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The 'Hungry Girl' Summer Diet
It’s a cruel joke that bikini season and barbecue season are one and the same. Diet guru Hungry Girl (aka Lisa Lillien), author of Hungry Girl: 200 Under 200: 200 Recipes Under 200 Calories, explains how to throw a burger on the grill without burning your diet plans.
Summer food can be a dieter’s minefield—potato salad, burgers, mountains of crab dip. But is it all bad for you? If you're looking for ways to drop a few pounds or simply not gain weight as the weather heats up, there are ways to do it if you know what to look for. New York Times bestselling author Lisa “Hungry Girl” Lillien of HungryGirl.com is your guide through the treacherous landscape of outdoor cuisine.
Summertime Tips & Tricks
The average person swallows close to 2,000 calories at a summer barbeque. Bad idea. Here's what to bring, eat, and avoid at your next summer cookout.
Bring It With You
HG's Sweet Caramelized Onion Dip
(from Hungry Girl: 200 Under 200)
1 serving has approximately 75 calories, <2g fat
Ingredients:
2 large sweet onions, chopped
1/2 cup fat-free sour cream
1/2 cup fat-free mayonnaise
1/4 cup plus 2 tbsp. fat-free cream cheese, room temperature
1 tbsp. light whipped butter or light buttery spread
1 tsp. Dijon mustard
1 tsp. balsamic vinegar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
Directions:
Heat butter in a large pan over medium-high heat on the stove. Once butter has coated the bottom of the pan, add onions, salt, and cayenne pepper. Onions may be piled high in the pan, but they'll cook down. Saute for 10 minutes, stirring often.
Reduce heat to medium-low and cook for an additional 25-30 minutes, stirring occasionally, until onions are browned and caramelized.
Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine sour cream, mayo, and cream cheese. Whisk until smooth. Then refrigerate.
Once onions are caramelized, add mustard and balsamic vinegar to the pan.
Continue to cook for five minutes, stirring frequently. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
Once cool, add onions to the large bowl and mix thoroughly.
Refrigerate overnight to allow flavors to combine.
Serve at room temperature with your favorite veggies, chips, and/or crackers for dipping. Enjoy!
MAKES 6 SERVINGS
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Is this really an article on the Daily Beast? Can I have the 2 minutes of my life back that is spent reading this?
you had me at margarita and lost me at Diet Sierra Mist--gah. Stick to shots.
This is great advice :). If you get invited to a barbecue, pile a bunch of lettuce onto your plate with no mayo of course, avoid chips and greasy hamburgers. And definitely, don't eat 2,000 calories at one sitting.
LOL, fat chance (no pun intended).
I hate to say this, but the barbecue described sounds typical of a barbecue a man would design for the guys to enjoy.
In my experience, women tend to lay out long tables of various salads and jello dishes, often pot luck.
But then that would be called a garden party, and we would then get advise on acquiring suitable headwear for such an event.
So, eat a starvation diet - while your male friends are enjoying themselves and eating their fill!
As Connie said, FAT CHANCE. :)
This is news? There's not one iota of new content in this article. It's simply a self-promotion for the author. I expect better of the Beast!
Because remember, your whole self worth as a woman and a human being depends on being emaciated! Women with curves are subhuman, and do not deserve respect, or love, or any shred of human decency!
I'm sorry, but any recipe that includes fat-free sour cream, mayo and cheese is crap. These products are full of chemicals and fillers - not real food. My guess is her entire book is filled with processed food like this. Yuck. I prefer to eat less of real food than junk like this.
thumbs up
these are great tips. thank you so very much.
Benigna Marko
This kind of eating will just make you crave good (that is, tasty) food more than if you ate a regular diet. If you eat these foods, you'll eventually want real flavor and will probably binge and then gain weight. Julia Child always thought you should eat the food you want, but eat it in moderate amounts. To me, that makes much more sense. (These recipes sound horrible!!!)
seriously disappointed TDB would promote recipes using fake, industrial "edible food-like substances" like fat-free sour cream; let alone the sorry site hungrygirl.com. have you missed the boat on the return to real foods in lieu of industrial agriculture products that are poisoning the planet and it's population? somebody please get this woman a copy of Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma or Nina Planck's Real Food.
Thank you.
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