Healthy food swaps

Healthy food swaps

Healthy food swaps

Pasta  = Spaghetti squash, Spiralized Zucchini

  • Skip the heavy high carb meal and sub in spaghetti squash or zucchini linguine for a guilt -free pasta dish!

French Fries = Baked sweet potato fries

  • Sweet potato are a great and healthy option for a side dish.

Cow’s milk = Almond milk

  • Dairy is often a trigger for an upset stomach. Sub your cow’s milk for a nut like almond milk or coconuts milk.

Fruit Juice = coconut water 

  • many fruit juices have electrolytes, but they are also packed with sugar.
  • Try a natural coconut water loaded with potassium and electrolytes!

White sugar = Raw honey, pure maple syrup, coconut sugar

  • Stay away from refined sugar! Go for a natural sweetener.

Ice cream = Banana ice cream

  • Ditch the sugar-packed ice cream for a frozen banana ‘ice cream’ alternative. Simply blend a frozen banana in your high-speed blender until it reaches the texture of ice cream.

Mayo = Avocado

  • Sub out mayo for avocado in chicken salads and egg salads to add some healthy fats into your diet!

Mashed Potatoes = Cauliflower mash

  • Ditch the heavy cream and potatoes, and sub it for a cauliflower mash! You won’t miss those potatoes. Make it creamy with almond milk, grass-fed butter, and season it with Himalyan sea salt!

Cocoa Powder cacao powder

  • Cocoa powder is processed, stripped of nutrients, and contains low level of cacao. Cacao is high  in antioxidants. promotes healthy skin and healthy heart

Canola/Vegetable oil = Avocado oil, coconut oil, extra virgin olive oil, ghee, grass-fed butter

  • It’s no secret that we should stay away from vegetable oils. Avocado, coconut. and olive oil are swaps- ghee (Clarified butter), and grass -fed butter are also great alternatives!

Table salt = Himalayan Sea Salt 

  • Table salt is depleted of its natural minerals. Himalayan sea salt contains over 80 essential minerals needed for our body, and is good source of magnesium!

White Rice = Cauliflower Rice

  • For a lighter meal, sub out white rice for cauliflower rice! process cauliflower in your food processor until it becomes rice texture

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