Under 200 Calories + Afternoon Snack

Customize Your Healthy Chocolate Treat

What if you could create the chocolate of your dreams in a few easy steps? What would you add to your chocolate if you had a ton of different flavors at the tips of your fingers?....

A Delicious and Reasonable Ice Cream Treat

Ice cream is a dreamy concoction. It tastes best when you make it yourself right out of the ice cream maker. But, who has time to make it? The supermarket seems to have an endless aisle of choices to answer our craving....

How to Replace Butter without Sacrificing Flavor

Is it possible? Can you remove butter from a great recipe and still want to eat it? Well, I was skeptical, until I decided to work this out for my waistline....

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....

Replace Potato Chips - First Step

Diets that advise you to stop eating Potato Chips and start eating Celery Sticks are asking too much! Celery Sticks , while crunchy, do not taste anything like a potato chips....

Healthy Chocolate

Replacing your "junk food" chocolate with a nutritious chocolate is a way to give yourself a luxurious treat you deserve....

A Healthy Snack for a Busy World

Do you have time to sit and peel a fresh mango every time you want a snack? No? Well, I'm sure you are in the majority....

Are baked snap peas as good as fresh snap peas?

Baked snap peas are mashed green peas shaped into a pea shape and baked with oil and salt. They have the same calories per ounce as potato chips....

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.

What is the vegetable in these chips? Potatoes

It sounds so great doesn't it? Veggie Chips! I can have vegetables AND chips. Woo-hoo! Yeah....

Bear shaped sugar

Aren't they so cute? Those little bears dressed in sweet colors are a very fun treat. I like these because they don't pretend to be something that they are not, like "fruit snacks". These are candy, plain and simple.

Better than cookies but not as good as fruit

Graham crackers can be pretty yummy. There are a lot of different brands but they all average out to be about the same for calories...

Chewy Granola Bar

Wait a minute, these are supposed to be healthy! Do you really consider these a treat?

Tropical fruit for North Americans

I never had a mango until I visited Mexico in 1987. I bought one from a street vendor, and just sunk my face into it. Wow! If a mango is perfectly fresh, it is an almost euphoric experience to eat it....

An okay cookie for a treat

Mallomars are a weird Northeastern United States phenomenon. If you have not lived in New York or New Jersey, you may have never seen one.

A delicious way to expand your wasteline

Oreos are America's favorite cookies. They are truly delicious. The dark bitter chocolate outside and the creamy inside are world famous....

Chocolate is made from plants

Why is dark chocolate good for you? Most people don't realize that dark chocolate is derived from plants....

The taste of candy - and nutritious!

Raisins are "nature's candy". I suppose that is true. They are SUPER sweet and yummy, and a great snack for those with a sweet tooth....

Low in calories as long as you hold the butter

Microwave popcorn is a fast and easy snack that can be satisfying and nutritious but you need to choose carefully if you are on a diet...

Nuts are nutritious and portable

Are you nuts about nuts? I sure am. Roasted, salted, plain or slivered, almonds are a wonderful snack....