Healthy Substitutions



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Healthy Substitutions

If you’re trying to make your food more healthy, try these healthy substitutions. In each case, you can use the substitution in place of the original when cooking.



 

Instead Of Use
Bacon

Smoke flavoring, ham, Canadian bacon or bacon bits

Bread crumbs

French bread, dried and crushed Butter, margarine or shortening in baking

Butter, margarine or shortening in baking     

Applesauce

Cream cheese

Neufchatel or low fat cream cheese

Canned Condensed Soup

White sauce made with skim milk

Cream of Chicken Soup

1 ¼ cups white sauce + 1 Tbsp. chicken bouillon

Cream of Mushroom Soup

1 cup white sauce + 1 can drained mushrooms

Egg (one)

2 egg whites

Ground beef

Ground turkey

Heavy cream, for whipping

Evaporated milk, freeze 30 minutes, add ½ tsp. vanilla, whip

Heavy cream, in sauces and soups

Evaporated milk

Ricotta cheese

low-fat cottage cheese, pureed

Sour cream

Yogurt

Whole milk

Skim milk

White flour

½ white and ½ wheat or all wheat

White flour, for thickening

2 Tbsp. cornstarch

White rice Brown rice

 



Here are a few more healthy eating tips:

  • Cook chicken breasts with skin and remove skin just before eating. This helps the chicken stay juicy.

  • Steam vegetables instead of sauteing.
  • Low fat gravy: let meat broth stand in refrigerator overnight or put ice cubes in broth to collect fat. Skim off fat. Use 1 Tbsp. cornstarch to thicken 1 cup.

 

You may also want to check out our substitutions and equivalents page!

 

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