If you’re like me, the cravings hit as soon as I get home from work and am ready to crash in front of the television. Instead of having to choose between satisfying your craving or sticking to your healthy ways now you can do both!
Best Health offers some yummy and also diet-friendly snacks:
If you’re craving a Chocolate Triple Shake from McDonald’s go for a Grande Starbucks Banana Chocolate Vivanno smoothie. To make this an even healthier choice, ask them to use only half of the banana and to use skim or soy milk. I promise it tastes just as good!
If you’re craving a homemade peanut butter cookie go for one tablespoonful of peanut butter spread on banana slices.
If you’re about o buy a bag of regular M&Ms buy a bag of Hershey kisses and have 4 and save the rest for your next craving.
If you’re out and want a Tim Horton’s Old-Fashioned Glazed doughnut order a Maple- or Chocolate-Dip doughnut instead…just not everyday.
If you want Ruffles Regular potato chips while watching TV go for Triscuit Thin Crisps instead.
If you need your carbs like a white-bread bagel with butter and jam in the morning go for an English muffin with only jam. You won’t even notice there’s no butter.
Looks like the fast food industry is trying to blur the lines between greasy food and hot sex. If you’re not convinced look at the following videos and pictures and then decide for yourself.
Always leaders in dietary excellence, Burger King has come out with a new kids’ menu. The menu consists of three different meals, each of which is supposed to be lower in fact, sodium, and have fewer than 560 calories. Here is a list of the meals, taken from the Burger King website:
* Hamburger with BKTM Fresh Apple Fries, low-fat caramel dipping sauce and calcium-fortified MINUTE MAID® Apple Juice;
* New BK BURGER SHOTS® with BKTM Fresh Apple Fries, low-fat caramel dipping sauce and calcium-fortified MINUTE MAID® Apple Juice; and
* 4-pce CHICKEN TENDERS® (reformulated to be reduced-sodium) with BKTM Fresh Apple Fries, low-fat caramel dipping sauce and HERSHEY’S® Fat Free White Milk.
Each of the meals is supposed to get no more than 30 per cent of its calories from fat, and 10 per cent from added sugars. There also must be less than 600 milligrams of sodium.
Sounds like a great initiative. However, since when are FRIED APPLES a healthy alternative? Read more…
In an attempt to stand out from the standard pizzeria, Pizza Snobz has done something different. Their deep-fried pizza is high-calorie and high-fat, and is selling even better than the expected. Read more…
Have you ever felt like your arteries were too clear? Like you could feel the blood flowing smoothly through your body? Yeah, that’s gotta suck. Luckily there’s the Heart Attack Grill in Arizona, which will make your arteries clog just watching this video:
You know there is food you love that is just crap - next-to-no nutritional value, but it tastes awesome. There are foods that fall into this category that are cheap imitations of other foods. They’re made with sub-standard, likely unhealthy ingredients, and the finished product probably doesn’t taste anything like what it’s impersonating. But it’s still so damn good. Here are a few examples:
How Spam didn’t make it onto this list, I’ll never know. Read more…
We never stop. That’s why people rather grab something on the go or get a quick bite to eat than to have to stop everything.
The problem is that many fast food meals will affect your weight unless, of course, you know which are good and which are bad.
Here’s a list of the most healthy meals from the most popular fast food chains. They have healthy meals other than salad to offer and most have less than 400 calories.
Check out these gi-normous foods. The article is called, “The World’s Freakiest Foods,” but there’s nothing freaky about a doughnut that took 40 people nine hours to construct. That’s just plain awesome. Other entries include a giant hoagie in Mexico City, a wheel of cheese bigger than a person, an 8-tonne ice cream cake, and a cookie that measured almost 10 feet across.
To say that family life is busy is the understatement of the year. For the most part, we’ve all been guilty of a McDonald’s trip to save precious minutes at one time or another. Fast food or not, check out this list of restaurants, and their best and worst meals for your kids. Yes, you can even go to McDonald’s, as long as you order properly. Read more…
Obviously, cotton candy has no redeeming healthy qualities. But the other food you’re scarfing between rides ain’t much better. Corn dogs, funnel cake and chili cheese fries? Come on, did you really think you were doing yourself any favours? Try heading for the corn on the cob and candy apples (believe it or not). Check out this list, compiled by MSN, of the best and worst amusement park foods.
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