If there is one healthy recipe that gets requested more often in my house, it’s my lasagna. I know … lasagna, right? You wouldn’t think lasagna could be healthy, or if it were made healthy, that it could be good. But my lasagna is both good for you and good for your tastebuds. And, it’s…
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Healthy 9-Layer Lasagna: 100% Simply Filling and So Delicious!
Healthy Ham and Cheese Pizza: Gluten-Free, Low-Fat, 100% Simply Filling
I needed a little comfort food tonight and decided on pizza. Back to the Magical Mommy Binder I went and scrounged up an old recipe for pizza crust made with whole grain oat flour (great source of fiber, higher in protein, and lower in carbs than other grains). Add to that some fat-free tomato sauce…
Healthy Egg, Cheese, & Hash Brown Casserole: 100% Simply Filling Great Start to Your Day
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…
Healthy Mashed Potatoes: A Delicious, Low-Fat, Gluten-Free, Whole Food!
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…
Healthy Oatmeal-Banana Cookies: You Need Just Two Ingredients!
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….
Healthy Crepes with Fruit Filling: No-Guilt Dessert!
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…
Healthy Chocolate “Frosty” Shake – 100% Simply Filling
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…
Healthy Cornbread – 100% Simply Filling with no butter, no flour, and no sugar!
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,…
Banana Pancakes – Healthy and Simply Filling!
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…