Holiday Cooking Tip: Cut Calories and Fat with Ingredient Substitutes

As you’re preparing to prepare Thanksgiving supper, consider these healthy and balanced replacements for common components. These will certainly aid you lower the quantity of fat as well as calories in your dishes. (Or if you run out of a component in the nick of time, this could conserve you a journey to the store!)

Ingredient	Substitution
White, all-purpose flour	Whole wheat flour for 1/2 of the white flour asked for in the recipe
Whole eggs	2 egg whites or 1/4 cup fluid egg whites for every whole egg
Butter	Olive oil or vegetable oil
Butter or oil (for baking)	Applesauce
Heavy cream	Evaporated fat-free milk
Whole milk	1% or non-fat milk
Fruit-flavored yogurt	Plain yogurt with fresh fruit
Sour cream	Non-fat plain yogurt
Mayonnaise	Non-fat plain yogurt, strained, or low-fat mayo
Table salt	Herbs, flavors, salt-free spices blends or natural herb blends
80% lean ground beef	95% lean ground beef or ground white turkey meat (99% lean)
Pork bacon	Turkey bacon or lean Canadian bacon
Pork sausage	Chicken sausage or turkey sausage
Poultry, dark meat with skin	Poultry, white meat, skinless

Submitted by Ilise Reilly, Supervisor of Lucille Roberts Flushing.

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