Congrats to FatFighterTV member – txgiggles45 – for winning last week’s giveaway for the Hungry Girl 200 Under 200: 200 Recipes Under 200 Calories cookbook. Enjoy!

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[Disclosure: I received a complimentary sample of this product. I only post giveaways about products I honestly like, or those I think FatFighterTV members would enjoy.]

It’s already a New York Times Bestseller! Hungry Girl 200 Under 200: 200 Recipes Under 200 Calories is filled with yummy guilt-free dishes like this one for H-O-T Hot Boneless Buffalo Wings.

More yummy news – we’re giving away a copy of HG’s new book this week! To enter for a chance to win, go here to see the chapters included in 200 Under 200… then come back and tell me which one you look forward to the most and why.

A few contest details – it runs through midnight EST this Friday, May 8, you have to have a U.S. mailing address to enter… and we will use random.org to pick the winner.

Want more Hungry Girl? Check out my interview with Hungry Girl (aka Lisa Lillien) here.

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Congrats to FatFighterTV member – Sandy - for winning last week’s giveaway for the Recipe Rescue and The Moms’ Guide to Meal Makeovers book – Enjoy! We will have more on the rescued recipe soon, so stay tuned.

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Got a favorite not-so-good-for-you recipe? Maybe a gooey dessert, a rich and creamy soup, a stick-to-your waistline casserole that needs a healthy makeover? Then you’re going to love this week’s contest for sure! I am so excited the Meal Makeover Moms have offered to “rescue” one of your recipes and give it a healthy and delicious makeover. 

Registered dietitians, Liz Weiss and Janice Bissex, authors of The Moms’ Guide to Meal Makeovers and hosts of the family food blog, Meal Makeover Moms’ Kitchen, will choose one FatFighterTV member’s recipe and “rescue” it. The winner also gets a copy of The Moms’ Guide to Meal Makeovers – a book that tackles what’s wrong with today’s all-American diet and offers realistic and delicious ways to make it better.

Here’s what you need to do to enter this yummy contest:

Send your recipe that needs help to moms [at] mealmakeovermoms [dot] com by this Friday, April 10. Liz and Janice will go through the recipes and choose one based on what they think families would like, what they have not made-over yet, and what they think is doable in terms of a makeover. We will announce the winner next Monday, April 13.

From there, Liz and Janice will give the recipe a makeover, send you the new recipe, and interview you about what your family thought of the rescued dish. The winning recipe will be featured on the Meal Makeover Moms blog the week of April 27th.

So… go through your favorite recipes and send them in! If you have any questions, just hit me up in the comments.

[Chocolate Cake Photo Credit: stock.xchng]

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Congrats to FatFighterTV member – Tammy Firth – for winning last week’s contest for an autographed copy of Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World. Enjoy!

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Her mantra is “I’m hungry!” And Lisa Lillien, aka Hungry Girl (HG), is hungry for information about all things food, especially guilt-free food. Lisa isn’t just passionate about food, she’s obsessed with it – she says she even dreams about it! If it’s the latest and greatest healthified sensation to hit the market, chances are HG was among the first to try it. But with so many foods coming out every day and HG being on the forefront of all this new grub, I started wondering – Wow, does she just eat all the time? How does she do it? No better way to find out than to have a chat with Lisa. She tells FatFighterTV about life behind the scenes of all the tasting… researching… and more tasting… Hungry Girl is all about sharing “Tips & Tricks for Hungry Chicks” (and hungry guys, too!) Just look at that table and you can see there’s a lot of sampling to do. Because as new foods make their way to store shelves, many of them also land in the HG headquarters. No wonder there’s a whole of eatin’ going on!

“We have boxes delivered three or four times a week,” Lisa tells FFTV. “Then there’s recipe development. So every day there’s at least two or three things that I’m trying or tasting that are new or different.”

Yes, Lisa and her staff are thrilled to try new foods… giddy even. In fact, she tells me they’re kind of lunatics about the whole taste-testing thing… in a good, fun way, of course.

