Cooking at Home for Better Health

Hello everyone,

Can’t believe it but it is the end of July…summer will be over before we know it. I sat in a meeting this morning about health insurance, cost are rising again…I cannot stress enough, how important it is to take control of your health. You might ask what does that have to do with Viking Range appliances? Well, we need to be cooking more at home, with good seasonal produce, fresh fruit, veggies, fish, and meats, and knowing where they came from. The local farmers markets can be a great source for many of these items.

We are so good at making sure our children and ourselves are busy with working-out, dance, soccer, baseball etc…but with that we have given up on our health in our effort to save time by using the “fast food drive-through”.

It really does not take that much more time to eat healthy. You might even think it will cost more, but that’s not the case either, when you consider how much you spend for little or no nutrition on fast foods, and pre-made foods. Which if you read the labels will contain a lot of things you really don’t want in your body.

You have already heard “You can pay now or pay later”. If you do not take care of yourself now, you will pay for your medical bills later, and they are astronomical. I can’t imagine what they will be in 10 years time. So again I say you need to take control of your health now, which means COOKING AT HOME.

Buy produce and veggies you can get fresh, and what ever bounty you have left over you can freeze… buy organic meats, dairy and eggs locally if you can. Look around see what items you can buy locally; I think you will be surprised we really have a lot in Utah.

I am going to show you some staticis I saw earlier today, it will astound you.

Ill Health is contributed to by:

23% Smoking
30% Cholesterol
30% High Blood Pressure
67% Diabetes
78% Heart Diese
80% Poor Diet

80% POOR DIET

We do have control over this: COOK AT HOME, become healthy, build your family structure, and be happier.

The most important thing that should steer your quest for good taste is seasonality, not low fat, protein to water, vitamins added, or no sugar added, but fresh foods that are in season. If you are using foods that are in season the flavor will be at its best, at its maximum flavor. Summer brings us vine-ripened tomatoes that are full of flavor. The ones you get in the winter are picked green and gassed, the shipped to us tasting like cardboard.

We think of fruits and vegetables as being the only components that grow seasonally, but there are other items. The season for fresh salmon for example, is end of April to September. Even though it is available year round it is best during its season.

When we make a decision to eat seasonally it’s not always about taste, but environmentally, and for health reasons. It’s better to buy locally, than from Mexico with four times the price, not to mention health safety. Cost is reflected in the cost of fuel.

Using the seasons will grow our cravings toward ingredients in the same way we long for shorts after a hard winter, our bodies are telling us what to eat. We need the variety…If you listen to your body it will always tell you what to cook. Getting back to the Viking appliances, at Kimball distributing we cook on these appliances in our showroom and we’re willing to share our ideas and recipes for a healthier life style, even to showing you how to make fast healthy meals, full of nutrients, flavor, and variety.

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