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Apple pie is healthier for you
than chocolate cake? True or
False?
Which Girl Scout cookie is best
for you?
Thin Mint, Tagalong or Do-si-do?
Apple pie starts with a healthy
ingredient. But add sugar and two
buttery piecrusts, and an average
piece has about the same calories
as a piece of chocolate cake with
frosting.
Eat a sliver of pie and skip the
crust. Or, for less than half the
calories, core an apple and fill
with a mixture of 1 tablespoon
brown sugar, 1 teaspoon
cinnamon, and 1 teaspoon
nutmeg. Microwave in a covered
casserole dish for about four
minutes, until tender.
Girl Scout cookies get a merit
badge for having no trans fats.
But the most popular, Thin Mints
and Tagalongs, are among the
least healthy. Tagalong peanut
butter patties have the most total
fat -- 9 grams for two cookies.
And despite their name, a serving
of Thin Mints (four cookies) adds
up to 8 grams of fat.
Try the Do-si-dos peanut butter
crèmes instead. One serving (two
cookies) is the lowest in calories
(110) and unhealthy saturated fat
(1.5 grams).
About how long does it take a
150-pound adult to walk off a
funnel cake?
Less than hour, 3 hours, 5 hours?
This deep-fried disaster has about
825 calories -- and that's without
toppings. Plan on walking more
than three hours to work it off -or walk right past the funnel cake
stand instead.
If you're at an amusement park,
fair, or festival, and have no
healthy choices, eat a candy
apple. It has fiber, no fat, and you
can walk it off in 50 minutes.
Cotton candy has fewer calories,
but it's nothing but sugar. It will
still take you nearly half an hour
to walk it off.
Which has the least calories per
serving?
Fudge, Lemon Merengue or
Angel Food with Strawberries?
Who would think fudge could be
the best choice? A 1-inch-square
of homemade fudge has about 70
calories, while a standard slice of
angel food cake with a handful of
strawberries is about 100 calories,
and lemon meringue pie tips the
scales at 300 calories or more.
A tip: Eat slowly and savor the
flavor. Put your fork down
between bites so you don't hurry.
The first two bites of any dessert
will seem the tastiest.
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If you split a banana split with
someone else, how many calories
could you save?
400, 500 or 700?
Splitting desserts can be a good
way to please your sweet tooth
and cut calories. But a banana
split with the works -- three
scoops of ice cream with whipped
cream, nuts, and cherries -- can
add up to about 1,010 calories.
That's more than half the calories
that most adult women need in
an entire day.
Better choice: One scoop of your
favorite low-fat or fat-free frozen
yogurt with one topping -- and
hold the whipped cream. You
won't even have to share.
Which has 40 cal. in a sm cup?
Cappuccino w/ Nonfat Milk,
Coffee w/ Half & Half or Coffee
with Milk & Sugar?
Coffee drinks can be alternatives
to desserts. Just watch large
flavored coffees.
A "grande" 16-ounce coffee with
steamed whole milk and mocha
syrup can be 330 calories. Even a
"skinny" version with nonfat milk
and no whipped cream can be
140 calories. The bottom line:
Skip supersized portions of
everything -- including coffees.
Stick to one of these 8-ounce, 40calorie drinks: A nonfat
cappuccino, coffee with 2
tablespoons of half-and-half, or
coffee with 2 tablespoons of
whole milk and a teaspoon of
sugar.
Why is Baked Alaska named
that? It was made to:
Look like igloo, or glacier or to
honor Alaska as U.S. territory?
Baked Alaska is a concoction of
sponge cake and ice cream under
a meringue dome. The meringue
keeps the ice cream from melting
when it's baked quickly in a very
hot oven. The dessert was called
various names until 1876, when
Delmonico's restaurant in New
York renamed it in honor of the
newly acquired U.S. territory of
Alaska.
About how much sugar does the
average American eat a day?
6 tsp, 15 tsp or 22 tsp?
The American Heart Association
recommends that women eat no
more than 100 calories (6
teaspoons) and men no more
than 150 calories (9 teaspoons) of
sugar a day. Yet most Americans
get about 350 daily calories from
sugar -- enough to gain almost 40
pounds a year.
Most of it comes from sodas and
other sweetened drinks. But a
gourmet ice cream can give you
three times your recommended
daily sugar limit in one large
scoop. When you’re craving
something sweet, try fruit or fatfree, no-sugar-added yogurt.
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Which oil or butter substitute
will people be least likely to taste
in brownies?
Applesauce, Mashed Banana or
Pureed Raspberries?
For fewer calories with close to
the same yummy taste, swap all
or some of the oil or butter in a
brownie recipe with unsweetened
applesauce. For a sweet and
slightly fruitier flavor, switch oil or
butter with mashed banana,
pureed raspberries, or other fruit.
All after-dinner dessert drinks are Cookies today are how much
high in calories. True or False?
more fattening than 20 years
ago?
Twice, 5 times or 7 times?
Which frozen treat is best for
you?
Regular Chocolate, Slow-Churned
Chocolate or a Fudge Popsicle?
While they are mostly empty
calories, many alcoholic "after
dinner" drinks aren't as decadent
as you may think. A standard shot
(1.5 ounces) of chocolate-infused
liqueur from one gourmet
chocolatier is less than 100
calories. So is crème de cacao.
Another decadently sweet treat is
strawberries dipped in chocolate,
which average about 40 calories
each. Dip two strawberries in
warm, dark chocolate instead of
dipping into a molten chocolate
cake and you'll save anywhere
from 200 to 1,000 calories.
A tennis-ball-sized serving of
regular ice cream has the most
calories and fat. The same scoop
of slow-churned ice cream has the
creamy, rich flavor of ice cream
for about half the calories and fat.
But most people don't eat just
one scoop.
The winner in the chocolaty
frozen desserts category is the
slim fudge bar. It has the most
calcium (150 mg) and least fat (2
grams) for just 100 calories.
Twenty years ago, the average
chocolate chip cookie was about
55 calories, and you could fit two
side-by-side in the palm of your
hand. Now just one is the size of
your palm and has a whopping
275 calories!
If you make your cookies
matchbook-sized, then two
cookies with a glass of nonfat milk
is a reasonable 200 calories.
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