When I started the South Beach diet about a month ago, finding things to eat for lunch became very hard.
In the first two weeks of the South Beach diet, you are not supposed to eat bread, rice, pasta, croutons, crackers...you get the point.
Salads get boring, and sometimes you just want a little more than a piece of meat for dinner.
So, I started thinking about some healthy alternatives to get me through it. One thing I tried was cutting up chicken, cooking it in some soy sauce and wrapping it in lettuce, to create a kind of Thai lettuce wrap. They are delicious and have easily become one of my favorite things to eat!
Health.com offers several more tips for some healthy swap-outs to some of your everyday fattening challenges, including:
*sprinkling walnuts over your salad instead of croutons
*drinking red wine instead of cocktails
*snacking on edamame and nuts instead of cheese and crackers
*having margerine spread instead of butter and more.
Check them out, you might find some of them to be quite useful!
http://health.msn.com/health-topics/cholesterol/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100252284>1=31007
Do any of YOU have some healthy swap-outs to suggest?
posted @ Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:29 PM