The Best Fats for Cooking
November 18, 2018
Do you know the best types of fat and oils to buy and use for cooking? Many people don’t realize that different oils have different cooking temperatures. Listen in as we discuss the best fats and oils to use for different cooking methods, like sautéing or cooking foods over high heat.
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MARCIE: Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition brought to you by Nutritional Weight & Wellness. This is the Saturday before Thanksgiving, right? So on behalf of Dar and our entire staff at Dishing Up Nutrition and Nutritional Weight & Wellness, I say thank you. We all say thank you. Thank you for listening to our live shows and our weekly show podcasts or taking one or many of our nutrition classes at Nutritional Weight & Wellness. And thank you for making appointments with our nutritionists and dietitians and also for trusting us with your supplement choices. So with you, we want to build a community of like-minded people who believe in nutrition and balanced eating are really the foundation to good health. And you know, Dar started this radio show Dishing Up Nutrition just a few years ago. 15 to be exact. And she had one goal in mind and that was to present information to you, our listeners in a manner you could understand so you could take that information and make positive changes in your own health and your own well-being. And that really is still our goal today. I’m Marcie Vaske and I am a certified and licensed nutritionist and it was this time of year that we had to send in all of my continuing education credits to the board of dietetics and nutrition practice and also had to pay my darn licensing fee again to the state. But now I'm licensed and ready to go, continuing to practice nutrition for just another three years until all that comes to a head again. So yay. I'm glad that's over. So today we have a very educational and rather timely topic. So, especially during the season of cooking, what we want to talk to you today about is the best fats for cooking. And joining me this morning, you already heard her voice is JoAnn Ridout. And JoAnn is a registered and licensed dietitian and she has been for over 30 years. Lots of wisdom, though. I love that. So, last weekend she actually was teaching our Menopause Seminar, which she does a lot. And it's at three times a year. It's a really popular hormone workshop and people love it. The place is full and now she's here with me again today up early to do Dishing Up Nutrition. And what's really important, why I'm happy to have her in studio with me today is that JoAnn loves to cook. I do love to cook. So we have that in common. She cooks for her family and all of her cute little grandchildren that are running around. And I have a question for you, JoAnn. What first came to mind when you learned of the title we were going to do today? The best fats for cooking?
JOANN: Well, the first thought I had was it’s so much fun to cook when you use real fats. It really is, it really enhances the flavor. Everything comes out tasting so good. My family actually eats more vegetables than they used to since I started cooking them in butter. And it's so gratifying to see them eating all their vegetables. And even my three year old granddaughter will take seconds on her green beans. She loves them. So in the past, during those low fat years of nutrition and cooking, we were steaming our vegetables. Oftentimes, people would take a few vegetables but not eat very many because we're just putting maybe some salt on there. It was pretty boring. So, the other thing that came to mind was a lot of people really don't know what oils are the best to use when cooking at different temperatures. And that's an area too where I think the research is changing. And the experts are telling us something that they did differently than they did a few years ago. So we're going to review all of that today. So, I think we should teach the types of fats and oils to buy and use and then we can discuss what oils to use when we're sautéing or when we're cooking foods over higher heat.
MARCIE: Yeah, I think that sounds like a great idea. We'll just kind of first talk in the first part of the show about the good and beneficial fats to use for cooking and then we'll talk about bad fats what to avoid because those damage our cells. And during the last part of the show, we'll invite all of you guys, our listeners out there to call in and ask your questions about any fats, fats and oils.
JOANN: That's right. And so because I do a lot of sautéing of both meat and vegetables, let's start our discussion with the fats and oil to use for sautéing. I'm always looking to bring out the flavor of the meat and the vegetables. So I'm using a variety of fats. So if I'm cooking vegetables for four or five people, I might start with at least two, sometimes three different fats or oils in the pan. I usually use some butter, a couple of teaspoons of butter, a couple teaspoons of coconut oil. I might be using two teaspoons of avocado oil. I don't add olive oil, which is kind of new news for a lot of people. Typically I get busy doing something else so I know that the heat can get too high with olive oil, so I'm really careful about that. So I like to stick with the butter, coconut oil, avocado oil that we can go a little higher with the heat. So, if I'm sautéing carrots and Broccoli and cauliflower together, I might use two teaspoons each of that ghee, coconut oil, avocado oil. Although generally we don't recommend high heat cooking. Even the most stable oils can break down. So all of these oils should hold up under higher heat. They really enhance the flavor of the vegetables.
