Low-fat Ingredient Substitutions
Recipes and Health FactsEat healthier, live longer, but don’t give up the taste! Let’s face it most of us regardless of how health conscious we are LOVE food. It seems that the better the food tastes the worse it is for you, but not any more! Today you can start making these healthy substitutions and you can’t tell the difference. So maximum benefit and maximum flavor with these Low-fat Ingredient Substitutions that taste great!
We’ve all seen the labels, Low Fat that and Reduced Fat that. If you are like me then you turn your nose at them thinking they must taste terrible! While this is sometimes true there a lot of these products are well worth the try since taste loss is minimal. But what if you are cooking at home? How do you cut down on the fat so your training efforts don’t go to waste? Well this list should help you out. I started compiling it when my mother starting baking with Apple Sauce instead of Oil! That substitution didn’t make any sense but it really works and tastes great to boot! So here is the list I have compiled so far…if you know of one we’re missing, please share it as a comment to this post!
- Bacon
- Canadian bacon,
- turkey bacon or
- lean ham
- Butter
- Reduced-calorie margarine,
- margarine made with safflower,
- soybean, corn, canola, or peanut oil
- Chocolate, unsweetened (1 oz)
- 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa plus 1 tablespoon margarine
- Cream Cheese
- Nonfat or light process cream cheese,
- NeufchΓ’tel cheese
- Egg (per egg)
- 1/4 cup egg substitute or 2 egg whites
- Fudge Sauce (do you really need this one?)
- lowfat chocolate syrup
- Ground Beef
- ground turkey
- Ice Cream
- Nonfat or lowfat frozen yogurt,
- sherbet or sorbet
- Oil
- Apple Sauce,
- safflower,soybean, corn, canola, or peanut oil in reduced amount
- Shortening
- soybean, corn, canola, or peanut oil in amount reduced by one-third
- Sour Cream
- yogurt
- Whipped Cream
- Whipped evaporated skimmed milk (chilled)
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I have to agree with you on the bacon, but once you get use to it the turkey bacon is pretty good. Keep smiling! π
As you know I love food, and substitutions can quite often make something good -believe it or not quite often Better! But when it comes to bacon, nothing beats thick cut smoked pork bacon! π My goal is to defeat my family history and live to a ripe old age and see my children grow up into adults so for the time being I will enjoy the apple smoked turkey bacon and I will do it with a SMILE.