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Brown Is Beautiful: Making The Switch To Brown Rice
Hey, we all want to be beautiful. How about trying some brown rice to aid your efforts?...
Take On The Prickly Fruit: In Season and Super Sweet
Pineapples are in season right now and costing about $2 each in my neck of the woods. YUM!...
A Fantastic Snack From A Scary Place
You guys been anywhere scary lately? How about Costco where all your money seems to get scared out of your wallet?....
A Lower Calorie Pistachio For Your Snack Consumption
Nuts are a great snack and Snack Girl advocates for them everyday. Light to carry, packed with nutrients, and satisfying, pistachios are a perfect snack....
Are Canned Peaches A Healthy Snack?
Snack Girl is seriously missing her peaches. Summer seems years away!...
Don't Forget This Classic
Out of fresh fruit? Can't make it to the store?...
Want To Prevent Breast Cancer? Try This Awesome Snack
Can your diet lower your chances of getting cancer? The answer is yes!...
You Need A New Food Obsession
Do you ever find yourself driving around in search of the perfect food? The vision of this food haunts you and keeps you hunting for the experience of tasting it again....
How To Prevent Cancer
Cancer is a tough disease to prevent. It exists in many forms and there is no vaccine....
How To Choose Healthy Peanut Butter
Peanut butter is a great addition to a healthy snack. Spreading it on apples or crackers is an excellent way to add fat and protein (and taste!) to a dull food....
Elegant, Easy, and Eggilicious
The best way to enjoy an egg doesn't involve any butter or cheese! Really! I know all those quiche lovers out there aren't going to believe me - but you have to give this a try....
A Drink for Super Heroes
Do you like to soar through the sky with your cape flapping? I do! Snack Girl has a cape and she jumps from her bed often to feel the rush - as she screams "Snack Girl to the RESCUE!!!"
Better and Faster than A Bowl of Cold Cereal
Life hasn't been easy since Snack-Girl set a new cereal standard in our house. I've tested many of our cereals and I've come up with very few that pass the Candy or Breakfast? Evaluate Your Cereal test....
Replace French Fries with This Easy and Healthy Snack
The most eaten vegetable in the United States is the potato. Found in fast food venues from coast to coast the delicious French Fries are hard to avoid....
This Food is An Instant Party in Your Mouth
Is there a food out there that can explode with taste and also fight cancer? The obvious answer is berries, but the fresh ones are pretty pricey....
The Fastest, Healthiest Snack in the West
Are you bored with the same old dull snacks? Do you need a way to "dress-up" your healthy snack?...
Save Money, Calories, and the Environment with this Yogurt
Is it possible to find a yogurt that tastes great and doesn't inflate your waist? Yes! Does yogurt have to have Sucralose or other artificial sweeteners to be low calorie? No!...
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....
Much Yummier than a LaraBar
Dear Snack-Girl Readers, I receive snacks from manufacturers to review for this site. I always put a line at the bottom of the review to indicate that status....
Winter's Miracle Fruit
Their dazzling color and shape are too lovely to believe. Shall I buy them for Christmas? Shall I give them as a gift?...
Ready Snax - in the Produce Aisle
Do you have time to cut up an apple or peel and slice a carrot? No? Well, join the club. Every day, I get up, run to my fridge and start chopping (in my dreams)....
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....
Lara Bar - Only 2 Ingredients
The holy grail for healthy packaged snacking is finding a snack with fewer than 5 ingredients. The Lara Bar fits this definition well....
A Healthy 100 Calorie Snack Pack
How can you eat healthy without spending a lot of time or money? This is a vexing question because most of us are limited in either money or time (and most likely - both)....
Eat a Little Bit of Sunshine
We don't ordinarily think about the sun, water, and nutrients absorbed by a food when we eat it. We usually just eat it....
How to Get What You Pay For
We take medicine to make us feel better when we get sick. We undergo all kind of treatments to get rid of diseases such as cancer and diabetes, and we pay oodles of money for these treatments....
The secret to eating lots and not getting fat
How much can you eat before you start gaining weight? Obviously, this depends on what you eat....
The goodness of tomato packed in a melon
Isn't watermelon just water? It is actually over 90% water, but that leftover 10% is pretty great. For example, watermelon has more lycopene than tomatoes....
Snap along to a healthy place
Pre-washed stringless sugar snap peas can be found in your local supermarket in a plastic bag. Those of us...
All the benefits of red wine without the alcohol
Most of us have heard that red wine has health benefits. The theory was conceived when we noticed that all those French people consumed alot of it and didn't get heart disease at the same rates as Americans. How amazing! An alcoholic drink that is actually good for you....
77 calories packed with nutrition
You get protein, lots of vitamins, fat and a whole slew of compounds that your body needs. So, eat eggs! Do not be afraid. But, try to keep it to 2 a day....
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....
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....
America's favorite fruit
Americans are bananas for bananas! They are the most consumed fruit in the United States and the world.
Orange you fabulous!
My grandfather would to send us a box of oranges for Christmas. I was pretty disappointed as a youngster because I was hoping for toys. But as an adult, I would appreciate the gift....
Slices of heaven
Biting into a fresh nectarine is like tasting a summer's day. So many flavors play over your tongue as you taste one....
Cherries - a luscious springime treat
"If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What am I Doing in the Pits?", Erma Bombeck, (1985). I guess I am dating myself with this title, but it always makes me laugh....
Luxurious, low in calorie, and nutritious
If fresh raspberries were cheaper, I would eat them all the time! They are sweet, luscious, and arguably very good for you....
An apple a day is cheaper than health insurance
"An apple a day will keep the doctor away" goes the proverb. I think we can all agree that apples are much cheaper than health insurance. Can an apple really make good on its promise?...