This recipe is a fantastic and healthy alternative to traditional pizza.  It’s also great if you’re on a diet because it fulfills your pizza craving while being much lower in calories.

Feta & Hummus Pita Bread Pizza Recipe

Tools:

• Slap Chop (link & pic)
• Ingredients:
• 2 Whole Wheat Pita Bread Rounds
• 8 ounces of hummus (regular or whatever kind you like)
• ½ cup crumbled feta cheese
• ½ cup tomato (chopped)
• ½ cup cucumber (chopped)
• 1/8 cup sliced red onion
• 1 tbsp olive oil

Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Once heated place the plain pitas on ungreased baking sheet and bake for 3-5 minutes (until it’s lightly toasted).

Take pitas out of the oven.  Spread hummus evenly over each pita leaving a little bit of plain pita showing around the edges.  Coat the edges of each pita lightly with olive oil.  Crumble feta evenly over each pita and bake for 7 minutes (until thoroughly cooked).  Remove from oven and top with tomato, onion and cucumber, and enjoy!

When it comes to New Year’s resolutions, losing weight or eating healthier is usually right at the top of the many people’s lists…but most of their resolve is usually gone by Valentine’s Day. The secret is to make diet resolutions that are easy to follow, and don’t try to do too much at one time.

1. Drink more water

You’ve heard this one before, but it’s worth repeating. Drinking six to eight pints of water a day will keep you feeling full, and thus
less hungry, and flush out impurities from your system. The latter is especially important if you’ve been “bad” during the holiday season, ingesting more fat, sugar and chemicals than usual.

2. Limit your salt intake

You know too much salt can affect your heart health and other body functions, but it also helps retain fluids, which results in weight gain. Lose the salt, and those “fluid-weight” pounds will disappear.

3. Eat healthier meals

You knew this was coming! A good diet plan includes fresh fruit and vegetables, not processed foods that are high in salt, fat, sugar, and preservatives. If you’re not able to plan healthy meals yourself, plenty of help is available from resources like Nutrisystem, Jenny Craig and Medifast; these companies do the planning for you, and deliver healthy meals right to you.

Above all else, be serious if you make diet resolutions for the New Year. Write down your eating goals and post them where you’ll be reminded of them often—perhaps on your refrigerator—and then stick to them!

Nutrisystem has just announced their new Gift Cards which will allow you to easily email or mail a gift card to someone else. Now you can help someone start the Nutrisystem program and take that first step towards a healthier lifestyle or show your support to those loved ones that are already on the program.

Nutisystem Gift Cards Are Good For:

• Any 28-Day program – men’s, women’s, silver or diabetic
• Any individual item from the nutrisystem store – meals, exercise DVD’s, snacks and more!
• And the Nutrisystem Select and Flex Programs

Nutisystem Gift Cards Benefits & Features:

• Choose from any amount between $10 and $500
• There is no expiration date for your gift card, no hidden charges and no service fees
• Good toward purchases made online or by phone
• You can send your gift card either via email or via the mail (arrives in 5-7 business days)

The Holidays brings together family and friends but it also brings a lot of temptations…candy, desserts, eggnog, alcoholic drinks, eating out, lots of snacking and of course the large family meals. It is probably one of the hardest times for dieters and many people experience weight gains during this time of the year.

To help you keep your diet under control and stay on track during the Holidays you’ll want to check out or top 10 Holiday Diet tips.

1. Keep busy – If you keep yourself busy decorating, playing board games, watching the kids and shopping you won’t have the time to eat.
2. Hit the outdoors - The holidays are a great time to go out and play in the snow. There are many fun activities you can do to help you burn calories outside. Ice skating, sledding, skiing, snow boarding, build a snow man or even go for a nice walk.
3. Don’t skip meals – A lot of people like to skip meals to save room for the larger meal on the day of the party. This won’t actually prevent you from gaining more weight. Instead it will keep your metabolism low and you will over-indulge when the big meal comes around. Stick to your diet schedule as closely as you can.
4. Alternate alcohol with water - Not only will it keep you hydrated to help prevent hangovers, but it will also greatly limit the amount of calories you take in. Alcoholic beverages tend to be very high calorie and fattening. So switch it up from time to time.
5. Keep Track - Just because it is the holidays it doesn’t mean you can slack off. Keep track of everything that you eat and drink so you can make up for it later at the gym.
6. Pile up the vegetables – Like always, you’ll want to keep your vegetable intake high. They are a great source of fiber and will help keep you full longer to avoid late-night snacking.
7. Eat Smaller Portions – Instead of filling up your plate with everything on the menu, try getting little bits at a time and eating slower. If you have to keep getting up for more food you  may eat less.
8. Eat half a portion of the dessert – Dessert is probably the most tempting food during the holidays and also one of the most fattening. So try and be easy on the dessert. Make sure to eat a lot of the proteins and vegetables during dinner so you don’t need such a large portion of the dessert.
9. Join a diet program – If you aren’t on a diet program (such as Nutrisystem or Weight Watchers) you may want to join one for when the Holidays come around. They can help provide the motivation and online support you need to get through the holidays. Plus, many have online communities so you can converse with other people to get more tips and ideas of what they do during this time of the year.

A new As Seen On TV product has just arrived and is calling itself “The Ultimate Cozy Blanket Robe”.

Unlike the Snuggie Blanket which doesn’t wrap around your whole body, the new Phobi acts like a robe which covers you entirely – it even has a hood that can go over your head, buttons near your neck and deep pockets for your hands or personal items.

The Phrobi is made from plush polar fleece and is said to be just as warm and stylish (or more so) then the Snuggie Blanket.

According to the official site:

“Because it’s stylish, you can also wear it out to many occasions such as dance parties, sporting events, boating excursions, evening bbqs, music festivals, camping, beaches at night, first dates, bar hopping, walking to class on college campuses, dropping your kids off to school, rooftop gatherings, you name it!”

Is this the end for the popular snuggie blanket? And would you really wear your Phrobi on a first date?