- Instead of using mayo, substitute low-fat cottage cheese or plain non-fat yogurt to make tuna salad.
- Replace half the butter in cake, muffin and brownie recipes with an equal amount of applesauce or mashed bananas. You'll save about 100 calories for every tablespoon you swap.
- Making meatballs? Mix half the amount of ground beef the recipe calls for with half as much cooked brown rice.