Do You Know About Hungry Girl?

Hungry Girl is one of my favorite websites. I receive their free daily e-mails. You can subscribe here. They’re sassy, funny and full of great information on healthy (and unhealthy) foods. One of the neatest things Hungry Girl does is create ingenious food swap recipes.



They take a high-fat or high-calorie recipe or restaurant menu item and reveal the stats. Some of the calorie counts for restaurant food are just amazing – like 1300 calories for a hamburger. That’s a huge chunk out of anyone’s daily calorie requirement. Then Hungry Girl creates a new recipe with just as much flavor (sometimes even more) that slashes the stats down to human size.



Here is more information aboutHungry Girl and some of her products.



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HG, You Go Girl!

If you read my blog even occasionally, you know that Hungry Girl is one of my favorite foodie websites. Calorie restriction – or getting more nutrient “bang” for your calorie “buck” – is the only undisputed method to increase longevity.



You can follow Barbara Rolls’ Volumetrics eating plan, which is very helpful along these lines.



With that as a foundation, you really should subscribe to Hungry Girl’s free newsletter and buy Lisa Lillien – a.k.a. Hungry Girl’s – new book, Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World. Lisa’s book has just made it onto the New York Times Best Sellers List. As #2 no less!



You’ll get HG’s recipes for “Lord of the Onion Rings” and other amazing dishes you can create with Fiber One Cereal, to cite one example.



Lisa is not a nutritionist or a doctor. She says, “I'm just hungry, and a bit obsessed with foods that taste great but don’t pack on the pounds. I’m the nut who watches you shop at the supermarket, comments on your choice of low-fat ice cream, and tells you which brand to buy (FYI, Dreyer’s/Edy’s Slow Churned is the way to go).”



Lisa is one Funny Lady, as well as one Hungry Girl!



Tags: Hungry Girl, NYTimes Best Seller, recipes, Lisa Lillien, Volumetrics, longevity