Summer Barbecue Diet Tips

As the weather starts getting toward the warmer months it's never is too early to start thinking about barbecue time. A lot of times barbecues can mean over-eating and high calorie foods. Here are some suggestions so barbecue time won't mean weight gain time.

Try barbecuing chickens using herbs and lemons. Also, try roasting some grilled vegetables and offer low calorie dips for them. You can add some garbanzo beans to your hummus to get additional protein from the hummus You can use salsa, hummus, bean dip, soy cheese melted with salsa instead of high calorie other cheeses or use cottage cheese instead of sour cream. You can even grill some fruits like pineapple, plums. nectarines or mango and serve with some low-fat yogurt or ice cream. Try roasting some new types of eggplants or carrots and all types of zucchini.

With the roasted vegetables you can add them to a pasta salad. Also with the prepared roasted or tomato eggplant salad that you can buy in the deli. You just mix the eggplant with some olives and make a simple low-fat pasta salad. Also salsa can be a great low-fat addition to pasta salad.

You can make a great parfait with fruit and angle food cake and low-fat yogurt. If you use pound cake replace the fat with applesauce. You can use tofu in cake recipes or smoothie's recipes. You can replace yogurt or use cottage cheese in many high calorie dip mixes. You can make smoothies with non-fat yogurt or use some flavored tea non-fat yogurt or fruit sherbet.

Use low calorie cookies for toppings like wafers or oatmeal cookies for the ice cream topping. Read the labels and avoid buying cookies that have high fructose corn syrup. You can replace syrups topping by using fruits instead like blueberries or strawberries. All-Fruit sells is a great fruit topping..........

You can mix half of the meat with soy protein,vegetable protein, lentils, zucchini or carrots to your burgers.

You can make some great grain salad or lentil, or three bean salad using a simple vinaigrette. You can replace the chicken with tofu or you can use a mixture of both in the grain salad.