How can I cut calories with a taco dinner?!
Question: How can I cut calories with a taco dinner.?
Were having tacos, spanish rice, and refried beans for dinner tonight. My weakness is mexican food. How I can I be sure to cut at least SOME calories out of this meal.? I was thinking about buying light sour cream, and 96% lean beef, and adding extra tomatoes and lettuce in my tacos. Any other suggestions.? I've been eating healthy for about 2 weeks now, and exercising for an hour everyday. Should I bump up my cardio today to make up for my dinner tonight.? I know I'm going to splurge, but I am so satisfied with my weight loss, I don't want to mess up!Health Question & Answer
Answers:
Try whole wheat tortillas, and don't fry them!! also, adding lots of veggies is good, like you said. Try adding avacado too, it's full of good fats. Skip sour cream entirely. Try to drain as much of the grease from the meat as you can, and in addition, try lean turkey meat instead of beef! Try whole black beans instead of refried beans. Hope I helped. :) Good luck with your weight loss!Health Question & Answer
Lean Ground Turkey, you can add taco seasoning and you wont notice!!! I think that setp alone will cut the calories in half. Try using corn tortillias instead of flour and even try plain well mixed non fat yogurt. I use non fat yogurt to replace sourcram all the time. I have even been known to add flavor like ranch mix, dry onion sprinkels ect. Best of luck, CHealth Question & Answer
Ok here are some tips
-really lean ground beef or turkey
-use soft not hard taco shells because some of the hard shells are fried
-use 2% milk fat cheese and reduced fat sour cream
-for the refried beans you can get fat free ones from the regular grocery store and they are good but I usually mix some salsa and just a smidge of lime juice in with them while they are warming up
- also for the meat so you dont miss any of the flavor that you would have gotten with the fat-- mix in some onions garlic and fresh cilantro while it is cooking that will make a world of difference
-use fresh salsa it tastes so much better than the stuff that comes in those nasty glass jarsHealth Question & Answer
-really lean ground beef or turkey
-use soft not hard taco shells because some of the hard shells are fried
-use 2% milk fat cheese and reduced fat sour cream
-for the refried beans you can get fat free ones from the regular grocery store and they are good but I usually mix some salsa and just a smidge of lime juice in with them while they are warming up
- also for the meat so you dont miss any of the flavor that you would have gotten with the fat-- mix in some onions garlic and fresh cilantro while it is cooking that will make a world of difference
-use fresh salsa it tastes so much better than the stuff that comes in those nasty glass jarsHealth Question & Answer