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Elly Awesome is a cute young Australian who does a lot of food videos. Like most of the women who do this kind of thing, Elly samples the worst kinds of foods imaginable but only in small portions, gives away lots of left overs, works out and eats healthy most of the time. It's not unusual for these women to suggest healthy snacks, though Elly's turn out to be amusing if not exactly unhealthy:( see the vid )
1. Frozen bananas. Tip: eat them within 24 hours. A friend of mine in college used to leave bananas in the freezer and eat them whenever. They turned disgustingly black in a few days and drew raucous comments from everyone seeing him eat them like that. Obviously frosting doesn't make them healthier.
2. Elly's pronunciations "guack-a-mole" and "tor- till-uh" make it a lot harder to accept "PAP-rick-uh" which may well be standard in Australia. Elly is in the States at the moment, and her boyfriend obviously called her on "guacamole" off camera. I'd probably substitute chili powder for paprika. It almost always contains paprika anyway. Otherwise it's a nice simple recipe.
3. I don't eat apple cores let alone the seeds. Not sure about Elly here. I think I've had peanut butter on cored apple slices. Not crazy about it. Elly is right about low quality peanut butter. It's often full of cheaper vegetable oils, and thus a source of too many transfats.
4. Oil popped corn may be delicious, but it ain't healthy. Microwaved prepackaged bags are the same. There are microwave corn poppers that don't need oil to work as well as air poppers. The results admittedly aren't very tasty, but if you are going to put on butter or margarine anyway... Personally I use olive oil instead of butter and sprinkle on grated Parmesan cheese.
5. This little toasted open-face sandwich looks like the gateway to overdoing every snack. How about cheese or ham on a cracker instead? "Capsicum" is the Australian word for "bell pepper." I loathe green bell pepper but that's not Elly's problem. ;o)
1. Frozen bananas. Tip: eat them within 24 hours. A friend of mine in college used to leave bananas in the freezer and eat them whenever. They turned disgustingly black in a few days and drew raucous comments from everyone seeing him eat them like that. Obviously frosting doesn't make them healthier.
2. Elly's pronunciations "guack-a-mole" and "tor- till-uh" make it a lot harder to accept "PAP-rick-uh" which may well be standard in Australia. Elly is in the States at the moment, and her boyfriend obviously called her on "guacamole" off camera. I'd probably substitute chili powder for paprika. It almost always contains paprika anyway. Otherwise it's a nice simple recipe.
3. I don't eat apple cores let alone the seeds. Not sure about Elly here. I think I've had peanut butter on cored apple slices. Not crazy about it. Elly is right about low quality peanut butter. It's often full of cheaper vegetable oils, and thus a source of too many transfats.
4. Oil popped corn may be delicious, but it ain't healthy. Microwaved prepackaged bags are the same. There are microwave corn poppers that don't need oil to work as well as air poppers. The results admittedly aren't very tasty, but if you are going to put on butter or margarine anyway... Personally I use olive oil instead of butter and sprinkle on grated Parmesan cheese.
5. This little toasted open-face sandwich looks like the gateway to overdoing every snack. How about cheese or ham on a cracker instead? "Capsicum" is the Australian word for "bell pepper." I loathe green bell pepper but that's not Elly's problem. ;o)
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