Good piece!
A start to healthy living begins with your grocery list, what to buy and where.

I no longer take mass-produce poultry, the likes from our super market, its either Ayam Kampung or nothing at all. The one brand of Ayam Kampung that I trust is Azzain's (www.azzain.com). Apart from not using anti-biotic and also using chemical feeds, growth hormones etc, I also the the owner personally. He is a social activist on healthy eating, chemical free farming etc.

There's also a tv series on Astro just to show you the dangers of eating chicken with all of the hormones used.

Next is, I look out for wholemeal, brown sugar or any other food that has gone through less process. Organic is even better.

The Malaysian government is yet to come out with a 'Healthy Food Approval Label' unlike the Singapore government. So, I try my best, when buying Brown Rice or even Almond, to buy the ones with this logo.



Cooking?
Oh, this is so much fun.
Tons of recipes to try out from Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Kraft's food website, Food Network etc.

Yes, I also attended cooking classes before, but most of the cooking classes here in Malaysia is not healthy cooking focus.
The instructor still insist in using peanut oil, lotsa salt, refined sugar, refined flour etc.
So, a lil' creativity is required into pimping the recipe to make it healthy.

I've managed to pimp a chewey choco chip cookie, using whole meal flour, dark chocolates, brown sugar etc.
Taste good, without or less of refined ingredients.