be lucky and very different state of people -- you know when I'm visiting my friends and their kitchen I'm watching them cut and I believe me they get nervous but. You need to measure out the fat because just a -- of the risk of literally mean. Pounds over fuel and I you know I could put a lot -- what I know a lot of other people do with the help throughout chips because of oil is healthy it doesn't -- Klestil doesn't mean it's fat free one tablespoon of olive oil is fourteen grams of fat and 120 calories. So you -- measuring -- if you don't have a natural -- don't sweating is -- peace in the eastern -- with I'm just gonna start -- air forever it's three critics and vegetables festival opened and -- mix it up a little -- Denver at Boeing."

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