5 ways to make your dishes healthier

Buy a non-aerosol mist sprayer and fill it with your favourite cooking oil. Use it for coating cake pans, grills and woks, or for spraying directly onto bread or over salad leaves. It’s economical and you’ll find that you can cut down radically on the amount of fat you use for cooking without affecting the taste.

 

When you’re making beef stroganoff or a creamy pasta sauce, use low-fat Greek yogurt or fromage frais instead of cream. Both of these options will provide the same rich taste for far fewer kilojoules and much less fat.

Here are two easy ways to increase your fruit and vegetable intake, as well as your family’s:

 

 

Avoid serving potatoes mashed with cream and butter. Try these instead:

 

Your doctor may not tell you this, but – because some vitamins are fat-soluble – you need fat in your diet in order to absorb them. But this doesn’t always mean adding extra fat to your food. A steak, for example, provides enough fat to make use of the nutrients in the vegetables served with it.