Fast Food doesn't have to mean Junk Food. If you're eating on the run, or fighting off a snack attack, you have alternatives. And I'm NOT talking about rice cakes!

1. Eat These The Next Time You Get The Munchies
I defy anyone who gets a case of the munchies to tell me that their willpower alone will be
enough to ensure that they don't reach for the cookie jar or the potato chips when no one else is
looking. And if you live alone? Come on. If there is no one else around to see your
transgressions then you are going to binge on whatever you can get your hands on. That's just
what we are - creatures of comfort food.
Maybe like me you avoid buying the things you love to eat. If I have something tasty and within
reach, it is going to get eaten. I might be able to stave off for a day or two the desire to slice
open a bag of cookies, but I give in eventually, as I am sure you do. So what are we supposed
to do, if this kind of behavior is continually contributing to the number of inches around our
waist?
One solution is to replace the "bad" snacks, which is practically every piece of junk food that is
sold at your local convenience store, with healthy snack alternatives. But what to those look
like? More importantly, what do they TASTE like? I have not-so-fond memories of "healthy"
cookies that my mother used to make when the sugar and butter supplies in our household ran
low. Thankfully broccoli cookies never appeared on the menu, but nor did anything healthy that
also passed as a tasty snack.
Carolyn Hansen, the author of 100 Healthy Raw Snacks And Treats is quite aware of this
problem. But she was determined to find snack recipes that did away with the usual cast of bad
characters: sugar, flour, butter, and replace these with healthy substitutes that she could live
with as a bodybuilder looking to maintain a healthy diet during her preparations for physique
contests. That was some years ago now, and today she is making the recipes she came up with
during that period available to anyone who could benefit from being able to grab low-calorie
snacks on the run that also taste great.
If you could see some of the photographs of the snacks and treats that she has come up with
you would not hesitate to volunteer to be a guinea pig in her kitchen. Would you believe that you
can make cheesecake alternatives that use no dairy, but look and taste delicious nonetheless?
Apparently you can, and this is just one of the recipe types that litter her book.
For more information on this mouth-watering topic I recommend you get yourself across to her
site