Healthy Food Alternatives to Unhealthy
1. Chocolate / Dark Chocolate
If you make sure you’re eating organic dark chocolate instead of milk or white chocolate, you’ll find it’s much better for you. Dark chocolate is actually quite nutritious and contains fibre, iron, magnesium, copper, potassium, phosphorus, zinc and selenium – all of which are good for you. It’s also full of antioxidants, which help keep you young.
2. Chips / Sweet Potato Wedges
It’s time to bin the chip-shop chips and opt for something healthier and, dare we say it, tastier. Sweet potatoes have high levels of beta-carotene and have been proven to raise levels of vitamin A in our blood. They’re also full of vitamins B6, C and D. Vitamin B6 may help reduce levels of degenerative diseases and heart attacks.
3. Ice cream / frozen yogurt
Ice cream is essentially churned, frozen fat and sugar. Frozen yogurt is a lot lower in both and contains probiotics to help our digestive system. However, it is still quite high in calories and you cut out any health benefits if you go and cover it in melted toffee. Try pairing it with fresh fruit or nuts as a sweet and tasty replacement for your dessert.
4. Beer / spirits or wine
Here’s a scary fact – drinking five pints of lager a week adds up to 44,200kcal over a year or the same as eating 221 doughnuts. A pint of beer can have around 180 calories in it while a single measure of spirits has just 61 calories. Match that with a soda water and some fresh lime juice and you’ve got a less fattening alternative. Even red wine has fewer calories, at 159 a glass, and it includes antioxidants.
5. Burgers / Chicken burger
Your standard burger can have around 350 calories in it. However, if you were to replace this with a grilled chicken breast, it’d be just 220 calories –and that’s for a large 150g piece of chicken.
6. Butter / Margarine
While debates on the health benefits of butter versus margarine often bring up the various additives in margarine, by buying a good quality, olive oil spread and using it when baking, you can make your cupcakes light as air as well as being a bit healthier.
7. Pizza / Pitta pockets
Layers of cheese, thick dough and salty sausages are all tasty but not very healthy. Instead of ordering a pizza, why not make some homemade pitta pockets. Use warmed, wholewheat pitta breads and fill them with spicy chicken and salad for a healthier dinner.
8. Crisps / Popcorn
Crisps are full of salt and saturated fat and, as they are often put out in a bowl, it’s hard to judge how much you’re eating. Replace them with lightly salted or plain popcorn for a healthier snack. It’s a good idea to buy plain popcorn and cook it yourself so you can measure how much salt you want to add. Popcorn is also full of anti-oxidants, loaded with fibre, and low in calories.
9. Sweets / dried fruit
Most of us have a sweet tooth, but high-sugar sweets have little to no nutritional value. Replace them with healthier dried fruits like mango, apple or cherry. For a super-healthy alternative, try dried goji berries, which are full of nutrients.
10. Cake / Banana Bread
Most cakes aren’t particular healthy, but if you want an option that has some benefits try a whole wheat, organic banana bread. It’s full of fiber and the whole wheat contains potassium, magnesium and zinc.
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