Nutrition and Healthy Cooking Tips
Submitted by Amy Lockyear, Webmaster, 12/26/98
My husband loves grilled sandwiches. Grilled cheese, ham melts, tuna melts, and the dreaded fried bologna melt. Those things are fattening enough because of the cheese...frying them in butter makes it even worse. I have found that I get the same results just spraying the bread with a butter-flavored cooking spray. This way, I lose the butter and about 1/3 of the fat, and that means that I get to eat one, too.
Submitted by Amy Lockyear, Webmaster, 12/26/98
Smuckers (the people who make the jelly) have put out a really great product to use as a butter/oil substitute in baking recipes: cookies, cakes, sweetbreads, etc. It's called Baking Healthy - Oil & Shortening Replacement for Baking. I used it over Thanksgiving, and I couldn't tell the difference. It is fat free, cholesterol free, and low sodium. It should be in your grocery store on the baking aisle.
Submitted by Donna, Army Wife, 12/26/98
I substitute apple sauce or plain yogurt in recipes that call for oil. I also use canola oil as this is the *healthy* fat. NEVER use corn oil as that fat is the worst.
