Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World

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fun with canned pumpkin

Canned pumpkin is magical. Over the past few years, its popularity has grown so much that markets often find themselves running out of the stuff. Keep cans of it in the pantry at all times—running out of it is no fun! Pumpkin is super-low in calories (40 per ½ cup), has practically no fat, and is loaded with fiber (3.5 grams per serving). Use it in soups, sauces, for baking, in oatmeal—wherever. Pumpkin ROCKS. There are recipes that call for pumpkin throughout this book, but here are some pumpkin-y HG favorites. .

pumpkin crunchers
PER SERVING (1 piece): 39 calories, 0.5g fat, 49mg sodium, 10g carbs, 2g fiber, 2g sugars, 1g protein

This is a fun little pumpkin dessert. The crunchers taste best when eaten within a day or so (after that, they get a little too hard and need to be slightly thawed before eating).

Ingredients
One-half 15-ounce can pure pumpkin
One-half 8-ounce container Cool Whip Free
2 Jell-O Sugar Free Vanilla Pudding Snacks
Вѕ cup Fiber One bran cereal (original)
Cinnamon, to taste

Directions
Combine pumpkin, Cool Whip, and pudding in a bowl. Mix well.

Season mixture to taste with cinnamon. Stir in Fiber One.

Spoon batter evenly into a 12-cup muffin pan (sprayed with nonstick spray or lined with baking cups).

Place pan in the freezer until crunchers are frozen.

MAKES 12 SERVINGS

creamy banana pumpkin pie pancakes
PER SERVING (3 pancakes): 243 calories, 2.5g fat, 451mg sodium, 39g carbs, 4.5g fiber, 9g sugars, 15g protein

Pssst. . we like these drizzled with sugar-free maple syrup!

Ingredients

cup regular oats (not instant) 1 tablespoon dry pancake mix