who woulda thought...

Who woulda thought that low-calorie food could be so delicious! As I've mentioned we've started to cook and eat much healthier! We have 3 'diet' cookbooks that have great recopies all under 500 calories. So far it's going great! I have found that the recipes are for food we love, and aren't difficult to make at all! The issue with staying below the calorie mark isn't finding yummy low calorie items, it's serving size.

interesting facts about servings:

1 serving of fish or chicken is about the size of a deck of cards.

1 serving of pasta should fit in the palm of your hand

1 serving of fruit or veggies is a baseball

1 serving of cheese is a domino

1 serving of bread is ... haha who are we kidding?! eating bread!?


Think about it, the last time you were having a healthy meal of broiled chicken and steamed veggies, did you eat 1/3 of a chicken breast? Did you only have less than a handfull of veggies?? Actual servings sizes are TINY.

Although we having been making very yummy, low calorie food, most of the times I eat about 1.25 servings. Which isn't too bad considering we are making meals that have about 300 calories in one serving.



To the right is a Chicken Caprese Salad. We used 1 serving of broiled chicken, 1/2 large tomato, 2.5 slices of low-fat, part skim, fresh mozzarella, chopped basil on top of romaine lettuce with a calorie free (YUP ZERO CALORIES!) balsamic vinaigrette. Yumm Yumm Yumm- total: about 270 calories.