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Cooking healthy meals shouldn’t stretch your budget. Eating healthy should always be your number one priority when it comes to whipping up delicious and hearty meals. But where would you start? The recipe doctor Maggie says that one needs to look for lighter alternatives when choosing for tasty food recipes. Remember this that food recipes like rich and thick sauces are fat heavy too. Change your outlook when looking to cook your favorite recipes, see how rich food they are. Here are the ten guidelines that you need to follow when preparing hearty yet light family food with crockpot and slow cooker recipes.

Replace with substitutes while baking items. Go for the whole-wheat instead of white flour, says Magee. A classic cookie recipe or nut breads recipe that you are trying, use whole wheat flour instead of white flour in it as substitute and make a healthy food item. Some wonderful baked goods that you could formulate with whole-wheat flour: your favorite light cakes, coffee cakes, and even rich and moist brownies. Phytochemicals, slenium and magnesium rich food is the ultimate result. The main ingredient behind whole wheat flour is its high fibre contents which takes a lot of time in digestion thus giving a full feeling. Long time appetite fulfillment can be attained with simple desserts!

Trying for artificial sweetener. Sugar is a vital ingredient in any recipe, can you do it without sugar? If your recipe has sugar as a major ingredient, why not try using artificial sweeteners, says Magee. Not only does this method cuts the calories by half, you also save, at the very least, 48 calories in every tablespoon of sugar that you put in your baked food recipe or quick and easy recipes

Go for egg substitute. Love egg dishes? Correct use of eggs not only keeps your heart healthy but is very useful in weight loss. It not only makes you feel fuller but provides the energy that could help you go through the rest of your morning schedule. Expecting a fast breakfast with omelets? Egg substitutes are used widely to lighten the food in case your recipe has a heavy dose of egg ingredients. Using substitutes, by replacing one agg with one fourth of its substitute. Remember, this calls for a substitute, not replacement.

Always oven fry food items whenever it is available. Healthy and tasty food recipes have some big enemies? Frying. Someitmes your family just cannot do without the favorite fried recipes, what then? Go for oven-fry instead of deep-fry, says Magee. Pan frying is even better. Try using healthy oils instead of off the shelf vegetable oils for healthy cooking. But don’t just smothering your non-stick pan with healthy oils. Any recipe of yours should have very low oil usage. Do away with deep-frying as much as possible. Each drop of oil. whatever is its marketing gimmick, it is still made of 13 g. of rich fat and 120 calorie count.

There is not doubt that nothing can beat tasty means howsoever healthy it is. Highly flavored meal can help in an instant to cut down the food portions of your family. Never use items which are old, but use those fresh from market of high quality. In this way, you could serve your family a healthy, nutritious, and hearty free recipes that you could enjoy

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