These days everyone is looking for easy ways to change their diet. One way to improve your diet is by choosing healthier substitutions to use in foods you love.

One of the biggest misconceptions is that our diet must be based on the use of white flour in all types of recipes, breads, baking and gravies.

White flour is high in carbs and will spike your blood sugar faster and higher that sugar, has less nutrition than whole grain products, is very fattening and harder for the body to digest. By using healthier flour choices you can avoid this unnecessary burden you are giving your body to handle.

Following are a few substitutions to white flour you can consider next time you are baking or cooking: Continue reading →

A nicely flavored dish doesn’t have to have salt. If you’re trying to cut out salt from your diet, you may wonder what seasoning you should reach for.

Don’t worry it isn’t hard to create the perfect meal, sans-salt. Here are some great ways to avoid adding salt to your dish.

Wean Yourself Off of Salt

If your palette is used to getting salt daily, it may be difficult for you to go without salt completely at first. Berkeley Wellness notes that some of the easiest ways to reduce your salt intake, while still getting the salt taste, are to use no salt and lite salt.

No Salt is a salt substitute that consists mostly of potassium chloride. Potassium chloride taste similar to salt though it is not the exact same taste. Potassium chloride, while giving you all the taste of salt, won’t increase your blood pressure. Continue reading →