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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 52 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

My wife's family is extremely health conscious and typically eats like rabbits. There's not a dish they have encountered that couldn't be "improved" with a metric fuck ton of broccoli, kale, onions, zucchini, etc. But they also love brownies. It is typically their only indulgence at family get togethers.

But instead of using eggs and oil in the mix like it calls for, they substitute those evil fats with applesauce instead. It kind of sort of works from a textural standpoint, but it definitely still tastes vaguely of applesauce which is not super desirable in a chocolate brownie. Ostensibly the idea is to make it "healthier" and lower calorie. But given all the sugar and other carbs in the batter (including the added sugar from the apples) the calorie difference is negligible but the end result is not the same at all. It feels like they missed the point and messed up the brownies for no reason at all. Doesn't stop them from calling them "healthy brownies" though. Stretching the definition of "healthy" reeeeaaaal far.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 39 points 3 weeks ago

To quote The Good Place:

There's something so human about taking something great and ruining it a little so you can have more of it.

[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Suggest to them to use pureed pumpkin instead. My wife does that and I can barely tell.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

My father used to make delicious pumpkin Marmelade. I couldn't get enough of that stuff.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

and typically eats like rabbits

They eat their own poop?

I doubt OPs friends are Ethan's Kliens family.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 45 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Pro tip for baking modern American recipes is you can cut about 1/3 of the sugar no problem, up to 1/2 on some recipes. Bran goes really well with blueberries. The blueberry muffins I make are basically lightly sweetened wheat bread and they slap. Muffins are a quick bread but somewhere along the line people wanted to lie to themselves and eat cupcakes while pretending they're still muffins

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's not as much a difference as one might think because the flour too is mainly "sugar", specifically it's starch which gets turned into glucose same as the sweet tasting sugars (side note: it's quite an interesting process since saliva itself containes enzymes that break the starch into glucose and you can actually test this yourself using iodine solutions - which you should be able to get from a pharmacy - which turns starch purple).

Ultimatelly when it comes to nutrition, you should care mainly about carbohydrates in general (which includes all the stuff that is not sweet tasting but gets turned into glucose by the human body) rather than sugars specifically.

Once you look at it this way you'll find out that a ton of stuff which is not sweet is none the less rich in "sugars", namelly things like bread, pasta, polished rice and so on.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

My wife .... a salad is healthy

Goes on to make a salad fit for a serving of four people filled with ranch dressing, cheese, bacon and nuts.

I love her dearly but she absolutely refuses to admit to a smaller salad.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

I also make fat girl on a diet salads, but I am aware of what I am doing with no illusions about how healthy it is.

[–] timeghost@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The lady over here: I must buy the thinnest sliced cheese permissible by physics. Also my tea shall be served in a bucket with 3 cups of honey stirred in.

We have all been damaged by the world in some way.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

lol .... I was visiting a friend who was in the hospital over a period of about a month .. all of us had to go stay with him to help the family.

At one point, I got to know the nurses on the floor and I started offering to buy people coffee just to be nice. I thought if I were nice to them, they would be extra nice to my friend getting treatment.

Everyone was pretty average with their orders but some of the nurses were pretty strange. One overweight nurse asked for large triple triple (triple cream, triple sugar) ... but the best one was a short petite lady that weighed about 80lbs but tough as nails ... she asked for extra large 7 cream, 8 sugar (nicest lady ever but I just could not believe the kind of coffee she drank, it was basically a milk shake with a shot of coffee)

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's ok, I believe chocolate also has antioxidants so it's healthy too!

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure chocolate might have some caffeine too

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 7 points 3 weeks ago

That's why I make my coffee as mocha, it's a health drink!

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

Double healthy!

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If anything, the chocolate chips are healthier than the blueberries, since chocolate has more antioxidants than blueberries.

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Spoiler: Those usually are not blueberries, they are sugar beets.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I read "sugar bees" and was quite intrigued.

[–] con_fig@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

They don't allow bees in here

[–] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

That explains why they don't taste like blueberries.

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

Id argue blueberries healthier because of the fibre

[–] DjMeas@lemm.ee 10 points 3 weeks ago

You should see some of the "blueberry" muffins they sell at the store nowadays. It's not even blueberry let alone fruit. Some are so bad and cheap it's just fruit flavored pellets with the packaging saying "Blueberry flavored" muffins.

[–] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Muffins are cake. I don't eat cake except on special occasions. I think this is a pretty good rule.

[–] eksb@programming.dev 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Breakfast is a special occasion though.

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

Especially second breakfast

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

If you're doing it daily, it's not really special IMHO.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

Well, any number other than zero is infinitelly greater than zero.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

I want you to put the same number of blueberries into each muffin.

Do you know how long that will take?

I don't care, just do it.