Against hunger attacks, adding a spoonful of the right food to our diet allows us to have a greater sense of satiety, make dishes more satisfying and nutritious, help us with weight loss. It’s called “the spoon strategy”, and was presented during an episode of Dr. Oz as a simple trick to make our diet healthier and at the same time limit the hunger pangs that sabotage our daily diet. What’s it about?  It consists in adding spoons of particular foods(spoons or teaspoons) during the day, as minisnacks that allow us to eat a small cheat (sometimes it is not even a real cheat) and thus overcome the nervous hunger attacks. We can indulge in some throughout the day with no problems and it works like guilt-free pampering. Here are some examples.

HUNGER ATTACKS: Cravings for SWEETS
A spoonful of whole Greek yogurt worked with a hint of honey and a piece of ripe fruit of your choice: take a spoonful of whole yogurt, put it in a cup, add a drop of honey and mix. Then fill a spoonful of it, put a piece of fruit of your choice on it and put the spoon in the freezer for about half an hour. It’s like having a little yogurt ice cream bon bon.
A teaspoon of peanut butter (or almonds, or other nuts) with dark chocolate flakes:take a teaspoon of peanut butter, sprinkle it with dark chocolate flakes and put it in the freezer for 3/4 of an hour. Take it out, wait a minute and eat it. It is the caloric equivalent of a tiny chocolate (about 50 calories).
A biscuit spoon : blend about a pound of chickpeas, mix them with 4 tablespoons of honey and 4 tablespoons of peanut butter or almonds, a pinch of salt and a handful of chocolate flakes. You will get a sweet dough, similar to the raw dough of biscuits, with which you can fill a spoon. The pasta can be kept in the fridge or freezer. You can make more spoons and freeze them. It can be eaten both frozen and at room temperature.