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Healthy Apple Crisp Recipe **VIDEO**
This healthy apple crisp recipe is THE dessert of fall. It only uses one apple!....
Take On The Prickly Fruit: In Season and Super Sweet
Pineapples are in season right now and costing about $2 each in my neck of the woods. YUM!...
The Skinny on Bagel Thins
Thomas' has managed to put two words together that spend most of their time apart - "bagel" and "thin". Nobody is getting thin eating bagels, trust me.
A Simple Way To Dress Up An Egg
Snack Girl is on an egg kick because eggs are just SO nutritious....
Sunshine in Your Fridge: Grapefruit Made Less Sour
Do you know when citrus fruits are in season? The one bright spot of the winter growing season is that NOW is the best time for fresh oranges and grapefruits....
Peanut Butter Lovers: A 45 Calorie Solution That Will Save Your Waistline
Snack Girl features peanut butter A LOT. I happen to love the stuff and I use it almost every day....
Lighter Latkes (Potato Pancakes) For Hanukkah
THE holiday food of Hanukkah is the potato pancake (AKA latke). The traditional recipe for potato latkes can include 3-4 cups of oil.....
Vegan, Luxurious, Hot......Chocolate
Snack Girl finds that most hot chocolate mixes are missing something important. They lack the most important flavor of all....
Love Late Night Desserts? Try This Healthy Version of Creme Brulee
For Snack Girl, there are two food groups that derail her mostly healthy eating efforts: alcohol and desserts. Don't you DARE mix the two together....
Embrace Fall With This Pumpkin Themed Skinny Drink
Some people think fall has arrived when the leaves start changing and apples become abundant. Others know it is here with the arrival of the pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks....
Dress Up Your Apple Slices With Cookie Dough Dip
Bored with the same old apple and peanut butter? Love to eat cookie dough out of the bowl?....
Who Else Lost Their Virginity This Month?
See those lovely jars of apple butter? Snack Girl made them in a fit of unbridled domesticity....
Mix Pancakes With Oatmeal And You Get A Super Breakfast
Snack Girl keeps working on the perfect pancake. It is the "cake" part that gets me striving for the elusive goal of tasty and nutritious....
This Muffin Can Save Your Life
I know what you are thinking. How can a muffin save a life? Don't we usually use things like electrified paddles?....
Got Fruit On The Edge? Don't Toss It - Try This
Snack Girl is a sucker for "buy one get one free" and she finds herself stocking up on perishables. Not a smart move since these perishables tend to rot before my family eats them....
Create A Better Snack With Carrots
The healthiest eaters among us incorporate vegetables or fruit in every meal. This can be tricky because vegetables take time to peel, dice, chop and wash....
How Cantaloupe Can Keep Your Dishes Clean
I want to know which creative thinker came up with a "bread" bowl. That person was ON to something. Of course, most of us need to avoid bread bowls (especially if they are filled with a clam chowder)....
Why Watermelon Makes Us Feel Good
Snack Girl is chomping on watermelon and loving it. A hot day, a slice of watermelon, and watermelon juice all over the place. This is summer!...
I Can't Believe You Don't Eat Butter!
Snack Girl doesn't watch much television because she hates commercials. She does watch The Daily Show online for her nightly laughter meditation.....
Suppress Your Appetite Without Drugs
Snack Girl receives desperate e-mails almost every day from people who are hungry and don't want to eat. Frankly, I never know what to say....
Why Don't Americans Serve Eggs Like This?
Why did it take an Australian to show me the light on a low calorie, delicious, and fast breakfast? Where has this idea been hiding?....
A Healthy Packaged Snack For Your Lunch Box
If your kids are like mine, they love packaged things above fresh things. Why?....
Get Your Spring On With This Vegetable
Last year, Snack Girl featured one of her FAVORITE Spring vegetables and no one read my post. No, I won't give up....
This Green Smoothie Does NOT Taste Like Grass
Snack Girl has had MANY readers tell her to try "green" smoothies. Well, before last Tuesday, I had one word for them - YUCK!...
