Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Healthy Fats

One thing that will help us have a healthy heart is to make sure we use healthy fats. It sounds like an oxymoron huh? Healthy fats??

When i was learning to cook my mom and MIL both used Crisco. Getting rid of that and vegetable oil was one of the first changes I made in my kitchen.
I now use mostly extra virgin olive oil for sauteing, browning meat, etc and canola oil for baking. If a recipe calls for 1 cup of oil, I use at least 1/2 unsweetened applesauce.
I'm sold on I can't Believe it's Not Butter Spray, although I know some people don't like the taste.

There are so many healthy fat alternatives, find a few that will fit your lifestyle forever.
What do you use for baking, cooking and putting on your toast?
Please tell me you don't use crisco or vegetable oil....

5 comments:

  1. We have used olive oil for years but recently I also bought some walnut oil and some grapeseed oil to try to shake things up. We rarely use butter but sometimes we use a butter substitute that is made with olive oil.

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  2. I use extra virgin olive oil.

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  3. i do everything you do.
    I do, however, make the occasional homemade buttercream frosting, still it's better than the chemicals.

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  4. Okay, Lori. Here I am - a start to ask for help.

    I don't have much to offer others but I hope to learn from others.

    I'll put this blog on my sidebar to go to for help, for support, for encouragement, for ideas, but above all - FOR ME !!.... to learn and to MOVE.

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  5. I also use olive oil and the butter spray. I don't buy bread anymore and rarely bake, but if I had toast it would be I Can't Believe It's Not Butter as a topper.

    I'll admit I indulge in bacon about once or twice a month, and then fry potatoes in the grease. But that's lightyears from where I was only a few years ago, and the way I grew up.

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