Can you remember the days when Grandma or Mom used a pressure cooker to prepare yummy meals? Many believe those days are gone. With today’s modern pressure cookers, a family can enjoy succulent, delicious and nutritious meals in a fraction of the time it would take to boil, bake, slow cook or microwave those favorite recipes.

Pressure cooking uses the steam from the liquids used in your favorite recipes. This allows the vitamins and nutrients to be preserved in the food instead of being “cooked out” as they are in traditional methods of cooking. Because pressure cooking reduces the amount of cooking time by up to 10 times, pressure cooking is a lot healthier and faster than running out to a fast food joint.

Fresh and natural foods instead of packaged or processed foods are used when preparing meals with a pressure cooker. Not only is using natural foods for meals, opposed to process or packaged, healthier it also saves money on the grocery bills every month. Eating natural foods gives us more energy, less weight gain, lower sodium and lower cholesterol levels as well. Choosing what goes into the pressure cooker means more control over the amount of salt and other ingredients added to meals.

Using recipes that are low in fat, salt and carbohydrates are easy to do in a pressure cooker. They come out tasting delicious. More delicious than if baked, boiled or prepared in the microwave. Most tend to make more vegetables when using a pressure cooker because it is easy, efficient and pressure cooking gives vegetables, frozen or raw, a flavor that most have never experienced. Many prefer vegetables without butter or salt when cooking them in a pressure cooker! Think of all the health benefits in that alone.

An added health benefit to using a pressure cooking is to make some of your favorite desserts in a pressure cooker. That’s right! Use a pressure cooker to make desserts like homemade applesauce, cheesecake, pumpkin pie, and cinnamon and apple flan w/ maple syrup. You can choose the ingredients that go into your dessert to make them more nutritious for you and your family.