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**Updated!** Spiced Honey Pretzels (and a giveaway)

January 10th, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Appetizer, Diet, Featured, Giveaways, Lisa, Recipes, Review | by lisa

**Winners are announced below! Congrats! Please send an email to:  melissa@shrinkingjeans.net with your contact info within 48 hours or a new winner will be selected!**

Are you a snacker like me?  Like the crunch of something yummy?  How about the combination of sweet and spicy?  These simple pretzels will satisfy any snack craving, especially mine.

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Spiced Honey Pretzels

Ingredients

  • 4 cups thin pretzel sticks
  • 3 tablespoons honey
  • 2 teaspoons butter, melted
  • 1 teaspoon onion powder
  • 1 teaspoon chili powder

Directions

  1. Line a 15-in x 10-in x 1-in baking pan with foil; coat the foil with cooking spray.  Place pretzels in a large bowl.
  2. In a small bowl, combine honey, butter, onion powder and chili powder.  Pour over pretzels; toss to coat evenly.  Spread into prepared pan.
  3. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes, stirring once.  Cool on a wire rack, stirring gently several times to separate.

Nutritional Facts:  1/2 cup equals 98 calories, 1 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 1 g fiber.

This awesome recipe came from the NEW Taste of Home Comfort Food Diet Cookbook.   Ya’ll all should know by now that I love to cook and I certainly like checking out new cookbooks, especially ones that target the healthier side of eating.  This cookbook does that and then some.  Things I love about this cookbook:

  • 205 delicious recipes in various categories- snacks, breakfast, lunch, dinner, side dishes, and desserts.
  • Pictures of most recipes, nutritional information on ALL
  • A menu planning worksheet
  • Tip and tricks for healthier eating
  • Inspirational weight loss stories
  • Portion size chart
  • and oh so much more!

Wanna know what’s even better than eating these pretzels?  Giving away this cookbook.

Yes, we are giving away TWO of the Taste of Home Comfort Food Diet Cookbooks to lucky readers.

Here’s how to enter:

1.  Leave a comment telling me that I am the best cook in the whole wide world…..and that I am pretty.

2.  Join the hood and friend someone! If you’re already a member of the hood, then friend 2 people!

3.  Follow the Sisterhood on twitter and tweet about this giveaway!

Giveaway will end on Wednesday, January 13th at midnight pacific time. Winners will be announced, on this post, the following day.

The Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans received The Taste of Home Comfort Food Diet Cookbook to try out and review. We did not receive monetary considerations for our post, and our opinions are our own.

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Further Inspiration!

 
  • I have these in the oven RIGHT NOW!! Can't wait to try them out :)
  • JessBoz
    Am I missing where this was announced? I don't see the names in the post?? SO CONFUSED over here!
  • shrinkingjeans
    We announce it in the comments by replying to the winners! Let me know if
    you have any other questions :)
  • babyboy3
    I friended Ann G and Kirsten.
  • babyboy3
    This recipe sounds great.
  • I LOVE cookbooks!
  • ealguire
    Can you believe I'd never "officially" joined the hood until now? I didn't realize was a whole different thing. I know, I'm a dork. Anyway, I'm official, now off to friend some folks!
  • ealguire
    It's so fun that I was there when you posted this. And I want one of those books!!!
  • charmandluck
    Sounds like a good cookbook. Thanks for the possibility.

    bgcchs(at)yahoo(dot)com
  • Mary Lou
    This recipe sounds wonderful. The cook book sounds like something I have been looking for. Thanks for doing this.
    Mary Lou
    dlowran1(at)comcast(dot)net
  • pattibright
    I would so love to win this for my sister...she loves taste of home...she loves to cook but she is trying to seriously lose weight this year. This would be perfect :)
    plb8156@aol.com
  • Great giveaway!

    ~ Jennifer
    http://thetoyboxyears.blogspot.com
  • Wendy
    Sounds good!
    ebeandebe at gmail dot com
  • I'd love this book! I need some healthy ideas...

    janemaritz at yahoo dot com

    We posted about this giveaway at Winning Readings: http://winningreadings.blogspot.com/2010/01/tas...
  • those pretzels look a-ma-zing. i'm a huge salty/sweet fan. would love that cookbook, too ;)
  • LittleEagle
    Just what I need to keep me on track in 2010.
  • Eve
    I follow on twitter @shopgurl and tweeted: http://twitter.com/shopgurl/status/7664190259
  • Eve
    I joined the hood and reqested friendships with April, the contributor, and wendy
  • Eve
    You are fabulous, pretty and a great cook! lol Please enter me!
  • Tina W
    I'd love to win this cookbook!
  • brendahelgeson
    great cook and you are the fairest one of all
  • Congrats! You are the winner of the cookbook! Need your mailing info!
  • brendahelgeson
    wow thank you
    brenda helgeson
    22 tyler ave
    cottage grove OR
    97424




