Healthier Alternatives?

PAV8888

I substitute everything and anything to my heart's content and with zero regard to the propriety and appropriateness of the substitution according to anyone else! NOTHING is sacred!

That said, if it is WORTH it to me, for a combination of whatever attributes I define as WORTH it to me AT THE TIME -- satiety, taste, indulgence, high calories in small package, low calories in large package -- WHATEVER is floating my boat at the time... it WINS! Else, it BINS!

So I just had 280g of riced cauliflower, broccoli and carrots mixed with 101g of rice, instead of having the complete 250g pouch of ready to eat basmati rice.

Gained nutritious and delicious veggies, food volume and pretty colors, maintained or improved on taste, achieved sufficient sauce absorption... and, very importantly, saved just about 175Cal with zero negative impact (possibly some positive impact due to volume) on satiety.

And then I turned around and spent 418 Cal on Chocolate Eclairs!

Other than ending with a day that was a bit too high on saturated fats... I'm good with my trades!!!

perryc05

Rice portions had always been a problem for me and was behind a lot of my weight gains over the years. I like to cut rice down with cauliflower, grated carrot, or peas and green beans. This way I'm consuming less rice and more veg. I also eat less white rice overall and pay a bit extra for black forbidden rice which is amazing and whole grain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_rice

Wild rice is awesome too but very pricey and you can't eat a lot of it due to its texture and density.

therealme_lissa

A few things I’ve swapped out & haven’t missed the original are:

Protein pasta in place of regular
Carb counter flour tortillas in place of regular
45 calorie bread instead of the 80 cal. I normally ate
Sparkling mineral water (Topo Chico) in place of soda