What healthy foods do you eat to curb a sweet tooth? - Page 2

[nicolelynn]

Fruit WITH some fat/protein like nuts or nut butters usually works for me. Dates and nuts, apple slices with almond butter, celery with almond or peanut butter and raisins, rice cakes with macadamia nut butter and apple butter, etc.

[Storm Bride]

For me, the best things are cream, butter, nuts or dark chocolate. If none of those work, then a piece of fruit. If it still persists, I'll give in and have a small portion of something very sweet - usually a couple of dates or dried apricots.

Sugar is evil.

[425lisamarie]

I eat fruit, usually an apple. Or I make a fruit smoothie with flax or cashews

[hildare]

oatmeal..
with fruit (and maple syrup sometimes but that doesn't count!!!!!!!!)

[tinybutterfly]

Apples with good peanut butter.

Bananas with good peanut butter ( I can't personally have bananas anymore, but it would make me happy to know SOMEBODY gets to have them with some peanut butter! )

Strawberries and real cream.

Strawberries, sliced with a little honey drizzled over them.

Dark chocolate and nuts.

A peanut butter and honey sandwich on good whole wheat bread.

Peanut butter and all fruit spread on whole wheat bread. With a glass of whole milk...perfect!

Organic vanilla yogurt or strawberry yogurt ( not perfect, I know...but tasty!)

Grapes.

Oatmeal with berries and milk.

Frozen blueberries.

A piece of honeycomb.

Prunes or dates. Very sweet.

Alternative Bakery vegan cookies ( the chocolate ones or the oatmeal ones!) This is a once in awhile treat.

Homemade French toast ( I put a little vanilla and cinnamon in my egg with a splash of milk before I whip it up) and use real maple syrup to top.

I don't eat regular candy anymore ( except for an occassional piece of dark chocolate.)

My taste buds have changed...and regular candy tastes too sweet or "off" to me now...I NEVER thought I would say that. Never.

Apparently I do have a sweet tooth though.

[StephandOwen]

LOL.... that was me right now. I've been sooo good with my eating the last little bit but now Aunt Flo is here and I'm craving chocolate. I compromised and ate one of ds's hershey's kisses and that was good enough for me

[neverdoingitagain]

I read somewhere that a craving for sweets means you need more chromium in your diet.
Myself, I am finding that taking coconut oil gets rid of my appetite completely. That includes sugar cravings.

[BCFD]

Horribly artery clogging.... but I've been snacking on a handful of Trader Joe's organic banana chips. Organic bananas, organic coconut oil, organic evaporated cane juice are the ingredients. Calories 160, Fat 11 grams (10 of which are saturated! Uggh..), 1 g of fiber, 9 g sugar for 13 chips.

Soaked in coconut oil, is well, horrible. Nevermind.

Maybe better than eating an entire package of Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies? Maybe not?

[number572]

cooked brown rice with chopped up raw organic almonds drizzled with raw honey (SO good!)

bananas and organic unfiltered apple juice blended with a few drops of vannilla extract

dry cereal (get ones that use cane sugar, honey, etc like Kashi brand for example) instead of other sugars

natural fruit juice popsicles (i make them by putting random fruits in the blender & freezing)

dark chocolate and raw walnuts (i eat only like 10 nuts and a 2 inch square of the chocolate but it does the trick & isn't as bad for you as regular chocolate dipped in regular peanut butter - a HUGE craving of mine!!)

i'll post more soon, seems like i'm always snacking!

* you said fruits not cutting it, but how about fruit in another form? sorry if you meant no fruit at all

[Shantimama]

I make sure to drink lots of water, increase my protein intake and have the occasional square of dark chocolate. If I don't eat extra protein and drink extra water I get huge cravings for sugar.

[alireb]

Ever since I cut out all grains and sugar from my diet, I don't really crave sweets but on the rare occasion I do, this works:

Kombucha tea
Hot tea
Hard boiled egg
Coconut oil
Coconut milk smoothie with vanilla extract - no fruit or sugar added

Fruit actually makes it worse for me, if I'm craving sweets. I do eat fruit but mostly berries since they're lower in sugar.

Try upping your protein and fat intake and sugar cravings will go down. GL!

[PlayaMama]

pickles.

i have no idea why but it totally works for me.