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Men’s Health has an enlightening article that profiles 12 different foods that many consider healthy. Unfortunately for me, I eat more than a few of these. Take pretzels for example:

Pretzels
The upside: One ounce has just 110 calories.
The downside: These twisted low-fat snacks have one of the highest glycemic indexes of any food. In fact, they rank above ice cream and jelly beans in their ability to raise blood sugar.
The healthy alternative: Cheese crisps — baked pieces of cheese that crunch like chips.

Woah! If those cheese crisps are anything like the cheese that bakes onto the cookie sheet when I’m making nachos, count me in with a side of ranch! Mmmm…healthy.

Sometimes it’s hard to get lunch packed in the morning. Yahoo Food offers a solution in the form of 8 Great Frozen Entrees. The only one of tehse that I have had is Amy’s Black Bean and Vegetable Enchiladas which are wicked good. I didn’t realize that they were a smart choice until now.

Recently J.D. over at GetRichSlowly.com announced that his new blog, GetFitSlowly.com will officially launch on January 1st. This excites me because J.D.’s financial blog is great. He’s a good writer and a very successful blogger who just recently decided to make blogging his full time gig.

Content at the new blog is sparse but then, it doesn not really launch for another month and a half. Good luck J.D.

Today I started sorting through over 1100 starred items in Google Reader. I’ll be un-starring, tumbling and just leaving some of these items starred in an effort to dump and organize all the crap I’ve read or saved to read later.

One nugget of awesomeness that I found was an article at Get Rich Slowly that suggests giving your favorite (not always expensive) things as gifts to others for Christmas. I like this idea so I am going to list some of my favorite things that cost under $30 here. If you know me then you might get one of these for Christmas. You’ve been warned:

• Domain Names
  Cost: $10. Does anybody I know really want a vanity domain name?
• Netflix
  Cost: $26.97 or less. You can give up to three months of service for less than $30 bucks. Sweet! Netflix, for the uninformed, is a great way to rent DVDs without late fees.
• Cafe Press
  Cost: $6.95 or less per month. A premium store at Cafe Press would make a great gift for the designer/entrepreneur you love. I’ve been using Cafe Press to supliment my income for a few years and it’s a great outlet for creativity.
• iTunes
  Cost: $30 or less. Music, movies, television, audio books and games are all available through iTunes. You can give a certificate or gift a special mix of your own songs!
• Books
  Cost: $30 or less. If someone on your list reads. Consider giving them a book that has meant a lot to you. Write something in it. That’s special.
• AmeriBag
• Cost: $15 or more. I carry a man purse. It’s awesome and I love it. The one I’ve been carrying was a gift from my friends at Bramlett Multimedia a couple of years ago. While my particular bag was not $30, AmeriBag has a handful of bags between the $15-$30 range.

I’ll ad to this list as I discover new things I love throughout the week. What do you love that costs under $30?