Eat smarter with these amazing food replacements!
Eating healthy doesn’t have to be difficult. With just a few small tweaks to your routine, you can feel healthier, have more energy, lose weight, and boost your immune system. Check out our list of smart, healthy, food replacements:
Èlan Food Replacements
All-Purpose Flour
Half all purpose flour, half protein powder
Bacon
Lean bacon, bacon bits nade With soy
Butter
Fruit purees or yogurt in baking
Wine
Apple cider, chicken broth, rice wine vinegar, balsamic vinegar, depending in recipe
Cheese
Part-skin mozzarella, reduced-fat cheese, mild plain yogurt
Chocolate Chips
Half chips, half raisins
Cottage cheese
Low-fat cottage cheese, ricotta cheese
Eggs
1 egg plus 2 egg whites (twice the number of egg whites as eggs are required in recipes)
Graham crackers
Cornmeal, whole-grain cereal or muesli, wheat or oat bran cereal
Ground beef
Lean ground beef, tofu, ground turkey breast
Mayonaisse
Plain yogurt
Non-dairy creamers
Skim milk, reconstituted non-fat dry milk
Oil
Olive oil, coconut oil, linseed oil, grape seed oil, or apple sauce or chicken stock, depending on type of recipe
Salad dressing
Vinaigrette with linseed oil, grape seed oil, or olive oil. Also try simply using rice wine vinegar.
Sour cream
Plain yogurt
Condensed milk
Evaporated skim milk
Whipping cream
Half cottage cheese, half plain yogurt
White rice
Brown rice, amaranth, quinoa, spelt, barley, chickpeas
Whole milk
Skim milk, soy milk, almond milk