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Food swaps!

mary251
mary251 Posts: 7 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
What are the best food swaps/substitutions you've found?

My favourites are:

Soda swapped for carbonated water

Breakfast cereal swapped for home made smoothie

Potato crisps (chips) for seasoned crackers

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  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    Whole grain breads and pastas in place of white

    That's really the only swap I made, unless you count making your own stuff instead of buying it.
  • mistress8956
    mistress8956 Posts: 265 Member
    Laughing cow cheese instead of mayo, and then I don't need to add cheese either. Usually do this w tuna or when making a sandwich
  • cabwj
    cabwj Posts: 843 Member
    Avocado instead of mayo
  • Faithful_Chosen
    Faithful_Chosen Posts: 401 Member
    Cauliflour for rice and pizza dough, zucchini or carrot or sweet potato for pasta, (portobello) mushrooms for bread/buns. Can you tell I am intollerant to grains...? Cuts WAY down on the calories too, though!
  • socioseguro
    socioseguro Posts: 1,679 Member
    Replacing cereal from a box/bag with oatmeal made from scratch. I use stick cinnamon, diced apple and almond milk for the cooking. Topping it with cinnamon powder, chia seeds and ground flaxseed. sometime I add some blueberries
  • Queenmunchy
    Queenmunchy Posts: 3,380 Member
    Greens or cucumber for "rolls," vegetable noodles for pasta, cauliflower rice for rice, radishes for potatoes in a stew.
  • kalislim
    kalislim Posts: 58 Member
    mistress8956 wrote: »
    Laughing cow cheese instead of mayo, and then I don't need to add cheese either. Usually do this w tuna or when making a sandwich


    Never thought of this one, Thanks!!
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