Healthy Substitutes for Your Recipes

Written by Irina Wardas on December 15th, 2008

Just wanted to remind you about healthier alternatives for your cooking or baking recipes:

1 whole egg can be substituted with 2 egg whites

white flour can be substituted with whole grain flour (rice, barley,millet, buckwheat – basically you can grind any whole grain)

sour cream can be substituted with low fat plain yogurt or low fat sour cream

milk can be substitute with skim, 1% milk or powdered milk

ice cream can be substitute with frozen yogurt

heavy cream (not for whipping) – 1:1 ratio of flour whisked into non fat milk (eg. 1 cup of flour + 1 cup of non fat milk)

whipped cream can be substituted with chilled evaporated skim milk or other low fat whipped products

cheese can be substituted with low-fat cheese (please note: non-fat cheese does not melt well if use in cooking or baking)

margarine can be substituted with butter

butter can be substituted with light butter, vegetable oil or ghee

sugar ( brown or white) can be substituted with date sugar, barley malt, blackstrap molasses, pure raw honey

table salt can be substituted with sea salt

Happy and Healthy Cooking and Baking!!!

Breathe, smile and be happy,

Women’s Holistic Health, Nutrition and Relationship Expert

Tiffany says:

September 21, 2009 at 11:30 am

Thanks for posting this. I am always looking for ways to substitiute foods for healthier options.