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GEETA KHURANA on how a few simple changes to our regular diet can lead to a healthier and happier lifestyle

• Swap a ham and cheddar cheese sandwich with light ham and reduced fat white cheese

• Swap the cheesy and creamy sauces in curries and pastas with tomato and vegetable based sauces

• Swap mashed potatoes with butter and full cream milk to mashed potato with low fat milk and margarine

• Swap potato with sweet potato

• Swap bacon with lean cuts of meat

• Swap bacon with turkey breast

• Swap a meat pizza with a vegetarian or feta cheese and spinach pizza

• Swap tuna in oil with the spring water version

• Swap commercial high fat sauces with homemade tomato and vegetable based sauces

• Swap high fat burgers with turkey burgers the year is at an end, and summer is here again. No longer can we hide behind bulky woollens to disguise our weight. Another year and we’ll be making another resolution to start eating healthy meals. We all are constantly battling with tasty and unhealthy food, or with obesity. We could try all the different diets that everyone keeps on suggesting, but to no avail. So in the New Year, let’s try and do something different. Instead of not eating or starving, lets try and swap a few foods around, and see if we can maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Here are some tips.

Breakfast

• Swap full cream milk with low fat milk

• Swap a teaspoon of sugar on your cereal with a topping of fresh or dried fruit, and some seeds

• Swap butter on toast with salt reduced margarine or avocado

• Swap sugar laden cereals with porridge or rolled oats

• Swap fried eggs with poached or boiled eggs

• Swap white bread with multigrain or wholemeal

• Swap regular peanut butter for the low-fat salt-reduced version

• Swap a toasted croissant for a toasted raisin toast

• Swap toasted muesli with untoasted muesli

• Swap coffee and tea whiteners with evaporated low fat milk

• Swap a glass of juice with a piece of fresh fruit

• Swap paranthas with plain chappatis, besan pura or missi roti

• Swap vadas with vegetable idlis

• Swap plain poha with vegetable poha

Main meals:

• Swap white bread, bagels, and muffins for multigrain or wholemeal varieties

• Swap chicken wings with chicken breast

• Swap a side dish of chips with a side dish of salad

• Swap unhealthy salad dressings for fresh herbs, lemon juice, Balsamic vinegar and olive oil

• Swap mayonnaise and coleslaw with low fat yoghurt

• Swap a Caesar or potato salad with garden or bean salad

• Swap full fat yoghurt with fat reduced yoghurt

• Swap fried and battered fish with grilled fish and fresh herbs and lemon

• Swap sausages with lean meat and lean mince

• Swap fried chicken with chicken breast

• White rice with brown rice or quinoa

• Swap fried rice with boiled rice

• Swap butter and ghee for polyunsaturated and mono unsaturated fats

• Swap ladles of oil with an oil spray

• Swap puri with plain chappati

• Swap pickles for mint coriander chutney

• Swap the frying pan for the grill

• Swap the pan for a pressure cooker

Sometimes even a few changes in our food choices have a far greater impact and help us achieve a healthy lifestyle. Why not give it a try?

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