If you're tempted to buy processed fat-free foods to lose weight, consider switching to a more healthy diet plan instead. Fruits and vegetables make up the bulk of fat-free juices and foods, and they all have a combination of vitamins, minerals, fiber and phytonutrients that your body needs. Eating these flavorful foods makes it easy stick with a diet long enough to lose weight.
Reduced-fat dairy products and naturally fat-free foods help you fulfill the recommended daily values of these essential nutrients within different calorie limits. Whatever your dietary goals are, healthy nonfat fruits, vegetables, grains, condiments, desserts and beverages can help you reach them, guilt free.
Solids
Popular fat-free foods that fill you up include standard-serving sizes of potatoes, rice, bulgar, popcorn and some ready-to-eat cereals, such as General Mills Chex rice and corn varieties. Check the package, though; some cereals do contain significant fat. Some baked goods made without oil or eggs have no fat, such as pound cake, and are perfect for a healthy diet, along with fat-free blueberries, raspberries, strawberries or nectarines.
If you're trying to lose weight, fill your menu with nonfat veggie entrees and sides, including spinach, cabbage and lettuce. Broccoli, squash, cauliflower and sweet potatoes are healthy foods that have no fat. Put the finishing touch on dishes with fat-free water chestnuts, radishes, onions, peppers, tomatoes or alfalfa sprouts--but no avocadoes.
Liquids
You can save quite a few fat grams, dollars and calories by drinking only water. Gelatin desserts have no fat and very low calories. These two items can help you lose weight by satisfying your thirst or hunger without added fat. Other zero-fat beverages include wine and beer, grapefruit juice, orange juice, prune juice, lemonade and cranberry juice cocktail.
Tomato juice and carrot juice make good additions to a healthy diet. For children, popsicles and chocolate milk made with nonfat milk and chocolate syrup have no fat. Coffee, tea and carbonated beverages are also widely consumed fat-free drinks.
Miscellaneous
Egg whites contain no fat. Among condiments, soy sauce, mustard, barbecue sauce and catsup are nonfat, while regular mayonnaise, which most restaurants use, is not. Lemon juice enhances flavor without adding fats. Other seasonings and toppings that don't add fat to your dishes include vinegar, garlic, chives, dill weed, oregano, parsley, salt and pepper.
Fat-free cream cheese, yogurt and cottage cheese all have no fat content, as defined by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Sweeteners such as sugar, honey and syrups, as well as hard candies, have no fat but do contribute calories to a healthy diet plan.
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