It’s National BLT Sandwich Month, together with who doesn’t dear a proficient BLT (bacon, lettuce together with tomato)?
Here inward the South, the perfect BLT is made alongside savory bacon, crisp lettuce together with mouthwatering summertime tomatoes, all piled on white bread. Usually the ground centers or then which build of mayonnaise to use.
But it’s in all probability non the healthiest sandwich choice alongside high levels of tabular array salt together with saturated fat, together with depression levels of poly peptide together with fiber.
Here are some ideas to relish your BLT, together with become inward a footling healthier, too.
- Use avocado or a sparse layer of low-fat cream cheese every bit a spread on the staff of life instead of mayonnaise
- Use whole grain staff of life instead of white bread
- Make it open-faced, using lettuce to substitute for the transcend layer of bread
- Skip the staff of life altogether together with roll the Lycopersicon esculentum together with bacon (and perchance a spell of avocado) inward a lettuce leaf
- Use turkey bacon instead of regular bacon
- Use one-half the amount of regular bacon, only crumble it into bacon bits then you’ll become some inward every bite
- Double upwards on the tomatoes for to a greater extent than antioxidants together with fiber
- Choose a nighttime lettuce instead of iceberg, together with double the amount used
- Turn the sandwich into a salad alongside lots of lettuce together with tomato, alongside bacon crumbled on top
How GMC Can Help
For to a greater extent than neat repast together with sandwich ideas, browse GwinnettMedical Center’s boards on Pinterest. You’ll abide by breakfast ideas, lunches, kid-friendly recipes together with more.
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