Liz’s Healthy Table Podcast Episode 44: Hungry Girl with Lisa Lillien + COOKBOOK GIVEAWAY

She’s a foodie who’s always hungry, and for well over a decade, Lisa Lillien has been sharing her love of healthy food through her Hungry Girl platform. Lisa makes smart eating easier with a daily email filled with recipes, diet hacks, and nutritious food finds; cookbooks (she has published 12 so far!); magazines; and a weekly podcast. On this week’s show, Lisa takes us behind the scenes to Hungry Land where we dish about her most recent cookbook, Clean & Hungry Obsessed, the most popular recipes on her site, diet and food trends (wow, they’ve changed a lot over the years), and a sneak peek at her next cookbook.

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Show Highlights:

• The Hungry Girl platform and brand: It began as a daily email newsletter in 2004 because Lisa loved food and wanted to help regular people make good food choices
• Why the growth and the magic of Hungry Girl?
• Lisa’s 12th book, Clean & Hungry Obsessed, featuring clean ingredients and lots of fresh, healthy vegetables
• The one degree of separation between Robert Davis, “The Healthy Skeptic,” Lisa and Liz
• How food trends have changed since 2004, when people avoided carbs, but used many processed foods
• Lisa’s realistic philosophy: everything in moderation and calories DO count
• Lisa’s advice: Figure out YOUR trigger foods and don’t latch on to someone else’s magic bullet
• Why people look for one type of food to call “the enemy” and avoid it
• Using the right spices and sauces can help vegetables taste like (and be substituted for) higher carb foods
• Lisa’s recipe for Mexilicious Spaghetti Squash Casserole
• Feedback from the book, with the favorites being meatloaf, veggie noodles and veggie fries, and cauliflower rice
• Lisa’s top two all-time most popular recipes: 
  • Yum Yum Brownie Muffins, made with cake mix and pumpkin
  • Egg Mugs, made in the microwave with eggs, cheese, and veggies (2 -1/2 to 3 minutes)
• “Hungry Land” in Los Angeles, with test kitchens, content creation, and 10 full-time employees
• Lisa’s 13th book is coming out in March: Hungry Girl Simply 6, featuring what her audience wants … simple and easy meals with six or fewer main ingredients
• Chocolate, and how it fits in with healthy desserts for a fraction of the calories
• Using cocoa powder in overnight oats. (Find the recipe in Lisa’s book!)
• How Lisa fits into the recipe development and test kitchen process at Hungry Land
• “House walking:” Walking in your house while on the phone or doing small tasks, to get more steps and improve fitness
• A tip from Lisa: “People are too extreme and hard on themselves, and then they throw in the towel when they can’t be perfect. Don’t be too hard on yourself, and take one day — or one meal — at a time”
• Focusing on small swaps that can be satisfying

Links:

My email: [email protected]

• The Parents On Demand Network
• www.superhealthykids.com

Resources:

Lisa’s Website: www.hungry-girl.com  Find out about Lisa’s daily email newsletter, podcast, books, and the magazine.

Lisa on Twitter

Lisa on Facebook

Lisa on Instagram

Books by Robert Davis: The Healthy Skeptic, Coffee is Good for You and Fitter Faster.

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