Packaged + Kid Friendly + Sweet

Lessons From a Coconut

I was driving my minivan packed with soccer kids, drinking a pina colada.....when I woke up....

Cut Your Morning Sugar Consumption in Half With This Cereal

Since posting: Candy or Breakfast? Evaluate Your Cereal, Snack Girl has scoured the cereal aisle looking for healthy choices....

Healthier Brownies With A Secret Ingredient

Snack Girl is not someone who thinks you should alter the almighty brownie treat. Why take something so indulgent and delicious and change it?....

Can A New Drink Change Your Life?

Recently, a reader sent me a strange message about Almond Breeze. She wrote that it had CHANGED HER LIFE!...

Healthy Halloween Candy

Snack Girl visited her neighborhood Target this weekend and found Halloween candy stacked to the rafters. So, I decided I would beat out all the other healthy eating blogs on October's favorite topic - candy....

A Great Choice For A Frozen Waffle

Breakfastpalooza continues here on Snack Girl with a question about frozen waffles....

Avoid The Evil Muffin at Starbucks With This Healthy Snack (Giveaway, too!)

Starbucks is a great place for a pick me up. People stop there and grab something to keep them awake....

A Yummy and Healthy Cookie Under 100 Calories

One holy grail of healthy snack foods is the healthy cookie. A tasty cookie, that has natural ingredients, and won't make you fat is a beautiful thing....

A Breakfast Cereal You Can Feel Good About

Back in March, I wrote Candy or Breakfast? Evaluate Your Cereal and since then I have been on a search for cereals that pass my, "Healthy or Crappy Cereal Test" (patent pending :)...

How To Pick A Healthy Jam or Jelly

It isn’t that hard to find a healthy jam or jelly if you know what to look for....

A Nutritious, Nutty, and Chocolately 100 Calorie Snack

It is not easy to combine the words "chocolate" and "100 calories" in the same sentence. While Dark Chocolate is nutritious, you have to be careful with the quantities....

The Odwalla Smoothie Dilemma

What could be wrong about an entire mango in a bottle of juice? What if there was no added sugar but just non-GMO fruit mixed in a bottle for your healthy consumption?...

A Kid's Energy Bar for Lunch Boxes and Adults

I was first introduced to these bars on a tour of a supermarket with a nutritionist. "THESE are great bars!", she said. I was skeptical....

Is a GoGurt a Healthy Go or a Junk Food No?

The convenience of yogurt in a tube is phenomenal. No need for spoons and SO easy to pack make GoGurts a potential healthy choice for parents looking for something fun to add to lunch boxes....

KINDa Fabulous: A Nutritionally Dense Snack Bar

What the world needs is some serious KINDness. Okay, that doesn't seem realistic - but you could pick up KIND at your local convenience store!...

Cheerios: A Good Choice For a Healthy Snack?

Snack Girl has spent A LOT of time in the cereal aisle looking for a great choice for Snack Girl readers. It isn't easy to find a cereal that passes the Candy or Breakfast? Evaluate Your Cereal test...

Sneezing Your Way Through Spring? Try This Sweet Cure

Allergy season is in full swing, and most of us are feeling it. At a recent trip to Barnes & Nobles, I thought a clerk was crying before I realized he was just an allergy sufferer!...

A Zero Calorie Drink With A Twist

Drink manufacturers know that Soda is harming many people. They want to help you end your Soda addiction with a bunch of new flavored and low calorie alternatives....

Applesauce On The Go - A Packaged Snack With Promise

Why is it that something with a wrapper is preferable to a a whole food such as Apples? One of the reasons processed food sells so well is that an apple doesn't have a gold wrapper around it....

Have it Your Way (and I'm not talking about BK)

Snack-Girl has become a cereal magnet now that she starting writing about breakfast.The best part of this new development is that yummy things show up on my doorstep....