Fit Toast

Today was another very long day of cooking! I decided to make a healthy baked apple-cinnamon French toast casserole.  Usually I would stay far away from any type of french toast because it is extremely unhealthy and totally NOT diet friendly.  However, this recipe only has 183 calories per serving and 1 gram of fat.  Compare that to 534 calories and 21 grams of fat!  It was extremely simple to make.  I used nonfat milk, egg whites, whole wheat bread, honey, vanilla extract, salt, dried apples, cinnamon, and nutmeg.  The only problem with this recipe is that you have to let the mixture sit for anywhere between 8 to 24 hours.  The active cooking time, however, was only about 20 minutes total.  Despite the 8 hour waiting time while the mixture sits in the refrigerator, I would most definitely make this recipe again - it was so good!

As part of my WISE project I am continuing to research different aspects of healthy eating and dieting.  This week, we were required to research something about the history of our topics.  So, I found how food, and our daily diets, have changed over the last century.  Obviously, farming has changed drastically as we now have faster and more productive ways to produce food.  Also, we have begun adding food preservatives to a lot of our processed foods.  Although it allows for a more efficient way of producing food, the natural homegrown foods that humans ate 100 years ago are much healthier for our bodies.  Also, the method of cooking food has changed a significant amount.  Years ago the women were responsible for staying at home preparing the food all day; however, with the faster pace of society and less women staying home to cook, faster cooking methods, such as frying, have become more popular.  This is unfortunate because these faster cooking methods result in people consuming unhealthy food, and therefore gaining weight.

RANDOM FACT: Don't let the food labels that claim to be fat-free fool you! If a product says it is 90% fat free, this means it still contains 10% fat or 10g of fat per 100 g...that's a lot!