Saving Calories - Having Your Cake & Eating it Too!

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%