Looking for good food substitutions

In my quest to lose weight, I'm keeping a food journal and trying to up my exercise. I'm also looking for substitutions, to help me manage when I get a food craving. For example, tonight, I wanted something sweet, hot and fast after dinner. My usual solution would be to make Chocolate Microwave Cake. Tonight, in an attempt to substitute something healthier I searched through my cookbooks and found blueberry cobbler. Take a half cup of blueberries, add a little sugar and lemon juice and heat. Mix 3/8 cup Jiffy Baking Mix with 1/8 cup milk to make a dough. Put blueberries in a ramaken, put the dough on top, sprinkle with 1/2 tsp sugar, and bake for 13-15 minutes at 450F. Fast, hot, and much more virtuous.

I've also been making apple crumble a lot: chop up an apple. Melt together 1/2 TB butter and 1 TB orange juice concentrate. Mix with 2 TB wheat germ, 2 TB oatmeal, 1 TB chopped walnuts, and cinnamon to taste. Put crumble topping over apple and microwave for two minutes.

Other ideas for healthy after meal sweet cravings?

Now: I need a healthy alternative to Ranch Doritos. They have been a terrible weakness for me this week. Can anyone suggest something else to eat when I'm craving those?

Some progress

Computer still not fixed (Rob was home all day, but too sick to deal with it) but I exchanged my Palm pilot on Saturday, so I have a working Palm again. Hurrah.

More re: Moral Values

Since the election, I've been pondering the issue of "moral values" which the media decided (rather without cause) tipped the election to Bush (22% of voters polled who voted for Bush said that moral values was the most important determinant for the vote. Which means, obviously, that for 78% who voted for Bush, it wasn't.)

I mentioned Lakoff's book, Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, which minnehaha K & B lent to me. I think I must read this one, too, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It by Jim Wallis. See an interview with Wallis here.

I highly recommend an excellent hour-long radio program on the Public Radio program "Speaking of Faith" that I heard this week: The Future of Moral Values:

We deconstruct the phrase "moral values," which has confused and divided Americans since November's election. As the second term of George W. Bush commences, political analyst Steven Waldman helps explore what these words do and do not convey to liberals and conservatives, and why they still matter. What is at stake when both sides fail to understand the moral convictions of the other?

The commentator, Krista Tippett, interviewed Steven Waldman, a journalist, political analyst, and Editor-in-Chief of Beliefnet, who wrote the provocative article "Perverted, God-Hating Frenchies vs. Inbred, Sex-Obsessed Yokels," discussing why liberals and conservatives misunderstand each other. Extremely interesting.

Listen to the program here.