Trick for Treats
mrsgoodwine
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What's your favorite decadent healthy dessert (oxymoron)? Pictures are encouraged.
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I used to blend frozen berries with low fat (low calorie) greek yoghurt to make a sorbet for less than 100 calories. Was pretty good, and you can add sweetener if you prefer it sweet.1
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Decadent desserts? And considered healthy... None that meet both those qualifications in one confection.1
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mrsgoodwine wrote: »
LOL... and I am still sitting here at my desk thinking about this.. can't come up with nuttin...
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mrsgoodwine wrote: »
LOL... and I am still sitting here at my desk thinking about this.. can't come up with nuttin...
Me either!! Lol.0 -
mrsgoodwine wrote: »What's your favorite decadent healthy dessert (oxymoron)?
Decadent and healthy isn't necessarily an oxymoron.
For me, it's more about portion size and frequency. Eliminating foods you love can be the short train to failure. And a lot of 'healthy' options to a favourite dessert are full of sadness. And calories. But they do come with a big dose of self-righteousness, so I guess there's that.
tl;dr : I'd rather have a smaller portion of the ice cream that I love once in a while, for example, than be able to have regular servings of substitutes that pale in comparison all the time.
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snickerscharlie wrote: »mrsgoodwine wrote: »What's your favorite decadent healthy dessert (oxymoron)?
Decadent and healthy isn't necessarily an oxymoron.
For me, it's more about portion size and frequency. Eliminating foods you love can be the short train to failure. And a lot of 'healthy' options to a favourite dessert are full of sadness. And calories. But they do come with a big dose of self-righteousness, so I guess there's that.
tl;dr : I'd rather have a smaller portion of the ice cream that I love once in a while, for example, than be able to have regular servings of substitutes that pale in comparison all the time.
I agree! And that's exactly what I do. I usually share a dessert with my hubby. We like Banana Splits. I usually try to eat most of the banana 0 -
Tapioca pudding made with water+whole milk, brown sugar and/or maple syrup - decadent if you like goo that looks like frogspawn.3
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kommodevaran wrote: »Tapioca pudding made with water+whole milk, brown sugar and/or maple syrup - decadent if you like goo that looks like frogspawn.
Hmmmm, I'll have to think on that one....
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These are the Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Breakfast Cookies from the MFP Blog- I just took them out of the oven. They're really good, just banana, oats and chocolate chips.
Definitly satifies a craving!
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snickerscharlie wrote: »mrsgoodwine wrote: »What's your favorite decadent healthy dessert (oxymoron)?
Decadent and healthy isn't necessarily an oxymoron.
For me, it's more about portion size and frequency. Eliminating foods you love can be the short train to failure. And a lot of 'healthy' options to a favourite dessert are full of sadness. And calories. But they do come with a big dose of self-righteousness, so I guess there's that.
tl;dr : I'd rather have a smaller portion of the ice cream that I love once in a while, for example, than be able to have regular servings of substitutes that pale in comparison all the time.
I get this.. And I do that too on the smaller portion thing.. But in the spirit of decadent (which my mouth is watering right now) I am having trouble with creativity I guess.
Cause usually my healthy stuff involves cooking with protein powder (cookies, donuts, etc.) which are not decadent.. still good, but not oooy gooy goodness!
The tapioca pudding sort of turned me off and the oatmeal cookies did too.. Thanks goodness cause I saw some mouth watering "somethings" in my near future that involved chocolate chips! 1 -
Healthy and decadent is doable, low calorie and decadent on the other hand...
Chocolate avocado mousse is nutritious and has an amazing texture, but it's avocado, chocolate and banana so it's high in calories.0 -
"Healthy" is subjective...
With real whipped cream or (better) Breyers vanilla bean ice cream1 -
cakestacked wrote: »Healthy and decadent is doable, low calorie and decadent on the other hand...
Chocolate avocado mousse is nutritious and has an amazing texture, but it's avocado, chocolate and banana so it's high in calories.
Yum!
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Dark chocolate mousse cake. Bring on the antioxidants
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Picture & recipe from Google:
2 ripe avocados (I used Hass avocados)
90 grams (1/3 cup minus ½ tablespoon) agave nectar*
40 grams (1/3 cup) raw cacao powder
2 tablespoons unsweetened almond milk
½ teaspoon almond extract
I've made it using banana to sweeten, but then it tastes kinda like banana so agave is probably better.0 -
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Strawberry romanov - vodka based. I'm sure the strawberries were healthy once, as were the grains/potatoes. 2
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Ice Cream. I count it as healthy because I don't eat tones of dairy so I can always use an extra serving 1
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Grilled nectarine or plum, sprinkled with blue cheese and drizzled with honey.
Granny Smith apple cored and baked with a little brown sugar, walnut, and oat mixture stuffed inside. I'd toss a little butter in there as well.
