Dessert Night!

If your family is anything like mine, after dinner, everyone needs something sweet. Most people opt for ice cream, cake, pie, or cookies. As much as people want to eat healthy, your sweet tooth can get the best of you. Well, I am here to offer you some healthy dessert alternatives. 

  1. Fruit salad with honey or whipped cream

  2. Fruit with melted chocolate

  3. You can put fruit on kabob sticks and drizzle with chocolate – fun for kids

  4. Parfait – yogurt, granola, fruit topping

  5. Chia seeds with milk – warm it up, add some sugar or honey, and voila

  6. Doubles as a great breakfast

  7. Rice cakes and peanut butter or almond butter

  8. Baked apples with brown sugar

  9. Smoothies

  10. Granola bites

  11. Celery with peanut or almond butter and raisins (or ants on a log, as my dad would say)

  12. Dates (not the romantic kind) with cream cheese

This is not to say that you can’t have ice cream sundae night or a high sugar dessert. Everything is fine with moderation. Every night doesn’t need to be cake night, but Sunday’s can be.  There are sugar-free and fat-free alternatives to most products. The above desserts are simple to make and include few ingredients.

Rhonda Watson