If you are on a restricted diet, you are probably trying to reduce your intake of sugars and fats. Instead of thinking of all the delicious desserts that you can no longer eat, think of all the healthy ones that you can! Healthy doesn’t always mean you have to sacrifice taste. You will be happy to know that there are plenty of scrumptious low calorie deserts that you can make. It is better to go ahead and have some dessert instead of none. Learning self-control is the key to a successful diet, not starving and eliminating everything yummy.
Neither of the extremes is good when you are on a diet. This means it is not good to totally deprive yourself of everything labeled as ‘bad’. It is not good either to eat a whole bag of cookies or a quart of ice cream. Healthy means balance and moderation, not total elimination of ‘bad’ foods. Most unhealthy foods only become so when we eat too much of them! Swinging back and forth between starving yourself, then pigging out, will not get you anywhere in the long run. Go ahead and eat that cookie, but limit yourself to 4, instead of 12!
The truth is there are plenty of choices for those who are looking for satisfying diet desserts. Most all of our favorite ingredients for desserts are available in low fat or reduced sugar choices. If you love cream cheese, there is a low-fat version available at the grocery store. Turbinado sugar is raw sugar taken from sugar cane and pressed or crystallized. For example, if you love banana pudding in the summer, you can make this recipe by using reduced fat vanilla wafers, sugar-free vanilla pudding, 2% milk, and bananas. If that sounds too bland, go ahead and use the regular pudding mix and use skim milk to make it. Balance is about some give and take!
During digestion, the human body normally makes sugar from processing carbohydrates in the foods we eat. Glucose is present in many fruits and vegetables. You will be surprised as you cut down on sugar, you will begin to taste it where it occurs naturally in fruits. The problem is that there is so much added sugar in processed foods. Knowing where to look for it and eliminate it is the key. Here’s a totally sugar-free dessert to try. Slice up and mix together bananas, watermelon, cantaloupe, and strawberries. Add grapes and blueberries. Mix and chill. Serve in frosted glass dessert cups for a touch of extra cool. Enjoy!
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