She says, “When boxes show up we just jump around and scream! We get excited about the smallest things. I love food and I love trying all the new foods.”

Trying all kinds of new snacks and stuff sounds very cool, doesn’t it? But even though the foods are guilt-free, just like anything else, they can add up. Turns out all that fun taste-testing can be tough!

“It’s the hardest part of the job because now I have to think about food all day and I have to taste food that I normally wouldn’t eat,” Lisa explains. “For example, I’m not a big carby-snack eater because it’s too much of a trigger food for me. So I would normally avoid chips and things, even guilt-free ones – I eat them rarely. Last week, we had probably four different kinds of chips show up that were phenomenal! That’s the hardest thing.”

What does Lisa do about it? She exercises a lot… and weighs herself often, too. She says her weight fluctuates three to five pounds, depending on how much tasting she has going on at the time. But she keeps it in check.

And speaking of tasting… Lisa’s constantly working on whipping up something new and yummy in the HG kitchen like Too-Good-to-Deny Pumpkin Pie and Save-the-Day Stuffing.

“I’m not a chef by any means and I don’t cook an awful lot in the traditional sense,” she says. “But I’ve always been good at combining and assembling foods and knowing how to make things taste better or taste like real full-fat foods when they have hardly any fat or calories. It’s just all about finding foods and assembling them and that’s why the recipes are so easy. They’re not complicated in any way.”

Besides all the cooking and tasting, Hungry Girl is a business, so Lisa also has to do typical running-a-business stuff. She didn’t expect it to get so big so fast – nearly 600,000 subscribers! It’s been four years since she started sharing her tips and tricks.

“I just feel really fortunate that I’m able to help so many people,” Lisa says. “At the end of the day, that’s what it’s about. It’s fun for me, but it helps so many people.”

Her book is super helpful. And you can get an autographed copy of Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World.

How do you win it? Just sign up for FFTV’s weekly newsletter to get entered in the drawing. If you’re already signed up, you’re automatically entered.

A few contest details: It ends at midnight EST this Friday, November 28… you have to have a U.S. mailing address to enter… and a random number generator will pick the winner.

Thanks, Lisa – for the book and for the behind the scenes look at Hungry Girl!

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Over here, you got to read Tosca Reno’s thoughts on preservatives in our foods and why she says Clean Eating is the way to go. Now you can win her new book, The Eat-Clean Diet for Family & Kids - it’s filled with information on how to make the transition to Eating Clean, how to do it on a budget, and oh yes – it has lots of family-friendly recipes including this one for Protein Smoothie Popsicles.

The book’s publisher is giving away three copies to FFTV members this week. To enter, head down to the comments and tell me something you used to eat that has preservatives or added sugar in it… and what you now eat instead that doesn’t have all that stuff. For example, one thing I’ve done is switched from the flavored yogurts with sweeteners to plain yogurt that I top with some slivered almonds and a little honey.

A few contest details: It ends at midnight EST this Friday, August 29… you have to have a U.S. mailing address to enter… and a random number generator will pick the winners.

Thanks, Tosca!

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Congrats to FFTV reader, naker – she won this week’s drawing for the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook, Kid Favorites Made Healthy.

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Back by popular demand… another one of these cool cookbooks – Better Homes and Gardens, Kid Favorites Made Healthy - is this week’s prize. It has 150 yummy recipes “kids can’t resist” like this one for Fast Fajita Rollups.

So, how do you win? Just tell us in the comments below… what you do to try to make your kids’ meals healthier. Everyone who comments will be entered in a drawing to win. Contest ends this Friday, July 25. Good luck!

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Congratulations to Leigh Ann – her name was picked in this week’s drawing for this cool cookbook from Better Homes and Gardens, Kid Favorites Made Healthy.

Don’t worry – we still have one more of these to give away sometime this month, so you still have a chance to win!

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