Hidden Added Calories

Every time you cook or eat out you have to keep in mind all the extra calories the seasoning they use to make you food taste so yummy, that done of butter or seasoning. They bring you out chips and salsa, or bread and butter, yummy doesn’t that taste good but before your dinner has arrived you have eaten about 5 to 600 calories already. Now it’s time for dinner. Restaurants use a lot of butter and extra olive oil to boost the flavor and they are both high in calories. Yes olive oil is healthy and calories are two different things. So keep this in mind as you cook and pick at you cooking before the meal. Try to stay with grilled or oven baked. Also what I do is put some lemon, garlic and natural seasoning to fish, chicken and different meats and fold them individually into aluminum foil and the flavor bakes in making a wonderful flavor. Easiest way to check the calories, almost every food has the calories intake right on the label. Keep an eye on this it can save you from eating a lot of unwanted calories.  When you do go out to eat most restaurants cook to order ask if it is possible to use less butter and oil. If that is impossible most menu also offer low calorie meals. Keeping your calories intake in mind will train you to see what you are eating and exactly how much is really going in your mouth…that shouldn’t. Barbara Jeanne xo