Recipes – Which ones are good?
Not all low-fat, low-calorie diet books are the same.
Personally I’m not a fan of using substitutes such as splenda, so I stay away from the sugar free cookbooks. However if you are a fan by all means try them.
If you know how the Weight Watchers points system works, their books are have a lot of great recipes and tell you the amount they’re worth. For a girl like me I get about 16-20 points a day of food. My rule of thumb is 80 calories a point. It’s more complicated than that, but it gives you an idea.
Buy cookbooks that list the nutritional value of the recipe per serving. This lets you know how fattening or healthy a recipe is. A lasagna recipe might be low in calories but the serving size might be too small to fill you up. Ask yourself if you will be full after the serving size listed, if not calculate how much it will take you to get full.
If it will take you too many servings to get full, then the low-calorie recipe is no good because all it does it shrink the serving size. Look at how many calories you’ve allocated to that meal. Compare this number to how many calories it will take to you make you full for this recipe. If its within the range, then this is the recipe for you.
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