When I serve spaghetti, I add either fresh or frozen broccoli to the sauce, then cook it about 5 minutes before serving. It adds taste and texture to the sauce as well as adding nutrition to the…
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Here’s an easy way to serve veggie pizza as a good-for-you appetizer. After spreading the reduced-fat cream cheese mixture on the crust, I cut the pizza into pieces. Then, as I add the veggies, I…
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I add shredded zucchini and carrots to my spaghetti sauce to add extra nutrition while disguising those good-for-you vegetables from my husband. I’ve also been known to put them in my meat loaf,…
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I’ve found a tasty replacement for the syrup and butter that used to top my waffles. I mix equal parts of fat-free fruit-flavored yogurt with fat-free whipped topping. This also makes a refreshing…
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I belong to Weight Watchers and have a system to try new recipes. I read through the recipes I want to try that have nutritional information and calculate the Weight Watchers points for each. I…
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I’ve been preparing low-fat foods since my husband’s heart attack a few years ago. I find that stirring 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract into an 8-ounce carton of low-fat whipped topping improves the…
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Recently, I was making my favorite banana bread recipe, I didn’t have the sour cream it called for. I substituted an equal amount of low-fat strawberry yogurt, and the bread was scrumptious! Fran…
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To reduce the fat in most muffin, cookie and cake recipes, I use fat-free vanilla yogurt in place of milk or sour cream. It also adds a bit of sweetness, so the amount of sugar in many recipes can…
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For a refreshing summer treat, push a Popsicle stick through the foil cover of a small fat-free yogurt. (Be sure to remove the plastic lid first if there is one.) Pop it in the freezer until it’s…
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