MARCIE:Yeah, they really do. And so some of those high heat oils, just to recap that quickly, would be the ghee and the coconut oil and then avocado oil, but for all of you out there, not an olive oil. So, let's dig into each of them just a little bit more. If you're sautéing, we want to recommend that combination of fats and oils. So, let's just start out with butter. So, everybody loves butter, right? Especially everybody at Nutritional Weight & Wellness. Well, of course we do. And when we talk about butter, we're talking about grass fed hormone free, which is really going to be best for us. It adds some good richness to our vegetables and like JoAnn said, her granddaughter's even going back for seconds on those things. So, some of the hidden benefits of butter can be it increases our metabolism. It's great for our new brain. It even has a lot of the vitamins and minerals to have good thyroid health. So just really all around we're saying that's a really good place to start.
JOANN: So, if you want to get a little more technical about it, ghee, you heard me mention is clarified butter so you can make it yourself by heating and straining and all of that. But if you don't want to do that you can buy that at Whole Foods or Trader Joe's or some of the co-ops and some of the places that sell more natural foods. So, it's good for high heat. I was actually surprised. I looked up the temperature for ghee and that was the highest of all the temperatures I've found and we can go up to 485 degrees with ghee.
MARCIE: Wow, that's high.
JOANN: So basically because you get those milk solids out, you can heat it even higher than butter. So it is a little expensive if you're buying it. So you could use a couple of teaspoons of ghee, though with a few teaspoons of butter. You still get that great flavor and you still get that great taste. So, it's really good for sautéing vegetables. I especially love to use it in the morning when I'm sautéing some vegetables and then adding eggs and having that for breakfast makes it really good.
MARCIE: Yeah, that sounds delicious. And the next one I want to talk about is coconut oil. I love coconut oil. And coconut oil has kind of gotten a bad rap in the last couple of years or longer, right? And why people are kind of controversial about it is that it has made up of saturated fat. But we know that coconut oil is wonderful because it is saturated fat. That's why we love it. And one reason for that is all of our little cells in our body are made up of fat. Those cell membranes. And half of it is saturated fat. So we want that in our systems. The other great things about coconut oil to remember is that coconut oil's antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and even if taken at high dosages around maybe seven tablespoons a day can actually has been shown to be healthy and people restore their memory. I mean there's no reason not to add some of that into some good cooking. Throw it on your vegetables.
JOANN: A few podcasts back a few years ago we had some podcasts on Alzheimer's disease and how coconut oil can help with that process. So, I think it's just about time for break.
MARCIE: It sure is. So we'll just head right into it. As a parent of twins, I'm always looking for a new healthy snack ideas. So here's one that you might want to try and might enjoy. Take a Wasa cracker or even one of those Wasa gluten free crackers would be fine too. And then I'll spread a little bit of butter, maybe one or two teaspoons on top of it. Throw on some good quality cheese. I know some people really like goat cheese on, but whatever is your favorite. Then just slide it right into your toaster oven and let the cheese melt and then you can either dip it in some like a pizza sauce and you have like little mini pizzas or even just use the sauce on top. So my kids love it. I love it.
JOANN: That's a great snack and we'll be back.
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JOANN: Welcome back to Dishing Up Nutrition. Today we are discussing fats and oils to use in your everyday cooking. So as we're talking about good fats, here's a real easy snack my young granddaughters actually love and it's so simple. So, I take two or three slices of Organic Deli Ham or Turkey. Sometimes even Canadian Bacon works in there. I spread cream cheese on each slice of meat and maybe a little bit of Avocado Mayo. Then I roll them up. One of them loves pickles, so I put a pickle in for one. The other one doesn't like them yet, so she doesn't have a pickle. But I wrap each of them in wax paper with a fun Napkin. My granddaughters love eating those roll ups with fresh blueberries. That's also another one of their favorites. So putting the blueberries and a holiday cup makes it more fun. Also no dishes, then. So I know how important protein and fat is for good brain development. So this snack is a real winner. Sometimes I'm one of them will go to the refrigerator and start grabbing fruit or go to the cupboard and start grabbing raisins. That's when I know it's time to give the little roll up snack because I know they actually need that protein. They're looking for carbs, they're the hungry. Adults generally would like the pickle slices in the roll ups. But you can do it whichever way works best.
