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10 ways to make comfort food healthy

Want to boost the health quotient of your favourite foods without sacrificing flavour? Here are 10 easy ways to make comfort food more healthy
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Give your comfort food a makeover - 10 ways to make comfort food healthy Web exclusive, November 2010

Give your comfort food a makeover

Sad but true: comfort food tends to be unhealthy. The dishes are usually buttery, creamy, deep-fried—or otherwise high-cal, high-sodium and high-fat (sigh). But once temperatures drop—or we've had one heck of a bad day at work—comfort foods such as casseroles, mac 'n' cheese and Sloppy Joes start sounding pretty good.

 

Here's the good news: trim some fat here and add a bit of fibre there, and you can actually turn these diet busters into healthier dishes—without sacrificing taste. Here are 10 comfort food makeovers to add to your cookbook.

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Wild venison (deer) has 1 - 2% fat as the fat is stored externally on the muscle compared to 15-20% fat for extra lean ground beef. This is one of several true free range fed animals not penned and forced fed.

Thats a bunch of crap, extra lean ground beef has similar amts of fat if not less , is far more tasty and by far less expensive, my guess is this person has never consumed Elk or Bison. Define " Holistic nutritionist"

Really people? Have you ever LOOKED for bison/buffalo/elk/ostrich/etc. before? It really isn't that hard to find if you shop outside of major supermarkets (though some will even carry these alternatives).

Oh darn, I'm fresh out of ground elk. Hang on, I'll check the freezer. Nope, we used the last of the bison last week. Better go hunting before the Superbowl or the chilli will be a disaster.

I would love to consume bison or other game instead of traditional beef. However, unless you know someone who hunts, how do you aquire it? In Europe they have butchers who specialize in Game meats, but I've never heard of anything like that in Toronto.

 
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