Healthy family secrets
Skimming the fat and reducing the sugar from favorite old recipes makes
them edible for relatives fighting diabetes and heart disease and is
appreciated by all interested in good health.
If a recipe calls for: Lard, stick margerine or butter
Feel free to use: Soft tub margerine
If a recipe calls for:Cream cheese
Feel free to use: Light cream cheese
If a recipe calls for: Sour cream
Feel free to use: Light sour cream
If a recipe calls for: Whole or heavy cream (unwhipped)
Feel free to use: Evaporated skim milk
If a recipe calls for: Whipped cream
Feel free to use: Reduced-fat whipped topping
If a recipe calls for: Evaporated milk
Feel free to use: Evaporated skim milk
If a recipe calls for: Whole eggs
Feel free to use: Liquid egg substitute
If a recipe calls for: Bacon
Feel free to use: Canadian bacon
If a recipe calls for: Nuts
Feel free to use: Reduce by one-half
If a recipe calls for: Sugar (in desserts)
Feel free to use: Reduce by one-third
If a recipe calls for: Shortening (in quick breads)
Feel free to use: Replace half with light sour cream
If a recipe calls for: Gelatin
Feel free to use: Sugar-free gelatin
If a recipe calls for: Pudding mix
Feel free to use: Sugar-free pudding mix
Strange as it may seem, as we approach the millennium our twentysomething and thirtysomething generations hunger for old tastes. They don't want to forget Grandma's fried chicken sizzling in the electric skillet at the end of the picnic table or Cousin Ruth's famous sauerkraut and sausage casserole.
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