Whole-Food  Plant-Based (WFPB)


WFPB Cooking Techniques

WFPB meals can be as simple or elaborate as you like.

Basic cooking

Shop with Jeff Novick – Full Segment FAST FOOD DVD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXi998JX8YM
This video shows how to buy WFPB packaged foods.

Jeff Novick's Fast Food DVD - Vol. 1 "The Basics"
https://store.vegsource.com/collections/jeff-novick/products/jeff-novicks-fast-food-dvd-vol-1-the-basics
This video shows how to assemble WFPB meals from packaged foods and pre-cut frozen vegetables.

Cooking without oil

The main purpose of cooking with liquid is to conduct heat.

https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2007nl/aug/cookingwithoutoils.htm by Mary McDougall.

  • Browning vegetables
  • Baking without oil
  • Sautéing without oil
  • Choosing cookware

Sweeteners

Fruits are nature's whole-food sweeteners. Mangoes, persimmons, figs, and dates are some of the sweetest fruits.

Dried fruit, like raisins and dried dates, are extra sweet.

McDougall, Ornish, and Thomas Campbell recommend less than 5% of calories from added sugar; and to avoid artificial sweeteners.

These are add sugar and have no fiber. Their calories would displace whole food:

Artificial sweeteners:

low-calorie refined food

Eating small amounts of some low-calorie refined food is OK because it doesn't displace many nutrients. These refined foods have low-calorie density:

  • vegetable stock or broth (0.1 kcal/g)
  • vinegar (0.2 kcal/g)
  • unsweetened plant milk (0.3 kcal/g)

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