For baking, you can substitute canola oil for butter. If the recipe calls for melted butter, sub 1:1. Otherwise, use 7/8ths as much canola as the recipe calls for.
You can also subsitute some or most of the oil with fruit purees, such as applesauce. I use a lot of pumpkin puree. I've not tried pear puree but I've heard good things about that as well.
For cereals and crackers and whatnot, I prefer to purchase them in the "healthy" section of my grocery store, simply because I prefer less additives and preservatives. You almost never find HFCS or trans fatty acids in the "health" foods. My favorites are Barbara's low fat Right Round crackers (like Ritz, but I think better!) and the Envirokids cereals - only ingredients are corn meal, evaporated cane juice and sea salt! I also really like the New Morning honey grahams - I try and limit those, however, because they do have some whole wheat flour.
My new favorite trick is to peel and slice and apple in the morning and throw it in a plastic container for work - surprisingly it only gets the tiniest bit brown! So much better than eating the peel and suffering for it!!
If you have a bread machine, the crowd-pleasing light oat bread from this website is my favorite!
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Edited by Fen (05/14/08 04:48 AM)
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