Learning to handle food
Preparing food for our family is a very important challenge. Often times people don’t have the experience or the knowledge cooking and they only start to imitate some other family member and little by little they gain experience. But sadly we don’t give ourselves the time to learn from other people how to handle and care for food, because the majority of the time the people that we saw cooking also didn’t know.
The handling and care of food is as important as good nutrition because our hygiene while preparing food impacts our family and keeps them from getting sick by eating bacteria from some source that we may have caused.
We need to wash our hands before cooking or every time we take a different product, that is to say, if we touch raw meat we need to wash our hands when we stop preparing it. Or sometimes we are also not careful when we cut ingredients that we are going to use because we use the same cutting board, so we cut meat and then we cut garlic, onion, and the rest of the vegetables. Today we invite you to check that or those cutting boards in your kitchen and verify that they are not a source of contamination. If it’s very old and dirty then please substitute it and that way you’ll avoid disease.
This is a recommendation from the Health Promoters at El Centro Inc. Visit us at 650 Minnesota Ave. Kansas City, Kansas, and 500 E. Santa Fe Ave. Olathe, Kansas. Our phone number is 912-677-1000.
