EASY SUBSTITUTIONS TO LOW FAT 
Butter: Butter Buds (mix to make liquid)

Oil: Butter Buds (mix to make liquid)

Eggs: Egg Beaters or egg whites.

Cheese: Poly-O Free, Healthy Choice, Kraft, Borden or Alpine Lace non-fat cheeses.

Hot Dogs: Hormel or Healthy Choice 97% fat free franks (only 1 fat gram a frank).

Chocolate: Braum's Light Fudge topping, cocoa or Hershey's syrup

Commercial Baked Items: Entenmanns (fat-free), Health Valley or homemade baked items.

Commercial Muffins or Biscuits: Fat-free mixes or homemade.

Mayonnaise: Mustard or Kraft Fat-Free Mayonnaise or Miracle Whip.

Avocados: Water chestnuts.

Luncheon Meats: Water packed tuna or low-fat turkey slices.

Nuts: Grape Nuts cereal.

Red Meat: Chicken, turkey or fish.

Sour Cream: Non-fat cottage cheese, lemon juice and non-fat yogurt blended or Land O Lakes fat-free sour cream.

Cream Cheese: Philadelphia fat-free cream cheese, Healthy Choice or Alpine Lace Fat Free Cream Cheese (all new).

Chips: Guiltless Gourmet Tortilla Chips, pretzels, or plain popcorn.

Salad Dressing: Non-fat dressings.

Cream Sauces: Marinara sauces.

Granola or Granola Bars: Any non-fat cereal, non-fat granola or non-fat granola bars.

Ice Cream: Frozen yogurt or fat-free ice cream.

Cream: Evaporated skim milk.

Whole Milk: Skim milk.

Sausage: Healthy Choice low-fat sausages (new).

Hamburger: Ground chicken, turkey or Healthy Choice ground beef (16 fat grams a pound) (new).

Anything Fried: Baked or broiled.

Bacon: Low-fat Canadian bacon.

Snack Crackers: Nabisco fat-free saltines, Snackwells fat-free crackers or Mr. Phipps low-fat crackers.

French Fries: Baked potato, or oven baked French fries.

Olives: Pickles

Lamb: Fish

Veal: Turkey cutlets

Pork: Lean pork tenderloin

Oil: Applesauce, liquid Butter Buds or Karo syrup.

 

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