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Healthy cooking tips from Diabetes UK - A healthy balanced diet is key to managing diabetes. Diabetes UK share their top tips for adapting recipes, planning ahead and packing a healthy lunchbox. Small changes can make a big difference to the nutritional value of your meals. Diabetes UK share their top healthy cooking tips to help you to make healthier choices and reduce the fat in your favourite dishes. Healthy cooking tips from Diabetes UK [toc heading_levels="3,4,5"] 1. Adapt recipes to be healthier Use less salt in cooking – replace salt with spices, herbs and black pepper Trim any excess fat from meat. Use pulses to replace some red meat in dishes Use low-fat or tomato based sauces for curries and pasta dishes.  Or why not try reduced fat c rème fraîche or natural lower-fat yogurt? Choose lower-fat cheese, cream or milk in recipes Try using dried fruit, a fruit purée or sweet-tasting vegetables like carrots to sweeten cakes naturally or reduce sugar in b...

Top 10 tips for healthy Mexican cooking - Thomasina Miers, co-founder and executive chef of award-winning Mexican restaurant chain Wahaca, shares her top tips for keeping your Mexican dishes authentic and healthy... Top 10 tips for healthy Mexican cooking [toc heading_levels="3,4,5"] 1. Char your salsas The secret to a good salsa is to dry-roast the tomatoes, chillies and onion to get maximum flavour. Other than that no fat is needed in the salsa at all so you can ladle on heat, flavour and a touch of sparkle (and vitamins ) to simple, healthy food.   2. Slow-cook fattier, cheaper cuts When you slow-cook the cheap cuts, an amazing flavour comes from the marbled fat running through the joints. But by slow-cooking meat like this, the fat slowly dissolves in the sauce. If you slow-cook a cheap cut one day and allow to cool, you can spoon off excessive fat the next day, whilst also allowing all the flavours to improve overnight making healthier, better tasting food.   3. A litt...