Light and delicious alternatives
Light and delicious alternatives
If you lose your pasta, you can substitute it for some 100% guilt-free zucchini noodles; and normal cheese, for fresh or creamy low-calorie cheeses such as cottage cheese. A light, colorful alternative … and exquisite!
Sauces with yogurt
Sauces with yogurt
Yogurt is a perfect food as a substitute for mayonnaise and sauces with heavy cream or cream. A very light and super simple proposal consists of mixing a skimmed yogurt with minced garlic and onion, mint and saffron. A teaspoon of this sauce provides 5 calories compared to 200 in 25 g of mayonnaise.
Less fatty chicken
Less fatty chicken
If you are tired of the typical grilled chicken breast, you can cook it on the grill or in the oven. It is very simple and with 0% fat. And if you marinate it half an hour before putting it on the fire with lemon juice and a mixture of spices, the result is spectacular and much juicier.
Vegetable juices
Vegetable juices
Vegetable juices are much less caloric than fruit juices, because they have less sugars and, therefore, are more suitable in a diet to lose weight. To enhance the flavor, you can add fresh ginger root, lemon, and mint to the mix, for example.
Pasta, rice and cereals with vegetables
Pasta, rice and cereals with vegetables
Pasta, rice and cereals go very well with meat. But if we accompany them with vegetables, they are more balanced and light, since vegetables provide fiber, vitamins and minerals without the calories of meat.
See the recipe for pasta bows with vegetables.
Croquettes without bechamel
Croquettes without bechamel
To lighten the croquettes, you can substitute the dough bechamel for roasted or baked aubergine, skinless and well crushed. In addition to giving them body, it will give them a smooth and delicate flavor.
Eggplant to thicken
Eggplant to thicken
In addition to replacing béchamel in croquettes, aubergine also serves to thicken creams or stews that have been too runny, instead of using potato or flour, the traditional options. The same effect is achieved with a third of calories.
Combine meat with fruit
Combine meat with fruit
Instead of other super heavy options like French fries, you can use a myriad of fruits as a garnish. The apple and papaya, as in these skewers, for example, are two fruits that give a lot of play in exchange for very few calories.
Fish Kebabs
Fish Kebabs
Skewers are always a good option because they usually include fruits and vegetables. And if they are from fish instead of meat, they provide fewer calories.
See the recipe for the rooster and prawn skewers with citrus.
The marinating technique
The marinating technique
The marinating technique allows foods such as salmon, for example, to be cooked in a mixture of oil, vinegar and lemon, which enhances its flavor without adding salt, thus helping to avoid fluid retention.
Losing weight with Laura, our colleague from clara.es who has done the #Clara Challenge, and continuing to enjoy good food is possible if we cook food or combine it in a lighter way , but just as appetizing. As we tell you in the 10 tricks of the image gallery.
All foods can be cooked and combined in a lighter way, but just as delicious
This will make it easier for you to follow the low-calorie diet that Dr. M.ª Isabel Beltrán, our nutritionist, has prepared for the weekly challenge menus.
And it is that losing weight and losing weight does not have to be difficult if you have an easy diet to follow, and that does not leave you hungry. And more if you have the detailed menu of the week and your shopping list, in addition to these tricks.
