What is your favorite healthy snack?

[TuckandStuiesMom]

I'm eating some blueberries right now and they are yummy.

[DVC~OKW~96]

Just about any fruit you can think of. I also like hummus and whole wheat pitas.

Cheese, although I realize that can be considered unhealthy (fat) but I sure like it! :teeth:

[OrlandoMike]

Basically any fruit or veggie will do for me.....and cheese too! YUM

[ConcKahuna]

Sliced apples, sprinkled with cinnamon, then put in a dehydrater for a day or 2.

I also loooove honey, and can just eat it out of a jar.

[cybertheo]

Cinnamon Rice Cakes with Blueberry Yogurt on top.

[RemixBoyNJ]

Fruit and melons (even though I am a little bit allergic to them) :)

[PghLybrt]

I am guessing that Yuengling does not count huh? Ok ,well if not then pizza (still doesn't count?:confused3 )….oh wait ummmmmmmm seriously cucumbers cut thick with salsa on top.

[ChrizJen]

I am guessing that Yuengling does not count huh?


Maybe the LIGHT?!?!? :lmao:

I like pretty much any fruit. I had some cantelope (SP?) the other day that was so sweet and juicy it was like eating candy! :love:

And for a healthy salty snack, my favorite is pita chips with pineapple salsa. (MMmmmmm....now I'm hungry!)

[PghLybrt]

Maybe the LIGHT?!?!? :lmao:

I like pretty much any fruit. I had some cantelope (SP?) the other day that was so sweet and juicy it was like eating candy! :love:

And for a healthy salty snack, my favorite is pita chips with pineapple salsa. (MMmmmmm....now I'm hungry!)

I tried to convince my girlfriend of this....no go :sad1:


Pineapple salsa....that i will have to try( It is always peach or mango around here).

[BubblPopElectrc]

I love Kiwi. I also love banana and peanut butter mashed up together. :cool1:

[TuckandStuiesMom]

Lots of great ideas here.

When I posted initially, it was sorta a self-intervention. I find myself eating really awful stuff in the summer cause it's just too hot to cook. That day I had done a 14 hour 400 mi round-trip to Phoenix for work -- and found myself ordering fast food fish tacos at the drive-through window for breakfast @ 5:30 am. I knew then that I had hit bottom. :sad2:

[ConcKahuna]

Fish tacos? :Sick:

Bananas with fat-free caramel are good too :thumbsup2

[TuckandStuiesMom]

Fish Tacos CAN be very tasty but admittedly, they do not exactly constitute the breakfast of champions...

http://inpraiseofsardines.typepad.com/blogs/images/fish_tacos.jpg

Do you not have'em back east? I pretty much do not eat mexican food east of Las Cruces.

[Peepster]

Blueberries are healthy????????????? Aw, now you ruined it for me.

[TuckandStuiesMom]

Blueberries are healthy????????????? Aw, now you ruined it for me.

Yeah -- I've often thought that they are yummilicious enough that there is probably an ongoing, ginormous, scientific study (soon to be announced on your local TV news at 10) that blueberry consumption has been linked to male pattern baldness, dry mouth, sleeplessness, itchy palms, and bouts of excessive flatulence.:rotfl:

[ConcKahuna]

Yeah -- I've often thought that they are yummilicious enough that there is probably an ongoing, ginormous, scientific study (soon to be announced on your local TV news at 10) that blueberry consumption has been linked to male pattern baldness, dry mouth, sleeplessness, itchy palms, and bouts of excessive flatulence.:rotfl:

I know blueberries can cause iron deficiencies in birds. No clue if it does the same to humans :confused3

[Boston5602]

my new favorite thing this week anyways is sugar free angel food cake covered with strawberries and no fat whip cream , its delicious.

I love melon's too.

Oh the sugar free low fat jello puddings are awesome !!!!!!!

Pita bread with black bean salsa and hummus is great too.
I am also adding Tostitos Baked Scoops ( chips ) to eat the above with too.

[MickeyNikki*]

Sorry Wrong Forum...

