We Can All Use a Few Tips!

My poor kitchen is suffering a horrible abuse. KITCHEN NEGLECT. I hate being so busy that I don't have time to cook anything new and excited to share with everyone.
SO... I thought I would share a few tips to try next time your baking for your family. We all have kids, kids love cookies, cakes, anything with sugar, fat and loaded with calories. Do you find yourself reaching for the premade mixes for cookies and cakes? We all find ourselves in that situation at least once or twice.

Most mixes call for oil, whole eggs, butter, all things loaded down with fat (not that all egg fat is bad, because it's not, but another time). Here are my top 3 things that I do to cut calories and fat in a hurry-

1. omit all the butter/oil and use natural unsweetened applesauce (4oz. for every 1/2 cup)
2. If a recipe calls for 2 eggs I will use 4 egg whites OR 1 whole egg and 2 egg whites
3. If I can I will use my own chocolate chips (on cookies) and wait until I have got the dough on the cookie sheet before I place 4 chocolate chips in each cookie, automatic portion control! Each cookie gets the same chocolate chips and you can usually get by with 2 servings of morsels for a 1 dozen batch-cutting way down on a typical 1 cup or 1/2 bag in usual recipes.

Just by omitting butter/oil you can slash over 600 calories off a recipe. Little changes like that make a BIG difference!


Happy and healthy cooking!
...hope I get some time to get back into my kitchen soon!