Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Diet food review Jack Pot!

I am always looking for tasty guilt free items! I actually have written about some of my favorites on here. As I was browsing my fitness magazine uring my lunch break today (Clearly you don't have to be fit to read Fitness! haha) I came accross an article that listed a few snack options and recipes that left me intrigued. I did my usual google on a few them and came accross this awesome site that is all about new health and diet food finds! I love this new found site. Many of the things I have already tried but now there are a ton more on my list to try out thanks to this site.

So for all you other diet food/health food junkies - IateApie.net : Check IT out!

"IateApie.net provides reviews of foods marketed as healthy and diet friendly options. If it says low fat, low carb, reduced sugar, whole grain, natural, organic or high protein - we review it. The site was started in October 2004 and it is one of the few sites on the internet that delivers this kind of unique and unbiased content, with more than 800 foods reviews, each of which ranks in the Top 5 for a Google search of their product names."

Also, Hungry Girl, one of my fav healthly eating guru sent out her 2010 edition of her supermarket list. A-mazing!


Abbreviations:
FF = fat-free, RF = reduced-fat, LF = low-fat, SF = sugar-free, NSA = no-sugar-added


Dairy, Dairy Alternatives & Egg Products

Cheese
FF or RF shredded cheese (Kraft, Lifetime, Sargento, Galaxy
Veggie Shreds, Weight Watchers)
FF or RF block cheeses (Lifetime, Cabot)
FF or RF cheese slices (Kraft, Kraft Melt Downs, Sargento,
Galaxy Veggie Slices, Weight Watchers)
FF or LF cottage cheese (Fiber One, Knudsen/Breakstone's
On the Go!/Snack Size, Knudsen 100 Calorie Doubles)
FF cream cheese (or Weight Watchers RF Spread)
FF or RF crumbled feta
The Laughing Cow Light Cheese Wedges (NEW FLAVORS!)
Light string cheese (50 - 60 calories w/ about 2g fat each)
Assorted RF cheese snacks (Weight Watchers, Sargento)
The Laughing Cow Mini Babybel Light
Kraft 100 Calorie Packs Cheese Bites
RF Parmesan-style grated topping (pasta aisle, usually)

Egg Products
FF liquid egg substitute (Egg Beaters Original,
Better'n Eggs, Nulaid ReddiEgg)
Liquid egg whites (All Whites, Egg Beaters Whites)
Eggs (for making hard-boiled egg whites)

Yogurt
FF or LF yogurt (Yoplait Light, Dannon Light &
Fit, Weight Watchers, Yoplait Fiber One, YoPlus Light)
FF plain Greek yogurt (Fage Total 0%, Trader Joe's
0%, Chobani Nonfat)
FF or LF fruity Greek yogurt (Fage Total 2%
with Fruit, Chobani Nonfat)

Milk & Milk Swaps
Refrigerated light vanilla soymilk (8th Continent Light,
Silk Light)
Blue Diamond Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze
(stocked with refrigerated or non-refrigerated soymilks)

Pudding
SF or NSA pudding cups (Jell-O SF,
Hunt's SF or NSA)
Kozy Shack NSA Rice Pudding & Tapioca Pudding
Mousse Temptations by Jell-O

Assorted Low-Cal Condiments
FF Reddi-wip
Cool Whip Free (freezer aisle)
Coffee-mate Original FF liquid creamer
Coffee-mate FF or SF French Vanilla
powdered creamer
Coffee-mate Powder Stick Packs
FF sour cream
FF or LF mayo
Light buttery spread or light whipped butter (Brummel &
Brown, Land O'Lakes Whipped Light, Smart Balance 37%
Light)
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! Spray



Cereal

Cold Cereal
Puffed stuff (puffed wheat, rice &/or corn; Kashi 7 Whole
Grain Puffs; Kix)
Shredded wheat (like Fiber One's frosted version)
Fiber One Bran Cereal (original)
Kashi Honey Sunshine
Chocolate Cheerios
Kashi Heart to Heart Warm Cinnamon Oat Cereal

Hot Cereal
Instant oatmeal packets (Quaker, Quaker Simple
Harvest, Quaker True Delights)
Amy's Hot Cereal Bowls (freezer aisle)
Old-fashioned oats


