Reinventing Comfort Foods
Does eating healthy demand a fond farewell to comfort foods? Not if you follow these simple rules!
Sure it’s hard to imagine life without Mom’s homemade mac and cheese but with a few simple fixes you can put that recipe (and many more goodies) back on the menu without a pang of guilt.
Test out these lower calorie tricks on America’s most popular comfort meals. Chances are you won’t even taste the difference.
- Mac and Cheese: Home recipes call for about a pound of cheese. Try recreating your favorite recipe with reduced fat cheese, whole wheat pasta and skim milk.
- Meatloaf: Mix it up with ground turkey instead of ground beef. AllWhites® and fat-free milk cut calories nicely.
- Fried Chicken: Remove the skin, dip in skim milk and Better’n Eggs®. Coat with bread crumbs. Spray a baking sheet with olive oil and cook at 425°F. Hot ovens simulate frying – crispy outside, juicy inside.
- Fish and Chips: Skip the deep fat frying and toss out that high fat batter. Dip fish in a mixture of fat-free AllWhites® and skim milk, then roll in bread crumbs. Thin slice potatoes, season liberally and drizzle with olive oil. Bake fish and chips in a 400°F oven.
Fill your kitchen with the wonderful aroma of apples, onions, raisins and curry roasting in the oven. Turkey meatloaf tastes terrific with half the fat of its calorie-laden cousin.
Click here for recipe: South African Curry Mini Turkey Loaves
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