SIMPLE WAYS TO CUT FAT AND CALORIES

1. Select lean cuts of meat for your sandwich, like smoked turkey and oven roasted chicken breast.


2. Use ground turkey breast instead of ground beef for your burgers and you’ll save 200 calories and numerous fat grams!.

3. Use as many fat free or low fat items as possible. Fat Free Cheese, Sour Cream, Light Mayo or Miracle Whip, Salad Dressings and Butter. You'll be amazed at how many fat grams you save yourself from.

4. If you're a snacker, try baked chips, instead of regular. I love BBQ Baked Lays.

5. Blotting the grease off of your pizza, burgers, etc.. can save you numerous calories and fat grams. Just use a paper towel or napkin and gently dab your food. Easy! Who wants to eat grease anyway?

6. Skip the fatty dips and try these five lower-calorie, figure-friendly dips:
Salsa is always king! Two tablespoons of salsa has only seven calories, which means you can dip until the sun goes down.
Substitute non-fat plain yogurt or light sour cream in place of full-fat mayonnaise or sour cream.
Go spicy! Low-fat dips can be bland without the fat, so add a spicy punch. Think garlic-ranch or spicy chipotle dips for twice the flavor and half the fat.
Get in touch with your inner health nut and serve hummus and pair it with whole wheat pita wedges.
Make your own lard-free bean dip by mashing whole black beans with a little olive oil, lemon or lime juice. Pile on the fresh diced tomatoes, red onions, green pepper, garlic, and seasonings.

7. Pile on Veggies:
Pizza: Add lots of onions, green peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, mushrooms, and artichokes.
Sandwiches: Don't forget the tomatoes, sprouts, lettuce, red onions, avocado, and pickles.
Nachos: Toss salad ingredients right on top and turn this gut-buster into a healthy taco salad – lettuce, tomatoes, red onions, black olives, and avocado.
Veggie tray: Crisp, refreshing and nutricious you can’t go wrong with a platter of colorful produce, like carrots, celery, bell peppers, radishes, zucchini, cucumber, and cherry tomatoes.

8. If you're a soda drinker, switch to diet. That was simple, huh?

9. Drink lots of water before meals. That way you will feel fuller and eat less.

10. Rev up your metabolism by staying active. Burn calories with quick bursts of energy. Speed up your walk to the mailbox, park farther away at shopping center and really pick up the pace. You get the idea. STAY ACTIVE!

Low Fat Blueberry Pancakes

Over the next few days I'll be entering recipes using the top ten super foods that I have listed in yesterday's entry below.

Today's recipe is
LOW FAT BLUEBERRY PANCAKES

Low-Fat Blueberry Pancakes
1 large egg, separated, yoke in one bowl, white into another bowl
2 cups plain low-fat yogurt
1/2 cup unsweetened applesause
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
Whites of 3 large eggs added to bowl with egg white (save yokes for another use)
1/2 tsp vegetable oil, more if needed
2 cups blueberries

Add yogurt, applesauce, sugar and vanilla to egg yolk. Stir to mix, then stir in baking soda, salt and flour until blended. Beat egg whites with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form when beaters are lifted. Stir in 1/3 of the whites into the batter until blended. Gently fold in remaining whites until no white streaks remain. Heat a griddle or large skillet over medium heat until a few drops of water dropped onto the surface dance around and then disappear.
Wipe 1/2 teaspoon vegetable oil over cooking surface with a paper towel. For each pancake, pour 1/4 cup batter onto griddle or skillet, to make a 4" pancake. Sprinkle some berries on top, then cook 2 minutes longer or until bubbles appear on surface of pancake and undersides are golden-brown. Turn pancakes and cook until tops bounce back when touched, about 2 minutes. Serves 6, 4 pancakes each.

Vitamin C, Stress Buster, Fat Burner

People who take 1000 mgs of vitamin C daily cut their output of the stress hormone cortisol by up to 80 percent.

Vitamin C also has energizing powers. Carnitine, a protein that helps the body burn stored fat for fuel, is found in Vitamin C.

Vitamin C is so crucial to the fat burning process that the women with the hightest levels have the lowest body fat percentages.

Many fruits, including pineapples and kiwi, are high in vitamin C.