15 Common Healthy Food Substitutions

If you're attempting to get back on track with healthy eating, here are a few common healthy food substitutions you can try to reduce your caloric intake while keeping most of the taste the same.

• Replace whole milk with fat free milk
• Replace sour cream with plain low fat yogurt
• Replace cheese with reduced calorie or fat free cheese
• Replace Ramen Noodles with rice or spaghetti macaroni
• Replace granola with bran flakes or crispy rice
• Replace white rice with brown rice
• Replace cold cuts or lunch meat with low-fat lunch meat
• Replace regular ground beef with extra lean ground beef or extra lean ground turkey
• Replace breaded fish with unbreaded fish
• Replace whole eggs with egg whites
• Replace Sugar with stevia or splenda or reduce amount of sugar by 1/2
• Replace table salt with unsalted herbs and spices
• Replace ice cream with frozen yogurt
• Replace margarine/butter with a light version
• Replace regular salad dressing with a lite or fat free salad dressing