-I'm 18 and my parents are away a lot so theres no one to cook. I want to eat healthier foods but I don't know how to cook or what to cook. I just no nothing about cooking and I eat out all the time and it's just waste of money. Can someone please give me tips on how to cook for myself. What to cook and how not to spend a fortune on it. Please I really am so sick of eating out and eating unhealthy, processed foodsWell, the best way is to read a beginner's cookbook. Jean Pare makes excellent cookbooks for cooks at any level, and also has some recipes online. Or just read recipes online if you don't want to buy one. Get a grip on the basic concepts, like how to tell when your food is done (generally, vegetables should be tender-crisp, starchy vegetables [like potatoes] tender, meats should have the correct internal temperature [and/or juices run clear when pierced], that kind of thing), what different techniques do for your foods (like, cooking low and slow to make tough food more tender, browning foods to get more flavour, chopping to uniform sizes to ensure uniform cooking time, etc.), and how different flavours interact (what spices go well with which foods, which foods pair well, what drinks taste right with those foods -a lot of that can be trial and error and personal taste).
As for what to cook/buy -well, what do you like? If you want to eat healthier, one of the best pieces of advice I can give is to stick to the 'outer' aisles in the store -most stores, the outer aisles are the more 'whole' foods, your vegetables, fruit, grains, meats, and dairy, and the aisles closer to the center are much more processed. Since the people who make those foods want to do it as cheaply as possible, but still have the foods be flavourful so you'll buy them, they tend to fill them with fat and salt, since that's an easy, cheap way to add flavour. However it's much healthier to add flavour with herbs and spices and better cooking methods -like braising in wine adds incredible rich flavour and generally makes for lovely texture as well. Also, buying foods less processed generally makes it far less expensive, when you consider the unit price.
Here are a few sites with recipe databases -the first is specifically for weight loss/health foods and includes full nutritional info per serving with each recipe
www.sparkrecipes.com
www.canadianliving.com
www.allrecipes.ca
www.cookingnook.com
http://www.foodnetwork.ca/recipes/index.鈥?/a>
Good luck!Try allrecipes.com
read down the recipes and decide which ones you could
comfortably do.Nevermind if they come out wrong we
all have to start somewhere. Practice makes perfect.
Once you have mastered a couple of dishes you could
even suprise your parents on their return with a delicious
meal....
Good luck and happy eating
I've written a lot on this topic before (learning to cook, eating cheap, eating healthy, and also shopping for foods and planning meals, etc) so just check out some of those previous answers gathered here--especially toward the beginning:
http://dianebcooking.blogspot.com
HTH!
A good way to start is by reading a beginner's cookbook:
http://www.amazon.com/Clueless-Kitchen-C鈥?/a>
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580085鈥?/a>
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743250鈥?/a>
Go to your local library, they'll have books on cheap eating for students. Buy all your fruit and veg in a street market, you get much more for your money. Buy all your meat in halal butcher shops, they're always much, much cheaper.
well there is youtube videos of how to cook, and well u have to buy the ingredients
start with eggs thats wat everybody does
also salads bake potatoes, corn
rice is more of a medium lever
get cooking procedure on internet by googling
Get a man and cook for him.
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