I like to eat a big bowl of berries with a little spray of Redi-Whip canned whipped cream. Maybe a spoon or two of chocolate pudding and a crumbled Nilla wafer or other crunchy cookie on top would work if you're into that sorta thing?
I'm not a big sweets person, so I don't know if this is helpful at all.
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Ole Xtreme Wellness High Fiber Low Carb wrap (50 cal) with one serving of PB2 (45 cal) and one serving of PB2 chocolate (45 calories). It's very crepe-like and so delicious!1
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Look up Hubert Keller's recipe for chocolate whipped cream - he uses it to fill a chocolate stout cake.
Yes, the cake with filling is amazing. However, I found myself taking a bit of the whipped cream (you make a lot more than fills the cake), and being more than happy with that. The calories aren't even that bad for the volume since there's so much air in whipped cream.
My other pick would be tarte tatin or bananas foster*. Lots more calories there, but fruit!
*You can cook bananas in a bit of either honey, maple syrup, or brown sugar and butter for a much lower cal version of bananas foster. I find it really yummy, but I also want ice cream with it, so ...1 -
I second the grilled fruit idea. Also I love chia pudding made with coconut milk (add cocoa powder for chocolate version) - not necessarily low-cal but definitely healthy and decadent. Use almond or skim milk for a lower calorie version. A dark-chocolate covered strawberry is pretty healthy/decadent!1
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None of the "healthy" concoctions does it for me to be honest. Once you start trying to lower the calories of something or make it healthier and slap a "diet" label on it, it loses its appeal for me. In most cases I don't find that 100 or 200 calorie reduction (if that) worth the taste compromise. Unless something is already originally relatively low calorie (chocolate covered strawberries, meringues, poached pear...etc) in most cases I don't go for lower calorie versions.
The other day I decided to try this banana avocado chocolate mousse thing. Ended up wasting 700 calories on something that was good but not as rewarding as the real thing. I will sometimes do lower calorie things like half strawberry tea with half 1.5% milk and a sweetener to resemble strawberry milk, but it does not replace real strawberry milk for me. I do it just because I want something tasty and this fits the bill when I don't have the calories. When I want strawberry milk specifically, that's what I'll have. Learned the hard way that battle was futile for me.
My post above was just a poke at "healthy", as defined by marketing. With clever wording even pixie sticks can be called "healthy", zucchini bread is healthy because it has vegetables and cinnamon is a superfood, which means cinnamon rolls are too. Dark chocolate mousse cake does hold a pretty high rank on top of my absolute favorite desserts list though.2 -
Dark-chocolate-dipped ultra-ripe fresh strawberry. Greek yogurt with chocolate PB2 mixed with frozen sweet cherries. Various fruits (mango, papaya, mamey sapote, apricots, sweet cherries, . . .) all by themselves, at perfect ripeness, at room temperature. Oh MI chocolates (made with coconut oil - they have to be refrigerated because they melt at body temperature -ohmiorganics.com/ - expensive & worth every single penny).0
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Chia/avocado mousse.
One of my favourites is choc/protein pudding.
300g plain or vanilla yogurt
50g chocolate/peanut butter protein powder
15g chia seeds
It's thick and very filling. Top with cottage cheese or whipped cream, and raspberries.0 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »None of the "healthy" concoctions does it for me to be honest. Once you start trying to lower the calories of something or make it healthier and slap a "diet" label on it, it loses its appeal for me. In most cases I don't find that 100 or 200 calorie reduction (if that) worth the taste compromise. Unless something is already originally relatively low calorie (chocolate covered strawberries, meringues, poached pear...etc) in most cases I don't go for lower calorie versions.
The other day I decided to try this banana avocado chocolate mousse thing. Ended up wasting 700 calories on something that was good but not as rewarding as the real thing. I will sometimes do lower calorie things like half strawberry tea with half 1.5% milk and a sweetener to resemble strawberry milk, but it does not replace real strawberry milk for me. I do it just because I want something tasty and this fits the bill when I don't have the calories. When I want strawberry milk specifically, that's what I'll have. Learned the hard way that battle was futile for me.
My post above was just a poke at "healthy", as defined by marketing. With clever wording even pixie sticks can be called "healthy", zucchini bread is healthy because it has vegetables and cinnamon is a superfood, which means cinnamon rolls are too. Dark chocolate mousse cake does hold a pretty high rank on top of my absolute favorite desserts list though.
Every time I track a dry Martini in my diary (own recipe) It tells me this (low in sat fat? better have two):
As for dessert I tend to have mascapone, with raspberries and golden syrup, but I like all those things so 'healthy' is subjective, it's not too sugary and has calcium. I'm with @amusedmonkey if I want it I have it and make it fit. I hate sweeteners, don't like sorbet, so no point wasting my time with them.1
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