Ten Easy Ways To Cut Calories
Cut your calories in small increments, 50 here, 100 there, rather than one big lump.
Do not give up foods you really love(and feel deprived), switch to low fat versions.
- Switch to Low Fat or No-Fat Dairy Products
- Use Sugar Substitutes
- Serve Stew Instead of Steak
- Choose Law-Fat Deserts
- Peel the Poultry
- Do Not Oil the Salad
- Make one Slice Sandwiches
- Eliminate the High-Fat Ingredient
- Don't Butter the Veggies
- Wash The Chopped Meat
Switch to Low Fat or No-Fat Dairy Products.
Milk and milk products are the best source for calcium that keeps bones strong. But these same products may also be high in cholesterol, saturated fat, and calories. You can reduce all three by choosing a low-or no fat milk product.
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Use Sugar Substitutes
Coffee has no calories, but there are 15 big ones in every teaspoon of sugar. Multiply that by four (one teaspoon in four cups of coffee) , and your naturally-no-cal beverage can add 60 calories a day to your diet.
Sixty calories a day times seven days a week. Yips! 420 Calories.
That's about as much as you would get from four or five pieces of un-buttered toast or 5 medium apples. So is this a good time to mention that there are absolutely zero calories in a packet of sugar substitutes? I thought so.
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Serve Stew Instead of Steak
No matter how you slice it, red meat is red meat, cholesterol, saturated fats and all.
But if you stew your beef or lamb or pork, rather than broiling or roasting it, you can skim off a lot of high-calorie fat. Just make the stew and then stick it in the fridge for a couple of hours until a layer of fat hardens on top.
Spoon it off: Every table spoon of pure fat subtracts 100 calories from dinner.
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Choose Law-Fat Deserts
Who says you have to suffer to cut calories? One half cup of Haggen Dazs chocolate ice cream has 270 calories. One half cup of Haggen Dazs no fat chocolate sorbet has 140 Calories.
Believe me: Switching from the first to the second one is no problem.
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Peel the Poultry
Most of the fat in poultry is in the skin. A fried chicken breast with skin has 217 calories; without the skin - 160.
Half a roasted duck (with skin) has a whopping 1, 287 calories; without skin , it's 444.
Even if you have a fried chicken breast every night for a week, you can save 399 calories by taking the skin off before you cook the bird. Share seven half ducks with a friend and you each save 2,950 calories a week. Wow! That's practically a pound right there.
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Do Not Oil the Salad
True, salad can be a low fat, low-calorie meal. Even if you throw in some breast of chicken and a couple of no-fat croutons or cheese cubes, it's still mostly crunch. But dressing can do you in. For example, two table spoons of Wishbone Italian Dressing or one table spoon of Hellmaann's regular "real Mayonnaise" have 100 calories. What to do? Switch.
Two table spoon of Wishbone Fat Free Italian Dressing adds just 15 -- count'em, 15! calories. One tablespoon of Hellmann's Light, 50 Calories, one tablespoon of Hellmann's Low Fat, a mere 25.
Have salad once a day for a week, and you can save 595 calories with fat free versus regular salad dressing, 525 calories with low fat mayonnaise versus regular.
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Make one Slice Sandwiches
One Slice of bread in your daily luncheon sandwich has anywhere from 65 to 100 calories, depending on the brand. Eliminate one slice and serve your sandwich open, and you can save up to 700 calories a week.
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Eliminate the High-Fat Ingredient
A bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich usually comes with three strips of Bacon, each one worth 100 calories, Leave off one strip and save 100 calories. Leave off two , save 200 calories. Leave of Three, save 300 calories and enjoy your lettuce sandwich with low fat mayonnaise.
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Don't Butter the Veggies.
Season your vegetables with herbs instead of greasing them.
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Wash The Chopped Meat
Yes, You read that right. Heat a teapot of water. Put the chopped meat in the pan and cook it until it browns. Pour off the fat, put the meat into a stranier, and pour a cup of hot water over it. Repeat two times. Every table spoon of fat that melts or drain from the meat saves you 100 calories, plus cholesterol and saturated fat. Use the de-fatted meat in spaghetti sauce.
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