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Brown Is Beautiful: Making The Switch To Brown Rice
Hey, we all want to be beautiful. How about trying some brown rice to aid your efforts?...
A Fantastic Snack From A Scary Place
You guys been anywhere scary lately? How about Costco where all your money seems to get scared out of your wallet?....
A Lower Calorie Pistachio For Your Snack Consumption
Nuts are a great snack and Snack Girl advocates for them everyday. Light to carry, packed with nutrients, and satisfying, pistachios are a perfect snack....
Sweet Corn Is A Stellar Snack
Don't tell me you haven't noticed the piles of corn at the front of your local grocery store. The stacks of 10 ears for $2 are calling Snack Girl....
Wow Your Friends This Memorial Day With Salad Sticks
If it would just STOP raining, Snack Girl would get excited about Memorial Day weekend. Click your heels together and repeat after me, "My children will not watch twenty hours of TV over Memorial Day weekend."....
My Friends Use To Laugh At Me...And THEN I Made This Broccoli Recipe
Do you think Snack Girl is done trying to convince you to eat broccoli? I will NEVER give up (really)....
Saving The Brussels Sprouts
Any of you Snack Girl readers hate Brussels Sprouts? I bet you are really looking forward to them on your Thanksgiving table....
Want To Prevent Breast Cancer? Try This Awesome Snack
Can your diet lower your chances of getting cancer? The answer is yes!...
Don't Toss These Out!
Who likes to feel like their hands are in worm guts? You? The slimy inside of a pumpkin is a SCARY place....
Kale Chips
There are bunches of kale ready to eat in someone's garden right now. What are you going to do with it all?...
Makeover French Fries With This Awesome Recipe From Epicuriosa
There are some wonderful food blogs out there - and sometimes Snack Girl is special enough to get to feature one....
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....
63 Calories of Salty, Sweet, Sour, Spicy and Veggie Goodness for a Dime
After writing about Parmesan Corn Recipe, I felt bad about adulterating corn into a high calorie food. Parmesan Corn Recipe is a GREAT snack, but not the best choice for us who are watching our weight....
Potato Chip CRUNCH For One Calorie
Fresh produce is rolling into supermarkets and farmer's markets all around the country. June is a fantastic month for healthy eating and these little jewels jumped into my car....
What The World Eats (Cheap and Healthy)
Many poor people in the United States don't buy fresh fruits and vegetables because they are expensive relative to processed foods. I agree that a $1 hamburger will fill you up much more than a $1 apple (and, yes, they can cost that much)....
A Little Ranch Dressing Isn't Gonna Kill Ya
Raw vegetables are probably the healthiest food that you can eat. Low in calories, high in vitamins and fiber, it is hard to go wrong. Why don't we eat more of them?...
Do NOT Be Afraid of This Vegetable - In Season NOW and Yummy!
A sure sign of that spring is here is the lovely strawberries, asparagus and artichokes that show up in the supermarkets. My store has them right at the entrance beckoning to me....
Turn Cauliflower into YUMMYflower
You can eat 2 cups of cauliflower and only add 88 calories to your waistline. Not only that, but the stuff is really good for you. This is one of the vegetables your doctor is telling you to eat....
Ten Calories of Salty, Healthy, Whole Food Crunch
When we dream of the perfect salty snack we tend to think of Potato Chips. Dah-duh-duh-dah! Snack-Girl to the rescue!...
Fastest, Easiest, and Tastiest Guacamole
Guacamole is not a dip that should be avoided because of the calories. Of course, if you add guacamole to something that is already calorie dense (such as a cheese and meat filled burrito), you are throwing gas on the fire....
A Grecian Snack for All Time
Simple, elegant, and delicious, you can't go wrong with olives for a healthy snack. Olive bars have been popping up in supermarkets all over the country, and I, for one, am a BIG fan....
A Whole Food Snack of Salty Deliciousness and A Winner!
I really appreciate Snack-Girl readers, and am thrilled when someone suggests something that I need to review. Crystal wrote me a very nice e-mail admonishing me for leaving these veggie goodies off the site. So, today, I will fix this situation....
Homeless People Don't Need Vegetables
A couple days before Thanksgiving, I called our local "Survival Center" to find out how I could help. I was ready to roast a turkey, clean up, or help serve....
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)....
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....
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....
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 Dip that Won't Kill You
Have you noticed how many calories a sour cream and onion dip has? We can fool ourselves into believing we are eating healthily by dipping veggies in these dips....
Low calorie crunch to stop your chip craving
Isn't celery mostly water? Yes, but it is chocked full of other great nutrients. It has protein, Vitamin K, and lots of other vitamins to keep you going....
Fun to eat and good for you
"Eat. Spit. Be Happy." says DAVID, a manufacturer of sunflower seeds. I can't agree more. If not for the fact that I've been trying to teach my children not to spit, these would be a perfect snack.
Nuts are nutritious and portable
Are you nuts about nuts? I sure am. Roasted, salted, plain or slivered, almonds are a wonderful snack....