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.

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by penguinz

Read the article. Studies show that there are no differences in a person that is healthy.

Nutrition is not that much difference either. Look at rice for example. Only real differences are that Brown had more magnesium, fiber and sodium.

Here's what it said and where I agree:

So, for bodybuilding purposes, it doesn’t matter if the carbs in your diet come from simple or complex sources as long as the total amount is the same.

Also not all whole grains are alike and some are even processed to make them tastier. What did they use? Per this, eating the whole kernel is even better as it puts the brakes on.

David Ludwig, a professor of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. For instance, bread made from 80 percent–whole-wheat kernels is absorbed much more slowly than bread made from ground whole wheat. When a person eats intact grains, the body has to break down the outer bran before digesting the inner endosperm and germ. Ground grains often don’t provide these metabolic brakes.http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...ays-healthful/

This is why I believe in metabolic typing. One expert says one thing, then another says the opposite.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

I disagree with it. It contradicts everything I've learned and read including from trained nutritionists. Including being lower in fiber. No one knows all the natural co-factors in a food less processed and closer to nature. We keep discovering more all the time. In fact, grains weren't much part of our diets for ages.

See, this is what's bothering me in this thread. You talk about "foods less processed and closer to nature" on one hand, then talk about I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spray in another, saying you've looked into the ingredients and determined they're OK.

Seems to me white flour and rice is less processed than ICBINB since all they've done is removed the hull and bran, but WTF do I know?

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

See, this is what's bothering me in this thread. You talk about "foods less processed and closer to nature" on one hand, then talk about I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spray in another, saying you've looked into the ingredients and determined they're OK.

Seems to me white flour and rice is less processed than ICBINB since all they've done is removed the hull and bran, but WTF do I know?

They're both processed. I only brought up the grains to check your own purity test, since you were judging me.

Again, I never said I followed natural 100%, but as a lump sum total I probably do more than not or more than most average people. Besides grains are more commonly used in a diet than a few squirts of a butter spray made from the same thing as butter on occasion. So it's a matter of degree and what it is to me. I assure you there are some preservatives or processed items in a few other things I eat too.

Lastly, I believe in metabolic typing and individual health concerns as factors.

[DaveNull]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

a diet than a few squirts of a butter spray made from the same thing as butter on occasion.

I think I found it.

INGREDIENTS: WATER, SOYBEAN OIL*, SALT, SWEET CREAM BUTTERMILK**, XANTHAN GUM, SOY LECITHIN, POLYSORBATE 60, LACTIC ACID, (POTASSIUM SORBATE, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA) USED TO PROTECT QUALITY, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, BETA CAROTENE (COLOR).

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by DaveNull

I think I found it.

Nothing screams "natural" like "artificial flavor."

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

Nothing screams "natural" like "artificial flavor."

Tastes just like butter though. I can't believe it!

[BucEyedPea]

Wanna know what's in some low fat yogurts? This is what's on one from Publix that my SO bought:

Modified corn starch, carrageenan ( this is fine it's just a thickener) and Vitamin A palmitate—a synthetic isolate that is simply added to milk and other dairy products to ‘fortify’ them.

There are many self-described low-fat foods that use corn as a filler.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

Wanna know what's in some low fat yogurts?

No.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

Here's what it said and where I agree:


Also not all whole grains are alike and some are even processed to make them tastier. What did they use? Per this, eating the whole kernel is even better as it puts the brakes on.



This is why I believe in metabolic typing. One expert says one thing, then another says the opposite.

Studies on real people, not rats, show end result is the same. A carb is a carb.

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by penguinz

Studies on real people, not rats, show end result is the same. A carb is a carb.

Of course a carb is a carb. It's not a protein. It's really meaningless depending on what you're evaluating. Studies have been done on real people for my side too

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

No.

Oh, well I just happened to pick up the carton in the fridge that the SO bought and decided to read the label. I was shocked.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

I disagree with it. It contradicts everything I've learned and read including from trained nutritionists. Including being lower in fiber. No one knows all the natural co-factors in a food less processed and closer to nature. We keep discovering more all the time. In fact, grains weren't much part of our diets for ages.

This is shocking.

[Just Passin' By]

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.

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.

Not a single one of these suggestions is worth a damn. I pity your taste buds, and your soul.

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by Fish

This is shocking.

As always the nasty snarky fish arrives to add civility to the discussion.
How many experts in nutrition keep changing their findings over time, and how many disagree with each other? It's not uncommon. I put something up from Harvard medical. I see you have nothing to add besides your usual ad homs.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

I disagree with it. It contradicts everything I've learned and read including from trained nutritionists. Including being lower in fiber. No one knows all the natural co-factors in a food less processed and closer to nature. We keep discovering more all the time. In fact, grains weren't much part of our diets for ages.

Do what now? The first thing the first settlers did when they settled in the fertile crescent was domesticate grains.