Proper nutrition is an essential element of a healthy lifestyle. Desserts and all kinds of goodies seem to have no place in it. But do not rush to become discouraged if you are a sweet tooth who has decided to start a new healthy life. There is always a way out.
Desserts and proper nutrition: can it be combined?
At first glance, combining sweets with the right lifestyle is very difficult, even unbelievable. However, many harmful sweets can be replaced with healthy counterparts. Yes, most often you can’t buy them in a store, but you can cook them yourself at home, replacing sugar with honey, and biscuit cakes with dried fruit and oatmeal cakes. It sounds incredible, but such desserts are in no way inferior to store counterparts, and the satisfaction of the work done makes them even tastier than the next purchased cake with cream.
Banana ice cream
On the eve of summer, recipes for cold desserts, such as ice cream, are becoming relevant. One of the easiest to prepare is banana. For him you will need:
- two bananas;
- cocoa and coconut to taste.
Bananas are cut into circles of 2-3 centimeters thick and frozen. After freezing (after three or four hours), the bananas are whipped with a blender. It turns out a thick creamy mass - our banana ice cream, a delicious and healthy dessert. If desired, you can add cocoa powder or coconut, it will be even tastier. It is worth noting that calories such a healthy dessert without sugar contains a little - about 100 and a little higher if you add cocoa or coconut.
Cottage cheese souffle
This light curd dessert will not only please you with its pleasant taste, but also provide the body with protein that it needs so much. To prepare it, you should stock:
- 300 grams of low-fat cottage cheese;
- a tablespoon of gelatin;
- 2 tablespoons of water;
- 2 tablespoons of milk;
- sweetener to taste.
Fill gelatin with water and leave it to swell (we look at the packaging of gelatin for time). After it swells, melt it over a small fire, but do not bring it to a boil.
Rub the cottage cheese with a fork or pierce it with a blender until the mass is uniform, you can rub it through a sieve. We add gelatin and sweetener to the cottage cheese. Add two tablespoons of milk, gently mix the resulting mass.
We spread the diet souffle from the cottage cheese (the recipe, as you can see, is very simple) in the selected form and sent to the refrigerator for at least two hours. After solidification, the curd souffle can be served. If you adhere to the principles of proper nutrition, a dessert made from cottage cheese will be a wonderful end to a meal.
Low calorie peach pie
At first glance, many will say that the cake cannot be useful, that it always contains excess calories and an abundance of sugar and fat. But this view is outdated. There are pies that will bring only benefit and pleasure and are quite suitable for proper nutrition. The dessert, the recipe of which we want to offer you, does not contain either flour or sugar. Some ingredients are quite exotic, but you can experiment and find a replacement for them. According to the original recipe, the following products are needed for this cake:
- 1 cup coconut flakes;
- 3/4 cup pecans;
- 8-20 pieces of dates or prunes (the amount depends on the size of dried fruits);
- 6 peaches;
- 1 avocado;
- 1/4 cup unsweetened yogurt;
- 1 tbsp. a spoon of agave nectar;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of lime juice;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of chia seeds;
- mint;
- a pinch of sea salt.
Grind coconut and nuts in a food processor, add dates or prunes (the required amount is determined by the plasticity of the dough). This is the base of the cake. We distribute the mass along the bottom of the mold and remove for half an hour in the refrigerator.
Grind the remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly. We fill the base with mass and put it in the freezer for two hours. Serve frozen, garnished with fresh mint. Such a dessert, ideal in terms of proper nutrition, will be especially good in hot weather.
Walnut truffles
Many sweet tooth love to intercept a candy or two between cases. Here are just ordinary chocolates do not have a very good effect on the figure, skin condition, dental health. But unpleasant consequences can be avoided by replacing them with nuts truffles. Preparing such sweets is easy, and delivering pleasure no less than a box of chocolate. To make nut truffles, you need:
- 1/2 tbsp. cashew nut oil;
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of honey;
- 1/2 cup oat bran;
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of coconut flakes;
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of cocoa.
Cashew butter will most likely have to be bought, but you can try to cook it yourself. To do this, soak the nuts in salt water for 2-3 hours. After that, rinse them and dry them for 12-24 hours in the oven at 66 degrees. Then fry at 163 degrees (frying time - 5 minutes). Let them cool and pass through the food processor, getting a homogeneous mass.
Add honey and bran to cashew oil, mix. Blind balls from the resulting mixture. About fifteen pieces should come out of the indicated amount of ingredients. Roll them in coconut and cocoa. Clean in the cold and let them harden. A useful replacement for sweets is ready.
Conclusion
Finding a replacement for traditional sweets is now easy. On the Internet there are numerous sites containing recipes for delicious and healthy desserts. Of particular note are the achievements of vegetarians in creating delicious alternatives that do not contain sugar or flour in their composition. Such desserts, as a rule, are created from fruits, nuts with the addition of honey or cocoa, oatmeal. Such goodies prove that tasty can be useful and for a person who wants to lead a healthy lifestyle, it is completely optional to refuse sweets and torment yourself.