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Healthy Ways to Use Breads, Cereals and other Grain
Products
Vary the taste and texture by choosing among
whole-wheat, oatmeal, pumpernickel, rye, and cornmeal products. Try some
of the flavored pastas available, spinach noodles or whole-wheat
spaghetti. Brown rice gives added texture, fiber, and flavor to many
dishes.
Home baking
Use two egg whites in place of each whole egg in quick breads, cookies,
and cakes and use lowfat or skim milk. Add a small amount of vanilla,
cinnamon, or nutmeg to sweet baked products to enhance flavor when you
reduce sugars. Use 3 tablespoons cocoa in place of each ounce of baking
chocolate. If fat is needed, to replace the fat in chocolate in baked
goods, use 1 tablespoon or less of vegetable oil or margarine (in which
the first ingredient on the ingredient label is a liquid as opposed to a
hydrogenated solid fat). Some yeast breads, such as English muffins and
French bread, can be made without any fat. Salt is a part of most baking
products (baking powder and baking soda) so reduce the amount used or
use only half the amount of salt called for in baked products.
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