{"id":7898,"date":"2009-05-03T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=7898"},"modified":"2009-05-01T12:24:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T17:24:48","slug":"celebrate-cinco-de-mayo-with-these-healthy-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/celebrate-cinco-de-mayo-with-these-healthy-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with these Healthy Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for the 5th of May) is right around the corner and I know many people are planning to partake in this Mexican holiday.\u00a0 Depending on how you celebrate this holiday I know a lot of fun, music, food, and alcohol are involved. This year I want to give you some simple tips to keep in mind to have a healthier Cinco de Mayo celebration.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/recipes\/categories\/mexican-dishes\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7949\" title=\"chips-and-salsa\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/chips-and-salsa\" alt=\"chips-and-salsa\" width=\"275\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Remember <a title=\"healthy mexican food\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/recipes-for-a-healthy-cinco-de-mayo-fiesta\/\" target=\"_self\">Mexican food<\/a> with vegetables, seafood, and fruit is healthy, light, and lower in calories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Make the food at home.\u00a0 This way you can use lower fat products (2% milk cheeses) to help control calories and fat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Use more salsa the guacamole. <!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Skip on the sour cream or use a lower-fat or non-fat sour cream.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Substitute veggies in your dishes in place of meat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Choose fish or chicken in place of red meat or pork.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Use brown rice instead of white rice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Cook with liquid vegetable oils instead of animal fats (butter or lard)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Try corn tortillas instead of flour tortillas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Choose a \u201cSkinny Girl Margarita\u201d\u2014 this version of the <a title=\"healthy margarita recipe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/recipes\/low-carb-margarita\/\" target=\"_self\">margarita<\/a> is lower in calories and makes drinking a little less guilty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What you\u2019ll need to make one serving:<br \/>\n2 oz. of Clear Premium Tequila (2-3 second pour)<br \/>\nSplash of Orange Liquor<br \/>\nJuice of four Fresh Lime Wedges<br \/>\nCombine all ingredients over a glass of ice and garnish with a lime wedge<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Remember these healthier tips and enjoy May 5!\u00a0 Happy Cinco de Mayo!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em> Recipe via Bethenny Frenkel, author of <a title=\"naturally thin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/naturally-thin\/\" target=\"_self\">Naturally Thin<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for the 5th of May) is right around the corner and I know many people are planning to partake in this Mexican holiday.\u00a0 Depending on how you celebrate this holiday I know a lot of fun, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/celebrate-cinco-de-mayo-with-these-healthy-tips\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695,16],"tags":[1491,1492,29],"class_list":["post-7898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","category-recipes","tag-cinco-de-mayo","tag-mexican-food","tag-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7948,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions\/7948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}