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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Hungry Girl is at it again! She’s got a new hit book – Hungry Girl 200 Under 200 – with more delicious recipes all under 200 calories, like this one for H-O-T Hot Boneless Buffalo Wings. Oh, and next week, we’ll be giving away a copy of HG’s new book, so stay tuned. Until then, check out my interview with Hungry Girl – Behind the scenes and enjoy the wings! Thanks, HG!

Per serving (5 wings): 175 calories, 1.5g fat, 1,153mg sodium, 14g carbs, 4g fiber, <1g sugars, 27g protein

Ingredients
8 ounces raw boneless skinless lean chicken breast, cut into 10 nuggets
¼ cup Fiber One bran cereal (original)
1 ounce (about 14 crisps) Pringles Light Fat Free Barbeque Potato Crisps (or another fat-free BBQ-flavored potato chip)
3 tablespoons Frank’s RedHot Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce
Dash onion powder
Dash garlic powder
Dash cayenne pepper
Dash black pepper
Dash salt

Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

In a blender or food processor, grind Fiber One to a breadcrumb-like consistency.

Crush potato crisps completely. In a small dish, mix crushed crisps with cereal crumbs. Add onion powder, garlic powder, cayenne, black pepper, and salt, and mix well.

Place chicken pieces in a separate dish. Cover with Frank’s RedHot and toss to coat.

Spray a baking sheet with nonstick spray. Give each chicken piece a shake so it’s not dripping with sauce, and then coat evenly with crumb mixture. Lay crumb-covered nuggets on the baking sheet.

Bake in the oven for 10 minutes.

Flip nuggets over and bake for 10 more minutes, or until outsides are crispy and chicken is cooked throughout.

MAKES 2 SERVINGS

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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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Want to lighten up this Thanksgiving? Maybe save a few calories on some of the side dishes so you can splurge a bit more on dessert? Stuffing is my favorite Thanksgiving food, so when I saw this recipe from Hungry Girl was big on taste, but low in calories, I just had to share. What’s the secret? Mainly the light bread. 

HG Tip! Zazzle up your stuffing by adding any of the following to it before baking: an ounce of raisins, 1 medium-sized pear (chopped), 2 tablespoons of sliced almonds, an ounce of sweetened dried cranberries, or 1 medium-sized Gr anny Smith apple (chopped). Each one adds less than 20 calories to each serving!

Ingredients:
6 slices light bread (40 – 45 calories each with around 2g fiber per slice, like Sara Lee’s Delightful bread)
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup chopped mushrooms
1 cup fat-free chicken or vegetable broth, room temperature
1/4 cup fat-free liquid egg substitute (like Egg Beaters Original)
1 tbsp. light whipped butter or light buttery spread (like Brummel & Brown)
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
salt, pepper, rosemary, thyme, to taste

Directions:
For best results, leave bread uncovered at room temperature for a night or two, until slightly stale. Otherwise, begin by lightly toasting bread.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Cut bread into 1/2-inch cubes. Spray a medium baking dish with nonstick spray, and place bread cubes evenly along the bottom of the dish.

In a medium pot, combine broth, celery, and onion. Cook for 8 minutes over medium heat.

Remove pot from heat, and add mushrooms and garlic. Season mixture to taste with salt, pepper, rosemary and thyme. Let cool for several minutes.

Add egg substitute and butter to veggie/broth mixture and stir. Pour mixture into the baking pan, evenly covering bread cubes. Mix gently with a fork. Bread cubes should be moist, but not saturated (if necessary, add 1 – 2 tbsp. water, and then mix again).

Cover with foil, and cook dish in the oven for 20 minutes.

Remove foil, and fluff and rearrange stuffing. Return dish to oven (uncovered), and cook for an additional 15 minutes.

MAKES 5 SERVINGS

PER SERVING (1 cup): 89 calories, 1.5g fat, 275mg sodium, 17g carbs, 4g fiber, 4g sugars, 5g protein — POINTS. value 1*

Want more Hungry Girl? Here’s her recipe for Too-Good-to-Deny Pumpkin Pie… plus check out what it’s like behind the scenes at the HG headquarters – so much tasting to do!

[Photo Credit: Hungry Girl]

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Just because you have a slice of pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving doesn’t mean you have to load up on fat and calories. Not with this recipe from Hungry Girl – a FatFighterTV favorite. Oh, and next week, we’ll have a behind the scenes look at Hungry Girl in action – just how many new low-fat, lower-in-calories, light, etc. foods does she taste a week, anyway? Just thinking about it makes me hungry.

HG’s Too-Good-To-Deny Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients:

For Crust
2 cups Fiber One bran cereal (original)
1/4 cup light whipped butter or light buttery spread (like Brummel & Brown); melted & mixed with 1 oz. water
3 tbsp. Splenda No Calorie Sweetener, granulated
1 tsp. cinnamon

For Filling
One 15-oz. can pure pumpkin (NOT pumpkin pie filling)
One 12-oz. can evaporated fat-free milk
3/4 cup Splenda No Calorie Sweetener, granulated
1/2 cup fat-free liquid egg substitute (like Egg Beaters)
1/4 cup sugar-free maple syrup
1 tbsp. pumpkin pie spice
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/8 tsp. salt
Optional Topping: Fat Free Reddi-wip

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a blender or food processor, grind Fiber One to a breadcrumb-like consistency. Combine crumbs with all other crust ingredients. Stir until mixed well. In an oven-safe 9-inch pie dish sprayed lightly with nonstick spray, evenly distribute mixture, using your hands or a flat utensil to firmly press and form the crust. Press it into the edges and up along the sides of the dish. Set aside. In a large bowl, combine all ingredients for the filling. Mix well. Pour mixture into pie crust. (Filling may be taller than the crust — trust us, this is okay!) Bake pie in the oven for 45 minutes, and then remove it and allow to cool. Chill in the fridge for several hours (for best results, chill overnight). Cut into 8 slices, and if you like, top with Reddi-wip before serving!

MAKES 8 SERVINGS

Serving Size: 1 slice
Calories: 133
Fat: 3g
Sodium: 236mg
Carbs: 28g
Fiber: 9g
Sugars: 8g
Protein: 6g

POINTS® value 2*

Want more Hungry Girl? Here’s her recipe for Save-the-Day Stuffing… plus check out what it’s like behind the scenes at the HG headquarters – so much research and tasting to do!

[Photo Credit: Hungry Girl]

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