If you're used to frozen meals and fast food, it is unlikely you will achieve a healthy lifestyle unless you change your eating habits. You don't need any special cooking skills to prepare fast and healthy delicious meals. All you need to know is what healthy methods of cooking you can choose instead of frying. Healthier methods of cooking require little or no oil. Some methods include roasting, steaming, stir-frying, poaching and stewing. These cooking techniques are easy to learn and to use. Make sure to only use healthy unsaturated oils, such as olive, peanut, canola or sunflower oils. Lots of the above-mentioned cooking methods can be used for cooking meat, poultry or fish together with vegetables, which makes your food tastes delicious and doesn't require a lot of cleaning afterwards.