Secret #2 Bulk it up!

You can take a simple meal that's high in calories and "bulk" it up to make it less fattening! HUH...add more food and it's less points...YES!!!!
The key to bulking food up is to find low calorie additions for an already great meal. 

*One of the easiest ways to bulk up food is to add veggies (or more veggies) to it. This helps increase the overall amount of food. By adding the veggies and mixing it into your dish, it increases the number of servings you have while decreasing the calorie count per serving!  This works well with stir frys, pasta dishes, and cassaroles. (I'll be adding a few recipes to show how well this works soon). 

*If you eat a lot of "Lean Cuisine" type meals because they are quick and convienent and they leave you hungry even after you eat them, the same rule applys to them. These prepacked meals comes with more than enough sauce to cover extra veggies. By adding extra cooked veggies and mixing them in well you can get full while still enjoying your favorites at the same time! If your not good at paring up foods or you just don't know what you could add to bulk it up, look for meals that already have veggies in them and add more of the same kind of veggies! You can purchase microsteam bags that you can pop in the microwave and they are completely cooked in just a few minutes!  

*When cooking with spaghetti noodles, an easy way to bulk your dish up is to add "La Choy Bean Sprouts" (they'll only add about 1 point) or mix in a pouch of "Tofu Shirataki noodles" (they'll only tack 40 calories - about 1 point) onto your meal, and you'll feel like you're pigging out on pasta)  these both look remarkably like your typical spaghetti noodles and when seasoned to match your dish mixes in so well you can hardly tell they are not spaghetti type noodles.

*When you add meat to a recipe it could add hundreds of unnecessary calories! So when you add meat to a recipe use meat's that are low/lower in fat. Boneless, skinless white meat chicken is always a good choice. Chicken goes well with almost ANY recipe you can put together! Sometimes I even substitute ground beef for ground white meat chicken. 4oz is only 2pts!  When using beef look for lean cuts, even ground beef has 96% fat free meat! The lower the fat content, the more you can add to your meal!

Look for low point recipes coming soon! Enjoy "bulking" it up!