Calling all you sweet-tooths out there!

Hello all,

Since starting my healthy eating lifestyle, I have found it increasingly difficult to satisfy my sweet-tooth, I cannot go through one day without a sweet treat, it just has to happen, so I'm wondering, what do you eat to satisfy your sweet-tooth? Do you have any lovely recipes to share? I absolutely adore chocolate, but then it was already obvious, right? What do you miss, also? I'm in the middle of working on a recipe book for low cal treats and I would love to hear what the audience think and feel.

Thank you in advance for your replies :)

I used to have a really big sweet tooth, but I've more or less lost it now. But if I do want something sweet I'll have some sweet cereal (sometimes I'll have something healthy that still tastes sweet, but sometimes it's Cocoa Puffs because I do still like chocolate and I only eat a little bit at a time and I figure that's better than a brownie or something). Pudding is good too. Or a frozen fruit bar.

I really like the chocolate muffin tops from Vitalicious, but nothing beats a simple small square of really good gourmet dark chocolate.  Currently my favorite is Green & Black Mayan Gold.  I also like to munch on dry cereal (Cookie Crisp and Froot Loops are my current faves, although I also like Kix and Chocolate Chex).

As for recipes, I like to mix a box of Pillsbury reduced sugar devil's food cake mix and a can of pumpkin, spread in a 9x13 pan and bake according to directions - delicious cake like brownies.  I get a lot of other sweet treat recipes from here in the CC database, and I love to reference Hungry-Girl.com (but she already has a recipe book out).

I'll have 100 calorie snacks or 100 calorie packs of things like M&M's. I'll also have low-cal smoothies (with skim milk and fruit that I diced and froze myself), hot teas (lemon zinger, wild berry zinger). Occasionally, I'll have sweet cereals. There's also low-fat ice cream (Like Edy's Slow Churned).

I believe it's mostly about portions. I don't think there's anything wrong with grabbing a bite of dark chocolate, but you have to take it into account, log it and look at that nutrition information, know what you're eating, and not eat the whole bar in a sitting.

 

I will SO buy your book when you finish.  Do you have advanced ordering?  The reason is that my hubby has a HUGE sweet tooth.  I really don't but everyonce in a while (or should I say once a month:)  I get a craving or two.  So we can both fend off his tooth but when mine rears it's ugly head, we cave.  Then we run out and get a McFlurry or something equally as bad and I pay for it the next day.

Forgive me if you read this in another thread but feel free to use my apple-pie-in-a-bag suggestion which is sliced apples, ground walnuts with cinnamin or apple pie spices.  Toss all in a bag to coat apples and enjoy.  Tastes great and is low cal. Sorry it's not chocolate.

Good luck with your book!

I slice up bananas (firm but ripe ones), dip half of each slice in chocolate, and freeze them. And eat them frozen.

Honestly, it tastes like some crazy chocolate-banana ice cream treat that I would NEVER allow myself otherwise. <3

TRY IT. You can probably add a couple of nuts in there, too, for some added yumminess.

Original Post by bintzp:

I will SO buy your book when you finish. Do you have advanced ordering? The reason is that my hubby has a HUGE sweet tooth. I really don't but everyonce in a while (or should I say once a month:) I get a craving or two. So we can both fend off his tooth but when mine rears it's ugly head, we cave. Then we run out and get a McFlurry or something equally as bad and I pay for it the next day.

Forgive me if you read this in another thread but feel free to use my apple-pie-in-a-bag suggestion which is sliced apples, ground walnuts with cinnamin or apple pie spices. Toss all in a bag to coat apples and enjoy. Tastes great and is low cal. Sorry it's not chocolate.

Good luck with your book!

Your recipe sounds delish! And thank you so much! I have a good tip for you though, however lovely McFlurrys are (and believe me, I know, I've given myself a list of 10 reasons as to why I should not buy the brand new Oreo McFlurry) You should buy the McDonalds ice cream wafer cone, it is only 125 calories! A McFlurry is at least 200 plus, so you will still fix your craving, and because the calories are significantly lower in the wafer cone, you can afford to add your own little toppings, such as two crumbled maltesers which only weigh in at less than 10 cals each, or a 1 square of Divine Fair Trade 70% Cocoa, it's 19 cals per square.

I'm trying to get some publishers interested, but it's tricky, but I can win them round with cake, anyone can. I'm in the middle of a recipe that uses a flour that deranges from a vegatable and is less than 50 cals per 100 gr. I know, it doesn't even sound real, but my foodie tech friend backed it up for me, but it isn't largely available and.. Well, I'll stop rambling.

 

As for the 100 cal mix bags, pudding and vita tops, I am oh-so-jealous that I can't get them over here in London! I am a major fan of Hungry Girl (is it just me?) and her recipes, she is so the best, but the sad thing is I can't use most of the recipes due to the ingredients needed, like the low fat betty crocker or pillsbury cake mixes, especially the ones that come in the half box - gah!

 

Anyone a fan of Angel Delight? The sugar free chocolate one made with skimmed milk is pure heaven and less than 80 cals for the portion!

