Easy Ways to Cut Fat and Calories

Tips to trim calories and fat without giving up your favorite foods.

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Cutting a few calories at every meal will add up to real calorie savings. Her are some culinary "special effects" that you can try to trim some calories and fat.

  • Substitute leaner meats for fattier ones, such as white-meat poultry for dark, lean ground turkey for ground beef, or pork tenderloins for ribs.

  • Bake or broil instead of frying in oil, which saturated whatever you're cooking, especially if the food is breaded.

  • Remove skin from poultry, trim visible fat from meat, and throw out the egg yolks. Why worry about hidden fat when the fat you can see -- and remove -- does most of the harm?

  • Buy low-fat or sugar-free products. If you haven't recently tried low-fat or fat-free foods (especially cheese), try them again: They've gotten better. If one brand doesn't taste good to you, try another. And you'll always save calories by replacing whole milk with fat-free or using naturally lower-fat cheeses such as mozzarella instead of higher-fat ones such as cheddar.

  • Mix higher-fat meats, cheeses, and other foods with lower-fat versions if you don't want to make wholesale substitutions.
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