Never Eat Fast Food French Fries Again
Yes, you can do it! You can give up your beloved french fries and celebrate their exit from your life.....
Love Breakfast Sausage but Hate Jimmy Dean? Try This!
Snack Girl is a mostly vegetarian website because I have mixed feelings about eating meat and it is SO easy to create yummy snacks with fruits and vegetables....2SVDVERCAWM2
Try This Healthy Pie.....Naked
Here at Snack Girl headquarters clothing is optional (for the 4 and under set). This is also true of our pies....
The Cheater's Guide to Healthy Yogurt
Is it possible to find a yogurt that tastes great and doesn't inflate your waist? Yes! Does yogurt have to have Sucralose or other artificial sweeteners to be low calorie? No!...
You Will LOVE This 81 Calorie Egg Recipe
Eggs are incredibly nutritious. Just think, a baby embryo was supposed to consume that yolk to become a chick! (hmmmm, maybe you don't want to think about that :)...
Are Canned Peaches A Healthy Snack?
Snack Girl is seriously missing her peaches. Summer seems years away!...
Simple, Delicious, and Low Calorie Smoothie Recipes from Camp Shane
If you’re looking for a snack that tastes delicious AND is good for you, then you’re in for a treat!
Don't Forget This Classic
Out of fresh fruit? Can't make it to the store?...
Give the Gift of A Healthy Snack (Your Friends Won't Even Know Its Healthy!)
Looking for that perfect gift for that special someone? Put down your credit card and rev up your food processor.
A Pumpkin Spice Latte With 77 Calories
Do you have any buddies who anxiously await the arrival of the Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Latte? It has been here for a month and people love it....
A Healthy Halloween Snack
Halloween is arriving in a mere 12 days and it is all my kids can talk about. We are decorating the house and getting ready for the festivities....
Can A New Drink Change Your Life?
Recently, a reader sent me a strange message about Almond Breeze. She wrote that it had CHANGED HER LIFE!...
Got Apples? Try This Awesome Healthy Snack
If you read this website, you BETTER have apples in your fridge (or I'm gonna buy you some :) This is it people - apple season!...
Mix It Up For A Delicious Snack
Do you sometimes get bored with the same old snack? Perhaps the snack you brought to work is SO dull, you make a little trip to the vending machine....
Healthy Halloween Candy
Snack Girl visited her neighborhood Target this weekend and found Halloween candy stacked to the rafters. So, I decided I would beat out all the other healthy eating blogs on October's favorite topic - candy....
Want Your Kid To Eat A Healthy Snack? Use a Stick
Sick of trying to get your kids to eat something healthy? Try my method of persuasion involving a stick....
A Grab And Go Breakfast With Staying Power
My daughter begged me to serve her pancakes for her first day of school. Pancakes are usually a weekend treat, but how could I deny her?...
Skinny Italian Tomato Snack Recipe
Skinny Italian seems like an oxymoron. Can you eat pasta by the tons and still be skinny?...
Sugar Free Jam In Seconds (No Artificial Sweetener!)
This was my breakfast this morning! Snack Girl had to show off her recent innovation inspired by Freezer Jam For Dummies....
Freezer Jam For Dummies
Freezer jam was absolute mystery to Snack Girl until a few weeks ago. I had never even heard of it until readers commented on How To Pick A Healthy Jam or Jelly....
A Breakfast Cereal You Can Feel Good About
Back in March, I wrote Candy or Breakfast? Evaluate Your Cereal and since then I have been on a search for cereals that pass my, "Healthy or Crappy Cereal Test" (patent pending :)...
Want Fewer Dirty Dishes? Try This Healthy Trick
I want to know which creative thinker came up with a "bread" bowl. That person was ON to something. Of course, most of us need to avoid bread bowls (especially if they are filled with a clam chowder)....
