Many people these days want to control their diets so they are eating low calorie foods, but low calorie foods that still taste great. However, you may want to consider working on your light calorie cooking as a fix to the flavor problem. There are a few tips to consider when embarking on light calorie cooking adventures where the calories are low but the taste is high.
Margarine As Opposed to Butter
If you open up your cookbook, you’ll notice that there are many recipes that give you the choice of using either butter or margarine to cook with. This is a good development, because the use of margarine instead of butter allows you to retain the taste while reducing calories. It is very hard to tell the difference between margarine and butter that is used in cooked foods and since margarine is lower in calories it is a great substitute. 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. The taste will remain great and it won’t affect 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 made up of sucralose, which was only recently approved for sale. It retains the sweet taste of sugar without increasing caloric content. Splenda is also a wonderful ingredient to use in baked foods as it is heat stable and there is no real loss of the substance during cooking. That said, Splenda ™ is the best cooking alternative if you need to cook a recipe that has sugar as a primary or secondary ingredient. 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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