What to eat instead: One stick of string
cheese has less sugar than yogurt and won't overload you with calories.
Not exact matches
While we
've come to think of the iconic PB&J as a convenient, healthy alternative to a sandwich made with lean meats or veggies, a classic peanut butter and jelly sandwich packs more
sugar and calories than the standard turkey and
cheese or hummus sandwich — and
has less protein, a key muscle - building ingredient that also helps keep you feeling full until your next meal.
But with my second child, almost 13 years and trying to go
sugar - free at that time, using
less refined flours and eating more whole grains, I knew the boxed mac - n -
cheese buying
had to stop.
Ingredients 2 1/4 cups all - purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 cups granulated
sugar, plus an additional 1/2 cup for rolling 2 ounces cream
cheese, softened 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted 1/3 cup vegetable oil 1 large egg 1 tablespoon whole milk 1 teaspoon lemon oil (if you can't find lemon oil, try using 1 tablespoon of finely grated lemon zest) 1 teaspoons vanilla extract (I used
less vanilla extract than the original recipe so it wouldn't compete with the lemon oil.)
Since cashews
have a natural sweetness, a cashew cheesecake
would use
less sugar than the cream
cheese version.
But instead of full fat cream
cheese and tons of eggs and
sugar like most cheesecakes
have, I used 1/3
less fat cream
cheese and Greek yogurt, plus 1 egg and only 1/3 cup
sugar.
If you
've got flour,
sugar, butter, cream
cheese, and cream in the house, you, too, can
have delicious scones in
less than 30 minutes.
They
had processed high -
sugar breakfast cereals (heaven forbid they should actually cook some oatmeal), gallons of fresh milk (because powdered is «icky» and they won't eat it),
cheese (that was a luxury we couldn't afford), frozen convenience foods, juice (which is much
less healthy than fruit and expensive relative to nutrients), and soda, candy, donuts, cookies, cracker, ice cream and other treats we couldn't possibly afford.
I milk my own Jersey, eat my own eggs and meat beef, chicken goat; grow many of my own veggies year round, eat lots of cream and butter, the fat on my meat, bone broth; within the last year
have given up vegetable oils except olive; gluten free for 2 years; very little organic cane
sugar say
less than 2 - 3 T. daily, many days none; wine and
cheese of my own making, mostly my own and daily; milk and / or water kefir daily; work at home is my exercise along with stretching; 90 % organix in everything.
drink water, light lemonade, or the fuse unsweeted tea, the green tea is loaded with
sugar and fake «antioxidents», do nt get
cheese, and go light on the sauce, the baked bags of chips
have 1/3
less chips in them than the normal bag of classic lays, go figure
less calories, get apples instead of chips and cookies all together, get wheat bread as the
cheese breads add on close to 100 calories per footlong..
So overall, the
less sweet a fermented dairy product is (the sourer the cream, or the savorier the
cheese) the
less sugar it
has overall.
The resulting
cheese depends on a number of factors including the balance of fat, protein and milk
sugars in the milk which varies by animal (e.g. sheep milk is about 9 % fat and 5 % protein, whereas cow's milk
has about 4 % fat and 3 % protein), the bacteria used, how the curds are processed, how long the
cheese is kept before eating and how much water is left in the
cheese (soft
cheese contains over 45 % water, hard / semi-hard
cheeses contain 30 - 45 % water, and dry hard
cheeses such as Parmesan
have less than 30 % moisture content).