When it comes to food, how do you weigh healthiness over taste?

My mother believes that you should always go with the healthier option 100% of the time. When I go to her house, to be honest, the food is barely edible to me. She always substitutes low fat, no sugar, no salt, no milk—you name it and she finds a substitute.

I can kind of see doing that for staples, but when it comes to things like dessert, I’d rather eat the “real” food, but with much smaller portions. I’d rather eat one bite of “real” cake than eat an entire slice of low-cal, low-fat, low sugar cake.

Every now and then, I find an anomoly—the healthy option actually tastes just as good. But that’s not very often at all.