Are all desserts bad?

I used to think that in order to have a healthy diet, I needed to cut out dessert completely. But, by cutting them out, I only wanted them more. I found that there is nothing wrong with eating dessert, as long as I choose the right dessert. A few of my favorites are...
- Baked apples. Combine chopped apples with cinnamon, pecans, raisins and/or craisins, whole oats, a small amount of brown sugar, and a small amount of water in a pie pan and bake on 350 until the apples are soft.
- Fat free, sugar free pudding made with soymilk instead of milk.
- Frozen yogurt. My weakness was always ice cream, until I discovered Swirll's frozen yogurt. My favorite quote quickly became the quote on the back of the Swirll t-shirts, "will work for yogurt". Because I don't live near any Swirll stores, I began to search for fat free frozen yogurt at local grocery stores. There are a few options to choose from. Ben & Jerry's makes a few delicious "froyo" flavors. Great Value just started making frozen yogurt parfaits in individual sizes (I recommend raspberry and white chocolate) and Bluebell has 2 or 3 frozen yogurt flavors (I have not tried any of them).
- "Healthy Cookies". Two of my cousins (who should be writing this blog, they know way more than I do), a few of my sisters, and I came up with a recipe for healthy oatmeal raisin cookies.

"Healthy Cookies"
Preheat oven to 375
Mix:
3/4 c of apple sauce (instead of butter)
1/4 c of sugar (I use either brown sugar or all nature cane sugar)
2 eggs or 2 tsp of white vinegar

In separate bowl, mix:
1 1/4 c whole wheat flour
1 tsp backing soda
1 tsp cinnamon
pinch of salt

Slowly add dry to wet while mixing

Then add:
2 1/4 c rolled oats
1/4 c raisins
1/3 c craisins
1 chopped apple
1/4 c chocolate chips (optional. I use dark chocolate.)
Can add coconut, currents, nuts, ect.
If the dough is too dry because of added ingredients, add a small amount of milk

Bake on greased cookie sheet for about 10 min
Makes 18 cookes

Nutrition Facts:
Serving size: 1 cookie with chocolate chips
116 calories, 2g fat, 23g carbs, 9g sugar, 3g protein
1 cookie without chocolate
100 calories, 1g fat, 21g carbs, 7g sugar, 2g protein

Enjoy :)

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog! My intent for creating this blog is to share recipes, tips, and information I have learned about healthy and nutritious eating. I am new to this whole blogging thing (besides using xanga back in junior high days) and I am studying kinesiology and nutrition... probably the farthest thing away from english, so you will have to bear with me.

In my search to find a creative title for this blog, I ran across a few words on urbandictionary.com.
"Nutritarian - a person whose food choices are influenced by nutritional quality."
"Orthorexia - an eating disorder similar to anorexia, though instead of an obsessive desire to lose weight, those who suffer from orthorexia have an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating."

I decided to go with nutritarian. I love my cappuccinos and chocolate too much to consider myself having an "unhealthy obsession with healthy eating".

Speaking of cappuccinos, I am going to go make one right now :)