[MonorailMan]

Fish Tacos CAN be very tasty but admittedly, they do not exactly constitute the breakfast of champions...

http://inpraiseofsardines.typepad.com/blogs/images/fish_tacos.jpg

Do you not have'em back east? I pretty much do not eat mexican food east of Las Cruces.

The first time I had a fish taco was at the Reagan Airport in DC. They weren't horrible. Then I had some fish tacos here at a local restaurant that weren't fried and they were great. I'm guessing the fish was broiled.

[TuckandStuiesMom]

The first time I had a fish taco was at the Reagan Airport in DC. They weren't horrible. Then I had some fish tacos here at a local restaurant that weren't fried and they were great. I'm guessing the fish was broiled.

Best area for yummy fish tacos is Baja California. Best place in the US is probably San Diego (at the beach). The tortillas should be soft, warm, and very fresh, there should be lots of shredded cabbage, a fair little bit of cilantro, a little mayo thinned down with lemon-juice to liquid consistency, fresh fresh light white fish, and a slice of lime. Umm, Umm, Umm! :goodvibes . I'm guessing the fish could either be grilled or fried. (sad to say -- I've only ever had fried; I like that nice crunchy texture)

[TuckandStuiesMom]

Sorry Wrong Forum...

Sounds good MickeyNikki! Original Post follows:

*I really like making fat-free yogurt. I mix fresh fruit into fat-free plain yogurt and let it sit in the fridge over night. It is filling and really quite delicious!

Hope I gave you a good suggestion... because if I didn't I just made myself really crave it for no reason!!

I am actually going to go make it now!!*:banana::woohoo:

[TuckandStuiesMom]

Oh the sugar free low fat jello puddings are awesome !!!!!!!


I'm a big fan too! :)

[ConcKahuna]

mix crushed pinapple, mandarin oranges (the type in the jar), coconut, marshmallows, sliced apples, and marichino cherries in fat-free cool-whip. It's gooood stuff.

[TuckandStuiesMom]

mix crushed pinapple, mandarin oranges (the type in the jar), coconut, marshmallows, sliced apples, and marichino cherries in fat-free cool-whip. It's gooood stuff.

Sounds like Ambrosia salad (ummmmmmmmm!) but I've never had it with apples. Are they the healthy part of this concoction here? LOL! Sure isn't the maraschino cherries or the marshmallows! (I know, I know -- I already polluted this thread with the wonders of fried fish tacos -- so I got no room to point fingers :rotfl: )

I've always wondered -- what do they do to cherries to make them maraschino-y:scratchin They practically glow in the dark...

[TuckandStuiesMom]

From Wiki --

Maraschino cherry

A maraschino cherry is a preserved, sweetened cherry, typically made from light-colored sweet cherries such as the Royal Ann, Rainier, or Gold varieties. The cherries are first preserved in a brine solution (usually sulfur dioxide) YUM! :scared: or alcohol, then soaked in a suspension of food coloring, sugar syrup, artificial and natural flavors, and other components. Maraschino cherries dyed red are typically almond-flavored, while cherries dyed green are usually peppermint-flavored.

Further steps along this process make glace and crystallized cherries; after soaking, the cherries are drained and then soaked in glucose and air-dried, producing glace cherries; a further stage involves another soaking in glucose which coats them with sugar, creating crystallized cherries.

History

The name maraschino refers to the marasca cherry and the maraschino liqueur made from it, in which maraschino cherries were originally preserved. They were, at first, produced for and consumed as a delicacy by royalty and the wealthy. Today they are a common dessert and drink garnish. Carmine, the coloring agent commonly used as a food dye, is derived from the cochineal insect. DOUBLE YUM :crazy2:

The cherries were first introduced in the United States in the late 19th century, where they were served in fine restaurants. By the turn of the century, American producers were experimenting with flavors such as the almond extract used today and substituting Queen Anne cherries for marasca cherries. In 1912, the USDA defined "maraschino cherries" as "marasca cherries preserved in maraschino" under the authority of the Food and Drugs Act of 1906. Artificially colored and sweetened Royal Anne variety had to be called "Imitation Maraschino Cherries" instead.[1] During periods of cherry shortage, grapes are often used instead of cherries. Maraschino cherries made of grapes are still marketed as "cherries." HMMMM...

