Eating a healthy diet doesn’t mean you have to stop eating the food you love.
Here are some tips and hints from our team on how you can still have your cake and eat it too!
Red Cross works with a wide variety of communities with people experiencing hardship and have limited access to healthy food. Part of our work aims to give people greater opportunities to improve their own and their families' health.
Modifying recipes
There are a lot of ways to modify recipes to make them healthier while keeping them tasty.
Many recipes call for more fat, sugar and salt than is needed for good flavour and a good quality result.
Try some of these healthy variations in your next bake:
- use ½ wholemeal and ½ white flour to increase the fibre content
- add chopped or grated vegetables or fruit to pikelets, pancakes, scones and muffins to increase vitamins and minerals
- add nuts and seeds to add texture and crunch to your baking – you won’t need much
Swap out the fat and sugar:
- swap butter for margarine or oil
- swap sugar for fruit puree
- swap full cream milk for skim or low fat milk
- swap cream for natural yoghurt
- swap some of the flour in a recipe for oat bran, fine polenta, or oats
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Portion control:
- use mini muffin tins
- split cake mixture between two smaller tins
- match the cake tin size to the number of serves you want – this way you won’t be left with too much temptation at the end of your cake bake
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How to make natural sweetener:
To make a natural sweetener to substitute sugar in a recipe, just simmer apples or pears in a little water until soft, then puree.
Apple puree can be substituted in a ratio of 1:1 for sugar i.e. 1 cup of apple puree can be used to replace 1 cup of sugar. However, you will need to reduce the liquid in the recipe by ¼. For example if a recipe calls for 1 cup (250 mL) of milk, only add ¾ cup (190 mL) of milk.
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