How To Pick A Healthy Jam or Jelly
It isn’t that hard to find a healthy jam or jelly if you know what to look for....
Love Bagels and Cream Cheese? Try This Makeover
Has anyone else noticed the size of your bagel getting bigger in the last 20 years? And the amount of cream cheese spread on them seems to be growing too!...
You Need A New Food Obsession
Do you ever find yourself driving around in search of the perfect food? The vision of this food haunts you and keeps you hunting for the experience of tasting it again....
How To Prevent Cancer
Cancer is a tough disease to prevent. It exists in many forms and there is no vaccine....
An Amazing Apple Pie Makeover In Two Minutes
Is it possible to cut the calories of apple pie in half and have it still taste good? Well, when you are working with food as great as Apples anything is possible....
How To Choose Healthy Peanut Butter
Peanut butter is a great addition to a healthy snack. Spreading it on apples or crackers is an excellent way to add fat and protein (and taste!) to a dull food....
Elegant, Easy, and Eggilicious
The best way to enjoy an egg doesn't involve any butter or cheese! Really! I know all those quiche lovers out there aren't going to believe me - but you have to give this a try....
Try Rhubarb - In Season Now and Super Yummy
The best place to find healthy eating inspiration is your local produce source. And if you pay attention, you will see that there are vegetables and fruits that arrive at different times of year....
Cheerios: A Good Choice For a Healthy Snack?
Snack Girl has spent A LOT of time in the cereal aisle looking for a great choice for Snack Girl readers. It isn't easy to find a cereal that passes the Candy or Breakfast? Evaluate Your Cereal test...
A Drink for Super Heroes
Do you like to soar through the sky with your cape flapping? I do! Snack Girl has a cape and she jumps from her bed often to feel the rush - as she screams "Snack Girl to the RESCUE!!!"
DIY Microwave Popcorn: Healthy, Yummy, and CHEAP
Popcorn is a whole grain snack that is really low in calories and has that great crunch we crave. But, the packaged stuff in the supermarket is expensive and can be high in sodium....
Applesauce On The Go - A Packaged Snack With Promise
Why is it that something with a wrapper is preferable to a a whole food such as Apples? One of the reasons processed food sells so well is that an apple doesn't have a gold wrapper around it....
How To Pick Healthy Bread - A Toast to Toast
One of the first snacks suggested for Snack-Girl was toast. It is simple, versatile, and if you choose right, a healthy choice....
Change Your Deviled Eggs into Angeled Eggs (Low Cal Recipe)
Snack-Girl is a working mother and sometimes she doesn't get around to things as timely as other food writers. I would say most food blogs featured deviled eggs last week. Now that I have 2 dozen Hard Boiled Eggs in my fridge, I am ON IT!...
Replace French Fries with This Easy and Healthy Snack
The most eaten vegetable in the United States is the potato. Found in fast food venues from coast to coast the delicious French Fries are hard to avoid....
How To Incorporate Veggies in Your Breakfast
Snack-Girl is always looking at great snack ideas - and What's Gaby Cooking? is an inspirational food blog....
Love Ice Cream? Try This 130 Calorie Makeover
Snack-Girl has been on the hunt for yogurt that makes her heart flutter. A yogurt so good that she wouldn't even miss ice cream. Is it possible?...
Streamline Your Morning in One Step
Do you dread getting out of bed in the morning? Are you overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead? Take one job off your list right now!...
Visit the Doctor to Get an Awesome Cracker
The search for a great cracker has ended with an entry from Texas. Organic and artisan-baked, these crackers are better than anything I have tried in a LONG time....
This Food is An Instant Party in Your Mouth
Is there a food out there that can explode with taste and also fight cancer? The obvious answer is berries, but the fresh ones are pretty pricey....
How To Bake Your Own Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day
If you could make your own healthy bread in five minutes a day would you do it? Could you find the time for such an enterprise?...
The Fastest, Healthiest Snack in the West
Are you bored with the same old dull snacks? Do you need a way to "dress-up" your healthy snack?...
