Try hot sauce, salsa and Cajun seasonings
They provide lots of flavour with few kilojoules, plus they turn up your digestive fires, causing your body to temporarily burn a few more kilojoules. Choose them over butter and creamy or sugary sauces.
Eat fruit instead of drinking fruit juice
For the kilojoules in one kid-size box of apple juice, you can enjoy an apple, orange and a slice of watermelon. These whole foods will keep you satisfied much longer than that box of apple juice, so you’ll eat less overall. And research has shown that there’s no difference in the impact on your body between drinking fruit juice and drinking a fizzy drink or other sugary drink.
Snack on a small handful of nuts
Studies have found that overweight people who ate a moderate-fat diet containing almonds lost more weight than a control group that didn’t eat nuts. Snacking once or twice a day helps stave off hunger and keeps your metabolism stoked. You can also pack up baby carrots or your own trail mix with the healthiest nuts you can eat, plus raisins, seeds and dried fruit.