Healthy
Food
Choices

(for the times
when you
want more to eat)

Are you hungry?

Craving a little more to eat?

During a meal Need a little extra to fill up? Try these: diet drink atole blue corn tortilla with salsa sugar-free Jell-O extra serving of vegetables fat-free baked chips and salsa vegetable soup raw or cooked vegetables with fat-free dip salad with fat-free dressing After a meal Try these for something to satisfy your craving for something sweet: sugar-free Jell-O sugar-free popsicle or Fudgesicle fruit yogurt shake sugar-free pudding piece of fruit

Snack time If you find yourself really needing a snack, try one of these healthy snack choices: diet drinks (diet pop, diet Kool-Aid) atole with sugar substitute sugar-free Jell-O fat-free baked chips (about 2 cups) and 1/4 cup salsa fat-free pretzels (about 45 stick pretzels or 20 "mini") popcorn, plain (2 1/2 cups) with a small amount of squeeze bottle margarine celery with non-fat cream cheese fruit yogurt shake (see recipe) raw vegetables with fat-free dip popcorn cakes rice cakes sugar-free Kool-Aid popsicles or fudgesicles

Consider these
Eagle approved foods!

Jell-O Waldorf Salad 1 pkg. sugar-free lime flavored Jell-O 1/2 cup diced apple 1/2 cup diced celery 1/2 shredded carrot Make sugar-free Jell-O. Refrigerate for about 1 1/2 hours or until thickened. Stir in vegetables and fruit. Refrigerate for 4 hours or until firm.

Fruit Yogurt Shake 1 cup plain nonfat yogurt 1/4 teaspoon vanilla 1 packet Equal brand sweetener 3/4 cup frozen unsweetened fruit Place yogurt, vanilla, and sweetener in blender. Whirl, gradually adding frozen fruit. Serves 2 Makes 2 cups Serving size = 1 cup Bananas, peaches, blueberries, strawberries, or raspberries work best for this recipe. Source: The Joy of Snacks by Nancy Cooper, R.D., CHRONIMED Publishing Minneapolis, MN, 1991.