Save Money, Calories, and the Environment with this Yogurt
Is it possible to find a yogurt that tastes great and doesn't inflate your waist? Yes! Does yogurt have to have Sucralose or other artificial sweeteners to be low calorie? No!...
Much Yummier than a LaraBar
Dear Snack-Girl Readers, I receive snacks from manufacturers to review for this site. I always put a line at the bottom of the review to indicate that status....
Winter's Miracle Fruit
Their dazzling color and shape are too lovely to believe. Shall I buy them for Christmas? Shall I give them as a gift?...
Keep Your Kid Occupied While You Cook
We have featured Hard Boiled Egg before as a great snack. My pal, Damaris, over at The Little Foodie has a great idea for keeping kids quiet while you cook dinner....
A Healthy 100 Calorie Snack Pack
How can you eat healthy without spending a lot of time or money? This is a vexing question because most of us are limited in either money or time (and most likely - both)....
How to Eat More Vegetables
There can be no doubt that eating vegetables is good for you. Scientific study after study proclaim their health benefits....
Eat a Little Bit of Sunshine
We don't ordinarily think about the sun, water, and nutrients absorbed by a food when we eat it. We usually just eat it....
Imagine Being On Vacation
Are there certain foods that remind you of vacation spots? It seems that most tropical destinations have a form of fruit salad to start your day....
How to Get What You Pay For
We take medicine to make us feel better when we get sick. We undergo all kind of treatments to get rid of diseases such as cancer and diabetes, and we pay oodles of money for these treatments....
How to Make an Apple Last 2 Years
Bear Fruit Bars do not occur in nature, but they are made of natural ingredients. They are made by a small, family run company called Mountain Organic Foods....
The secret to eating lots and not getting fat
How much can you eat before you start gaining weight? Obviously, this depends on what you eat....
Energy Bar Recipe
At $2 per bar, products like PowerBar can really take a bite out of your wallet. Of course they are incredibly convenient to buy and eat. Can you really make these at home?...
The goodness of tomato packed in a melon
Isn't watermelon just water? It is actually over 90% water, but that leftover 10% is pretty great. For example, watermelon has more lycopene than tomatoes....
Fun for kids to make and eat (adults too!)
Ants on a log is a combination of celery, cream cheese (or peanut butter), and raisins...
Snap along to a healthy place
Pre-washed stringless sugar snap peas can be found in your local supermarket in a plastic bag. Those of us...
Fast food that is good for you
Hey, these look like fries!! Yes, they are "fry posers" created by Burger King to help you (and your children) avoid eating French Fries. Will it work?...
All the benefits of red wine without the alcohol
Most of us have heard that red wine has health benefits. The theory was conceived when we noticed that all those French people consumed alot of it and didn't get heart disease at the same rates as Americans. How amazing! An alcoholic drink that is actually good for you....
77 calories packed with nutrition
You get protein, lots of vitamins, fat and a whole slew of compounds that your body needs. So, eat eggs! Do not be afraid. But, try to keep it to 2 a day....
America's favorite fruit
Americans are bananas for bananas! They are the most consumed fruit in the United States and the world.
Orange you fabulous!
My grandfather would to send us a box of oranges for Christmas. I was pretty disappointed as a youngster because I was hoping for toys. But as an adult, I would appreciate the gift....
Slices of heaven
Biting into a fresh nectarine is like tasting a summer's day. So many flavors play over your tongue as you taste one....
Cherries - a luscious springime treat
"If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What am I Doing in the Pits?", Erma Bombeck, (1985). I guess I am dating myself with this title, but it always makes me laugh....
Luxurious, low in calorie, and nutritious
If fresh raspberries were cheaper, I would eat them all the time! They are sweet, luscious, and arguably very good for you....
An apple a day is cheaper than health insurance
"An apple a day will keep the doctor away" goes the proverb. I think we can all agree that apples are much cheaper than health insurance. Can an apple really make good on its promise?...
