5 tricks to cook like your mother

When we live and work far from our home or we can not go home to eat, it is when we miss our mother's food. These dishes made with natural ingredients that we like so much can be recovered in a much easier way than it seems, without having to spend much time in the kitchen, applying these tricks to cook like your mother.

Eating out is the daily bread for many Spaniards, since according to the latest survey data, in Spain 6 out of 10 people declare that they eat away from home nowadays. That does not mean that most of them do it in public establishments such as restaurants and bars, since a large majority eat tupper. Therefore, planning the menus for the whole week and taking good example of the good habits of our mothers to cook healthier and prepare and plan family meals are now the best way to maintain a balanced diet and, above all, enjoy the kitchen .


How to cook homemade food from before without effort

Amortize your time in the kitchen

If we do not have time to cook, the best trick to enjoy a balanced diet is to be efficient preparing the weekly menus. In the planning lies the success so that every day we put in our mouth the necessary food to be healthy and not repeat the same preparations.

Use practical and modern kitchenware

Another trick of breast to save time in the kitchen is to use practical utensils such as the espresso pot, which allow cooking in a healthy and fast way. Today we also have robots, which save us a lot of preparation time, ovens with thermostat that avoid that we have to be aware of the time ... that can help us a lot to cook in a healthy and effective way. In addition, having food stored at home for the whole week, both in the fridge and in the freezer, also avoids the temptation to eat out.


Know the value of fresh products

The added value of an elaborated dish is based on a quality raw material. Mothers have always opted for fresh and seasonal products buying fresh products such as fruits and vegetables in markets or weekly markets.

Camouflage the vegetables

Vegetables are very important in food as they are a source rich in fiber, vitamins and minerals and yet they are also the most rejected by the palate of children. A good mother trick to prevent children from rejecting vegetables in the dish is to camouflage them. How? The vegetables can be covered by making soft creams with cheese, inside croquettes, lasagna ... or preparing a béchamel sauce. That way you'll get more appetizing and hard-to-refuse vegetable dishes.

Bet on the table


Despite eating at the office, avoid eating and running. A desktop chat with coworkers has great benefits and also emotionally feeds a healthy and satisfying meal. The value of the family meals that we have shared at home with our parents can now be transferred to the office with the tupper and coworkers.

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