My new favorite: get the sugar free rice pudding cups, dump one into a bowl, mix in as much cinnamon as you like, and top with light cool whip or whip cream. Less than 100 calories and it's an actual dessert.  I also really love oat meal, and the Quaker Weight Control oatmeal is 160 cals a packet, and it is so sweet and delicious, sometimes that will be my dessert.

I have the same thing and unfortunately my husband is a body builder so everything he eats has a ton of calories not to mention his sweet tooth cravings are the same as mine so I do find it very difficult avoid dabbling in the sweet things I enjoy. But to curb my sweet tooth I try to eat fruits, they still have the sugar I crave, and still have the nutrition by body needs, without all of the calories and fat. But if you still cant avoid the sweets and need chocolate the 100 calorie packs of Oreo's are really good!

I have three things that have saved me from sweet tooth sabotage:

1. Quaker flavored rice cakes. The peanut butter chocolate ones have little tiny chocolate chips that give them just enough sweetness, and I believe that they are only 60 calories. I was skeptical at first, but they are really good, and if you have two, who cares?

2. Sugar free chocolate instant jello-pudding with light cool whip. Since it is made with milk, it fills you up, and is very low in calories. It is so good!!!! Plus it is really easy to make. You just whisk it and put it in the fridge for 5 minutes.

3. Blueberries-plain and simple, but they are so so good.

I can fee your pain. I used to be a jelly bean fanatic, however now whenever I pass them at the store, I am like "is the extra weight worth the jelly beans?" and I keep it moving.

Good luck!

strawberries drizzled with sugar free or lite chocolate syrup and lite cool whip normally satisfies my chocolate sweet craving. Or and handful of chocolate chips. 

Put sherbert (any flavor normally raspberry) with frozen unsweetend berries (of all kinds) and a touch of orange juice in the blender until smooth.  Yummmm!!

 

smucker's reduced-sugar strawberry preserves

hmm those sound yummy!

i like slicing up an apple and sprinkling sugar and cinnamon all over it!

it's sweet but very very low calorie

Grilled banana with chocolate  Soooo good, and actually not too calorific I don't think... Just slice a banana in half, put a little bit of chocolate in the middle (literally one or two little pieces will do, spread throughout), wrap in tin foil and put in the oven for a few minutes.... and eat

(Then ignore the fact that this was originally created with a whole mars bar inside, and the fact that mounds of whipped cream would complement it )

Haha, I agree, ignore the Mars Bar part!

Again, I'm so jealous you get sugar free rice pudding cups, we have nothing like this in London, so unfair!

I had a major sweet tooth last night and I was going crazy for something, when I discovered a Total 0% Greek yogurt (I think it's called Fage in the US) and I threw in a Greek biscuit (home made, about 30 cals each) all crumbled up, mixed up some splenda in there to sweeten it up and lobbed a spoonful of strawberry compote (home made also, no sugar at all) and it was oh so yummy. Biscuits in yogurt is seriously the way to go.

Gah, I could seriously murder a doughnut right now. Does anyone give themselves allowances on the weekend? I kinda look at it as my weekend off from the healthy eating, but I never go crazy..

 

..Or do I?

My sister swears by substituting applesauce for oils in cookies and cake recipes. This helps make them lower fat and more nutritious and for the most part you can't really tell a difference. Just thought I would throw that out there.

To satisfy my chocolate cravings, I buy the 100 calorie Hostess Chocolate Cupcake packs. 100 calories, like 5-6 grams of fiber, and a small amount of protein. Makes me feel better about indulging knowing I am getting a good amount of fiber in return for all that chocolately goodness, hehe

My husband and I have a Weight Watcher's Smart Ones dessert a few times a week to satisfy our sweet tooths, they have great flavors that are portioned to have around 200 calories or less.  My favorite is the Mint Chocolate Chip Sundae that has 150 calories and 3 grams of fat.  MMMM!!!!

I just eat a lot of fruit and sometimes will dip it into a little melted chocolate
Last night i had something nice!
Custard powder + milk + splenda --> 1/2 cup of custard (which was heaps) for about 80 cal, then heated some canned apple and then froze nraspberries in another cup, then dumped it on. The raspberries turned into a thin syrup and dyed the apples. And it was deslish. I have been binging every night cos im such a sugar addict :( But not last night! Satisfied

How do you make the greek biscuits?  Are they sweet?  I have never heard of them before. 

I have a really low cal but yummy dessert.  It's called mile high pie.  I take a reduced fat graham cracker crust (if you can't find it you can make one yourself), 8 oz. fat free cream cheese mixed with 1/2 container fat free cool whip and 1/4 powder sugar, put it into the pie crust and then top with either the sugar free or fat free Jello chocolate pudding and top with the remaining fat free cool whip.  It works out to about 125 calories per serving - depending which pudding you use it could be less.  Good luck!

porridge (trying to be healthy) with sugar (not healthy) and if the ST doesn't go add some ice cream to the top (really unhealthy)