53 Healthy Food Substitutions

There are hundreds of healthy food substitutions, however it is a lot more beneficial to get into the mindset that food substitutions are not forbidden, but you should rather cut them out slowly and replace with healthy snacks. The list of healthy food substitutions below should be preferred to all pre-packaged snacks you can buy.

The list of 53 healthy food substitutions ONLY describes the first ten healthy food substitutions. Because of the extra space required to itemize and describe each of the 53 health alternatives, we have just listed the remaining 43 healthy substitutions after the explanation of the first ten.

1. Black beans for flour

Black beans can be swapped for flour cutting out all the gluten in your diet and fitting in an often much needed dose of digestible protein. Simply swap out 1 cup of flour for a cup of black bean puree (15oz can).

2. Quick & Easy Kale Chips

Kale chips will be the healthiest snacks you can eat. Simply fry kale leaves in olive oil so they are coated, a little salt and pepper to taste is super easy, and will take you only 20 minutes from start to finish.

3. Baked Cinnamon Apple-chips

Apple chips are crunchy and sweet. They’re baked and not fried, which means less calories. Ideally you should use organic apples with cinnamon to taste.

4. Anti-Inflammatories Gummy Snack

Using a range of options these gummy snacks are anti-inflammatories that help to curb inflammation everywhere in the body. If you use citrus juice and raw honey with some gelatin plus turmeric and ginger.

5. Zucchini Chips

Zucchini chips make a much healthier snack to replace potato chips offering added nutrition. Simply slice the Zucchini into nice round pieces and dust them with seasonings you like, making Ranch Zucchini chips or BBQ Zucchini chips by simply changing the seasoning you use.

6. Energy Bars

Making your own energy bars once a week with a mix of fruits, seeds, and seeds which will keep without needing to be refrigerated for a long time.

7. Spiced Butternut Chips

Crispy and crunchy spiced butternut chips using normal gingerbread seasoning tastes great with a LOT less carbs and calories than potato chips.

8. Gummi Orange Slices

These yummy orange-flavored snacks are great anytime, using of grass-fed gelatin.

9. Jalapeno Pumpkin Seeds

Pumpkin seeds are the healthiest seeds to eat, they taste good and are loaded with good nutrients when roasted in olive oil using the paprika and the salt added to help stick onto the seeds to get flavor.

10. Chocolate-Frosted Donuts

These will replicate chocolate Hostess donuts, by replacing them with wholesome alternatives like medjool dates, coconut flour and eggs, all made without any sugar, hydrogenated vegetable oil or trans-fat and wheat flour.

11. Bacon Blue Cheese Dip

12. Eggplant Jerky

13. Paleo Apple ‘Nachos’

14. Cauliflower Mini-hot-dogs

15. Wholefood Snack Bars

16. Cheesy BLT Bites

17. Avocado puree to replace butter

18. Brown rice cereal plus flax meal to replace Rice Crispies

19. Coconut flour, almond flour and flax seed Doritos

20. Marshmallow Fluff to replace frosting

21. Nuts, seeds, fruits, and coconut dip

22. Raspberry and strawberries fruit snacks made with Gelatin

23. Apple, strawberries and grapefruit healthy Fruit Leather

24. Rosemary Sea-salt Sweet Potato Chips

25. Natural peanut butter to replace normal peanut butter

26. Rosemary Fried Almonds

27. Zucchini Avocado Hummus

28. Vanilla should replace sugar

29. Greek yogurt power snack

30. Roasted Red Pepper

31. Mashed bananas to replace fats

32. Rice flours for flour

33. Nut flours to replace flour

34. Cucumber Watermelon Sandwiches

35. Chicken Stuffed Tomatoes

36. Coconut flour to replace flour

37. Curried Cashews

38. Meringue to replace frosting

39. Evaporated skim milk to replace cream

40. Stevia sweeteners to replace sugar

41. Beef Jerky

42. Prunes to replace butter

43. Cacao nibs to replace chocolate chips

44. Butternut Squash Dip

45. Chia seeds to replace butter

46. Bacon & Guacamole Sandwiches

47. Brown rice to replace white rice

48. Taro Chips

49. Quinoa to replace couscous

50. Zucchini ribbons to replace pasta

51. Unsweetened applesauce to replace sugar

52. Unsweetened applesauce to replace oil or butter

52. Almond flour to replace wheat flour

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