Healthy Dessert Ideas?

MishiMallow
MishiMallow Posts: 1
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Hi,

Four days in to my lifestyle change, I am craving something sweet really bad! Are there any healthy dessert/sweet snack recipes you would like to share?

Thanks!

Mallow

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  • jess393
    jess393 Posts: 220 Member
    I feel ya! sugar is my weak spot :/ look into some of the mug cake recipes- quick, easy, and usually relatively healthy! I also realllly love chocolate PB2; it's so versatile for everything.
  • KS_4691
    KS_4691 Posts: 228 Member
    avocado pudding: half an avocado, 2 tbs cocoa powder, 2 Splenda packets or a squirt of honey, pinch of salt

    cottage cheese apple pie: half an apple (chopped, covered in cinnamon, and microwaved for a minute) mixed with cottage cheese and topped with slivered almonds or bran cereal
  • yasemasuyo
    yasemasuyo Posts: 177 Member
    Fresh fruit
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    I usually just keep it simple and go for some ice cream.
  • eatrainsmile
    eatrainsmile Posts: 220 Member
    When i crave something sweet, I eat some dried fruit like figs, apricots or berries.
  • Natashaa1991
    Natashaa1991 Posts: 866 Member
    just have what you crave, but small amount.
  • childermass
    childermass Posts: 115 Member
    I love dark chocolate - keep a small container of it in my fridge.
    You only seem to need a small bit to satisfy your chocolate craving, and it's full of antioxidants and low on calories too!
  • love22step
    love22step Posts: 1,103 Member
    I love cookies, so I tend to grab a graham cracker or one of my mother's oatmeal cookies that substitutes applesauce for some of the butter and sugar. I like to substitute chopped/crushed figs for the applesauce, when I have them, and that makes them really good. I keep bags of chopped figs in my freezer for that purpose.
  • tropical24
    tropical24 Posts: 19 Member
    Grapes, Peaches, Watermelon or strawberries with a little sugar, Does wonders when you're in need of something sweet.

    Also a trick we do, is buy a small bag of chocolate chips and eat a couple if we desperately need something sugary. Only a few calories. Just need the willpower to stop eating after a few.
  • kcwest4
    kcwest4 Posts: 17 Member
    I made black bean brownies to fill my craving tonight! I'm not sure this is super healthy, but better than the alternative with oils and eggs. I calculated one brownie to equal about 114 calories. Delicious and really easy. Oh, and coconut milk ice cream. Just coconut milk with a splash of vanilla, freeze, and scrape! Tastes like bday cake!
  • clarkeje1
    clarkeje1 Posts: 1,641 Member
    Love chocolate and strawberries, or a parfait. Frozen yogurt with fruit is good too
  • Lyadeia
    Lyadeia Posts: 4,603 Member
    I make cheesecake with fat free cream cheese, Greek yogurt, and vanilla protein powder (among other ingredients) that tastes no different from the high calorie/high sugar/high fat ones...

    I also like to make my own chocolate ice cream with chocolate fudge protein powder.

    I make brownies or cookies with protein powder as well.

    There are heaps of substitutions that you can do to make someone guilt-free yet taste the same. No crazy new "dessert" recipes for me. I like cookies, pies, cakes, ice cream, etc.
  • Zoeegirl
    Zoeegirl Posts: 100 Member
    bump
  • SunshineDecember
    SunshineDecember Posts: 70 Member
    Check out these blogs:

    http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/
    http://ohsheglows.com/
    http://www.fitnesstreats.com/

    :)
  • srm1960
    srm1960 Posts: 281 Member
    :flowerforyou: WW products are very good-everything frozen they make, especially the snack size fudge bars, only 45 cal-also "skinny cow" frozen ice cream sandwiches are the bomb!-just make sure you have only one portion of anything-that is the key to success- Also trader joe's "cat cookies" are super low fat-low cal too!
  • Elphaba91
    Elphaba91 Posts: 66 Member
    What we've started doing is having dessert but eating it out of the dessert bowls my Mum's family used when she was a kid - they're about the size of a teacup! At first they looked abnormally small, but now I don't even notice! As I'm getting a full bowl of dessert, I don't really notice that it's a small amount.

    In terms of what to put in the bowl, jelly (particularly sugar free) is incredibly low-cal! Okay, it doesn't have much nutritional value but at 5-50 calories, who really cares! I do have it with a little bit of icecream too but only about a 1/4 cup (33 calories). Icy poles are also low calorie (but full of sugar).
  • AuntieMC
    AuntieMC Posts: 346 Member
    I like to whiz up fresh fruit like raspberries or pineapple in a blender with ice, to make a fruit slushie. No sugar needed!

    For ready-made, I enjoy Righteously Raw Divine Chocolate Mints. They are the healthy kind of high percentage dark cacao, with mint and agave nectar. Eat slowly, maybe with a warm herbal tea. They are small, only 60 calories, and feed the choclate craving.