Meat & Seafood

Meat
Nearly FF (around 97%) turkey, chicken &/or ham slices
(Oscar Mayer Deli Fresh, Applegate Farms, Butterball,
Healthy Ones, Sara Lee, Boar's Head)
Boneless skinless lean chicken &/or turkey breast
Extra-lean/lean ground turkey breast (Jennie-O,
Butterball)
FF or nearly FF hot dogs (Hebrew National 97% FF,
Ball Park FF, Ball Park Bun Size Smoked
White Turkey, Hoffy Extra Lean)
Canned 98% FF chunk white chicken breast in water

Seafood
Canned/pouched tuna in water
Canned/pouched salmon in water
Real or imitation crabmeat
StarKist Salmon, Albacore & Tuna Creations
Bumble Bee Prime Fillet Albacore Steak Entrees
Frozen or fresh shrimp & scallops
Frozen or fresh fish fillets (like tilapia, tuna & flounder)
Gorton's frozen grilled shrimp & fish fillets (tilapia, salmon)

Assorted Meaty Extras
Hormel Turkey Pepperoni (and Minis!)
Lean turkey burger patties (Jennie-O, Butterball)
Center-cut bacon or extra-lean/lean turkey bacon
(Jennie-O Extra Lean, Oscar Mayer)
Precooked real crumbled bacon (or imitation bacon bits)
Soy, turkey, or beef jerky (Tasty Eats -- not the
chicken-flavored ones --, Jack Link's, Oh Boy!
Oberto, Healthy Snackin's Simply Snackin)
Jack Link's Premium Cuts (Chicken Nuggets!)


Veggies

Fresh
Chopped & prepared veggies/veggie snacks (Mann's
Snacks on the Go)
Salad greens
Giant romaine lettuce leaves & cabbage (like Mann's Lettuce
Singles -- for wraps!)
Veggies for munching on (cherry tomatoes, broccoli, sugar
snap peas, baby carrots)
Broccoli slaw mix
Mann's Lo Mein Stir Fry (part veggies, part noodles)
Tomatoes
Bell peppers
Onions (for Lord of the Onion Rings!)
Butternut squash (for HG's special fries)
More fresh veggies of your choice

Frozen
Steam-in-the-bag veggies (Birds Eye, Green Giant, Veg-All)
Seasoned veggies or veggies in LF sauce (Green Giant Just
for One!, Green Giant Health Blends)




Fruit

Fresh
Grab-n-go fruit (apples, pears, bananas, oranges)
More fresh fruit of your choice

Canned & Frozen
Canned fruit in juice or water (pineapple, mandarin oranges,
peaches)
NSA frozen fruit (strawberries, dark sweet cherries, mango
chunks, peach slices, mixed berries)
NSA applesauce (flavored!)


Soups & Other Canned Goods

Low-Cal Canned Soups
Progresso (99% FF, Light & High Fiber)
Amy's Organic Light in Sodium (Chunky Tomato Bisque!)

Broths & Chili
FF chicken, beef, or veggie broth (look for low-sodium)
Canned LF turkey or veggie chili (Hormel, Health Valley)

Non-Canned Guilt-Free Soups
Tabatchnick Soups (freezer aisle)
Kettle Cuisine Soups & Chili (freezer aisle)
Mishima instant soups (Miso & Edamame!)
Campbell's Soup at Hand (check stats for LF ones)
Campbell's V8 Soups

More Canned Fun
Pure pumpkin (Libby's! Hard to find, but worth the search!)
Black beans (look for low-sodium)
Other beans of your choice (garbanzo, kidney, cannellini)
FF refried beans
Tomato sauce (look for flavored)
Crushed tomatoes (for chunky sauce & look for flavored)
Diced tomatoes (fire-roasted!)


Packaged Snacks, Bars, Etc.

Crackers & LF Chips
High-fiber crackers (Wheat Thins Fiber Selects, Ryvita,
Wasa, Dr. Kracker Flatbreads)
Guiltless Gourmet Tortilla Chips
Baked &/or RF potato chips (Kettle Brand Baked, Lay's Baked!, Pringles
Light, Cape Cod 40% RF)
Popchips (or Trader Joe's Popped Potato Chips)
Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps

Popcorn & Other Crunchy Snacks
94% FF mini microwave popcorn bags (Jolly Time Healthy
Pop, Orville Redenbacher's SmartPop!, Pop Secret 100
Calorie Pop)
Rice cakes & snacks (Quaker Rice Cakes & Tortillaz)
Soy crisps (Genisoy, Glenny's)
Michael Season's single-serving snacks