MARCIE: So, I think we're going to get back into our fats and we were ending with coconut oil.
JOANN: Yes. So, Marcie went through all the benefits of coconut oil. We were talking about how coconut oil, butter and ghee are all saturated fats and Marcie started to explain that with the cell wall, how those saturated fats make up about 50 percent of our cell wall of the cell membrane. And that helps to keep those free radicals, the viruses, the bacteria, the cancer cells. So it really keeps our immune system strong. They can't get through the cell membrane, then. So, in the past you might've been told to stay away from saturated fats, but we don't tell you that at at Nutritional Weight & Wellness. The bottom line is it saturated fats help to protect ourselves from disease.
MARCIE: That is the bottom line. So eat them and you'll be safer. Okay, so let's go into Lard. And yes, we are telling you to eat lard. A lot of people are like, “Really? You guys have completely lost your mind!” But we haven't. So, where can you buy some lard? You can get it at the Co-ops, maybe Whole Foods, Trader Joe's. Those places are going to have the good lard that you want to be purchasing. And when we're thinking about what I just mentioned, good lard and what I'm talking about is that there's going to be non-hydrogenated lard. But before I get there, people might be wondering, well, what's the difference between lard and Crisco? Well, Crisco is going to be made up of that partially-hydrogenated vegetable oil, which we talk a lot about in our classes, in our counseling, but that is a damage fat. That is the fat that are going to break down our cell membranes. So we don't want that. Lard comes from a pig fat. And what's interesting, just a really quick little interesting fact is that pork makes up about 40 percent of the world's meat production. That's quite a bit. So, when you're looking for what kind of Lard to purchase, you want to be getting lard from pastured pork, not the conventional pork. So that means conventional pork would be pigs raised on GMO grains, which the grains are tainted with that Glyphosphate, which is RoundUp and antibiotic laced foods. So, the conventional-grown or pork is not going to be something you want to look for. You want to look for that pastured pork. And then I mentioned just a little bit earlier, the difference between that hydrogenated and then non-hydrogenated Lard. And what happens is that they will put hydrogen in the Lard and in the hydrogenated Lard they put a lot of it in and it becomes kind of like soft whipped shortening. So it's easier to use in processed foods. And inside of that is then a lot more chemicals that we just don't need. Our body is already taxed on just the toxins in the air sometimes. So we don't need to put anymore in it.
JOANN: So another good healthy fat is bacon. Bacon fat. So everybody loves bacon, right? We recommend bacon that is nitrate free and hormone free. That comes from pigs raised on the non-genetically modified grains, so not raised on corn and I like to save bacon grease to cook eggs and vegetables like Brussels sprouts in the grease. And so that's just one example. My family never would eat Brussels sprouts until I started making them with the bacon grease. It's Yummy. And if you really want to do a good number on them, you can top it off with some crumbled bacon when you're serving it. And it tastes so yummy.
MARCIE: Just delicious. Easy too. I mean, real food is easy. That's what we always try to tell everyone. So, where can we get some good bacon from? We want to get bacon from, again, those pastured pigs, not caged pigs. So because again, kind of going back to what they're eating, what happens is that when they’re eating that GMO corn, soy or wheat, those types of corn and soy is going to be filled with toxins and those toxins get stored in their fat. And if we're cooking our bacon down and we save that grease, that means we're just swallowing toxins if we we’re choosing that kind of bacon. So that's where we're always suggesting and recommending that grass fed pork. And another great little tidbit of information about some Bacon and bacon grease is that there's 10,000 more IU’s of vitamin D per tablespoon. That's pretty amazing, isn't it? Yeah, I didn't know that. So, that's pretty cool. Bacon and lard are also made up of 50 percent mono saturated fat. And what was really interesting is that that's the kind of fat that's also in Avocados and olives. And people are like, “Oh, I eat all of us all day long.” And then you say, “Well, have used some bacon grease to cook your eggs in.” And they’re like, “What are you talking about? No way.” But it's no different than eating your Avocados all day long. And one fourth of our cell membranes, kind of going back to that physiological portion is that is made up of mono saturated fats. So again, we need good fats to keep those guys healthy.
