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Thanks to ShaWanda, I had a relatively healthy emergency lunch replacement. I came without a mid-day meal (I’ve been a brown-bagger all my life) and was fully expecting to silently go hungry until I got home tonite. But what did I find but Skinny Bagels!

Skinny bagels!

They’re called Bagel Thins. They’re flat bagels, not nearly as dense as normal ones due to the size but they have the right texture still and are a little more moist than usual. They only have 110 calories each, too! Then the light cream cheese she brought only had 60 calories per serving. No, this is not an ideal meal. But it’s a pretty healthy snack to tide me over between that delicious peach I had for breakfast and the handmade yakisoba burgers my husband is grilling for dinner tonite.

As a side note, I’ve been buying burger buns of this style lately and I like them a lot. Tough enough to hold the burger and all its components together but not as dry as a pita pocket and about 100 calories in it too. I love finding new meal components like this, things that cut out the unnecessary filler calories so I have more room for veggies. 🙂

Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.