What are your TOP 3 favorite SUBSTITUTES?
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greek yogurt for sour cream/ricotta cheese
This is great too!0 -
Not a replacement, but I love hiding canned pumpkin in tomato based things (chili, spaghetti, etc.). You can't tell it's there, and extra nutrients.
I'll have to try that. Lately I've been adding chopped kale to spaghetti sauce, and while you can certainly tell it's there, no one seems to mind.
My top 3 substitutions are:
Plain Greek yogurt for sour cream.
Parmesan cheese for butter on vegetables. OK, so you'll never mistake one for the other, but they pack a similar punch, flavor-wise.
Coconut or almond milk for regular milk.0 -
I always sub out some of the white flour in a recipe for whole wheat or oat flour.
Applesauce to replace the fats in baking (especially yummy in muffins and pancakes).
Greek yogurt to replace sour cream in some dips etc.0 -
Greek yogurt ---> for sour cream or mayo
Can of diced tomatoes ---> for sugary canned marinara sauce
Quinoa ---> for rice0 -
Half of whatever I was going to eat
Saccharin (this is a cop out, I love saccharin)
Canned pumpkin in place of butter - works like apple sauce, but i really like pumpkin0 -
1. Non-fat Greek yogurt in place of heavy cream or sour cream in recipes.
I wouldn't even call this a substitution, because it is so yummy!0 -
1. Instead of single cream I use natural yogurt
2. For baking I am using wholewheat flour instead of self baking
3. I know its not substitute but I prefer full fat chocolate or any flavor yogurt than 0% or fat free one. I hate the taste.0 -
1. PB2 instead of regular peanut butter
2. Greek yogurt for sour cream
3. Unsweetened applesauce instead of oil/butter for baking0 -
1. Almond milk in place of reg. milk
2. Kale chips for potato chips
3. Butternut squash or sweet potato in place of reg. potato0 -
1) Smushed bananas for pancakes
2) Smushed kidney beans for brownies
3) Smushed cauliflower for potatoes0 -
almond flour pizza crust instead of the flour crust
almond butter/cashew butter instead of peanut butter
truvia instead of sugar0 -
1. Quinoa Spaghetti or Spaghetti Squash for Pasta
2. Agave Nectar
3. Avacado for baking (substitue butter or eggs)
I have so many more but only three..right?!!0 -
1. - Stevia for sugar or artificial sweetener
2. - Chiken or veg broth instead of oil/butter for any sauce/sauteed meat or veggies
3.- Beans instead of meat0 -
1) Smushed bananas for pancakes
2) Smushed kidney beans for brownies
3) Smushed cauliflower for potatoes
You forgot smushed cauliflower for pizza crust and smushed chick peas for chocolate chip cookie dough.0 -
1 - Chicken veggie patties/turkey patties -> Burgers
2 - Liquid egg whites -> Whole eggs
3 - Better'n Peanut Butter -> Peanut butter
..I have more to list but only 3?? haha0 -
Plain yogurt in place of sour cream or heavy cream
TVP and smoke flavoring in place of bacon bits
Ground flax meal in place of oil or other fats in baked goods0 -
1. Splenda
2. Special K Cracker Chips
3. Onions and Green Peppers for Cheese in Omelets when eating out0 -
i can't remember making any substitutes, except for diet coke.0
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- Applesauce instead of oil in baking (Makes great banana bread!)
- 1 ingredient banana ice cream
- Avocado instead of butter on toast0 -
Greek yogurt for nearly everything! Frozen is delicious..
Pumpkin in baked goods (same as applesauce)..or mixed in yogurt to add volume.
Peanut flour..taste of PB without the dense calories. I love it in yogurt, with a banana or in a protein shake.
While I try to stick to whole foods, some guilty foods I'm caught having are Arctic Zero low calorie 'ice cream', shiritaki noodles and Braggs Amino soy sauce spray with no calories0
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