JOANN: Yeah. Bacon fat is the best. And sometimes they use that in my breakfast as well. Cook your eggs in it whatever you're doing. So, the other oil I use to cook at a higher temperature is avocado oil. So, that's little bit newer oil on the market. Avocado oil is also high in those mono unsaturated fats and it has a high smoke point. So, that makes it really good for frying. Although we said earlier, we don't really recommend a lot of like deep fat frying, but it's still good for frying when you need that kind of a fat. So, the other thing I want to mention very quickly is avocado mayo because you want to get pure avocado mail without the other oils. There are a few brands on the market that have jumped on the bandwagon with avocado oil and unfortunately when you read the label, first ingredient is soybean oil, second ingredient is canola oil. So those are two negative fats. And then they've got avocado oil in there as well. And they’re calling it avocado oil Mayo. So be careful with that. That's right. I always look at what's really in it.
MARCIE: So, we are going ahead to our second break and you are listening to Dishing Up Nutrition and we are discussing what fats and oils you should use in your home cooking. So as I mentioned earlier, I am a very busy mom of have some cute little twins. So, I'm also looking for shortcuts to save time always. So, particularly in the morning. So, what I like to do is I'll kind of cook up maybe two or three pounds of Bacon at one time and then I'll just store it in some pint jars in the fridge and then when I'm cooking up their breakfast I'll just add in a couple, two or three strips of Bacon and the kids will love it. Easy, makes great protein there in the morning. And so to eat real food we have to plan ahead. Bake it up before you need it. So, especially those bad fats, we don't want them to slide into our meals. So again, we need to plan ahead.
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MARCIE: So, let's get back into our topic today, which is what kind of good fats are good for cooking. So, we're always talking about those good fats as support our healthy cell membranes. So things like butter, ghee, lard, coconut oil, bacon fat, bacon grease. And just to quickly recap on that bacon fat and bacon grease, we want to purchase bacon that's nitrate free. So, if you're out there looking for stuff in the stores, that's what you want to look for. Those key words and also things that are going to support our cell membranes is going to be some good avocado oil. So, they can all be used for frying. And JoAnn mentioned that before break, but it's also better to cook at a low temperature so that the fat doesn't get damaged because we can take these great fats that are so wonderful for us and actually damage them on our very own. So, a great book that will help you understand good fats if you want to kind of dig deeper into some of this is called Nourishing Fats. It’s written by Sally Fallon Morell and she's the president of the Weston A Price foundation. And the Weston A Price foundation is a great source of information in general. So, you can just even start there for sure.
JOANN: That's great. And so we also did an interview with her on our podcast. One of the things I remember about that interview is that Sally had mentioned that people with the highest cholesterol live the longest. Isn't that great? And I know some of our listeners probably heard that statement, but I just thought that is a really good takeaway.
MARCIE: Oh, I think that's very profound. Thanks to Sally Fallon.
JOANN: That's right. So I bet many of you are wondering about olive oil because that's been one of the healthy fats we've talked about a lot over the years. And it is interesting to learn why olive oil can be a problem and this is newer research, but olive oil is great when you're using it cold. But it can oxidize when it's exposed to either heat or light. So, you may wonder what oxidize means. Basically that olive oil reacts to heat and light, it breaks down and forms compounds that are toxic to our cells. So, if you leave the cap off of a bottle of olive oil, it can oxidize over time and it can turn into a damaging fat.
MARCIE: Yeah. So it's very delicate. I always think of olive oil to just be real careful with that. And when you're buying olive oil, you want to make sure it's simply pure olive oil. And many people are just grabbing the olive oil off the shelf, thinking of course this is olive oil. But what happens is that sometimes manufacturers are adding in soy bean or canola oil to it, which then makes it damaged. And so we want to avoid the refined and damaged oils. So what we would direct you more to is California olive oil is usually a safer place to get it from.
JOANN: And so because olive oil is so sensitive to heat, it is best used in low heat cooking, such as sautéing on a very low heat. So, olive oil is also great for salad dressing. Some people make homemade mayo out of it. Also, it is too fragile for high heat. So you should never be using olive oil to fry or for high heat cooking. So, in the resource books I was looking at, it says don't use olive oil over 320, but that's why we talk about low heat because it's pretty hard to know what temperature that oil is. 320 might be just a number, but it is keeping that temperature on low to medium low.
MARCIE: If you see it smoking in your pan, you need to throw that stuff away. So, JoAnn, we actually have a caller. Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition. What do you have to ask us today?
CALLER: Yes, good morning. I'm just wondering. My roommate started buying butter, but they think they have to have real Irish butter. Seems to be a new thing. Is that any different than butter?
