Five healthy food substitutions you should try today
When it comes to the battle of eating healthy, each of us has our own guilty little pleasures that can sabotage even our best efforts to eat right. For some it’s chocolate, others it’s butter, and still others just can’t say no to that freshly baked loaf of bread that your favorite restaurant serves up before dinner. Whatever your weakness is, there is likely a healthy substitution that can help you satisfy your craving while not sacrificing your health.
As any health expert will attest to, eating healthy is a life style and not a feat to be taken lightly. But if you’re serious about making changes, beginning with these five healthy food substitutions is a sure-fire way to get started.
Replace ground beef with healthier substitutes in recipes- If you’re a meat lover then chances are you’re serious about your beef products and just can’t find it plausible that there is another meat that can come anywhere near to comparing to beef, but you’d be wrong. Read the rest of this entry
Wiener Dip: I Dare You to Make It
Some families are estranged by politics, while others are torn asunder by religion. But for my family, the dividing factor that has destroyed our unity and turned brother against brother is wiener dip.
Yes, that’s right. We are a house divided because of my grandfather’s wiener dip. Half of the family loves the stuff. They smear it on crackers and chips, and they praise its creamy texture and spicy flavor. I suspect they would bathe in it, given the chance.
As for the rest of us, well… not so much. To be honest, I’m not even sure what it tastes like. I just couldn’t ever get past its odd pink color or the fact that it’s made from wieners. I realize that makes me small-minded, but frankly, I’m okay with that. I’ve always believed it’s okay to be shallow just as long as you’re insightful about it.
I have no idea where my grandfather came up with the idea for wiener dip. He’s always been one for kitchen experimentation, but I can’t imagine he ever set out to *intentionally* create this stuff. I have to believe it was an accident. It’s the only way I can sleep nights.
So anyway, wiener dip. If you’ve read this far and you’re thinking to yourself, “I’m intrigued. I’d like to try some of that wiener dip for myself,” then I respect and salute your masochistic tendencies. Here you go. Bon apetite.
Wiener Dip
Ingredients:
12 oz. cottage cheeze
5 wieners, chopped up
10-15 olives (optional)
1 tablespoon mayonnaise
1 medium dill pickle
1 tablespoon buttermilk
3 jalapeno peppers
1/2 teaspoon Lawry’s seasoning
Instructions:
1. Put the cottage cheese into a blender and blend until smooth.
2. Add all other ingredients and, once again, blend until smooth.
By Chris I
For most of my life, I’ve been convinced that the world is inhabited by two kinds of people… those who enjoy eating brussels sprouts and those with working taste buds.
When I was a kid, I hated the vile things. They smelled like sulphur and tasted even worse. I got all kinds of lectures from my parents about how brussels sprouts were high in vitamins and would keep me from getting cancer. I also heard about all the poor, underpriviledged children whose parents couldn’t afford to feed them brussels sprouts. I thought the solution to that problem was obvious, but my parents refused to send my sprouts to a more deserving family. Instead, they would make me sit at the table until my plate was clean or (as usually happened) they gave up and sent me to bed.
As I got older, I grew in my appreciation of most vegetables. I loved green beans, spinach, and asparagus. I even learned to tolerate broccoli and cauliflower. But not brussels sprouts. They remained the bane of my culinary existence.
Recently, my girlfriend told me she’d been experimenting with some different ways of cooking brussels sprouts, and she had one recipe she thought I might like. Naturally, I was skeptical, but she insisted that I try just one before turning up my nose. Since I’m a good boyfriend (and utterly whipped), I agreed.
What can I say? They were incredible! As soon as she took them out of the oven,
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Eating low on the food chain can improve your health and the environment too
Never before has the message and necessity of adopting a healthy lifestyle been more urgent. In recent years, it’s been increasingly difficult to turn on the television and not see messages from the FDA and USDA urging consumers to return certain fruits, vegetables, and other products to stores because they have been contaminated either in their natural environments or in the process of being brought to sellers. With the rampant use of pesticides, hormones, and other chemicals, consumers face some really difficult decisions in deciding what foods they should purchase and consume.
Here are some tried and true tips for incorporating healthier food chain consumption.
Most people tend to think of kitchen staples as pretty interchangeable. Does it really matter what kind of salt, flour, rice, etc. that you choose for a dish? Experienced cooks know that the answer to that is a resounding “Yes!”
Flour is the most basic baking ingredient and has a major impact on the taste and quality of baked goods. It has the power to make or break a recipe.
French fries.
Fresh.
Hot.
Crispy.
With just a touch of salt that sticks to your fingers.
The mere mention of these sinfully delicious little spuds is a sure diet-killer for some.
But here’s a way to enjoy the crunch of fries without the guilt – and fat. This recipe for oven fries is quick, easy, and even pleases our household’s 14-year-old French fry addict.
For a burst of unexpected flavor, add some garlic, Italian seasoning, or cayenne, or even cumin.
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