{"id":740,"date":"2009-02-12T13:21:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T19:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/wordpress\/?p=740"},"modified":"2013-08-23T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T14:38:12","slug":"cooking-with-carbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/nutrition-2\/cooking-with-carbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking With Carbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whole wheat pasta, wild rice and legumes.\u00a0 These are all very healthy additions to our everyday meals.\u00a0 Many people stay away from these items, not because they do not like them, but because they do not know how to prepare them correctly.\u00a0 Others do not know how to figure cooked amounts.\u00a0\u00a0 For example-what is a serving of rice, and how much uncooked rice will serve a certain amount of family members?\u00a0 I know that I have overestimated how much rice or pasta to make before.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t mind, because I always utilize the leftovers.\u00a0 My problem is not cooking enough.\u00a0 When all of the spaghetti is dished out, and I am short-there are problems at my house!<\/p>\n<p>To make meal preparation easier, I have put together a cheat sheet on <a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/starch-cookery.doc\">starch-cookery<\/a>.\u00a0 It includes amounts to serve and preparation instructions.\u00a0 The chart includes choosing potatoes, cooking rice, beans, grains and pasta.\u00a0 I hope you are able to utilize this sheet, and include more whole grains into your everyday diet!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px; border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Rice\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/shawneewinetrail.com\/images\/JanFeature_08\/rice.jpg\" width=\"122\" height=\"125\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are a few websites you may want to visit for further information and recipes for these carbohydrate foods.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Betty Crocker's Pasta 101\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bettycrocker.com\/how-to\/cooking-basics\/pasta-rice-beans\/Pasta-101.htm?WT.mc_id=paid_search_phase2_08&amp;WT.srch=1&amp;esrc=335\" target=\"_blank\">Betty Crocker&#8217;s Pasta 101<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 15px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.finecooking.com\/articles\/how-to\/cook-rice-perfectly.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">How to Cook Rice Perfectly <\/a><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">from Fine Cooking<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idahopotato.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Idaho Potato Association<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whole wheat pasta, wild rice and legumes.\u00a0 These are all very healthy additions to our everyday meals.\u00a0 Many people stay away from these items, not because they do not like them, but because they do not know how to prepare them correctly.\u00a0 Others do not know how to figure cooked amounts.\u00a0\u00a0 For example-what is a serving of rice, and how&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/nutrition-2\/cooking-with-carbs\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[790,780],"tags":[128,129,130,131,132,133],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i","category-nutrition-2","tag-beans","tag-legumes","tag-pasta","tag-potatoes","tag-rice","tag-starch-cooking","cat-790-id","cat-780-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/legumes.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8683,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/8683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}