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1 – Begin to use
lightly steamed cauliflower as a substitute for mashed potatoes.
When put through a food processor and blitzed, they retain the
consistency of mashed. You
can drain the moisture and even add a little butter if that’s how you
usually eat mashed potatoes. It’s
a delicious and VERY substantial change in your starch use.
2 – Try using large
flexible leaves of different lettuces as a way to eat dips and sandwich
innards. Stuff lettuce
leaves with hummus, spinach dips, minced turkey, chicken salad, egg
salad…virtually any type of food you’d use in a sandwich.
Once you begin to enjoy the flavor of the lettuces with your
foods, you’ll realize that breads and rolls are not the most enhancing
foods you could eat. Empty
calories and little nutritional value.
3 – Instead of
crackers as dipping instruments, try dehydrating shredded veggies and
sliced veg and fruit. Dehydration
done slowly on low heat can create delicious cracker-like foods for all
sorts of different uses, while retaining the vast majority of their
nutritional values.
4 – Instead of giving
kids a whole helping of mac and cheese, substitute half for broccoli and
cheese or cauliflower and cheese. Every
little bit of starch elimination counts and they’ll get far more
nutrition from the veggies that not only nourish the body but are known
to help fight cancers.
Remember, the more
starch you cut from your diet, the more empty calories go with it.
Make your food count. Make
it the most nutritious and fortifying that it can be.
You wouldn’t dump inferior gas into your car.
Don’t dump inferior foods into your diet. Substitute that starch whenever possible.
Copyright 2007 -
JLD
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