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Fresh ingredient, cooking starts in the grocery store.<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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When it comes to cooking, it all comes down to what you have to start out!<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Start out fresh<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
F<\/b>resh ingredients: better to work with, easier to prepare, better taste and most of all, best for your health! <\/div>\n
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Look for freshness<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
W<\/b>hen grocery shopping, while there are great efforts to keep things fresh, the freshness of those grocery items: produce, seafood and other meat are hard to come by.<\/div>\n
But with a keen eyes and knowledge of the ingredient, you can pick the best of the best out of the batch.<\/p>\n

The following are some of the keys to look for:<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
P<\/b>roduce\/Lettuce (bagged) – feel the bulkiness, fuller the better, and also look for rotten leaves which is sign it start to go bad in a few days<\/div>\n
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F<\/b>ish\/meat – Make sure the expiration date is not soon to expire, look for sign of package date and just the general looks: color, luster and shine among other factor (come with experience).<\/div>\n
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F<\/b>ruits – Look for the ripeness: make sure to pick according to your family’s consumption habits and timing in which your family starts to eat the fruit.    <\/div>\n
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M<\/b>ilk\/Dairy – Make sure expiration date is good and its refrigerating facility to make sure the grocery story has kept them in a properly cold temperature. <\/div>\n
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C<\/b>ooking oil – Look for the expiration date and the type of the bottle container, preferably, a glass container for the maximum storage and food safety. For Coconut oil, avoid those with dark or brown spots, fresh coconut oil should be really white uniformity throughout!<\/div>\n
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Fresh ingredient, cooking starts in the grocery store. When it comes to cooking, it all comes down to what you have to start out! Start out fresh Fresh ingredients: better to work with, easier to prepare, better taste and most of all, best for your health!  Look for freshness When grocery shopping, while there are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}