Totally obsessed with HungryGirl

[SportySam]

I love veggies too...but sometimes (actually many) I love chocolate and sweet stuff...so hungrygirl gives it to me in a lower calorie version and very tasty I might add!

[Zen]

I just got out of the bathtub. What do you do in the bathtub?
You think.
And I was thinking, this would be a reasonable alternative for snacks but not as an entire way of eating.

Then I got out of the tub and stopped thinking.

[ny biker]

I just got out of the bathtub. What do you do in the bathtub?
You think.
And I was thinking, this would be a reasonable alternative for snacks but not as an entire way of eating.

Then I got out of the tub and stopped thinking.

In college I had a housemate who liked to read the Sunday NY Times in the tub.

Are the recipes in this book supposed to be for meals, or for snacks? 200 calories is not enough for a meal, but it's more than I want in a snack.

[SportySam]

Mostly snacks and some sides to a meal. For example, I like the faux-fried zucchini that uses fiber one cereal and dry ranch dressing seasoning and egg substitute. I would not eat it as a meal but had it as a side last night with my meatloaf.

There is also a great mashed potato recipe that uses cauliflower.

[smilingcat]

What ever happened to banana, apples, and other fruit??

Bit early in the season for peach. Apricots from the store weren't good eats Cherries were good eats.

hate processed food. artificial sweetner? one of them taste really.... hmm... its gawd awful bitter to me. Other sweetner still has the "chemical" feel to me. Its not the same as real sugar.

My other pet peeves is miracle whip. WHAZ WITH THAT STUFF? Doesn't even taste remotely like real home made mayo!! You put that on my bread and its going straight to trash.

Instead of ice creme with berries, try creme fraisch with berries. Now that's good eats. You don't have to smother the berries with creme fraisch just a small dab will do.

I also hate Sandra Lee "semi-home made"??? When I use to watch TV, she really grated on my nerve. Her "kitchen" and appliance was always color coordinated. You wear makeup and nail polish in my kitchen, you will be booted out! And she CAN'T COOK! JUST CUTE YOU KNOW WHAT!!

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[shootingstar]

What ever happened to banana, apples, and other fruit??

Bit early in the season for peach. Apricots from the store weren't good eats Cherries were good eats.

hate processed food. artificial sweetner? one of them taste really.... hmm... its gawd awful bitter to me. Other sweetner still has the "chemical" feel to me. Its not the same as real sugar.

My other pet peeves is miracle whip. WHAZ WITH THAT STUFF? Doesn't even taste remotely like real home made mayo!! You put that on my bread and its going straight to trash.

Yea, fresh fruit..very little work. Last year, one of the employees in our dept. showed me with a thrill on her face that she found an Internet recipe that involved deep frying some sort of bread with miracle whip or whatever abomination.

I said nothing to her. ...because she had been telling me for the longest time she did want to lose weight. (probably needed to lose at least 40 lbs.) Some people genuinely do not understand whole original food produce and ingredients, as a basis for more healthier eating.

Let's see this employee, was around my age, a mother of 2 late teenage boys.

[Reesha]

Many of us unknowingly train our bodies our whole lives to accept and require processed foods... whether it's bread, pasta, artificial sweeteners, candy, etc.

With all that engineered food floating around that is designed to taste so good and to be near addictive, it doesn't surprise me that fruit holds little interest for a lot of people. I'm not saying this is true of Sam because I know she eats fruit and plenty of it. But from my observations in the school cafeteria, etc... fruit just doesn't hold the interest that it once did because compared to artificial flavors and processed sugars, they just don't seem as chemically addictive.

[GLC1968]

Doesn't even taste remotely like real home made mayo!!

And that is exactly the point! I try to avoid processed foods, but I do admit to liking Miracle Whip. In fact, I just bought a new jar because my mayo eating husband saw the date on my jar and tossed it (it was over a year past the sell by date). He didn't get that those dates don't matter for Miracle Whip.

I HATE, HATE, HATE real mayo and all things related to it. As a kid, my mom discovered that I'd eat tuna salad if she made it with MW. Now I only eat it a couple of times a year and only in very small quanties.

(I like Cool Whip and hate real whip cream, too. )