Healthy food substitutes

[In58men]

I'm hoping this thread can help those who are trying to better themselves. Please share some healthy food substitutions if you have any. Thank you.

1. Replace mayo and sour cream with plain Greek yogurt. Use Greek yogurt with your tuna, egg salads and chicken salads.

2. Use cauliflower instead of potatoes when wanting mashed potatoes. Steam the cauliflower and blend with a pinch of salt and pepper. Be careful with the butter. Also cauliflower makes a great pizza crust.

3. Try to use jelly instead of syrup and butter when eating pancakes.

4. Use oatmeal as binder instead of breadcrumbs when making meatloaf, hamburgers, meat balls etc etc.

5. Use unsweetened applesauce for a GREAT substitute for butter. Don't knock it until you've tried it. It has the exact same consistency and texture as butter.

[Simply Red]

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

It does. But pineapple is basically a citrus (I know it's not technically, but it's very similar).

Love some fresh pineapple.

[BucEyedPea]

Because he asked.

Sweet sorghum syrup
Talks about it's cultivation in the U.S.

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

It does. But pineapple is basically a citrus (I know it's not technically, but it's very similar).

Interesting.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by Simply Red

You seem like a pleasant individual.

Thank you, that was very nice of you to say! Have you tried it? I have yet to meet a squash I didn't like to eat. There are a couple I haven't tried, acorn squash being one of them.

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

They have a tool that's under 15 Bucks at Walmart that allows you to shed spaghetti squash just like spaghetti noodles. Try it as a substitute to pasta the next time you cook. I'll bet you love it.

Really? I'll have to check that out. I have no trouble roasting it by halving it and it easily shreds with a fork. But I do love kitchen gadgets.

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Thanks! Nope, no Mellow Mushroom although I had a California Pizza Kitchen Gluten free pizza last week. The toppings were excellent but the crust was just really bad. I've become somewhat of a NY Pizza-style pizza snob, so it was just inedible.

But I'd imagine that with the huge marketplace for gluten free products, the options will only increase and probably rather quickly.

Some do make a lousy crust. The place near me did at first but perfected it. It's really good. But my SO thinks my crust is better. Mine is thin.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by Simply Red

Love some fresh pineapple.

When Mrs. FMB! and I went to Hawaii last year, we went to the Dole plantation on the next to last day...

This year, we'll be going very early in the week and stocking up on fresh fruit for the week.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

Really? I'll have to check that out. I have no trouble roasting it by halving it and it easily shreds with a fork. But I do love kitchen gadgets.

Oh yeah! It's great. Very convenient, and very cheap to purchase.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by Inmem58

I'm hoping this thread can help those who are trying to better themselves. Please share some healthy food substitutions if you have any. Thank you.

1. Replace mayo and sour cream with plain Greek yogurt. Use Greek yogurt with your tuna, egg salads and chicken salads. Did you know the byproduct of making greek yogurt is toxic?

2. Use cauliflower instead of potatoes when wanting mashed potatoes. Steam the cauliflower and blend with a pinch of salt and pepper. Be careful with the butter. Also cauliflower makes a great pizza crust. There is nothing wrong with potatoes unless they are fried. Even then it is the oil that is absorbed.

3. Try to use jelly instead of syrup and butter when eating pancakes. If using true maple syrup there is no benefit here. Jelly is very high in fructose.

4. Use oatmeal as binder instead of breadcrumbs when making meatloaf, hamburgers, meat balls etc etc. Slightly better but not enough to think twice about it.

5. Use unsweetened applesauce for a GREAT substitute for butter. Don't knock it until you've tried it. It has the exact same consistency and texture as butter. There is nothing wrong with butter. I would take the butter over the applesauce because of the lower suger levels.

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[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

Some do make a lousy crust. The place near me did at first but perfected it. It's really good. But my SO thinks my crust is better. Mine is thin.

My saving grace in pizza is that I love thin crust. It makes it much less calorically dense. I still don't eat it often though because I pretty much have to wear whatever I ingest.

[DaveNull]

Maybe it's just because I'm on my high horse after being off of grain, sugar and booze for a full week and am down 7 pounds, but..

Replace mayo and sour cream with plain Greek yogurt. Use Greek yogurt with your tuna, egg salads and chicken salads.

Make your own mayo from scratch. It's not hard, and you're switching to healthy fats from olive oil and eggs instead of shit from a factory. Subbing yogurt with sour cream sounds fine, but you're just replacing one dairy with another.

Use cauliflower instead of potatoes when wanting mashed potatoes. Steam the cauliflower and blend with a pinch of salt and pepper. Be careful with the butter. Also cauliflower makes a great pizza crust.

If you're trying to drop pounds, don't find substitutes for unhealthy stuff like mashed potatoes or pizza crust...just stop eating them. I like this suggestion though, and have come around to cauliflower.

Try to use jelly instead of syrup and butter when eating pancakes.

I don't think substitution gets you anywhere. Plus you're already putting a ton of processed flour in your body from the pancakes.

Use oatmeal as binder instead of breadcrumbs when making meatloaf, hamburgers, meat balls etc etc.

Kind of like the one before...how far is this substitution getting you? Still using grains.

Use unsweetened applesauce for a GREAT substitute for butter. Don't knock it until you've tried it. It has the exact same consistency and texture as butter.

Good butter has good fats. Lower calorie I suppose, but you can't sear a steak with clarified applesauce.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by Silock

Eat less calories.

Problem solved!

Best post in this thread!

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by penguinz

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Yeah, people have been duped into thinking that fat is worse than sugar and carbs. You know better, and you're very fit. Your words should hold some weight. Pun intended.

[Simply Red]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

Thank you, that was very nice of you to say! Have you tried it? I have yet to meet a squash I didn't like to eat. There are a couple I haven't tried, acorn squash being one of them.

Spaghetti Squash? Yes indeed - I usually go w/ parm cheese and butter and pepper.

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

Oh yeah! It's great. Very convenient, and very cheap to purchase.

I found a coconut shredder in an Asian market. Stores didn't carry any coconut with long strands only shaved bits. Wonder if that would work for coconut too.
I needed to make long strands for these: