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Tailor Your Diet Towards Healthier Foods
Even though you are working out everyday to lose weight, you may still need help with making healthy food choices. A trip to the grocery store is confusing and sometimes irritating. What can I have instead of a bagel? Which product is healthier?
Here's our list of making healthy food choices:
Carbohydrates and breakfast foods
| Instead of: | Eat this: |
| Croissants, biscuits, white breads and rolls | Low-fat whole grain breads and rolls (wheat, rye and pumpernickel) |
| Doughnuts, pastries and scones | English muffins and small whole grain bagels |
| Fried tortillas | Soft tortillas (corn or whole wheat) |
| Sugar cereals and regular granola | Oatmeal, low-fat granola and whole-grain cereal |
| Snack crackers | Crackers (animal, graham, rye, soda, saltine, oyster) |
| Potato or corn chips and buttered popcorn | Pretzels (unsalted) and popcorn (unbuttered) |
| White pasta | Whole-wheat pasta |
| White rice | Brown rice |
| Fried rice, or pasta and rice mixes that contain high-fat sauces | Rice or pasta (without egg yolk) with vegetable sauces |
| All-purpose white flour | 100% whole-wheat flour |
Fruit & Vegetables
| Instead of: | Eat this: |
| Fried vegetables or vegetables served with cream, cheese or butter sauces | Raw, steamed, broiled, baked or tossed with a very small amount of olive oil |
| Canned, sweetened fruit | Canned, unsweetened (or low) fruit |
| French fries, hash browns and potato chips | Baked white or sweet potatoes |
Meat and poultry
| Instead of: | Eat this: |
| Regular or breaded fish sticks or cakes | Homemade lightly breaded and baked fish sticks |
| Fish canned in oil | Fish canned in water |
| Prime and marbled cuts | Select-grade lean beef (round, sirloin and loin) |
| Pork spare ribs and bacon | Lean pork (tenderloin and loin chop) and turkey bacon |
| Regular ground beef | Lean or extra-lean ground beef, ground chicken and turkey breast |
| Lunch meats such as pepperoni, salami, bologna and liverwurst | Lean lunch meats such as turkey, chicken and ham |
| Regular hot dogs or sausage | Fat-free hot dogs and turkey dogs |
Milk, cheese, and other dairy products
| Instead of: | Eat this: |
| Whole or 2% milk | Non-fat or 1% milk |
| Evaporated milk | Evaporated non-fat milk |
| Regular buttermilk | Buttermilk made from non-fat (or 1%) milk |
| Yogurt made with whole milk | Nonfat or low-fat yogurt |
| Regular cheese | Low-fat cheese with less than 3 grams of fat per serving |
| Regular cottage cheese | Low-fat, nonfat, and dry-curd cottage cheese with less than 2% fat |
| Regular cream cheese | Low-fat cream cheese (no more than 3 grams of fat per ounce) |
| Regular ice cream | Sorbet, sherbet and nonfat or low-fat ice cream (no more than 3 grams of fat per 1/2 cup serving) |
Dressing, mayo, oils
| Instead of: | Eat this: |
| Cookies | Fig bars, gingersnaps and molasses cookies |
| Shortening, butter or margarine | Olive, soybean and canola oils |
| Regular mayonnaise | Nonfat or light mayonnaise |
| Regular salad dressing | Nonfat or light salad dressing |
| Using fat (including butter) to grease pan | Nonstick cooking spray |
