The Latest Craze

Actually, I'm pretty sure the craze is over for most, as this isn't a new thing, but I have just recently discovered Eat This, Not That. There's a book, a website, and weekly e-mails. I am always striving to choose healthy foods, but am not so interested in a diet composed of only raw vegetables and boiled chicken. Part of the problem in my quest to choose healthy is my love for creamy delicious things. Cheese, cottage cheese, ice cream etc.

Here's why I like the Eat This, Not That: it doesn't tell you to quit eating butter and replace it with a carrot. It tells you to replace it with whipped butter. Surely, we all now know the dangers of margarine and its secret transfats. And, while, I love butter on my toast, I'd like to not eat that much saturated fat (read: I'd like to save some of the saturated fat I'm bound to consume for times in the day.) Whipped butter is brilliant- it doesn't have any added or extra ingredients. It just has air whipped into it to give it fewer calories and less fat per teaspoon. Brilliant. Edy's slow churned ice cream follows the same concept- air whipped into the ice cream to reduce fat without reducing flava.

Now, if there was only an Eat This, Not That answer for taquitos...