Using Great Tasting Substitutes To Reduce Fat In Your Diet
Here are some great substitutes so you can make your favorite foods without all the fat and calories! Think about all of the recipes passed generation after generation that are so great tasting but they use cream, shortening, and other very unhealthy ingredients. Sometimes I feel guilty when I just read the recipes!
Believe it or not it is easy to make healthy recipes out of unhealthy recipes.
1. Substitute eggs with just egg whites and egg substitutes.
Generally replace one egg with two egg whites in most recipes. Check the packaging on the egg substitutes for exchange rates.
2. Alter the sugar amount in your recipes and use sugar substitutes.
You can easily lower the calories and carbohydrates by reducing the amount of sugar in the recipe. You can easily decrease the sugar, without altering the taste, up to 1/3 in some recipes. You can also use a non-calorie sugar substitute like Splenda. In most cases Splenda is measured in equal amounts when replacing sugar. Experiment to determine the best quantity if a different sugar substitute is used.
3. Make your baked foods more healthy by using whole wheat flour.
Replace half the traditional white flour with healthy whole wheat flour. You won’t notice the difference in the taste. The nutritional benefits are added fiber and quite possibly a reduced risk of heart attack and stroke.
4. Use healthier ingredients to replace the heart unhealthy fats.
Up to half of the butters, shortening, and oils can be replaced with heart friendly pureed applesauce or banana. If the recipe needs 1/2 cup cooking oil, use 1/4 cup pureed applesauce and 1/4 cup canola oil. The food will still be moist but will be much lower in fat.
5. Get rid of your unhealthy oils and replace them with healthy oils.
Use a heart healthy oil. Think vegetable oils. Olive oils are extremely healthy, but Canola oil th the lowest saturated fat of most of the oils that are available at the supermarket.
6. Use low or nonfat milk as a substitute for whole milk.
Why not get rid of the dairy all together. Many people are lactose intolerant and can’t have some foods because of the dairy content. There are many lactose free milks. Soy milk can be used in equal quantities to dairy milk. Soy milk is made from soybeans and is very healthy. It also comes in chocolate, so you can have a healthy chocolate milk. Soy milk cooks and bakes very well. Rice milk, almond milk and oat milk are also low and nonfat
alternative.
7. Consider reduce the amount of some of the higher caloried ingredients.
If your chocolate chip cookie recipe calls for 2/3 cup of walnuts use 1/2 cup. This won’t really change the basic recipe and they will still be great tasting cookies.
8. Get rid of unneeded ingredients.
Downright eliminating unneeded ingredients can really save you those extra calories. Perhaps you aren’t fond of some of the ingredients of the recipe. Eliminate them altogether and you have saved yourself calories of food that you don’t even like in the first place.
Try some healthy food substitutions and you can enjoy all of your favorite foods without any of the guilt!
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