I don't know what it is that makes some people crave one kind of food and others another but it seems like the most common craving culprits are anything salty or anything sweet. I know lots of people who will ruin their diet for potato chip, popcorn and cheezies, while I've always had to battle my love for all things sugary including the two main groups -- foods with frosting and foods with chocolate.

Cookies are one of the hardest sweet treats for me to avoid so I've been searching out some healthier recipes and found a site with an entire page dedicated to healthy cookies recipes. The three that I'm looking forward to trying are the Sugarless Heart Cookies, which look good for anyone on a low-sugar diet, the Low Fat Peanut Butter Cookies because they sound tasty with the added benefit of protein and, perhaps the most delicious-looking find, the recipe for Low Fat Triple Chocolate Cake Bars.

Have you got a sweet tooth but are on a diet? Have you got any low-fat, low-calorie or sugar-free recipes to share?

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Fruit smoothies are delightful ways to have a satisfying and generally healthy snack or even meal replacement. But, you have to know if the smoothie you are drinking has added refined sugar or other additives that can boost calorie count.

While I enjoy all-fruit smoothies (natural sugars), the calorie count of smoothies made with prepared ingredients have concerned some. Result? Sugarless smoothies that are tasty (I guess) but have little to few calories.

The replacement for sugar is the sugary-hybrid Splenda, which is an interesting product in and of itself. It combines regular sugar and ingredients that do not occur in nature to give no-calorie sweetness without adverse health affects (at least, not yet). Great concept, but I'm sticking with fresh fruit myself.

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