2010 is here, and I know a lot of people make losing weight a New Years' Resolution. I promised myself that I was going to get healthy, not just lose weight this year.
You know the way most Americans eat is unhealthy. My fiancee has a lot of recipe books. I thumb through them, and I could not find one healthy recipe.
So I started looking for ways to make things healthier. I use Stevia instead of sugar, Splenda, Sweet N Low, or Equal. It is a natural sweetener that does not affect your insulin levels. I use Smart Balance Buttery Spread. It is rich with Omega-3s. It is non-hydrogenated. Using Smart Balance instead of other buttery spreads and butter can improve you Cholesterol.
I use Smart Balance Peanut Butter, too. It has Flax Seed Oil. It has not hydrogenated oil in it. It also has 1000mg of Omega-3s per serving. It has no refined sugar either. Omega-3s helps reduce inflammation, helps prevent cancer cell growth, and so much more.
I was looking through some recipes, and I want to put a couple here to show you how much they changed. I like ranch dressing. We all know how fattening ranch dressing is. It is also bad for your cholesterol. I mixed 2 ranch packets, with fat free sour cream, and skim milk. It taste just like Hidden Valley Ranch. When I mixed just one of the packets it did not taste as good. Regular ranch dressing has around 14-18 grams of fat per serving, which is 2 tablespoons. Newman's Ranch dressing has 30 grams a fat per serving. So, try that recipe it has no fat, and you will not believe how good it tastes.
I wanted to put a dessert recipe to show how small changes can mean a lot to your healthy eating lifestyle. On Thanksgiving and Christmas, my family expects me to make a Dirt Cake. Here are the ingredients: Oreo Cookies, milk, cream cheese, cool whip, vanilla pudding, vanilla flavoring, and power sugar. I bought the fat free Oreos, skim milk, fat free cream cheese, fat free cool whip, sugar free pudding, and Stevia. I buy my Stevia in liquid form at the health food store. When I made it this year, it was a lot healthier. You can tell by my ingredients. I enjoyed the holidays but we also made everything a lot healthier.
Our macaroni and cheese was made with light cheese, instead of the full fat. No one could tell. A lot of people think if you eat healthy that the food will taste bad. It does not. I will say this, I do not use the fat free cheeses for recipes. It does not seem to melt as good, and it is kind of chewy.
I will do more articles later on making more recipes healthier.
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