MARCIE: Well, what we promote all the time is making sure that it's grass fed butter and so typically that's what we want and one of those Irish butter is going to have some good grass fed stuff in there.
JOANN: Yeah. That Kerrygold brand is pretty popular right now, but that is grass fed, so that's good.
CALLER: Oh, okay. Well thank you.
MARCIE: You're welcome. Thanks for calling. So, let's take a look at maybe some other oils that we consider healthy, but we don't want to use for high heat. And the oils that I'm going to mention now should just be either used at that cold or room temperature. So maybe making salads, maybe making that mayo, that kind of thing. But not necessarily used for cooking. So those oils would look like walnut oil, Macadamia oil, sesame oil, and Tahini, which is sesame seed paste, flax seed oil and even a hemp oil. So those are all going to be good for no heat. So basically just cold or room temperature. And like I mentioned before, they're good for salad dressings, maybe some dipping sauces, or just tossing your fresh vegetables in. Even maybe drizzling some of that over your fruits. People don't think about using oil a whole lot over their fruits, but they can add just a really unique taste and bring out a lot of flavor in the fruit. Maybe mixing it with some herbs, but not for cooking. Exactly. So, Dr. Mark Hyman has a great section on fats to avoid in his book. He's got a good new book out called Food: What the Heck Should I Eat? Which is a pretty good title. We all get pretty confused. We're helping to clarify, but so many people are confused. There's so much information. So here's a very extensive list of oils we should avoid. First of all, soybean oil. Generally, it is a refined and damaged oil. So, meaning, it's been heated pretty high. And you're going to find that in so many products. So, I'm always telling people, look at the ingredients because they don't realize that the first ingredient is soybean oil.
JOANN: And any salad dressing in a restaurant is going to automatically be soybean oil because that's what the majority of them are in the market. Also, canola oil is one to stay away from. Years ago we were told that was a healthy oil, but that is processed at high heat, another refined and damaged soil. So, in our classes we say if it says unrefined, if it says cold pressed, if it says expeller-pressed, it means that oil has been cold processed and it’s a safer oil.
MARCIE: So, if it doesn't say that, then it is not an oil we want you to be consuming.
JOANN: Exactly. It would have to be labeled as such. So, another damaged oil, corn oil. That's another refined, damaged oil. And it looks like it's time for break. So we're going to come back and continue this list.
So you are listening to Dishing Up Nutrition. If you don't know, next week is Thanksgiving weekend. So, we're going to be replaying a very popular show in the one on macular degeneration with our special guest Dr. Chris Knobbe. And after years and years of research, Dr. Knobbe found eating saturated fats to be the most protective against macular degeneration. Statistics actually say that macular degeneration will significantly increase to epidemic portions in the next two decades. So, could it be from eating all the low fat that we've been coerced into eating? Or is it the low, bad fat eating? Butter, lard, and coconut oil are all productive fats, the ones we've been talking about today over and over. So, maybe it's time we put those back into our diets. And today is a great time to share next Saturday's radio show on macular degeneration with maybe a loved one who might be struggling with that or may be just diagnosed or just anybody who is concerned about that. And we'll be back.
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JOANN: Welcome back to Dishing Up Nutrition. This holiday season. I'd like to suggest a couple healthy fats to put out for your guests. I recommend soaking raw nuts and then slow roasting them. They are so delicious and so healthy. They are so good. I have had to make sure I only make them when I've got guests coming because they're a little too good. So, you can find the recipe on our website. I also put out a large tray of a variety of olives because those are so good too. The special jar of olives or nuts for that matter make a really good hostess gift if you're taking something with you to a holiday gathering. I also have one more recipe you can cook for your guests. Our pork and bacon meatballs. These are real favorite. Your guests will be surprised at how good real food tastes.
MARCIE: They’re gonna wonder, what did you put in them? It's so fun. So, we are going to quickly take a caller. Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition. What is your question?
CALLER: I'm a health coach and my question is related to olive oil versus macadamia nut oil. I had a customer tell me that his wife did not want him to use olive oil and instead to use macadamia nut oil. And I did a little research and I'm wondering if you could speak to, is it the Omega-3 to -6 ratios that are different with those two oils? Why would macadamia nut oil be a better quality?
MARCIE: Well, I'm just wondering if she was thinking just what we were saying earlier about the olive oil being contaminated with canola oil or different kinds of oils and so it was just directing him more toward the macadamia not oil.
