2 Month Update

So Thanksgiving just passed last week week. I got to try some new products that are lower calorie and fat, and even lower sugar. I was able to get stuffing, flour, bread crumbs, and baking mix, all of which are low carb, which can sometimes mean less calories. Read the labels of any product claiming to be low anything!

Dixie Diner’s Club  if you click the link it will take you to all their low carb foods.

I am not a fan of margarine, but I found Brummel and Brown’s spread to be okay. It is made with a yogurt and margarine blend. So it adds some creamy texture to it, and it doesn’t have the really weird oily texture and after feel in your mouth. I found this spread at Target, and that is the only place I have been able to find it in California. Here’s the link for the Target site so you can see what the product looks like

Brummel and Brown at Target

or you can look at their company’s website: Here

I have also found that when making cheese cakes and stuff requiring cream cheese, that I can use a cream cheese and Greek yogurt blend, I found one at Von’s or I think it is Safeway in other areas. There are other brands as well, this one you will just have to search for. What I usually do is this: say a recipe calls for 10 oz of cream cheese, I will do 5 oz of fat free cream cheese, and 5 oz of the Greek yogurt blend cream cheese. This way you get the richness with less calories.

My Thanksgiving Dinner included:

Turkey

Stuffing

Yukon Gold Baby Potatoes (cooked whole, and served as 1 per serving)

Cranberry Sauce (homemade with sugar free ingredients) and whole cranberries (yum)

Candied sweet potatoes (lower in calories than yams) with sugar free marshmallows (which I made myself)

Low carb biscuits (They turned out horrible)

Squash Au Gratin with low carb bread crumbs (pretty good)

Crust-less pumpkin cheesecake (this was really good)

So the ingredients were pretty good, but the biscuits were absolutely terrible. I made 7 up ones, never again. Everything else was good. I felt satisfied and I didn’t feel left out while everyone else was enjoying delicious food, and dessert. One of my main goals has been to make sure that I can still have GOOD food that is healthy. So far I have been successful in this, and was even able to tolerate more food than I had been. Everything was cooked to a very soft consistency.

For everything listed above, with the modifications and substitutions for lower calorie/carb ingredients, my whole meal was only 175 calories.

I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving with their loved ones . Please post any comments and other suggestions or ideas for way to cut calories from foods. I am trying to compile a great post soon of recipes that taste like junk food, but aren’t really all that bad for you. Thank for reading, until next time.