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New Year Revival Challenge: Week 4
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If you want to ligthen up your diet, one of the most important things you can do is to reduce your fat and sugar intake. This may sound like a big commitment - but in reality, it's not that hard!
There are some very simple steps you can take to reduce your fat and sugar intake, without trying too hard. And it doesn’t have to mean missing out on foods you enjoy. There are lots of ways to still enjoy something special without having a fat and sugar overload. To prove it, we’ve got two delicious recipes to show how easy it can be to make something tasty, that's both low in fat and sugar.  Reducing Fat in Your Diet- Chose lower fat dairy products. Edam cheese has 25% less fat than cheddar. Chose trim milk and low fat yoghurt. Don’t enjoy the taste as much? After a while, you do get used to the lower fat version and when you have a glass of full fat milk, it tastes like cream and is hard to drink!
- Learn to read labels. Compare fat per serving and per 100g. Chose the lowest fat version.
If you eat 20g cheese three times a week and drink 500ml (2 glasses) of milk a day, swapping to Edam cheese and trim milk will save you a whopping 5239.5g of fat per year, without having to put in much effort at all. Reducing Sugar in Your Diet - Cut out sugar in your tea and coffee. If you think it tastes horrible without sugar, do it gradually by reducing the size of the teaspoon you use. Or use artificial sweetener as a replacement. If you have 2 hot drinks a day and add a teaspoon to each - over a week that’s 14 teaspoons of sugar. In a year, it adds up to 728 teaspoons of sugar - or 2.9kgs.
- Let’s face it - who doesn’t enjoy a sweet treat every now and then? While it’s ok to indulge occasionally, it shouldn’t be an everyday thing. Here are some healthier options to enjoy.
Healthier choices - Low fat vanilla ice cream
- Sugar free jelly - try adding fresh berries for extra flavour.
- Frozen banana pieces.
- Fresh pineapple
- Iced chocolate made from Jarrah Chocolatte, trim milk and a scoop of low fat ice cream.
- Fruit kebabs - use melon, strawberries, seedless grapes and for something special add a couple of marshmallows to each one.
- Yoghurt
- Homemade low fat muffins
 Sweet Treat Recipes Chocolate Honeycomb mousse Serves two 2 packets of Weight Watchers chocolate mousse 250ml trim milk 2 pottles of vanilla flavoured yoghurt 1 mini Crunchie bar Pour the milk in a bowl and add the 2 packets of chocolate mousse. Beat with an electric mixer on a low speed until thickened (scraping down the chocolate powder from the sides of the bow). Next beat at a high speed for 3 minutes until the mixture is light and fluffy. Spoon the vanilla yoghurt into two glasses (wine or cocktail glasses look nice). Next spoon the chocolate mousse mix on top and cover, chill for an hour in the fridge. Before serving, chop up the Crunchie bar and put on top as a garnish. Banana and Blueberry Muffins Makes 12  ½ cup boiling water 2 cups baking bran ¾ cup plain flour ½ cup wholemeal flour 1 cup plain low fat yoghurt ¼ cup of grapeseed oil (don’t use olive oil as it gives the muffins an olive flavour) ¼ cup brown sugar 2 tbsp golden syrup 1 tsp baking soda ½ cup blueberries 1 ripe banana, mashed. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Pour boiling water over bran in a large mixing bowl. Stir to combine. When cool mix in flour and set aside. Combine the wholemeal flour, yoghurt, oil, brown sugar and baking soda in a separate bowl and mix until well combined. Add blueberries and mashed banana. Make a well in the flour/bran mix and pour in the other mixture. Mix until just combined. Leave mixture for 15 minutes, and then spoon into greased muffin tins to three quarters fill. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until cooked through.
Nicola Graham
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