Tools to Help Keep Your New Year’s Diet Resolutions
We know that many homeowners will make New Year’s Resolutions to either improve their health, lose weight, or both. There are numerous reasons to make weight loss resolutions. Losing weight makes you healthier, gives you more energy and helps to reduce fat, and builds muscle. If you subscribe to a particular diet or elect to eat healthier, certain kitchen tools can help guide your way and make dieting easier.
A blender is one of the first appliances that people turn to when starting a diet. We prefer blenders with high-torque motors that can easily convert solids into liquids in a few seconds to create healthy shakes, smoothies, and other drinks that every homeowner can enjoy. Emersion or hand blenders enable you to mix, chop, whisk and blend, at the stove, countertop, or anywhere else in the kitchen that you prepare meals. If you already have a hand blender, look for one with multiple speeds.
A food processor can slice, dice, and chop foods in a matter of seconds. Food processors are great for making healthier snacks and appetizers such as fresh hummus or homemade granola.
An air fryer gives you the taste and crunch of fried foods using approximately 75 percent less oil than a conventional fryer. An air fryer is a convection oven that circulates hot air around food to cook it. Air fryers come in a variety of sizes. The largest can cook a meal for a family of four looking to reduce fat and calories.
One of the cool new gadgets for dieting is a spiralizer that takes vegetables such as zucchini, squash, and carrots and turns them into spaghetti.
Cooking beef, duck, and chicken in a rotisserie convection toaster oven will help reduce fat and calories.
A mandoline is another tool that helps to increase the enjoyment of eating veggies. Mandolines cut veggies into extremely thin slices that are easy to prepare and more enjoyable to eat.
Sous vide equipment cooks food to the exact level of doneness consistently. Because whatever you select cooks in its juices, the food is juicier, tastes better, is more tender, and less wasteful.
A slow cooker prepares food as its name implies slowly. The dietary benefit of slow cooking is the process preserves nutrients in the food, thereby making your meals healthier, tastier, and easier to digest.
A good quality kitchen scale can help with portion control. Portions are based on weight and not size. To get in the habit of eating the right portions, you need to weigh what you eat.
A brand new kitchen will make meal preparation easier and more enjoyable. We can help with that as well. Please call at 440-543-8050 or visit us at 8454 Washington Street in Chagrin Falls to determine how a new kitchen for your home can help you live a healthier and happier lifestyle.