The announcement, Food Inspection Decision 141, went on to define marasca cherries and maraschino themselves. It was signed on Feb. 17, 1912[2] by all three members of the Board of Food and Drug Inspection: its chairman Harvey W. Wiley, his political ally Roscoe E. Doolittle, and his political enemy Frederick L. Dunlap. Dunlap had taken a leave of absence after an attempt to remove Wiley from the Board backfired, and Decision 141 was the first decision he signed upon his return. 141 was also the last Decision Wiley ever signed; he resigned a month later, partially over Secretary Wilson's refusal to remove Dunlap from the Board.[3] DRAMA -- WHO KNEW?!?!

During Prohibition in the United States as of 1920, the decreasingly popular alcoholic variety was illegal as well. Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of horticulture at Oregon State University, developed the modern method of manufacturing maraschino cherries using a brine solution rather than alcohol. Thus, most modern maraschino cherries have only a historical connection with the liqueur maraschino.

It was not until after Prohibition was repealed in 1933 that the Food and Drug Administration revisited federal policy towards canned cherries. It held a hearing in April 1939 for the purpose of establishing a new standard of identity. GOLLY -- YOU'D THINK THERE WERE PROBABLY 'BIGGER" ISSUES TO DEAL WITH IN 1939; HMMMM LIKE THE COLLAPSE OF WESTERN EUROPE, MAYBE?!?! Since 1940, "maraschino cherries" have been defined as "cherries which have been dyed red, impregnated with sugar and packed in a sugar sirup flavored with oil of bitter almonds or a similar flavor" [sic].[1]

Myth: Prohibition is what pushed Wiegand to find a better way to make maraschinos, because manufacturers couldn't use alcohol to preserve the cherries anymore.

Fact: According to Bob Cain, who worked with Wiegand at OSU, Prohibition didn't have anything to do with Wiegand's research: His focus was on how to make a better brining process for cherries, one that wouldn't turn them soft. At the time Wiegand began his research, people were already using all kinds of ways to preserve maraschino cherries other than alcohol, long before Prohibition went into effect. What Wiegand did, Payne says, was take a process that people had their own recipes for -- "and who knows what they were putting in there" (frequently not alcohol) -- and turned it into a science, something replicable.

At the time Wiegand began his research, sodium metabisulfite TRIPLE YUM :scared: already was being used to preserve maraschino cherries. Some accounts indicate that this preservation method was being used long before Prohibition even went into effect.

Some manufacturers used maraschino or imitation liqueurs to flavor the cherries, but newspaper stories from the early part of the century suggest that a lot of manufacturers had stopped using alcohol altogether before Prohibition started.

Maraschino cherries are an important ingredient in many cocktails. As a garnish, they often decorate baked ham, cake, pastry, parfaits, milkshakes, ice cream sundaes, and ice cream sodas. They can also be found as an accompaniment to sweet paan.

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[I<3EvilQueen]

Grapes are my favorite. But lately I have been making No Pudge Fudge Brownies and they are surpringly GOOD

[cybertheo]

on Yahoo there's a recipe for 'energy' jello shots - the recipe replaces alcohol with ground up caffine pills. I haven't decided if this is a good idea or just wrong.

[OrlandoMike]

Just wrong!

Now substituting with Red Bull might be a better idea. :confused3

[Boston5602]

Grapes are my favorite. But lately I have been making No Pudge Fudge Brownies and they are surpringly GOOD

Come on now , lets share the recipe , PLEASE <G>

[I<3EvilQueen]

Come on now , lets share the recipe , PLEASE <G>


Just take the No Pudge Fudge Brownie Mix (in a pink box with a pig on it) and Fat Free Vanilla Yogurt. That is it.

If you can't find the No Pudge Fudge Mix I am sure the regular stuff will work too.

[TimTanyaMichael]

Right now, while reading this I am eating a bowl of Special K with berries, and of course the skim milk is ICE cold! MMM!!