    ________________________________
  • Just friended Jessica D and Cara Showers on the hood. :o)
  • OMG...this looks delicious. And now I totally want the cookbook. Taste of Home and Diet-Friendly? Win - Win. :o)
  • jmiller2
    Those sound so good!
  • cstironkat
    I would love this cookbook and the pretzles look fantatic. I will be making them for Superbowl Sunday.
  • tiffanyzook
    This sounds great and so does the cookbook!
  • rhytonen
    I heard on the 'net that you're the best cook in the whole wide world, and that you're pretty.
  • Jennifer C.
    This book sounds awesome! I am always looking for great snack recipes!
  • Heather S
    You are the best cook in the whole wide world!!
  • heatherbug737
    ooh! that sounds wonderful... i'll be trying out the pretzels, too!
  • mathmama
    Friended two people right before I read this - fate!
  • mathmama
    You are the best cook in the whole world and very pretty!
  • anng
    I friended a couple of lovely gals just now!!
  • anng
    These sound very YUMMY!! and yes, you are a wonderful cook and a VERY beautiful woman!!
  • JennyGirl
    I would love to get my hands on a cookbook with healthy recipes. All of my cookbooks are off limits!!!
  • LIsa, I can't wait to find out what how great of a cook you are!!
  • I just gave up chocolate because it's upsetting my daughter's tummy (I'm breastfeeding) and although it's good for the waistline, it's making snack time AWFUL! I can't even eat my 100 cal. oreo thin crisps! I'm making these this afternoon!
  • I would love to win! Oh, and you are the best cook in the whole world and you're pretty :)
  • FiddlersBride
    Just made these with some pretzel wheels (what we had on hand) and using garlic powder in place of the onion powder (since we were out of that). Delish! What a great snack. Thank you!
  • moonduster
  • moonduster
  • moonduster
    I'd love to win the cookbook! I really enjoy cooking and have been trying out new recipes all along my journey to better health.
  • FiddlersBride
    Thanks for the chance to win this cookbook!
    I am already am a member of the sisterhood.
    I sent friend invites to Brooke and to Christie O.
  • JessBoz
    I was just at the grocery store this morning...and left the pretzels there. I'm thinking I'll be going back to town this week for some! YUM!
  • yum! that's all. not entering. just wanted to say yum.
  • i asked Wendy and Nancy to be friends, waiting on them to accept
  • im following on twitter
  • im already a member of the 'hood
  • No answer from one of the winners, so guess what?? I picked a new winner and it WAS YOU! Congrats! Shoot me an email (melissa@shrinkingjeans.net) with your mailing info!
  • I love pretzels and the spiceyness sounds yummy!
  • Oh these do look good...love the sweet and spicy combo!
  • Cee
    I can't wait to try that pretzel recipe. By the way, you are the best cook in the whole world ;)
  • allysonlyon
    I follow the sisterhood and I tweeted at ya!
  • allysonlyon
    I am a member of the hood and I just added 3 people as friends, cause thats how I roll. :)
  • allysonlyon
    Oh this looks good I'll try this today, I have some extra holiday shaped pretzels I should use up! :) Thanks
  • I added Brook & Kitty M as friends...that is if they accept my friend request! :)

    And BTW - This is Meg from I commit 2 Be fit - i just forgot to log in with my other Disqus log in! Oh wells! :)
  • I tweeted about the giveaway & am a follower. (@lkpankratz)
  • I retweeted on BOTH twitter accounts! :)
  • I follow on both my twitter accounts:

    ManicMommyMeg
    iCommit2beFit

    Does that count as two entries?? :)
  • You are gorgeous and you are an amazing cook! *Suck Up Alert* :) I'm always looking for some fun new recipes! Thanks for the great giveaway! Those pretzels sound YUM-my!
  • I sent friend requests to a few people. LOL I think there were 3 or 4 for sure.
  • Maureen
    Pretzels are a downfall of mine. These sound delicious.
  • Congrats! You are the winner of the cookbook! Need your mailing info!
  • BrookeF
    sent friends request to laura p and hood newbie Wendy
  • BrookeF
    when i get rich one day i'm going to hire lisa as my personal chef. after all who wouldn't want a cook who is great in the kitchen and that hawt?
  • Nancy
    Just tweeted
  • Nancy
    I follow on Twitter.
  • Nancy
    If they accept, I friended Kristina and Mel.
  • Nancy
    Yes, dear, you are pretty and a really great cook!!
  • Oh YUM! Those pretzels sound so good. Think I will be picking up a bag of pretzel thins today to give these a try.
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