Using spray oil can save countless calories over conventional frying and roasting. Used in moderation, you can treat it a a no-calorie food.
Ideally choose a lower calorie spray, look for one that has around 500-550 calories per 100 ml (e.g. Frylight or Tesco Sunflower Spray Oil) rather thatn those having around 830 calories per 100 ml.
One-cal sprays are very convenient, but you fo need about 8-10 sprays to cover the base of a large pan. Other sorays deliver three or four times as much per spray, but you only need about 3 sprays to cover the base of a large pan so there isn't much in it.
Good Ideas
Spray chicken breasts, steaks or chops before placing them on your grilling machine or under the grill.
Boil potatoes. Cut into wedges or chunks and spray lightly with oil. If you like, you can add seasoning such as herbs, garlic power or chilli powder which will stick nicely to spray oil. Roast in hot oven for a delicious low fat treat.
If you haven't any spray oil but need to grease a frying pan, measure out quarter of a teapoon of oil onto the pan, then spread around the pan with a pieve of kitchen paper. It's the equivalent amount of a few sprays of oil. Make sure it's no more than a quarter teaspoon - and remember to put spray oil on your shopping list.
A favourite way with roast potatoes with us is based on an Austrian way of serving potatoes. I spray the bottom of a roasting pan, cut potatoes up quite small, put them in the pan and spray them again. I put them in the oven at about Mark 7 and leave them for about twenty minutes then go and turn them over - at this point I put the greens on. Another twenty minutes and they are ready. The potatoes will be brown and crisp - some mmay even be c bit charcoaly if the timing is not quite right but Brian loves them like that.
Happy slimming,
Joan
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