Make a Healthier Sandwich and Salad

Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us Make a Healthier Sandwich and Salad Sandwiches can be real fat and calorie traps, but they needn't be. We can choose healthy yet filling ingredients that will still make us look forward to lunch. Also this week, I have some healthy salad and pasta recipes to share. Fiona Haynes Low Fat Cooking Expert Make Yourself a Healthier Sandwich Sandwiches can be fat and calorie traps, especially the deli-style ones, which seem a mile high. Build your own, healthy sandwich at home, one that's filling and nutritious with a fraction of the calories contained in store-bought sandwiches.   READ NOW Share Low Fat Summer Salads Not all salads are healthy, and it really says something when you are able to consume fewer calories eating a small burger and fries than a bowl of salad at some restaurants. This is largely because the salad vegetables -- often beginning with virtually nutrition-free iceberg lettuce as a base -- are drowned in fatty, creamy dressings, and are topped with fried croutons and shredded cheese.   READ NOW Share Healthy Pasta Recipes Pasta is one of my favorite foods, and the nice thing about it is that it goes with almost anything and can be eaten all year round, as a warming comfort food or in a salad.   READ NOW Share Healthy Summer-Fresh Recipes n some ways it's odd to think of summer as a season for healthier eating. It ought to be, of course, with all the fresh produce available. Yet even before we think of seasonal foods, warm temperatures ought to dampen our appetites. But you wouldn't know it from the mounds of food served at summer barbecues, state fairs and the like.   READ NOW Share MORE FROM ABOUT.COM • Almond Panko Crusted Lamb Meatballs • Simple Homemade Kale Chips • Life a Bowl Full of Cherries? Use These Tools to Pit Them • Best cold summer soups • You Don't Have to Give Up Bread! Top 6 Gluten-Free Bread Mixes • Opposed To Animal-Based Gelatins? Check Out The Alternatives. • Soft, Delicious Fall Favorite - Glazed Gluten-Free Pumpkin Cookies • Nine of the World's Tastiest Drop Cookies Advertisement About Food   |   Follow Us: You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Low Fat Cooking newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com - All rights reserved