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I tried a recipe where you substituted cooked cauliflower for mashed potatoes and it was wonderful. Now I substitute cauliflower in all my potato recipes. So I thought, why not see what other things I could substitute cauliflower for that would be as good. I now use cauliflower as a substitute for pasta, with a low fat pasta sauce it is every bit as good as spaghetti or macaroni. This saves hundreds of calories and is really good.
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To substitute for mashed potatoes, just boil up a head of cauliflower, drain and mash. For a pasta substitute cook flowerettes, drain and use your favorite low fat sauces. Top with a bit of Parmesan.4
Donate High fat, high sugar, high carb foods to a food bank
Clean out your pantry, fridge and freezer! Remove all baked goods, anything white or that says enriched, anything that contains more than 3 grams of sugar per serving. All rice, except Brown rice,all corn or beets as they turn quickly into sugar, all white sugar, brown sugar, honey, molasses, and corn syrup. No ketchup. No white pasta... Any canned soup which has lots of sodium. Make a commitment to yourself to lose weight. Dump any processed foods. Eat fresh vegetables and fruit
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Make homemade soup it's lower in sodium Buy Smucker's sugar free jelly Buy Dreamfield's pasta which has only 5 digestable carbs for 2 ounces of pasta
Donate High fat, high sugar, high carb foods to a food bank
Clean out your pantry, fridge and freezer! Remove all baked goods, anything white or that says enriched, anything that contains more than 3 grams of sugar per serving. All rice, except Brown rice,all corn or beets as they turn quickly into sugar, all white sugar, brown sugar, honey, molasses, and corn syrup. No ketchup. No white pasta... Any canned soup which has lots of sodium. Make a commitment to yourself to lose weight. Dump any processed foods. Eat fresh vegetables and fruit
MORE INFORMATION:
Make homemade soup it's lower in sodium Buy Smucker's sugar free jelly Buy Dreamfield's pasta which has only 5 digestable carbs for 2 ounces of pasta
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