Yesterday we featured a cake that's light on prep work, but today we're going all out and rounding up 10 baked goods that are easy on ingredients and your waistline. There's breads, muffins, pastries and best of all — they're low on sugar and fat!
First Row, Left To Right
• Goat Cheese and Grape Galettes: These galettes are packed with notes of both sweet and savory.
• Recipe: Hearty & Healthy Apple Muffins: Packed with whole grain goodness and a bit of sweet!
• Baked Apples with Cranberry Sauce: Just because Thanksgiving is gone, doesn't mean we can't still enjoy this dish for a few more months.
• Blueberry-Oat Quick Bread: There's no added oil or fat in this recipe and it's packed with fruit and oats!
• Bruised Apricot Breakfast Pie: There's very little added sugar to this tasty breakfast treat. Who says pie has to be bad for you?
Second Row, Left To Right
• Yogurt Biscuits with Dill: The fat and liquid in this dough is yogurt and Smart Balance, it puffs them high and won't leave you feeling heavy afterward.
• Ginger Applesauce Cake: This recipe is low on sugar and high on yummy add ins. Perfect for breakfast or mid-day snack.
• Whole Wheat Raisin English Muffins: This morning treat is sure to make your tastebuds sing!
• Persimmon Oat Muffins: This recipe calls for soy milk and oats and packs a serious flavor punch!
• Oatmeal Toasting Bread: An everyday bread that is packed with oats and isn't a challenge to make!
• Related: Five Ways to Eat: Oats
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By my math, those galettes work out to almost 1,000 calories each...
my mouth is watering at the thought of those galettes
The galettes do look amazing. But I agree with msingerman--They are about 900 calories each! Even if I only eat half of one, that is hardly "easy on the waistband" The crust is over half of the calories though: maybe I could modify it somehow to lighten it up...use lowfat goat cheese and put the crust in strips over the top (like a loosely latticed pie) or something. If I only use 1/3 of the dough, the calories get cut down to about 500...
Realistically, how many people will eat a biscuit without adding butter, jam or honey? A plain biscuit can become a rich source of fat and sugar within minutes. Same goes with the english muffins, coffee cake and toasting bread. Pie crust is hardly low fat. I think the title of this post is misleading given the bake goods selected.
There's 800 calories per galette. You could omit the pine nuts, the extra melted butter and use lowfat goat cheese and the galettes would have 550 calories each.
Oh look, two posts touting food that won't "weigh us down". Can we skip the guilt and just have recipes and blog posts about cooking without the moralizing, please?
In moderation, neither dietary fat nor sugar will contribute to excess weight gain.
lona: The easiest way to eat baked goods without adding the extra sugar & fat (butters, jellies, jams) is to eat them with soup. Dip them instead of feeling the need to layer them with additional ingredients.
Also, the ability to think of breakfast breads as something other than "toast" and using them in say a homemade breakfast sandwich with a bit of egg and tomato would be far superior to a thick layer of butter or cream cheese (at least when it comes to calories and nutritional value).
I made this Saturday night and my partner and I both did the "Oh, this is good" but weren't blown away. Then, a couple movies later, we tried it again and again said, "Oh, this is nice". I put the rest in plastic wrap and left in fridge for lunch today. And I have to say, this is one of those breads that gets better with a bit of age. Today, I got more of the apple taste, as well as the nice pairing of walnuts with spices. And it was lightly moist!
When I make it again, I might add some more of the spices and maybe toast the walnuts.
Thank you for posting this recipe!
Oops, I should have stated "this" was the Ginger Applesauce cake. Sorry for the mystery :)