When low calorie foods are mentioned, the common line of thinking is that these healthy foods are high on health value but low on flavor. The way to get low calorie foods that taste great is through light calorie cooking. Here are a few tips that could help you on your next light calorie cooking escapade – it’s about keeping the calories low without sacrificing flavor.
Using Margarine Instead Of Butter
More and more cookbooks now give you the option in certain recipes to use butter or margarine to prepare a meal. You will do good to use margarine in your recipe of choice instead of butter, as you would be reducing the caloric content significantly without scrimping on taste. Most people won’t be able to distinguish whether you used margarine or butter, which is the main reason why margarine is such a great choice – that and its low caloric content. So if you see a nice recipe in a magazine or cookbook, and have the choice to use butter and margarine, go with the latter at all costs and make the right and healthy decision. You don’t sacrifice on taste and neither do you add to your waistline!
Splenda ™ As An Alternative Sweetener
A second tip that could help you reduce the caloric content of the meals you cook is to use Splenda ™ as a sugar substitute. Splenda ™ is the most common brand of sucralose, a sugar alternative only approved for sale in the late ’90s. Not only is this ingredient low in calories but it is great tasting as well. Splenda ™ is also good to use if you’re baking because the heat won’t affect its taste, allowing you to retain flavor in your baked foods. For these reasons among others, you can use Splenda ™ as your sugar alternative if you’re cooking a recipe that needs some sugar in it. The only difference you may notice would be in the caloric content, and definitely not in the taste.
These are just two ways among many others that could help you cook light calorie meals that retain their great taste without having you risk gaining some excess weight.
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