100-Calorie-or-Less Snack Packs & Treats
Snack cakes (Hostess 100 Calorie Packs, Weight Watchers
Snack Cakes)
Quaker Mini Delights
Rice Krispies Treats The Original Bars
VitaTops, VitaMuffins & VitaBrownies (freezer aisle!)
Pringles Stix
Oreo Wafer Fun Stix
Assorted 100-calorie snack packs (Nabisco, Right Bites, Mini
Bites, Chex Mix)
100 Calorie Bars (Hershey's, Reese's, York)
Entenmann's Little Bites 100 Calorie Packs

Bite-Worthy Bars
Cereal bars & chewy granola bars (Fiber One, Quaker 90
Calorie, Special K, South Beach Living Fiber Fit, Kashi)
Crunchy granola bars (Nature Valley, Kashi)
Decadent snack bars (South Beach Living Delights, Chex
Mix, Promax 70 Calorie)
Mini-meal-type bars (Kashi GoLean, Kind, Luna, Lara)

Assorted Guilt-Free Snack Foods
Freeze-dried fruit (Gerber Mini Fruits, Just Tomatoes, Trader
Joe's, Sensible Foods, Funky Monkey, Crispy Green)
Gerber Fruit Puffs & Veggie Puffs
Jell-O SF Gelatin Snacks
LesserEvil Krinkle Sticks
Fiber One Toaster Pastries
Newtons or Special K Fruit Crisps

Nuts
Everybody's Nuts! California Pistachios
All Natural Almond Accents
100-calorie packs of Blue Diamond Almonds
100-calorie packs of Emerald's Almonds (Cocoa
Roast!)


Bread Aisle

Bread & Buns
Low-cal, high-fiber light bread (Weight Watchers; Nature's
Own Light & Double Fiber; Arnold's Bakery Light;
Pepperidge Farm Light Style, Very Thin & Whole Grain;
Sara Lee Delightful; Fiber One)
Light buns (Sara Lee Delightful, Nature's Own Double Fiber,
Pepperidge Farm Classic Soft)
100-calorie flat buns (Arnold Select/Oroweat Sandwich Thins
and Fill 'Ems, Pepperidge Farm Deli Flats, EarthGrains Thin
Buns, Nature's Own Sandwich Rounds)

English Muffins & Bagels
Light English muffins (Weight Watchers, Thomas', Western
Bagel Alternative, Fiber One)
Low-cal bagels (Sara Lee Delightful, Western Bagel Alternative,
Weight Watchers, Kim's Light)
Thomas' Bagel Thins

Tortillas & Pitas
LF, high-fiber flour tortillas with around 110 cals each (La
Tortilla Factory Smart & Delicious Low Carb High Fiber or
100 Calorie, Mission Carb Balance, Tumaro's 8" Healthy
or Low in Carbs, Flatout Light Wraps)
High-fiber pita bread (Western Bagel Alternative, Weight
Watchers)


Ice Cream & Frozen Novelties

FF or LF ice cream (Dreyer's/Edy's Slow Churned Light Ice
Creams, Breyers Smooth & Dreamy FF)
LF ice cream sandwiches (The Skinny Cow, Weight
Watchers, Klondike Slim-a-Bear, Breyers Smooth &
Dreamy)
Fruit bars (Blue Bunny FrozFruit, Fruitfull Juice Bars,
Dreyer's/Edy's NSA Fruit Bars)
LF fudge bars (Weight Watchers GIANT, Healthy Choice
Premium, NSA Fudgsicles)
Portion-controlled light ice cream cups (Weight Watchers,
Dreyer's/Edy's, The Skinny Cow)
Light ice cream bars (Breyers Smooth & Dreamy,
The Skinny Cow -- especially Truffle Bars!)
Weight Watchers Sherbet & Ice Cream Bars
Fruity popsicles (SF Popsicles, Crystal Light)
Guilt-free sundae cones (Nestle Lil' Drums, Weight
Watchers, The Skinny Cow)


Sauces, Dressings, Etc.

