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Free meal planning tips for basic health, fitness and nutrition. Follow basic healthy cooking tips and learn to create your own healthy diet meal plan.

1. Eat fruits and vegetables at all meals
2. Drink plenty of water
3. For the benefits of vitamin d and calcium, eat a dairy product with every meal
4. Focus your consumption of meats to the less fatty varieties of beef and pork
5. Eat fish two times per week
6. Eat low fat cooking (see: health smart cooking for easy low fat recipes)
7. Follow a low salt diet. Do not add salt before tasting food and limit salt added to cooking
8. Moderate your consumption of fried foods (there are no light oils)
9. Avoid snacking (or eat healthy weight loss snacks)
10. Limit consumption of sweets

Lean and tender turkey is an economical family meal that’s not only great for Thanksgiving holiday recipes and Christmas holiday recipes but can be served all year round. Safe turkey cooking tips begin with removing the turkey neck and giblets. Rinse off the turkey both inside and out with cold running water and pat dry with paper towels. Trim off any excess neck skin and lumps of fat.

Recipe for Cooking Turkey Tips

Quick and healthy cooking tips for roasting a turkey in the oven:

• Preheat the oven to 325°F before cooking the turkey.
• Lightly spoon the stuffing into the turkey. Do not pack the turkey stuffing too tightly.
• After stuffing, close the turkey by tucking the drumsticks under the turkey skin across the tail end of the bird.
• Roast the the turkey for 15-17 minutes per pound. Plan for turkey cooking times of at least three hours for a 10-pound bird.
• Cover the turkey breast with aluminum foil to prevent the breast meat from becoming over-brown.
• Baste the turkey every 30-35 minutes with the turkey juices from the bottom of the roasting pan.
• After roasting, let the turkey stand on your carving board for 15 minutes before carving.