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Breakfasts really are the most important meal of the day. If Alexa and I don’t have a good breakfast — with a healthy protein — the rest of the day is iffy. No exaggeration! We prefer eggs for their rich B-complex vitamins (which help us focus) and eat quite a bit of them here. I’ve…
Before our recent whole food diet kick, we ate a lot of mashed potatoes. Not the good kind, with real potatoes, milk and butter, but the insanely easy boxed kind. You know, just add boiling water! What can I say … easy was the operative word here. Boxed mashed potatoes are now out, though, and…
“Mom, can I make pancakes?” is the question I’ve heard as I blearily walked down the stairs each morning for the last three days. This weekend, my daughter finally mastered the complete process of making pancakes from start to finish without any help, and she’s so proud she can do this on her own now….
Sometimes I just want a cookie. But cookies are not on the Weight Watchers Simply Filling plan, unless I want to spend a few extra points. I like to reserve those for my nightly mini Coke (in a glass bottle, of course), and traditional cookies are a lot of points. Like 4 points per cookie….
Last night I tried enhancing my breakfast banana pancake recipe to create a sweet dessert treat … and succeeded! With a couple extra ingredients, you can make a healthful, low-cal dessert you can indulge in without any guilt: healthy crepes! I actually couldn’t finish the full plate, so this is something you could certainly share…
It’s spring and time to get in shape! I’ve been doing Weight Watchers Simply Filling for three weeks now and it’s going very well. But exercise is still lacking. Having heard so many good thing about the FitBit from my friends, I sprang for three FitBit Flex bands (yes, my Alexa gets one, too!). I’ve…
I love Wendy’s Frostys. But Frostys are a treat I’m not currently indulging in. My old Weight Watchers recipe folder had a recipe for a Faux Frosty that called for a frozen banana, ice cubes, cocoa powder, and skim milk. I have no frozen bananas right now, so I looked around for another recipe. I…
I love making my Pumpkin-Coca Chili, but it’s better with a little starchy something on the side. Crackers are out for me. But rummaging around my old Weight Watchers folder (from my pre-baby days) I discovered a recipe I’d saved for “CORE-n Bread.” The Weight Watchers Simply Filling plan evolved out of the CORE plan,…
This morning Alexa made pancakes completely on her own for the first time. I was overseeing casually, puttering around the kitchen, and decided pancakes sounded good, too. I’ve experimented with healthier pancakes made with cream of wheat and oatmeal pancakes in the past, but this morning I tried something new as we have plenty of…
