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Hungry Girl Today: 6.30.09
CHEW THE RIGHT THING
BITE IT!
HG's Chocolate-Banana Smoothie
Go Bananas!
Chocolate + banana = AWESOME. This insanely good smoothie recipe is
ripped straight from the pages of our #1 New York Times Best Seller Hungry
Girl 200 Under 200. Enjoy!
Ingredients:
1 packet Swiss Miss Sensible Sweets diet hot cocoa mix
1 small ripe banana, sliced and frozen
2 tsp. fat-free non-dairy powdered creamer (like Coffee-mate Fat Free
Original)
1 tsp. mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 no-calorie sweetener packet (like Splenda or Truvia)
1 cup crushed ice or 5 to 8 ice cubes
Directions:
In a tall glass, combine cocoa mix, powdered creamer, chocolate chips, and
sweetener. Add 1/4 cup very hot water and stir until ingredients have
dissolved. Add 1/2 cup cold water and stir.
Transfer contents of the glass to a blender. Add frozen banana slices and ice.
Blend at medium speed until completely mixed. Pour into your glass and
enjoy!
MAKES 1 SERVING
Serving Size: entire smoothie
Calories: 164
Fat: 1.5g
Sodium: 137mg
Carbs: 35.5g
Fiber: 3.75g
Sugars: 18g
Protein: 3g
PointsPlus® value 4*
FIGHT IT!
Red Lobster's Banana Bay Chocolate Sail Away Smoothie
Not So Smooth
Smoothies typically fall into our "food fakers" category, meaning they sound
like they should be healthy but they're really not. Think about it. The word
smoothie conjures up images of fruit and other natural stuff that's low in
calories, all blended up into a ginormous cup of health. In reality, you get a
scoop of this, a splash of that, and a LOT of fat and sugar. For instance, if
you think you're doing yourself a favor by ordering Red Lobster's Banana
Bay Chocolate Sail Away Smoothie instead of a frozen cocktail, you're only
fooling yourself. That crazy thing has 460 calories and 14g fat -- and it's just
a DRINK. Don't think that other chocolate-banana shakes and smoothies are
much better... they're SO not. Now dust off your blender and get ready for a
super-creamy, choco-rific smoothie surprise. See... we're full of good ideas.
And soon YOU'LL be full of freezy chocolate-banana goodness.
Serving Size: entire smoothie
Calories: 460
Fat: 14g
Sodium: 10mg
Carbs: 78g
Fiber: n.a.
Sugars: n.a.
Protein: n.a.
PointsPlus® value of at least 12*
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CHEW ON THIS:
Welcome to Day 30 of National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month, a.k.a.
June. We like to make fresh-fruit smoothies... but sometimes we let cocoa
tag along. Whip up one of our Chocolate-Banana Smoothies and get your
smoothie fix!
Chocolate and banana are BFFs! Click "send to a friend" and pass this recipe
on to YOUR BFFs...
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*The PointsPlus® values for these products and/or recipes were calculated by
Hungry Girl and are not an endorsement or approval of the product, recipe
or its manufacturer or developer by Weight Watchers International, Inc., the
owner of the PointsPlus® registered trademark.
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