Sorry that I have not written for so long, but I have been pretty busy. Just recently I was looking at the Healthy Eating section of books at the library and I found one about the thoughts behind belly fat. After reading the book a bit I was not completely "sold" on the author's theory that sugar is one of the main culprits of belly fat. However, the author brought to my attention that there are tons of foods with "hidden" sugars.
Before reading the book I never had taken the time to see how much sugar was actually in every day foods like spaghetti sauces etc... I always thought that sugar was for desserts! What I learned is that there really are "hidden" sugars in just about everything. The spaghetti sauce that I used to buy...blew my mind when I realized that there are actually 21 grams of sugar per 1/2 cup (serving). WOW!!!!
Breads, even the ones that are considered "healthy" because they have whole grains have corn syrup in them. I started to see why the author of the belly fat book thinks that sugar is a main cause for being overweight. So, my mission now is to try and either make my own or buy products with the littles amount of sugar possible.
I recently found this crockpot recipe online for lasagna. I made it a bit healthier by using ground turkey instead of sausage, fat free cottage cheese instead of ricotta (because I don't like the texture of ricotta cheese), and low fat mozzarella cheese. And of course I found tomato sauce that only had 5 grams of sugar per serving...however, I still think that is too much for spaghetti sauce! Another way to make this dish even more healthy would be to use multi-grain or whole wheat noodles.
