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What Can I Substitute for Butter or Oil In Cooking?

What Can I Substitute for Butter or Oil In Cooking? (0:28)

Look no further than your pantry for a great butter sub that has only five calories. Learn more by watching this video featuring dietitian Sari Greaves.

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Reducing sodium chicken stock is a major game changer when you are looking to swap up 100 of calories used in cooking when you are using oil or butter. Chicken stock has great flavor for only fraction of the calories and lubricates all the vegetables or wherever you are cooking and so food doesn't get all sticky.

Get this, all you need is a about a quarter of a cup for that 2 cups of vegetables. That's only 5 calories of chicken stock that adds a lot, a lots of flavor.