Don’t starve yourself all day so you can eat more at dinner- Eat breakfast and lunch prior to dinner
- Won’t get over hungry and won’t over eat at dinner
- More than one Thanksgiving in the same day?
- Put a bite of each item on your plate and don’t stuff yourself at one dinner
- Remember, you still have another dinner so if you’re still hungry don’t go back for more
- Keep the general recommendation of half your plate vegetables, a quarter from carbohydrates (preferably whole grain) and the other quarter lean meat
- Remember to take the skin off of your turkey
- Take smaller portions of items so you can still try everything you want to taste
- Remember, it is not a buffet
- Try to take smaller portions or limit your intake of the fattier options.
- These include anything creamy, buttery, and cheesy
- When trying to pick between apple pie or pumpkin pie, choose pumpkin
- Apple pie has a greater amount of crust and it tends to be flakier, which means more fat and more calories
- If you’re cooking this Thanksgiving you can make your meal a little more healthy with these helpful substitutions:
Recipe Calls For | Substitution |
1 whole egg | 2 egg whites |
sour cream | low fat plain yogurt or low fat sour cream |
milk | skim or 1% |
ice cream | frozen yogurt, frozen yogurt with live cultures even better! |
heavy cream (not for whipping) | 1:1 ratio of flour whisked into non fat milk (e.g. 1 cup flour + 1 cup of non fat milk) |
whipped cream | chilled evaporated skim milk or other low fat whipped products like Nutriwhip |
cheese | low-fat cheese |
butter | light butter |
cream of mushroom | fat-free cream of mushroom |
