Month: March 2023

Peach Tea with Apple Cider Vinegar

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I haven’t been making the best food choices lately and I’m trying to get back on track. Yesterday I had some very greasy food that is causing me some gallbladder pain. I read that apple cider vinegar can relieve gallbladder attack pain so I thought I would try this. A few years ago I found a recipe from Trim Healthy Mama called Good Girl Moonshine (completely alchohol free). I thought I’d modify this recipe a bit and make it WW point friendly.

Ingredients

  • Two black tea bags (whichever type you prefer)
  • Stevia or sweetener of your choice
  • DaVinci Sugar Free Peach Syrup
  • 1 TBSP of Apple Cider Vinegar with Honey
  • Fresh lemon wedges

WW Points – 1 (for the honey acv)

To make this I put both tea bags in the mason jar and added hot water to about 2/3 full and let it sit for 5 or 6 minutes. Then remove the tea bags and add stevia, apple cider vinegar, fresh lemon wedges and one squirt of peach syrup. Mix well and then fill with ice all of the way to the top.

This is a refreshing drink and good way to get some apple cider vinegar in if that’s your thing. You can tweak this recipe in many ways to your liking – for example you could use flavored tea and leave out the peach syrup.

Salsa Verde ChickenTacos

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Salsa Verde Chicken Tacos are one of my favorite things to make, especially when I have a busy week planned. These are so easy to make. Yesterday, I almost forgot about them, but was able to run into the kitchen in between meetings and get these started in less than 10 minutes. Then when I finished work, they were ready to eat.

Ingredients

  • 3 boneless chicken breasts
  • taco seasoning or seasoning of your choice
  • 16 oz jar of salsa verde

Steps

  1. Season the chicken (on both sides) with the taco seasoning or spices of your choice. I use the homemade taco seasoning that I made and keep on hand.
  2. Place chicken in the crockpot and top with the jar of salsa verde.
  3. Cook on low for 3 and a half hours.
  4. I think this has too much liquid in it, so I pull the chicken out to shred it and then large spoonfuls of the salsa to the chicken and mix together until desired consistency.

We usually use this chicken for chicken tacos. Here are the points values for the tacos:

  • Salsa Verde Chicken – 0 points
  • Carb Counter Snack Size Tortillas – 1 point each
  • Light Sour Cream – 2 points for 2 TBSP (I split this among across several tacos)
  • Cheese – usually around 1 – 3 points, depending on if I’m using fat free or not
  • Lettuce & Tomato – 0 points

What are your favorite healthy crock pot meals?

This Week’s Grocery Haul & Meal Plan – 3.20.23

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Winston Churchill said: “He who fails to plan is planning to fail.” I have definitely found this to be true in my weight loss journey. On the weeks I plan out what I’ll eat and fill my fridge and pantry with healthy options, I tend to do well. If I don’t plan, I’m more likely to pick up fast food and make poor choices. Here is my grocery haul for the week and my meal plan.

Grocery List

  • Bananas – 0
  • Grapes – 0
  • Mandarins – 0
  • Strawberries – 0
  • Lettuce – 0
  • Tomatoes – 0
  • Hershey’s Zero Sugar Chocolate Syrup – 0 points 2 TBSP
  • Fat free half & half – 1 point for up to 4 TBSP
  • Lowfat buttermilk (to use in low point ranch and cornbread)
  • Eggs – 0
  • Oscar Mayer Fully Cooked Thick Cut Bacon – 2 points for 2 slices
  • Flat Out Pizza crust – 4 points for one crustC
  • Chicken – 0
  • Carbanada Egg Fettucini Noodles – 3 points
  • Shredded Fat Free Mozarella
  • Mexican 2% Shredded Cheese
  • Salsa Verde Salsa – 0 points (for salsa verde chicken tacos)
  • Thomas Light English Muffin – 2 points
  • Sara Lee Delightful White – 2 points for 2 slices

Meals for this week:

  • Ham & Cheese Sandwich (with lettuce & tomato) – 7 points
  • Bacon, Egg, Cheese Breakfast Sandwiches – 5 points
  • Salsa Verde Chicken Tacos – 2 points each
  • Lowfat Chicken Fettucini Alfredo – 6 points
  • Air Fryer Naked Chicken, with corn on the cob, green beans, pinto beans – 0 points except for oil and butter used
  • Pizza – the crust is 4 points for the whole pizza, other points depend on toppings and how much cheese

What about you? Do you have plan this week? I’d love to see your meal plan or your grocery haul pictures.

Low Fat Mug Cake (3-2-1 cake)

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This mug cake is super easy to make and is great for a quick fix when you want sweets but don’t want all of the calories or fat.

To make this base for this you take one box of Angel Food Cake Mix and one box of regular cake mix and mix them together thoroughly. Then you this dry mixture and put it in a canister and label it as 321 cake mix.

  1. Spray a coffee mug with nonstick spray.
  2. Add 3 TBSP of the dry mix and 2 TBSP of water to the mug and mix.
  3. Bake in the microwave for about 1 minute.
  4. Carefully remove from the microwave and let cool for a minute.

You can eat it from the mug or remove it to a bowl or plate and top it with whatever you’d like. I used a strawberry cake mix and topped it with fresh strawberries and some fat-free whipped topping.

I chose strawberry cake mix for mine because I love strawberry cake and fresh strawberries are so good right now. You could also use a yellow cake mix, chocolate mix, or whatever flavor cake mix you like. If you use a sugar-free cake mix, the points/calories would be even lower.

WW Points: 4 per serving

Sheet Pan Eggs

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These sheet pan eggs are so good and so easy to make that I make them almost every week. These can be prepped and cooked in just a few minutes and then you save the leftovers and heat them up throughout the week for a quick breakfast.

Ingredients

  • 8 large eggs
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 6 ounces cheese
  • Nonstick spray
  • Salt and pepper
  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Whisk eggs and milk together until smooth.
  3. Spray a 9 x 9 pan lightly with nonstick spray. Pour eggs into the prepared sheet pan.
  4. Bake eggs for 12 minutes at 375. Eggs should be almost completely cooked through. It’s okay if it is still a little runny in the middle.
  5. Remove the pan from the oven, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and top with the cheese. Return to the oven for 3 minutes to melt the cheese and finish cooking the eggs.
  6. Remove from the oven and cut into 9 squares. They can be served immediately, or put in the fridge or freezer.

My favorite way to have this is to add it to an extra toasted English muffin with either pre-cooked thick sliced bacon or Canadian bacon and a little bit of mustard. You can also just eat this with a fork like scrambled eggs. I’ll often have one or two topped with a bit of salsa.

If you are cooking for a crowd, you can use a 9 x 13 pan with 12 eggs and a half cup of milk. Everything else is the same.