Creative Cravings Cures

Remember the old Food Pyramid chart? Because of that chart I grew up believing that pizza was the perfect food.

• Bread - pizza crust
• Veggies - tomato sauce, green pepper, onions and mushrooms
• Dairy - cheese, lots of cheese!
• Meat - why pepperoni of course, with the occasional change to sausage and the even rarer pepperoni AND sausage.

But woe is me - the powers to be don't agree with me. Now to make it a "good" food, it would have to be a whole wheat pizza crust, no pepperoni and definitely no sausage and don't even think of adding cheese! Don't get me wrong - a tasty meal can be made with the whole wheat crust, tomatoes and veggies and fat free Parmesan cheese. It's just not PIZZA!

But I digress. Today I was on a quest to find a really good chocolate craving food. And this is what I came up with...

1 dark chocolate candy bar - 190 calories, 12 g fat, 2 g protein.
2 T Better N Peanut Butter - 100 calories, 3 g fat, 4 g protein.
1 cup Fiber One - 120 calories, 2 g fat, 4 g protein.

Melt the chocolate candy bar and the peanut butter in the microwave
Mix in the Fiber One cereal
Drop by Tablespoon onto wax paper.

This makes 6 mounds.
68 calories
2.8 g fat
1.6 g protein
5.2 g of fiber

What more could you ask for when you're craving chocolate but you don't want to blow everything? And if you're really craving chocolate you could even eat 1/2 the batch while keeping your calories below what the candy bar alone would have run without the added perks of the additional fiber and protein!

Now ask me if I'd rather have this than a big 'ol slice of cake with chocolate icing!! I wish I could say yes, but I don't like to lie. Now ask me if I would choose that piece of cake right now, right this minute. Nope - it ain't happening. (Of course to be honest, I don't have a piece of cake in front of me to prove it to you!)