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Tips to prepare food for elderly and childer

admin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:39:21 +0000

It’s not always easy to prepare food for elderly (more than 60 years old) and children (less than 6 years old). Besides the nutrition side of the food, there are also some techniques we have to master during food preparation. One of the useful technique is to prepare the food without hard object or non chewing friendly ingredient in the food. This is because elderly or children normally have weak teeth and their digesting system may not function at it’s optimum level as compare to an healthy teenager or mid twenty’s adult. Before cooking, bone all the ingredients, then finely chop or process in a food processor (blender).

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Add healthy ingredients to Smooth Cantonese Porridge

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:59:45 +0000

By now you should know how to cook a delicious porridge base on my previous 2 blogs. If you are ready to make the next move, to make it healthier and add texturing to your porridge, I would propose you add crunchy vegetable like, fresh green bean, French bean or celery into your porridge. All you need to do is cut them into small pieces. Right before the porridge is done, put them into the porridge and cook for 5 minutes with low heat. Then it’s ready to serve. All vegetable are good, high in vitamins and fiber and celery has well know of it properties to lower the blood pressure and cholesterol.

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Seafood taste porridge made easy with Dried Scallops

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:35:42 +0000

Want to know what’s the simplest way to make your porridge have a flavorful seafood taste? You do not needs to all all types of seafood in the market but only the essential one is enough. The most important ingredient that could bring out the full seafood taste that I would like to introduced here is the DRIED SCALLOPS. You do not need all those expensive seafood like abalone, shark fin, clams or deep sea fish, just a few pieces of dried scallops will make the magic to your plain porridge. Every 1 cups of raw rice is recommended to use 1 big scallop (or 2 small size). All you have to do is wash and soak the dried scallops in water for 30 minutes. Do not through away the soaking liquid, use it to cook your porridge. Crush the scallops to shredded pieces and cook together with your porridge right from beginning, remember to add some salt into porridge to bring out the seafood taste right before you ready to serve your porridge. These simple porridge is delicious, easy to cook and not applied heavy load to stomach but fulfill your major needs of carbohydrates in the food pyramid. Cook this when you are in rush, example during breakfast.

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Trick to make a simple yet delicious Cantonese style porridge

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:15:53 +0000

Asian especially Chinese like to eat porridge make from rice. They are healthier depend on the ingredient you are using, and it’s more often prepared for patient that lack of apetite because it’s easier to digest and doesn’t apply heavy load to the patient digestive system. There are many way of cooking porridge, one of my favorite is Cantonese style porridge that’s so smooth and delicious, but it’s so easy to cook with simple ingredients, so it’s also healthier. The trick is the cooking process. Here I will reveal the way of cooking that match all Hong Kong style restaurant. If you want to make your porridge smooth, you could cook it with slow cooker with high power for 2~3 hours, ensure you have rice-water ratio of 1:10. If the porridge end up with too sticky, lack of water, just add in how water and mix well, then you will have nice and delicious smooth Cantonese style porridge.

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Sources of cholesterol from foods

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:35:40 +0000

Cholesterol always sound scary to most of the people, it’s so notorious as one of the main cause for blood vessels and hearts problem. When your blood test result reported high cholesterol level in your body, the first thing you would do it to reduce intake of fatty food. However fatty food is not the only source of cholesterol, even meats and eggs also contribute to your body’s cholesterol level.Â When you consume fatty food, the fat will be converted to cholesterol by your liver. For meats that you eat, you are actually consume the cholesterol that stayed inside the meat’s blood. The red meats is especially have high level of cholesterol while the white meat especially fish, especially their oil, high in omega 3 fatty acid that could actually bring down your cholesterol. We should eat at least two servings of fish every week. We could found high level of omega-3 in fishes like sardines, mackerel, salmon, lake trout, tuna and herring.

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Cholesterol Myth and the Right HDL over LDL Ratio.

admin — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:08:27 +0000

Is that Cholesterol sound scary to you? Actually there are two types of cholesterol and not all of them are bad. We actually need cholesterol to live our normal life. The body will only start to get problems when there is too much of the cholesterol level, especially the “bad cholesterol” - low density lipoprotein (LDL). There is another type of cholesterol that is beneficial to our body - high density lipoprotein (HDL). The fact is we need to keep a balance ratio between LDL and HDL. The rule of thumb is keep the LDL:HDL ratio 4:1, it’s best if you could keep lower LDL with the ratio below 3.5:1. How can we keep the right ratio between these 2 types of cholesterol? The solution is through a healthy balance diet and healthy lifestyle with sufficient exercises.

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Rolled Oat cooking method that you donâ€™t want to miss â€“ simple and easy

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:32:18 +0000

Rolled Oat required longest time to cook. However, it worth the time because it has the best taste and contain highest soluble fiber compare to the instant or quick cook oatmeal. Put in the water into a saucepan, add in the rolled oat, cook under medium heat without cover until boil. Change to low heat and continue to cook for 10 ~ 15 minutes. Then you are ready to have a very nice oatmeal. Please ensure you do not cover the saucepan, else it will overflow. Also must ensure enough water is added to the ratio of oat cooked. If not enough water, it will get burn easily. Besides, stir occasionally at the last 5 minutes of cooking. Put in the milk or additional ingredient like banana, strawberry, muesli and cornflakes to add the taste. Do not add the fruit during cooking, they will turn sour.

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Standard and Alternative methods to prepare Quick Cook Oatmeal

admin — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:49:46 +0000

For the quick cooking oat, you will actually need to cook with saucepan. Just add in milk or water into the saucepan, followed by the quick cook oatmeal, cook until it boil, then continue to cook for 2 minutes. You could make your meal more delicious by adding in fruits, nuts, muesli thatâ€™s not only enhance the taste but also make you a more balance diet. There is a trick that you could cook this type of oatmeal with just hot water (>85Â°C) and time. Mix the oat with hot water and leave it for 1 hours. The oat will turn soft eventually and you could enjoy the same good meal, but before you eat the oatmeal, put additional hot water to get a warm meal.

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Instant Oatmeal Cooking - Simple but you may have miss out these important steps

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:09:19 +0000

Hmmâ€¦ now you know about the different type of oat, but how to cook each of them. Here I first go through the instant type. Instant types have those flavored and unflavored. Flavored is those so call 2-in-1 or 3-in1 thatâ€™s premixed with milk powder, chocolate powder and sugar. This instant type is most easiest to prepare and suitable for those busy people, and also for those rushing for work every morning. Either flavored or unflavored, we just need to pour in hot wate and you could drink as soon as the temperature is suitable for your tough. If you want to do extra and make is a more delicious drink, you could add in malted powder, soy bean milk, cow milk (low fat or full cream) while itâ€™s hot. Stir well and you could have a delicious and healthy drink.

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Some tips about Oatmeal and itâ€™s health property

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:37:27 +0000

There are generally 3 type of oatmeal in the market todays

1) The instant type

2) The quick cooking

3) The rolled oat

Which is the healthiest among them? Yes, the Roll Oat because of itâ€™s the richest in soluble fiber as compare to the other two, but it needs longest time to cook. Oat is well know of itâ€™s beta glucan content that could help to lower the cholesterol, but the most effective one would be the roll oat due to itâ€™s highest fiber content, followed by the quick cooking and instant type. Try it for 3 months and you could see the different if your cholesterol level is high due to unhealthy lifestyle and food.

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