1) Use low- fat cheese spread on your toast instead of butter, or low-fat spread.
2.) Use low-fat melted cheese on your toast, instead of butter.
3.) Have reduced-fat hummus on your toast instead of butter.
4.) Instead of a sandwich with butter; make a pizza with your toast (prepared with minimum oil, tomato paste, low-fat cheese, and the more vegetables the better – to make it more filling for fewer calories).
5.) Substitute lower-fat versions for high-fat versions of frequently eaten foods, e.g. low-fat mayo, low-fat salad dressings, low-fat soups, low-fat cheeses, skimmed milk, low-fat ice cream.
6.) Stop frying foods.
Poach or boil your eggs, broil your chicken and fish in water, stock or wine (the meat is a lot more juicy done this way too), steam, broil or microwave vegetables, in a little water, grill mushrooms, create soup or casserole and stew style dishes, which serve the meat and vegetables with the water it is cooked in, so that the flavours and juices which leach into the water are not lost.
7.) Trim fat from steaks, remove skin from chicken, choose lean cuts of meats and lean minces, and choose lower fat types of meat, such as chicken and fish.
8.) If you fancy cheese with your meal; go for low- fat versions of cheeses, e.g low-fat mozzarella, or older, more mature cheeses with a strong flavour, which mean that you can add less without compromising on flavour, e.g Parmesan.
9.) Make fruit your friend in combating the chocolate/cake/crisp/cookie cravings – have as much fruit as you like to satisfy the craving and prevent you from going for the vending machine.
Apples are the best (with lots of fibre), oranges and melon are very good too – but any amount of any fruit is better than the dreaded c-words.
10.) BE PREPARED and take fruit or other good low-calorie, filling snack foods or packed lunches with you when you go out, to battle those cravings for choccies, crisps and cakes.
Stock up your cupboards with good low-calorie filling snack foods , to fight off cravings for the bad stuff.
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