Home Cooking Fuels Better Health

In today’s fast paced world of work schedules and kids’ schedules it is hard to find time to do home cooking.  However, I challenge you to start cooking in more and eating out less.  In the spirit of the National Nutrition Month® theme “Go Further with Food”, home cooking is a great way to help you and your family to go further in your journey to improved nutritional health and wellness.

When you take time to do more home cooking you enjoy healthier meals. This is due to your control over three key ingredients: salt, saturated fat and added sugars. Restaurants portion sizes are huge and often high in these ingredients.  When you cook at home, you have better control over your portion sizes and your intakes of salt, saturated fats and added sugars.

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