In order to live an healthy life, you have to reduce the amount of fat in your food. Actually, fats coming from nuts and oils are good for your body, but trans and saturated fats are not. Here are some recipe ideas if you want to monitor the fat in your meals.
Low fat banana muffins can be made with flour, baking powder, mashed bananas, applesauce (instead of butter or oil), water (instead of milk) and Splenda (instead of sugar). These will delicious and healthy! Other low fat muffin recipes include grape-nuts muffins, high fiber muffins, healthy chocolate muffins, orange muffins, apple muffins, etc. You only have to substitute some ingredients for others and your muffins will be low fat.
Healthy low fat recipes include chicken salad, barbecued salmon, veggie wraps, turkey wraps, pork medallions, hawaiian pizzas, etc. Free low fat recipes can easily be found on the Internet. Recipes are usually classified depending on what they are made with.
Finally, I have found on the Internet websites that offer free low fat vegetarian recipes. You will find on them breakfast, drinks, sandwiches, snacks, pizza, casseroles, pasta, etc recipe ideas.
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May 5, 2008 - I bought another starter pack because the coupon gave me more off and so it was cheaper.
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Trying out freezer rotations with the lasagna.
Brad's low-fat rice noodle lasagna from before. I had more trouble getting it to hold together to get it into the dish than I did straight out of the fridge; I don't like to microwave in the Mr. Bento so I've been heating things up and transferring them in, and that's awkward with this lasagna; I may need to just microwave it in the plastic wrap so it will be easier to move around.
The soup is the mustard green soup recipe from yesterday, with more sweet potato in the balance.
The salad is arugula with sliced daikon radish and mini-peppers and carrots, which are hard to see because I poured the honey-mustard salad dressing over the top and it has a lot of shallots and chives in it today.
The fruit is the apple-jicama salad I made once before, with finely chopped kumquats instead of tangerines, and sprinkled with some toasted pecan pieces.
And one of my favorite honey mints, which surprisingly are low-fat (though not low-carb.)
There's a tiny bit of fat in the chocolate; the lasagna is made with low-fat ricotta and low-fat swiss. The parmesan is normal but there isn't a lot of it. The salad and soup are both fat-free; there's a little fat in the fruit salad from the pecans.
Post-lunch report: the lasagna came out of the freezer delicious and he didn't notice that it was messy at all (I hid it under the parmesan!) The soup and salad were good but not "lick the plate" good; after discussion I think what he liked about the salad was the savory gorgonzola and pecan bits from prior salads, and the apples. He really liked the fruit salad and finished off the leftovers when he got home.
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May 2, 2008 - I can gain and lose up to 10 pounds per week in water weight alone.
