Low Fat Recipes That Tastes Delicious, Simple To Cook, And Totally Healthy

Low fat recipes are NOT difficult to prepare and cook. In fact, low fat recipes are simple to prepare if you know which ingredients to use, and which ingredients to stay away from.

For example, everyone knows butter and margarine are high in fat - why not replace with low fat spreads or polyunsaturated margarine?


Low fat recipes won't take more time to prepare than any other types of recipes either. They're just as simple, and low fat recipes are an important foundation to healthy cooking, healthy eating, and a healthy lifestyle.

Simple fat knowledge: the fats in food are made up of blocks of fatty acids and glycerol. The fatty acids are chains of carbon atoms, and the type of fat is determined by how these chains link together. There are three types of fat: saturated, polyunsaturated, and monounsaturated fats, and all three are present in the foods we eat.

Fats are a concentrated source of energy. The daily intake of fat shouldn't exceed 30% of total calories. So, for an average daily intake of 2,000 calories, only 600 should come from fat.

For a lowfat diet, you can easily to cut down the most common sources of fat - such as: butter, cheese, cream, full fat milk, fatty meats, pastries, etc...

That's not to say that you should completely avoid these types of foods. That would just be unconscionable. Go ahead and splurge sometimes - cooking low fat recipes regularly will allow you to do so without your food boring you out of your mind. Low fat cooking recipes can be just as tasty as the 'fatty' dishes!

Yogurt-Bran Muffins

Yogurt and berries stir up into best bran muffins. From eatbetteramerica.
Prep Time:10 min
Start to Finish:30 min
makes:12 muffins


1 cup Fiber One® original bran cereal
2 egg whites or 1 egg, slightly beaten
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 containers (6 oz each) Yoplait® Original 99% Fat Free French vanilla yogurt
1 1/2 cups Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup fresh raspberries or blueberries
1. Heat oven to 400°F. Place paper baking cup in each of 12 regular-size muffin cups, or grease bottom of each muffin cup with shortening. Place cereal in resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal bag and crush with rolling pin or meat mallet (or crush in food processor).
2. In medium bowl, stir together egg whites, oil and yogurt. Add cereal, flour, brown sugar, baking soda and salt; stir just until dry ingredients are moistened. Gently stir in berries. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups, filling each 3/4 full.
3. Bake 18 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately remove from pan.
High Altitude (3500-6500 ft): Decrease baking soda to 1 teaspoon.

Salad Nicoise

This is a great salad to make with whatever ingredients you have on hand. Here's our version for today.

Prep and Cook Time: 10 minutes Ingredients: 4 cups salad greens 3 oz cooked shrimp 1 small tomato, diced 1/4 cup kalamata olives, slices 2 TBS chopped onions 1/2 cup cucumbers, diced Optional: chopped anchovies 1 TBS of your favorite vinaigrette

Directions:

1. Combine all ingredients and top with dressing.

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