New to Me: Garden of Eatin' Multi Grain Tortilla Chips

I love chips and salsa, dips, and guacamole.  I basically love tortilla chips plain too. 

Garden of Eatin' takes delicious tortilla chips and makes them a healthier by adding flax seeds and 7 organic grains.

They are delicious!  They come in Sea Salt Multi Grain and Everything Multi Grain varieties. 

The Sea Salt version has 140 calories and 19 grams of carbohydrates with 3 grams of fiber per serving!  The S/C Value for one serving is 1/1.

I have been eating them with salsa and have been topping a serving with some low fat cheese and microwaving them for 20 seconds to make some quick and delicious cheese nachos.

To me, they seem more satisfying than regular corn chips, and I am able to stop at one serving.  Maybe it is the added blend of cracked wheat, steel-cut oats, barley, buckwheat, and millet.  Despite all the added goodness, they taste delicious.  I don't see myself buying regular chips again!
 

Mini Microwave S'mores

Last week I was looking at Me and Jorge, Amber's great blog about the Belly Fat Cure and her experience, and she recommended a great website for BFC approved foods.

I noticed that they sold sugar free marshmallows, and immediately started craving yummy melted S'mores.
By adding low sugar graham crackers and no-sugar added milk chocolate, I was able to enjoy a really low sugar version of the campfire classic that is just as delicious as the original. 

I started with La Nouba Sugar Free Marshmallows from Carbsmart.com.  I was hesitant at first, wondering what a sugar free marshmallow would be like.  However, these marshmallows are great.  They are made with blend of sugar free sweeteners and natural vanilla flavoring.  Delicious!

I also ordered a chocolate bar from carbsmart.  Chocoperfection makes a milk chocolate bar sweetened without maltitol.  I ordered the milk chocolate bar since it would be perfect for the S'mores.

The most challenging part of making the S'more was finding a sutible graham cracker, since most contain a lot of sugar.  However, Heath Valley makes a great low sugar graham cracker that is made with whole wheat flour and has 3 grams of fiber per serving. I found them at Whole Foods, but you can order online at the link above.

I am very pleased at how they turned out.  While the S'more is smaller than their sugar-laden counterparts, it is very satisfying!  I was very happy to have a low sugar version of a food that I thought I would need to give up forever.

One S'more as prepared below has about 15 grams of carbohydrates and only one gram of sugar. It also has almost 4 grams of fiber, so it is a very satisfying dessert!

Microwave S'mores

Serves 1

2 Heath Valley Amaranth Graham Crackers
1 square of Chocoperfection milk chocolate
1 La Nouba Sugar Free Marshmallows

Place graham crackers on a microwavable  plate.  Place chocolate square on one cracker and marshmallow on other.

Microwave at medium heat for 25 seconds.  Marshmallow will puff up very large.  Heat for 5 additional seconds as necessary.  Place crackers together to form a sandwich and enjoy!