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A Refreshingly Sweet Zero Calorie Beverage With No Artificial Sweetener
When did you all start to drink Diet Coke? For Snack Girl, it was high school and I thought the stuff was awesome!
Coconut Milk Ice Cream Sandwiches from So Delicious
Yes, folks, it is FRIDAY and time to give away some ice cream to a lucky reader. Where I am located it is HOT and STICKY. I usually advocate for homemade popsicles but today is different...
Lighter, Fluffier Trail Mix
Trail mix is for taking on your hike. Anyone been on a hike lately? No? Me, neither....
A Tasty Low Calorie Bar With 50% of Your Daily Fiber
Snack Girl wishes that she liked packaged bars. Most of them are reaching for a nutrition halo that they simply don't deserve....
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.....
The Problem With Trail Mix Solved
Trail mix should be the perfect snack. It is portable and will stay fresh in your backpack for hours!....
A Healthy Packaged Snack For Your Lunch Box
If your kids are like mine, they love packaged things above fresh things. Why?....
Sugar Free Gum Without Artificial Sweeteners or Colors? It Exists!
Sugar free gum is a great tool for helping you lose weight. AND, chewing a piece of gum (instead of a cookie) can help you relieve stress....
Are Canned Peaches A Healthy Snack?
Snack Girl is seriously missing her peaches. Summer seems years away!...
A Magical and Healthy Packaged Snack
Snack Girl has a confession to make. She has begun to receive MANY snack samples in the mail....
Need Some Intense Dark Twilight Delight?
Since this is a family blog, you KNOW I am talking about dark chocolate. Snack Girl was cruising through the candy aisle when she found these....
A Healthy Snack Friend In The Ice Cream Aisle
Snack Girl tends to avoid the frozen foods aisle. Why? Well, when she sees the 2 for $5 Ben & Jerry's she gets weak in the knees....
Try This Breakfast Solution: Faster and Healthier Than Cereal
Are you running out of time every morning and grabbing a cereal bar? Try this instead....
Don't Forget This Classic
Out of fresh fruit? Can't make it to the store?...
Lessons From a Coconut
I was driving my minivan packed with soccer kids, drinking a pina colada.....when I woke up....
Cut Your Morning Sugar Consumption in Half With This Cereal
Since posting: Candy or Breakfast? Evaluate Your Cereal, Snack Girl has scoured the cereal aisle looking for healthy choices....
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!...
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....
A Great Choice For A Frozen Waffle
Breakfastpalooza continues here on Snack Girl with a question about frozen waffles....
A Yummy and Healthy Cookie Under 100 Calories
One holy grail of healthy snack foods is the healthy cookie. A tasty cookie, that has natural ingredients, and won't make you fat is a beautiful thing....
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 :)...
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....
A Nutritious, Nutty, and Chocolately 100 Calorie Snack
It is not easy to combine the words "chocolate" and "100 calories" in the same sentence. While Dark Chocolate is nutritious, you have to be careful with the quantities....
KINDa Fabulous: A Nutritionally Dense Snack Bar
What the world needs is some serious KINDness. Okay, that doesn't seem realistic - but you could pick up KIND at your local convenience store!...
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...
Sneezing Your Way Through Spring? Try This Sweet Cure
Allergy season is in full swing, and most of us are feeling it. At a recent trip to Barnes & Nobles, I thought a clerk was crying before I realized he was just an allergy sufferer!...
A Zero Calorie Drink With A Twist
Drink manufacturers know that Soda is harming many people. They want to help you end your Soda addiction with a bunch of new flavored and low calorie alternatives....
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....
Have it Your Way (and I'm not talking about BK)
Snack-Girl has become a cereal magnet now that she starting writing about breakfast.The best part of this new development is that yummy things show up on my doorstep....
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?...
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....
Customize Your Healthy Chocolate Treat
What if you could create the chocolate of your dreams in a few easy steps? What would you add to your chocolate if you had a ton of different flavors at the tips of your fingers?....
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....
Ready Snax - in the Produce Aisle
Do you have time to cut up an apple or peel and slice a carrot? No? Well, join the club. Every day, I get up, run to my fridge and start chopping (in my dreams)....
Lara Bar - Only 2 Ingredients
The holy grail for healthy packaged snacking is finding a snack with fewer than 5 ingredients. The Lara Bar fits this definition well....
Healthy Chocolate
Replacing your "junk food" chocolate with a nutritious chocolate is a way to give yourself a luxurious treat you deserve....
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)....
A Healthy Snack for a Busy World
Do you have time to sit and peel a fresh mango every time you want a snack? No? Well, I'm sure you are in the majority....
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....
A new sports drink?
Most of us don't think of milk as a sports drink. The drink aisle abounds with neon colors of Gatorade and Powerade to entice us to recharge after and during exercise....
Candy that is good for you
Can you have a treat that is also nutritious? Absolutely. There is no reason why you need to chose a food that lacks nutrients to get a great treat.
A chewy solution to snacking
If you choose sugar free gum, or close to it, you have a snack that won't wreck your teeth or your waistline. You can stop the desire to put something fattening in your mouth and it can be a pretty good experience. As long as you are not hungry, chewing gum is a good alternative to food....
Chocolate is made from plants
Why is dark chocolate good for you? Most people don't realize that dark chocolate is derived from plants....