CALLER: I looked it up and there's different ratio. I think olive oil was 11 to 1. I can't remember if it was a poly versus mono or was Omega-3 to -6?
MARCIE: Well, I know that the olive oil is high in Omega-9’s, too.
CALLER: 9’s, that's it. So maybe the macadamia has a different profile.
MARCIE: It sure does. It has about 80 percent mono saturated and it is an Omega-9 as well, but the olive oil is 73 percent mono saturated. So, she was just looking more for that higher mono saturated content.
CALLER: Okay. Because it is more expensive. It's hard to find.
MARCIE: But either it would be a good choice. Thanks for calling. That was a great question.
JOANN: So, we were talking before break about the extensive list of oils to avoid. We only got partway through that list. So to recap, we talked about soybean oil being a damaged, refined oil, canola oil, the same. Corn oil, another damaged oil, and then safflower oil. Again, if it just says safflower oil on the label, that's a damaged fat, but safflower mayo is okay. We often recommend the brand Hain. But if the safflower mMayo is made from an unrefined safflower oil, so the label would either say unrefined or cold pressed or expeller-pressed on the label, then that is a safe oil to choose and that is used in making the safflower mayo.
MARCIE: So we just want to look for those key words. If it's just saying safflower oil, stay away. If it says expeller-pressed or cold pressed, good to go.
JOANN: So, we always also get a lot of questions about peanut oil. Peanut oil is on this list of oils to stay away from. So, peanut oil, even though you can cook at a fairly high temp before it starts to break down, the reason it's on this list of oils to avoid is because in recent research, the studies have shown that the lectins in the peanut oil can lead to clogged arteries. So, it is not the healthy fat that we once believed. And this is more new information that has come out in Dr. Mark Hymans book. So again, vegetable oil is often a blend of things like cotton seed oil, which is another damaged fat and canola and soybean and they're all kind of blended and corn oil. It can be a blend, but still damaged fats. Vegetable shortening, same thing. Those damaged fats. And then we add hydrogen atoms to make it a little more solid form so it's easier to use in processed food or pie crust like Crisco. And Crisco’s actually made from cotton seed oil. So a damaged fat. Also we want to stay away from margarine and all the other butter substitutes and anything that says hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated on the label because that is a trans fat and very harmful and damaging.
MARCIE: So, that's the key word there. Hydrogenated, partially hydrogenated. Stay away. And you brought up trans fats and what's awesome is that they were banned earlier this year, June 18th of 2018. So, Hallelujah. Food manufacturers can no longer use those trans fats in our food. So where we were finding them before was in muffins or cakes or cookies, but we assume when she to be cautious because they can still use refined oils. So, refined oils like that soybean oil I was talking about earlier, you're going to find in a lot of processed things. What JoAnn was just saying, the refined corn oil, the refined canola oil and that cotton seed oil. So, those are still damaged fats. And they can still use those, so let's keep our eyes out for that.
JOANN: So, we are now going to be making a new class called Fats and Oils to Use and Fats and Oils to Avoid. Dar and the Nutritional Weight & Wellness staff are putting that class together. And this is a January project. So, we're very excited to be able to offer that class in the new year, 2019. We're just about out of time, but the other thing I thought we should touch on today is using healthy fats in Thanksgiving cooking. So Marcie, earlier I was asking you about what you use for how you make your green beans.
MARCIE: So, we were just sharing some recipes and I take the fresh green beans and then I'll steam them or sauté them actually in some coconut oil and then put some yummy bacon right in there. And even maybe use a little of the bacon grease just to add that extra good taste and flavor. So, they’re tasty.
JOANN: And that sounds so much better than the mushroom soup recipe.
MARCIE: I know. And the friend onion deal. That’s bad. No more.
JOANN: I do a sweet potato recipe. I love sweet potatoes. So, for this recipe I'm going to mash it. So I generally steam those sweet potatoes. Actually, I use my pressure cooker for that because it goes quicker. But, then I mash those sweet potatoes with coconut oil and ghee, along with a little bit of coconut milk, top it with Pecans and coconut on top.
MARCIE: Oh, yum. That sounds delicious. Well, we are about out of time. Our goal at Nutritional Weight & Wellness is to help each and every person experience better health through eating real food. It's a simple, yet powerful message. Eating real food is life changing. Thank you for listening and have a great and happy thanksgiving.
