food tricks

hi everyone,

here's my food trick, im from an irish background and so its hard for me to give up the potatoes

so here's how i trick myself; boiled mashed up cauliflower seasoned with salt and pepper and a little low fat fromage frais or sour cream... almost potato! but without the dreaded calories and carbs,

any of you got any tricks to make something nutritious taste like your favourite naughty indulgence??

In my mind I picture mashed cauliflower as being mooshy?  Is it watery?

 hmm..

i suppose, but then you just make sure drain it completely

hey its not the real thing but helps me along ;-) my granny adds a whole block of butter to mashed potato! and a half a pint of milk eek!!

I have found I don't like mashed cauliflower. I just boil potatos (skin on, i love the skin), add a touch of skim milk and a bit of imitation butter flakes (found mine in the grocery store next to the mrs. dash). it's really not too bad calorically, especially if you plan for it. if you mash a whole medium potato and use 2T skim milk, it's about 174 calories (and that's quite a bit of mash).

when i really want ice cream but don't have the cals, i eat frozen lite whipped cream.

and if i want a reese's cup really bad, i eat a T of reduced fat peanut butter and roll it in about a T of chocolate chips.

pjh......my mom usually made them the way your granny does.  ;)  I will give the mashed cauliflower a try.

Hgielrehtaeh - thanks for those tips too.

put pasta sauces on fairly bland veggies when you're craving pasta. it gives it the same taste your looking for right?

I love olive oil vinaigrette on salads and it's easy to get carried away and use a lot.  I make a good vinaigrette with only a tablespoon of olive oil, 2 tablespoons of a mild vineger, like rice vinegar, salt & pepper, a little dry mustard powder, a half teaspoon of honey, and a dash of cayenne pepper.  I put this in the bottom of the salad bowl and whisk until it's thickened and completely mixed.  Then I put the salad greens in and toss them to coat with the small amount of dressing.  You can get the dressing distributed better this way.  Sometimes I use a quarter of an avocado instead of the olive oil, mashing it well.

As of late, my food trick has been making meat balls out of 98% fat free chicken breasts.

I cube a pound of semi thawed Fresh Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breasts and 2 ounces of some homemade bread a tsp of onion, some garlic and spices in the Cuisinart. Then pulse and use a tablespoon to size the meat balls. Then bake for 40 minutes at 375. It makes about 20 meat balls.

Personally, I happen to love cheesecake.

My new thing has been mixing together 1 Tbsp fat free cream cheese, 2 Tbsp Cool Whip Free, and 1 tsp Splenda and spreading it on a Quaker PB & Chocolate Chip rice cake. Freeze it for about 20 minutes, then drizzle a little sugar free chocolate syrup on it. Yummy! Sometime I'll toss some banana slices and extra Cool Whip on top...it really hits the spot!

If everybody else is eating a desert--icecream for example--then I'll make myself a small bowl of peanut-butter with honey drizzled on top.

It doesn't exactly taste like icecream, but it's about the same in calories--with a hell of a lot more nutritional value.

Icecream? I go sorbet! But instead of buying it, which has additives I just freeze the cheeks of tinned mango and its tastes identical, without the huge cals! So healthy, cheap and low-cal! Or even a sweet orange frozen goes similar

I mfchill, I adapted my old meatloaf recipe to a leaner version.

http://www.calorie-count.com/recipe/15882.htm l

I used to make Martha Stewart's "Meatloaf 101" all the time.  It features vegetables chopped in a food processor.  I just upped the veggies and used extra lean beef and ground turkey breast.  Chicken breast would work too, but it's harder to find, so I might try your suggestion of grinding it myself.  Thanks!

hi everyone! to trick my tastebuds, I make a fruit smoothie, add a packet of sweetener and store it in the freezer for @ 1/2 hour....when I get a craving for icecream it really is the next best thing, its so good that my kids prefer it over icecream now!

ohh, dont forget that ground turkey can substitutefor ground beef in almost any recipe!