Even though we’re trying to eat right, be healthy and lose weight, there are times we like to indulge ourselves. Maybe it’s with a glass of wine or a cocktail, or possibly with a nice slice of imported cheese. For those of you with a sweet tooth, you need to check out today’s guest post [...]
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Desserts
Healthy summer salad tips from Holly Clegg
More healthy Thanksgiving cooking with Holly Clegg: Sweet Potato Casserole
Summer salads: Holly Clegg’s Marinated Shrimp Edamame Salad
Holly Clegg’s healthy Thanksgiving cooking: Yam Corn Bread StuffingJust when you thought the eating holidays were over with the end of football season, here comes Valentine’s Day! It’s a challenging holiday because it’s all about sharing sweets with your family or significant other. Unfortunately, all you end up sharing are expanding waistlines and having to deal with sugared out kids. Instead, try this [...]
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Weight Watchers update, SXSW, and a berry and fruit salad recipe
Post-BlogHer detoxing with some healthy fruit drinks
Flat Belly Diet lemon cupcakesI’ve loved meringue cookies since I was a kid. But now that I’m trying to watch my calories, I like them even more. Here’s a holiday treat created by Laurel Hudson, the culinary instructor at Wellspring Academies that will let you indulge without packing on the pounds. Even better, these are perfect for those who [...]
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More egg recipes: Easter Meringue Cups and other low calorie meringue desserts
Holiday madnessTruvia™ is a zero-calorie, natural sweetener that's an alternative to sugar. Besides adding it to coffee and tea, you can safely cook with Truvia. (Download this Sweetness Conversion Chart to figure out how much Truvia you’ll need to substitute for sugar.) I recently used it to make a special hot chocolate recipe from celebrity chef, [...]
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Chocolate raspberry pavlova
Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate
An eggless chocolate cakeI like spooning leftover cranberry sauce from Thanksgiving on my plain, no fat yogurt in the morning. It’s good on plain oatmeal or Greek yogurt at breakfast time, too. Another way to get rid of it is to mix it with horseradish as a cocktail sauce for shrimp. Cybele Pascal, the author of the bestselling [...]
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Fat Smash Apple Crisp
More Thanksgiving sides – pomegranate cranberry sauce and roasted Brussels sprouts
The Denver Post’s Countdown to ThanksgivingHave you seen the gigantic bottles of POM Pomegranate juice at Costco? It’s sold at a great price and worth buying to make your Pomegranate Cranberry Sauce with or brine your turkey in. (Believe me, I’m sooo tempted to try yet another brining method after seeing this recipe for POM-Brined Turkey.) So what else can [...]
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The Skinny On Losing Weight without Being Hungry and Pomegranate Salad
Pomegranate health benefits and POM smoothies
Whole lotta ricotta: Weight Watchers low POINTS ricotta dessertsAfter last year’s struggles with the gluten free pie crust mix, I’ve decided to make a pumpkin dessert that does not require a crust. When my mother-in-law eats out, she carefully scoops out the pie filling and leaves the crust anyway, so no point in stressing myself out about pie crust. This one comes from [...]
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The day of reckoning – Happy (gluten free) Thanksgiving!
The gluten free, no eggs, no nuts, no soy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving pie recipes for a healthy sweet potato pie and traditional, not so healthy pumpkin pieI was meeting with my writer’s group last week at Mt. Everest Cafe in Ft. Collins, Colorado. It’s an inexpensive buffet style Nepalese/Indian place that I had driven by hundreds of times but never went in. I’m so glad my friends invited me to join them because the food was delicious. As I sat there [...]
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Cooking Light’s Carrot and Sweet Potato Soup with Cranberry Relish
Food Blog of the Week – Hooked on Heat
Sunset’s Soup Social – herbed carrot soup
Extreme Fat Smash Eggplant CurryWho says all sweets are unhealthy? The MUFA (monounsaturated fatty acid) for this Flat Belly Diet dessert recipe is safflower oil. Lemon Cupcakes with Citrus Icing 55 minutes 12 servings 316 calories MUFA : Safflower Oil Cupcakes Ingredients: 1 2/3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour 1 cup sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda [...]
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Recipes from the Flat Belly Diet Cookbook: banana pancakes
Baby shower cakes, cupcakes and mini-cupcakes
Get your children to eat healthy with the Sneaky Chef
Cream cheese frostingCrofter’s Organic recently released a new line of Organic Superfruit Spreads made from exotic fruits that are high in anti-oxidants like pomegranate, black currants and yumberries. According to their website, Crofters Super Fruit Spread contains as much antioxidant activity as 1L of red wine. They’ve determined this via in-house laboratory tests using ORAC analysis. All [...]
Stonyfield Oikos Organic Greek Yogurt winner
Oikos Organic Greek Yogurt and oatmeal pancakes
Win Stonyfield Farm Oikos Greek Organic Yogurt
Two Extreme Fat Smash yogurt recipes