Low-cal salad dressings (Girard's FF, Kraft Free,
Kraft Light, Hidden Valley FF, Wish-Bone
Light, Newman's Own Lighten Up!, low-cal ones from
Litehouse)
Spray dressings (Wish-Bone, Ken's)
SF pancake syrup (Cary's SF, Mrs. Butterworth's SF, Log Cabin
SF)
Salsa (fresh, La Victoria, Pace)
SF or low-sugar preserves (Smucker's SF, Smucker's Low Sugar,
Polaner SF with Fiber)
Frank's RedHot (Original & flavored)
Hellmann's/Best Foods Dijonnaise
Ketchup (Heinz, Heinz Reduced Sugar)
Mustard (honey, Dijon, spicy brown, yellow)
Vivi's Original Sauce Carnival Mustards (request 'em!)
Reduced-sodium/lite soy sauce
BBQ sauce, preferably with 45 calories or less per 2-tbsp.
serving (Chris' & Pitt's)
LF marinara or pizza sauce (Classico, Dei Fratelli)
Low-cal marinades (Mrs. Dash, Lawry's, Newman's Own)
Tomato paste (in a tube!)


Guilt-Free Frozen Foods & Meals

Breakfast-y Finds
LF waffles (Kashi, Eggo LF, Van's LF)
Kraft Bagel-fuls
Weight Watchers Smart Ones Morning Express
Jimmy Dean D-Lights Breakfast Sandwiches & Bowls

Meat Substitutes
Veggie burgers & soy patties (Boca, Gardenburger,
Morningstar Farms, Dr. Praeger's -- blot the oil! --,
Amy's)
Ground-beef-style soy crumbles (Boca, Morningstar Farms)
Breaded-chicken-style soy patties (Boca, Morningstar Farms)
Morningstar Farms Hickory BBQ Riblets

Sandwiches, Etc.
Guilt-free burritos & wraps (Amy's, Cedarlane)
Low-cal panini (Lean Cuisine, Healthy Choice)
Lean Cuisine Flatbread Melts
Lean Pockets

HG Pizza Finds
Amy's Spinach Pizza in a Pocket Sandwich
Lean Cuisine Casual Cuisine Pizzas
Amy's Cheese Pizza Toaster Pops
Kashi All Natural Frozen Pizzas (Thin Crust!)
Weight Watchers Smart Ones Artisan Creations

Entrees & More
Contessa Stir Fry Meals
Boca Meatless Lasagna
Boca Meatless Chili
Amy's Mexican Tamale Pie
Amy's Shepherd's Pie
Kashi All Natural Entrees (Mayan Harvest Bake!)
Healthy Choice All Natural Entrees (Pumpkin Squash
Ravioli!)
Lean Cuisine (New Spa Cuisine meals!)
Morningstar Farms Veggie Entrees


Beverages

Diet soda (Coke Zero, Coke Cherry Zero, Sprite Zero)
Coffee (Millstone, Dunkin' Donuts)
Starbucks VIA Ready Brew
Tea (Celestial Seasonings, Stash)
SF powdered drink mixes (Crystal Light, Wyler's Light,
Lipton Iced Tea To Go, AriZona)
Flavored water (Aquafina FlavorSplash,
Vitaminwater Zero)
Spring water
Trop50 juice beverages
SoBe Lean
Ocean Spray Diet
Diet V8 Splash
25-calorie packets of hot cocoa (Swiss Miss Diet, Nestle FF)
Minute Maid Fruit Falls or Just 10 Pouches
Diet Snapple (Trop-A-Rocka Tea)


Baking Goods, Spices & More

Pantry Staples
Whole-wheat flour
Mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
Pillsbury Reduced Sugar Cake Mixes
LF honey graham crackers
SF FF instant pudding mix (Jell-O)
Better'n Peanut Butter/Peanut Wonder (or RF PB)
Brown rice (pre-portioned &/or instant)
Whole-wheat-blend pasta (Ronzoni)
Betty Crocker 80 Calories Per Serving Pouch Potatoes
No-cal sweetener packets (Splenda, stevia)
Splenda No Calorie Sweetener, granulated (comes loose in
the box, not in packets)
Splenda Flavors for Coffee
Unsweetened cocoa powder
Torani SF Syrups
Instant coffee crystals
Nonstick cooking spray (Pam in Original, Professional High
Heat & Olive Oil)
SF gum (Stride, Trident Layers)

Assorted Spices, Seasonings, Etc.
Vanilla extract
Cinnamon
Pumpkin pie spice
Garlic powder
Onion powder
Italian seasoning
Minced dried onion
Dry seasoning mixes (taco, fajita, chili, etc.)
Dry onion soup/dip mix

Fridge Must-Haves
Dill pickles (burger chips & spears)
House Foods Tofu Shirataki noodles (near the tofu)
Pillsbury RF Crescent Rolls
Pillsbury Crescent Recipe Creations Seamless Dough Sheet
Pillsbury Classic Pizza Crust

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