I hope I will have time to make this a regular feature. It will be made up of hints and facts that I have collected over the years.
This may sound crazy - but it's worth remembering: air and water don't have calories so they don't need counting. Air can play an important part when it comes to portion sizes. A handful of popcorn looks tiny, but pop it with air and you get a very satisfying-looking bowl of popcorn. Compare how much puffed wheat you get with other cereals.
Whipping cream can be almost doubled when air gets beaten in. You get a bigger bar of bubbly chocolate than the same weight of ordinary chocolate.
Thin your porridge with a little more water rather than milk.
When making mashed potatoes, save the cooking water and use some to loosen the mashed potato. If you have 200 gr potato and mash it with 50 g (ml) cooking water, you now have 250 g mashed potato instead of 200 g - and it will cost you the same in calories either way.
Remember, if you use the water in which you've cooked potatoes or other vegetablers, you will be reclaimning some of the vitamins that have leaked out of the vegetables. Add it to gravies, sauces or soups.
And of course as water is no calories you can drink as much as you want and it will help you feel full:
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