    Peel an apple or two, slice it up, cook it in a small amount of water, mash it up, add cinnamon and vanilla for yummy applesauce.

    Mash up a banana, mix in some old fashioned oats and coconut (unsweetened coconut), drop onto a cookie sheet and bake till done. I like to press them into thin, round cookie shapes.

    That's It bars are made of JUST fruit, nothing else. 100 calories, though, and I find them to be so sweet they sometimes add to the craving. Oh yeah, eating things that are too sweet actually FEEDS the craving. I got off all sugar!
  • melpap89
    melpap89 Posts: 1 Member
    best dessert I discovered last night - baked sweet potato w/ a TBS almond butter, dash of maple syrup, cinnamon and cacao powder
  • appelsiinipuu
    appelsiinipuu Posts: 97 Member
    Just had greek yoghurt with mixed berries. I sprinkled some icing sugar (powdered sugar) on top for a bit of extra sweetness.
  • flarge
    flarge Posts: 47 Member
    There is a website called chocolatecoveredkatie.com that has tons of unique healthy desserts. Highly recommended!
  • syrklc
    syrklc Posts: 172 Member
    I avoid sweets now. Its the best way for me and I have gotten over the cravings.
  • ayamagali
    ayamagali Posts: 167 Member
    My go-to is banana "pudding". Perfect because its sweet, no added sugar, and soooooper lazy :) for a pure and simple version, banana blended/food processed with psyllium husk. Fave add-ins are peanut butter and cocoa powder, but berries are yummy too. Sometimes thin with milk to desired consistency.
    Might sound gross to some, but its my nightly treat and I can't go to bed without it or ill stay awake thinking about it :embarassed:
  • mgobluetx12
    mgobluetx12 Posts: 1,326 Member
    Check out www.skinnytaste.com - she has tons of dessert recipes. I've made quite a few and they're all delicious.
  • Ambrea81
    Ambrea81 Posts: 6 Member
    Popsicles like Dryer’s/Edy’s Fruit bars have around 80 calories per bar (depending on flavor - http://www.dreyers.com/fruitbars) and they are VERY tasty! You can also get Fudgesicles and Creamsicle that have between 60 and 100 calories (http://www.popsicle.com/product/category/107675/fudgsicle).

    In the past I have sliced up apples and warmed them in a frying pan with some cinnamon, yummy.
  • catsinpajamas
    catsinpajamas Posts: 55
    I make cheesecake with fat free cream cheese, Greek yogurt, and vanilla protein powder (among other ingredients) that tastes no different from the high calorie/high sugar/high fat ones...

    Recipe?
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    I make cheesecake with fat free cream cheese, Greek yogurt, and vanilla protein powder (among other ingredients) that tastes no different from the high calorie/high sugar/high fat ones...
    Recipe?

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/461619-ny-cheesecake-morph
    Welcome to cheesecake club
  • Sherri_Almanza
    Sherri_Almanza Posts: 1
    Knox Jell-O (Delicious Huge Hit 5 Star Soooo Gooood)

    4 envelopes of knox
    3 (3oz.) Boxes any flavor Jell-O
    4 Cups Boiling Water.

    Put knox and jell-o in a bowl and add boiling water, stir till powders are dissolved.
    Pour into a 9X12 dish and put it in the refrigerator till it becomes solid. Cut into squares.

    Enjoy a Healthy Snack
  • ilovelucy711
    ilovelucy711 Posts: 381 Member
    Flourless Double Chocolate Black Bean Brownies
    http://chowdivine.com/flourless-chocolatey-black-bean-brownies


    Sometimes I will take brownie/cake mix and instead of oil I will add the same amount of unsweetened applesauce.
  • Christabelle79
    Christabelle79 Posts: 80 Member
    Banana Ice Cream
    *Blitz a frozen banana in the food processor until smooth and creamy. Top with cocoa powder and agave syrup or honey.

    "Baked" Apple
    * Core an apple and dice.. Place in a bowl and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Cover with plastic wrap. "Bake" in microwave for a minute. Eat out of the bowl or have over yogurt.

    Mug Brownie
    *3 Tbsp. Quick Oats
    *1 Tbsp. Wheat Flour
    *1 Tbsp. Cocoa Powder
    *1 Egg White
    *2 Tbsp. Water
    *4 Tbsp. Splenda
    *pinch of salt
    *pinch of Baking Powder
    * Mix all together in a large mug and microwave for 1 minute.

    Grapefruit Brulee
    *Half a grapefruit. Remove seeds and cut out segments with a paring knife. Combine 2 TBS of sugar and 3/4 tsp salt. Sprinkle with sugar and salt mixture. Place under a HOT broiler, or use a brulee torch to carmelize the top.

    Anko and coconut milk (DELISH!)
    *Make your own anko by boiling azuki beans yourself and add splenda and salt once the beans are mushy. Mix with coconut milk.

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