{"id":489,"date":"2014-03-03T22:36:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T03:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/?p=489"},"modified":"2014-03-03T22:36:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T03:36:42","slug":"skinnytaste-why-sacrifice-taste-for-lower-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Skinnytaste&#8211;Why sacrifice taste for lower fat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-63AQLCK9wuU\/TefJHRVGvDI\/AAAAAAAADKw\/SXWZwYs2ykU\/s1600\/low-fat-chocolate-chip-ricotta-muffins.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"256\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ricotta Cheese Chocolate Chip Muffins<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ever wondered if your favorite dish came in a low-fat version?\u00a0 Or maybe you think that \u201clow-fat\u201d means \u201clow-flavor\u201d.\u00a0 Gina Homolka, creator of Skinnytaste.com, develops recipes that must be both \u201cskinny\u201d (low in fat), and \u201ctasty\u201d.\u00a0 She offers 32 different recipe categories, including (but not limited) breakfast, snacks, lamb, vegetarian, and gluten-free.<\/p>\n<p>Gina\u2019s philosophy is to \u201ceat seasonal, clean, whole foods and maintain good portion control.\u201d\u00a0 Her site also gives you an option to save your favorite recipes in a recipe box, and it even generates a shopping list.\u00a0 I find this option extremely useful when planning my meals for the week.<\/p>\n<p>As well as posting recipes several times a week, Gina also posts \u201cSkinny Bits\u201d, where she answers questions ranging from cooking tips, health tips, reviews, and even giveaways.\u00a0 Also available in her blog is a list of blogs that she follows, including food blogs, healthy living, and photography blogs.<\/p>\n<p>What I like most about Gina\u2019s blog, is that she also includes pictures of all her recipes.\u00a0 I am definitely the type of person that looks at the picture to decide if I want to try a new recipe.\u00a0 I also find it helpful that ALL of her recipes are Weight Watcher friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered if your favorite dish came in a low-fat version?\u00a0 Or maybe you think that \u201clow-fat\u201d means \u201clow-flavor\u201d.\u00a0 Gina Homolka, creator of Skinnytaste.com, develops recipes that must be both \u201cskinny\u201d (low in fat), and \u201ctasty\u201d.\u00a0 She offers 32 different&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/?p=489\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}