Fun foods to make together?

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I'm having my two best friends come over for a sleepover on the 10th. Now, we've had many sleepovers in the past, and it's no biggie to just sit around and watch movies, but all three of us have expressed interest in cooking a dessert together. Someone suggested cupcakes, but my dad makes brownie-cakes, cookies, and cakes practically every week. For a little break from my usual healthy eating, I'm not too keen on making any of the treats my parents always make, nor eating any of them.

If I don't eat any of them, well, that'd send a red flag to my parents that I'm "restricting myself" (which I'm not), and make my my best friends feel awkward when they're eating them and I'm just sitting there watching or eating something different. o__o;;;

I really want something fun that we can make together that's easy (we're teenage girls not world-class chefs!), fairly low amount of things to clean-up, not uber pricey/hard to find ingrediants and if at all possible: something that's not rediculously high in calories and I can still enjoy when I get 'back on the wagon', so to speak.

Got any ideas? :d

you could make jello? it's jiggly and fun, tasty, and relatively low in calories (especially if you buy the light kind).

Jello has always scared me. XD

It.. moves..

And I can't.. reall chompchompchomp.. @___@ Blows my mind, man.

But that isn't too bad of a suggestion.. If me and one of my best friends weren't vegetarians. XD It's hard to find cheap vegetarian jello; and there is a recipe out there for a jello that uses agar-agar, but I don't even think my local grocery stores carry that. o_o;

You might want to check out the hungry-girl website.  They have lots of fun easy dessert recipes on there.  Good luck.

hun you are a teenage girl and you need to ENJOY IT!! my god one little brownie wont hurt if the rest of your diet is extremely healthy because well a healthy diet includes the fun little things.  You could always healthify a recipe if you wish such as substituting some oil and butter for applesauce and using two egg whites instead of 1 whole egg....whole wheat flour is supposed to be better for you than regular but i find that it makes things not taste as well and they arent as moist...i do not reccomend you use it...your friends probably wont like it either. 

*pictures Pooh Bear* think, think, think...

How about an apple crisp? That'd be pretty easy to make healthy, and it's really delicious. Just replace the crumb topping with healthier ingredients, such as rolled oats, chopped walnuts, whole wheat flour, and such. And for sure add some butter and brown sugar, but just go easy on how much.

Or what about grilled fruit (peaches, pinapple, bananas, apricots, pears, nectarines, anything really) with a scoop of vanilla ice cream?

Whatever you make, I'm sure it'd be fine if you just ate a moderate portion. Maybe add a glass of milk so you're fuller and thus less tempted to eat more, and enjoy whatever delicious treat you guys make!

renavf - Hmm. I forgot about hungry-girl! I always thought her recipes called for "diet items", ie most of it low-fat/low-calorie/low-sdfhskgetc. When I request to buy that kind of stuff, my parents think I'm on a diet, not eating like a normal person.. So I avoid making most of her recipes. XD;

summerlovin13 - Oh nono, Don't get me wrong! I totally enjoy a brownie on occasion, but my parents make it all. the. time. After seeing a cookie, brownie, or cake made once a week to be eaten through out the week, it kinda loses it's specialness, which is why I'm avoiding it. Why spend my calories on something that I don't think is worth indulging in, yanno?

boston93 - oooh! That sounds tasty! And healthy..ish! XD I could probably make those in little tinfoil cupcake liners for individual portion fun. (Why does having your own little mini portion make everything more fun? lol.)

Okay, so I'm defiantly going to bring up the crisp idea with my parents and my friends.. What about these chocolate peanut butter sticks?  Do you think my other two friends would enjoy making some?

..And are egg roll wrappers even available at places like Walmart? o_o Hrm. They sure do sound tasty, though.

The Peanut Butter recipe sounds good.  I may have to try that myself.  I'm a huge peanut butter fanatic.  Good point about the Hungry girl recipes.  I did see a good brownie one on there that just used a brownie mix and canned pumpkin.  Yumm.  I'm starting to get hungry

I actually made cake with the canned pumpkin. It was super moist and brought out the chocolate in the cake. I didn't use any frosting, but everyone at it up pretty quickly and you could have a biiig piece for under 200 calories. O: Pretty sweet deal if you do end up trying it!

Black bean brownies!

1 box no pudge brownie mix, 1 can black beans, 1 cup water.  Rinse the beans thoroughly and puree them with the water, mix with the mix and bake.

For really super good ones zest 2 oranges and add that and frozen blueberries.  I know they sound strange, but they're pretty darn healthy and taste great.

How about mini - individual cheesecakes? You can easily find alternative cheesecake receipes that are much healthier than normal and by putting them in muffin tins or foils you can have instant portion control.

For a fun thing you can make a whole bunch of different toppings - I love homemade strawberry sauces - just boil down different fruits..or make a nice dark chocolate sauce to drizzle on the top. You can put as much or as little as you want on yours and your friends can put as much as they want on theirs.

I like to make fruit salad with my friends,  exotic fruits and white yogurt or fruit kabobs with grapes banana slices, marshmellows,,  and jellow jigglers are good,  or make cupcakes too,  not every girl wants,needs, should be on a diet every day , just make a smaller batch, so you all dont go crazy.  I am going to make the butterfly cupcakes this weekend or easter sugar cookies,  i googled lowfat sugar cookies and found ones with half the calories....i sugest to make 1 thing fruity and healthy and one pure fun.