General cooking tips

Buying an Oven : If you need to purchase a gas oven or range, look for one with an automatic, electric ignition system. An electric ignition saves gas-because a pilot light is not burning continuously.


Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.


Diet types

The low-cal diet

In simple terms, a low calorie weight loss regime says that if you plan to get rid of some fat, the important thing to eat fewer calories than you need.

So what is a calorie?
The calorie is a unit for measuring food's ability to produce heat and energy. The calorie is the the energy required to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at normal atmospheric pressure. If something contains more calories, then it will gives you a larger amount of energy when eaten.

Foods low in calories include cauliflower, swede, guava, steaks and burgers, and low-fat cheese.













Bread, Zucchini Recipe
Bread, Zucchini Category Bread Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

1 1/2 cups sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

3 cups flour

1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon salt

3 whole eggs -- well beaten

1 cup oil

1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla

2 cups zucchini -- grated

With electric mixer, combine first seven ingredients. Then add eggs, oil, vannilla, and zucchini. Mix well.

Divide mixture into 2 greased loaf pans and bake at 325 degrees for approx. 1 hour or until toothpick inserted at center comes out clean.

Cool on rack. Can be frozen if required.

 
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