Saving Calories - Having Your Cake & Eating it Too!

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Saving Calories - Having Your Cake & Eating it Too!

There are tons of charts that depict a specific food, then offer an alternative suggestion to help the dieter save fat and calories. However, there are times when only the real-deal will do when it comes to favorite foods. When you're really craving devil's food cake, an angel in disguise just isn't going to solve the diet dilemma.

Keeping this in mind, we've created a chart that contains popular foods and alternative suggestions for that food. So perhaps we CAN have our cake and eat it too!

Diet Tip: Whenever we're watching our calorie intake to encourage weight loss, it's a good idea to start out small, then build from there. We can always go back and add a bit more food if we don't feel satisfied - and that's a lot better feeling than cramming in the back-forty, then feeling miserable about our diet because we just ate too much.

Standard Food:

Reduce Calories & Fat By:

And Save This Many Calories:

Calorie Percentage Cut:

Franks

Slicing frank down the middle to create 2 slim franks

Depending upon the brand used, save 70 - 130 calories. Calories will be sliced in half, literally!

50%

Regular Soda or Sweet Tea

Drinking diet soda or unsweetened tea.

Save 140 calories or more.

100%

Large Bagel

Enjoying a small bagel.

No need to completely ditch that healthy bagel. Large bagels can contain 400 or more calories each while a small bagel contains 1/3 that many calories.

75%

Regular Hamburger Bun averaging 240 calories

Small Hamburger Bun

Decrease body-bun size by decreasing hamburger bun size. How easy is this? Large buns contain about 240 calories each while a small bun contains 90-120 calories.

50%

Standard Mac n Cheese

Preparing with skimmed milk, skimmed cheese & no calorie butter.

If recipe calls for 1 cup of milk, 1 cup of cheese & 2 Tablespoons of butter, calories are about sliced in half.

50%

Large Bread Slices averaging 130-190 calories per slice

Substituting 35-70 calorie bread slices

If you find that you just can't do without that big slice of gourmet bread, then slice it in half before creating your sandwich.

50% to 75%

Strawberry Shake

Blending together 1 cup of skimmed milk, 3 large frozen strawberries, dash vanilla extract, 2 ice cubes.

A typical small strawberry shake contains over 400 calories. Ours - a tab over 100 calories.

75%

Scrambled Egg

Using egg substitute such as EggBeaters.

Save about 75 calories.

75%

Eggnog

Choosing the light versions of eggnog.

One cup of full-blown eggnog can contain aver 400 calories.

40% to 50%

Cheeseburger

Reducing the size of the bun as suggested above PLUS using 60-70 calorie REAL cheese. For Mayo lovers, opt for the light version rather than the fat-free for a full-bodied flavor. Opt for extra lean beef OR go even leaner with ground turkey. Reduce the size of the patties.

Calories can be shaved in half.

50%

Back Porch Lemonade

Using spring water, lemon juice, no calorie sweetener & a spring of mint.

Lemonade goes from 140 calories per cup to 0 quicker than you can pucker up.

100%

Mom's Meatloaf

Using ground turkey.

A typical slice of homemade meatloaf contains about 400 calories based on 200 calories per three ounces.

40% to 75% depending upon the cut of hamburger used in recipe

Drumstick Ice Cream Cone

Using a small waffle cone (60 calories), 1/2 cup of non-fat frozen yogurt (90 calories), chocolate hardening sauce (40 calories) and 1 teaspoon of crushed pecans.

A large Drumsticks may contain 430 calories or more. Our skinnier version cuts the calories in half.

50%

Strawberry Short Cake

Using dessert cake cups (90-110 calories each depending upon brand used). Creating a glaze by heating strawberries in microwave, then adding no calorie sweetener. Opting for LIGHT whipped topping.

The traditional two-ounce slice of pound cake used to create strawberry short cake contains about 400 calories. To that gets added: whipped topping and glaze which can bring the calorie count to 600 or more calories per serving.

75%

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