You try to eat right, exercise regularly, and avoid temptation (out of sight, out of mind, right?). You even spend your money on expensive diet foods. The problem: diet foods range from the surprisingly tasty to the "ugh, this tastes like cardboard" variety. And unless you're a wealthy celebrity, you feel guilty for wasting money when you toss out the foods in the "ugh" category.
Solution: try diet foods in an affordable sample size before you splurge. One of my favorite online stores, Minimus, opens its virtual doors to that possibility with single serving packages of everything from fat free salad dressing such as Hidden Valley fat-free Italian (surprisingly good) to 0-calorie, 0-carb chocolate syrup from Walden Farms (on my list of "amazingly delicious" diet foods). If you're on a gluten-free food plan, you'll also appreciate options such as Betty Lou's gluten-free apple cinnamon fruit bars.
In addition to offering you an easy way to sample low-calorie foods, you can stay on your diet by purchasing these little packets and taking them when you travel, eat out, or even head for a picnic. Ah, the celebrity life!
