Food Replacements
As a doctor, Jeff Levine (season 2) knows how to make life-saving decisions for his patients. Now, he’s doing it for himself by changing his eating (and cooking) habits. His tip for a delicious, satisfying meal? Food Replacements: keep the most flavorful ingredients, and replace the least flavorful. Here's how it works: Instead of lox and bagels, try lox and Wasa bread. All the flavor is in the salmon. So skip the bland bagel and heap that fish on a cracker. "I can eat five slices of Wasa bread and it adds up to only 100 calories, with very little fat or carbohydrate. I put fat-free cream cheese on the Wasa bread with the onions and lox, and I don’t even taste the difference!" Instead of spaghetti sauce and pasta, try spaghetti sauce and spaghetti squash. All the flavor is in the tomato and garlic of the sauce. So replace the pasta with a high-fiber, filling veggie. "Half a cup of spaghetti squash has only 23 calories, compared to pasta at 100 calories. I'm a pasta person, and spaghetti squash is a terrific food replacement. I want to see if I can sneak it past my kids."
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