Food and Nutrition
Doesn’t always go together.
Since I’ve been cooking for the family, I’ve been so much more aware of nutritional values. Everytime i’m at the supermarket, you’ll see me scrutinising at the Nutrition Fact section of every product i pick up. How much Sodium? Trans Fat? Sugar? Coz No Added Sugar doesn’t mean no sugar. Preservatives? I take a really really long time to pick up stuff, esp for Sophie.
I’m learning A LOT about food. It’s really scary what goes into our diet nowadays. Everything is loaded with salt and preservatives.
If I’m cooking, I try to cook without salt as much as possible. Just a bit for taste. Recently I’ve taken to making my own stock. It’s so yummy. I use it for Sophie’s porridge and dishes BUT i always steal her food coz it’s just SO YUMMY! I’ve also taken to VEGGIES! Yes Ai Ling eats veggies now! With joy! It’s all because of Sophie. When she started eating solids, we are to introduce each veggie one by one so I got to taste each veggie for its original taste – without butter/salt/oil etc. So yummy! I started experimenting with different veggies cooked different styles using stock/herbs instead of the idiot proof oyster sauce or salt.
My aim is to ultimately prepare/cook all the stuff we eat including snacks and drinks SO THAT i can to some extend control the nutritional value of our diet. I hope lah… in my ideal world. Maybe in 10 years. Heh heh… I keep looking at the Amabel Karmel cookbooks and wish it’ll come alive. Hahaha…. Slowly but surely….
