My Wooden Spoon » Snack food — My Wooden Spoon http://mywoodenspoon.com Food, Family & Finds from A Cowboy's Wife Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:17:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Healthy Cranberry Oatmeal Clusters http://mywoodenspoon.com/healthy-cranberry-oatmeal-clusters/ http://mywoodenspoon.com/healthy-cranberry-oatmeal-clusters/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:25:04 +0000 A Cowboy's Wife http://mywoodenspoon.com/?p=3114 [Continue Reading]]]> In my goal to be fit, not only am I working out to the Your Shape Wii Game, I’m also eating things healthier when I can.  Trying to find healthy substitutions to replace the easy accessible junk food can prove to be difficult at times.  I realized that trying to find prepackaged healthy food was the real problem. I needed to discover ways to create healthy snacks “from scratch”.  So instead of buying granola bar type snacks, I decided to make my own version. Since granola seems to be an ingredients that’s hard to come by around here, I chose to use oatmeal as a substitute but you could use granola (and I recommend you do) to make this recipe.

INGREDIENTS

  • 1/3 cup light peanut butter
  • 1/3 cup pure maple syrup
  • 2 egg whites
  • 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
  • 2 1/3 cups Quaker Oats (or low-fat granola)
  • 3/4 cup dried cranberries (I added a few more;)

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 250′. Spray a 12-cup muffin pan with light cooking spray and set aside. In a medium bowl, beat together peanut butter and maple syrup on medium speed with an electric mixer, although I used a wisk. Add egg whites and pumpkin pie spice and beat again until smooth. Stir in oatmeal and cranberries. Divide mixture evenly into muffin cups. Bake for 30-35 minutes on middle rack in oven. Remove from oven and cool completely before removing clusters from pan. Store in an airtight container or they’ll get hard.

Soo, I sorta forgot about them in the oven and they are little overcooked. I was watching the CNN livestream of the US honoring WASP.

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]]> http://mywoodenspoon.com/healthy-cranberry-oatmeal-clusters/feed/ 7 100 Calorie Little Debbie Snacks http://mywoodenspoon.com/100-calorie-little-debbie-snacks/ http://mywoodenspoon.com/100-calorie-little-debbie-snacks/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:09:02 +0000 A Cowboy's Wife http://mywoodenspoon.com/?p=1101 [Continue Reading]]]> In my quest to lose weight this year, I’m on the prowl for TASTY GOOD snacks that I can indulge in–Snacks that are going to soothe the craving.  I’ve tried another brand (WW) that were so horrible that even my kids wouldn’t eat them and they eat everything!  But these Little Debbie Snacks?  These are sooooo good.  You would have no clue that they are only 100 calories.  Not to mention they are cheaper than that other brand.  AND, there is currently a coupon for .55cents off!!!  Feast your eyes on these goodies…..

These are only 5 of the 8 that I tried out.  The other ones didn’t even last one day because of the boys aka hogs.

These are not large portions but they are not meant to be….the whole point of them being 100 calories is to provide a healthier alternative in a portion control size.   Yes fruit is healthier but sometimes you just need to indulge in something like this so that you don’t fall off the diet wagon, you know?

Anyways, Little Debbie snacks have been around for years so I found it to be a breath of fresh air to bring in a lighter version of their snacks. OH, and if you don’t give a rat’s butt for lower calories, then check out this Strawberry Shortcake Roll recipe!!!  It includes one of my most favorite debbie snacks ever.

So guess what?  You can WIN IT!

Oh yeah!  3 winners will get this HUGE box of 100 calorie Little Debbie Snacks.  The same box that I received in fact.  And my favorite part about their box?  It has their twitter handle on it!!  So cool that they are also trying to stay in the cutting edge of social media.

This is what you will get…..

Which ones did I fall in love with?  The Snow Puffs were my absolute faves.  Then the rest are all tied…seriously.  They are THAT good.

HOW TO ENTER:

Go check out the Little Debbie Website and tell me which one is your favorite snack! It doesn’t have to be a 100 calorie one either…..Come back here to this post and leave a comment.

Additional ways to enter include & should be done in a separate comment:

  • Twittering this

100 calorie @LittleDebbie snacks giveaway over at @acowboyswife ’s food blog! http://tinyurl.com/9tgbc3

  • Blog it
  • Stumble it

This giveaway ends on January 16th.  Rules

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