Today’s guest post from Holly Clegg focuses on healthy holiday baking. Since fresh cranberries freeze up to a year, you can bake up her Banana Cranberry Bread all year round. This is a terrific recipe for using up any overripe bananas you may have, too! Check out more of Holly’s trim& TERRIFIC® recipes at hollyclegg.com [...]
Posted on December 8, 2011 in Baking,Christmas,Desserts,Recipes,Weight Watchers and tagged as healthy recipes, Holly Clegg
Having had a Jewish father, I grew up eating wonderful cookies and cupcakes at the Jewish-style bakery my parents frequented by my dad’s office in Red Bank, New Jersey. If you lived in the area in the 1970s, it was the bakery by Red Bank Catholic High School and down Main Street from Norman’s Deli, [...]
Posted on December 5, 2011 in Baking,Christmas,Desserts,Gluten Free,Weight Watchers and tagged as healthy snacking
Kathleen Sloan-McIntosh, author of 300 Best Potato Recipes: A Complete Cook’s Guide writes in her cookbook: I once knew a family of Carolinians who moved from the South to New York City many years ago. No doubt because of their Southern roots, these folks always called sweet potatoes “Carolinas.” This is the pie they made [...]
Posted on November 10, 2011 in Cookbooks,Desserts,Recipes,Thanksgiving
Day of the Dead – Dia de los Muertos – is a Mexican holiday which focuses praying for and remembering friends and family who have passed away. It takes place on November 1 and 2 in conjunction with All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day. People build private altars honoring the deceased and decorate them [...]
Posted on November 1, 2011 in Desserts,Featured,Recipes,Weight Watchers and tagged as healthy snacking, vegan
Looking for a delicious but somewhat healthy treat for the holidays? Check out my post at the Attune Foods blog, Healthifying a Decadent Treat: Cranberry & Cherry Crunch Bark. The recipe features gluten free Erewhon Crispy Brown Rice cereal, dried cranberries and cherries, and chocolate. Not only is it a yummy treat, but it makes [...]
Posted on October 26, 2011 in Desserts,Featured and tagged as Attune Foods
The folks at Truvia challenged me to replace a usual lunchbox snack (be it chocolate milk, pudding, cookies or candy) with a no-sugar-added, naturally sweetened healthy snack from one of their Truvia-sweetened recipes. One of the not-so-healthy items I used pack for my kids was chocolate pudding. We gave it up years ago because it [...]
Posted on September 29, 2011 in Desserts,Featured,Gluten Free,Recipes,Weight Watchers and tagged as chocolate, healthy snacking, stevia
The kids are back to school signaling the end of one of the craziest summers we’ve had in a long time. My husband was laid off in June and he’s spent the summer being a stay at home dad while job hunting. As the current bread winner, I’ve been busier than ever working here at [...]
Posted on August 23, 2011 in Desserts,Featured,Recipes,Weight Watchers and tagged as dairy free, stevia, vegan
Lime is one of more popular flavors used in paletas – paletas de limón. I love lime too, especially in a mojito with mint leaves. So I used the combination, plus a little orange, and came up with a mojito flavored popsicle sans the rum. The Mojito Popsicles are very tangy and strong, so you [...]
Posted on August 8, 2011 in Desserts,Featured,Recipes,Weight Watchers and tagged as healthy snacking
After catching my kids watching Family Guy the other night while I was working upstairs, I’ve been searching for more family friendly TV and movie fare. That’s why I signed up to be Friday Night Ambassador to tell you about the latest Family Movie Night show, Who Is Simon Miller?, premiering Saturday, August 6th at [...]
Posted on July 28, 2011 in Desserts,Featured,Gluten Free,Movies,Recipes and tagged as healthy snacking, vegan
I recently saw an article in Fast Company about trendy ice pops that mentioned a wonderful cookbook, Paletas: Authentic Recipes for Mexican Ice Pops, Shaved Ice & Aguas Frescas by Fany Gerson. I quickly reserved a copy at my local library and have been using it for recipe inspiration. What are palentas? A paleta is [...]
Posted on July 26, 2011 in Desserts,Featured,Recipes,Weight Watchers and tagged as healthy snacking
Due to my food sensitivities to sugar and milk as well as a desire to make healthier snacks for my kids, I’m experimenting with various frozen treats this summer. While I do have a ice cream maker, I wanted to try out some simpler recipes for fruit popsicles, granitas and paletas first. Granitas Granitas is [...]
Posted on July 14, 2011 in Desserts,Featured,Food Sensitivities,Gluten Free,Weight Watchers and tagged as healthy snacking, stevia
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Sunkist. All opinions are 100% mine. Green is good when it comes to Sunkist Valencia Oranges Have you ever noticed that your Valencia oranges get a little green in the summer? That’s called “re-greening” and is a completely normal thing. Sunkist® Valencia oranges may [...]
Posted on July 11, 2011 in Desserts,Featured,Recipes,Weight Watchers and tagged as healthy snacking, stevia
A couple of weeks ago, I had the honor of being invited to Rudi’s Gluten-Free Bakery Recipe Contest Cook-Off in Boulder, Colorado. I was in town for the Fitness & Health Bloggers Conference, so stopped by Restaurant 4580 to watch the three finalists cook their gluten free recipes. John Inderdohnen of Centereach, NY was first. He [...]
Posted on July 8, 2011 in Desserts,Featured,Gluten Free and tagged as healthy snacking
Taste of Home Magazine is donating 10¢ for each unique visitor to their new Flag Cake recipe on the magazine’s website at www.tasteofhome.com/uso. It’s their way of partnering with the USO to provide a simple way for Americans to say thanks to our military and their families from Memorial Day through the Fourth of July [...]
Posted on June 18, 2011 in Desserts
With warmer weather here – or nearly so – my thoughts turn to cooling down with a yummy chocolate shake. However, like other people with food sensitivities to dairy and sugar, I have to forgo ice cream shakes. So I created this chocolate shake made with tofu and sweetened with stevia for those who want some [...]
Posted on April 22, 2011 in Desserts,Featured,Food Sensitivities,Gluten Free,Recipes,Weight Watchers and tagged as chocolate, healthy snacking, stevia, tofu, vegan
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