The Food Nerds

Trying to eat healthy is difficult when you have a sweet tooth. You don’t have to feel bad when you eat something sweet. There are sweet and healthy foods you can eat that will satisfy your sweet tooth without adding fat and calories.

Real Fruit Smoothies
If you love milkshakes but don’t love the fat and calories you can try making a real fruit smoothie at home. This frosty drink is easy to make and has very little fat. Because you are making it at home you can choose from any variety of fresh or frozen fruit and use yogurt, sherbet or fat free, sugar free ice cream.

Fruit Pie
Pie crust can be made with graham crackers and margarine rather than flour and lard. This decreases the caloric content as well as the fat in the crust. For the filling you can use fresh fruit rather than canned or bagged and a sugar substitute such as Splenda that works great for baking. Fresh fruit will decrease the calories because it is not packed in a sugary water and it will give you more vitamins than canned fruit.

Chocolate
If you are a chocolate lover and have difficulty giving it up when you are dieting, you don’t have to. You can make chocolate chip cookies and use a sugar substitute and half the amount of chips. Use margarine rather than real butter. If you enjoy chocolate covered fruit you can use bakers chocolate sweetened with a sugar free substitute.

Just because you are dieting doesn’t mean you have to give up your sweets. Feel free to enjoy but don’t overindulge. By substituting some of the key ingredients you can learn to make diet friendly sweets at home.