Check out videos for these basic cooking skills, to help you get more handy in the kitchen.

It'll give you a head start at enjoying the taste of eating right!

For food preparation tips to work with less common but healthy foods,

check out the "Kitchen Clips" series of videos from the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics.  

Learn how to…

• Cut a pineapple?  

• Drain tofu?  

• Mix oil into natural peanut butter? 

• Shave brussel sprouts?

Additional "How do I...?" series videos, along with other nutrition topics from the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics' EatRightTV YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/user/EatRightTV/videos), are:

Learn how to...

• Store herbs and spices?   

• Roast garlic?  

• Mash tofu?   

• Flip a pancake?   

• Cut an avocado?  

• Broil fish?  

• Segment citrus fruit?   

• Strip kale?   

• Seed a tomato?  

• Pick the right knife?  

• Pick an avocado?  

• Not cry when cutting onion?   

• Mince garlic?  

• Maintain a cutting board?  

• Dice an onion?  

• Cut mango?  

• Cut fennel?  

• Core an apple?    

• Cut onion?

• Julienne vegetables?

• Peeling squash

• Homemade stock

• Separating eggs

• Toasting nuts

• Cleaning fruits and vegetables   

• How to use a food thermometer   

   

A complete library of videos are available on the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics' website http://www.eatright.org/kitchenclips/ and EatRightTV YouTube channel www.youtube.com/user/EatRightTV/videos