3 cups Air popped popcorn - mix 2 Tbs melted natural peanut butter and drizzled over it the popcorn
"Change Your Tuna" Mix 2 eggs, 2 Tbs. canned tuna, sliced ½ green onion. Cook in microwave 2
½ minutes or until eggs are set.
Mesquite Deli Turkey wrapped with piece of lowfat Sargento Cheese, mustard, and Lettuce
Apple and Peanut Butter
Apple Salad (Mix a chopped apple with ¼ C. dry roasted peanuts, chopped celery, & small container of Plain Greek Yogurt. (or w/lowfat mayo)
Abs Diet Trail Mix Makes: 10 servings
1 cup Almonds-Whole
1 cup Pecan Halves
1/3 cup Quaker Old Fashioned Oats-Dry
2 Tbsp. Honey
1/2 tsp. Ground Cinnamon
1 cup Ocean Spray Craisins
1 cup Dried Apricots
A ready-made power snack is an effective one: It gives you something to reach for when you’re hungry, and it gives you good ingredients without guilt. Make this trail mix on the weekend, then keep stashes on hand at work and at home.
Preheat oven to 350ยบ F Degrees. Place nuts and oats in a bowl and spray evenly with cooking spray. Drizzle with half the amount of honey and add cinnamon, stirring to coat. Spread nuts evenly on a pan and toast for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Once they've cooled, stir in the second half of honey and mix in dried fruit. Divide into 1/4 cup servings and place each into a zip-top bag.
Homemade Fat-Burning Granola
3 c. oats
1 c. toasted wheat germ
1/4 c. sunflower seeds
1/4 c. wheat bran or oat bran
2 Tbs. sesame seeds
2 Tbs. flaxseeds
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 c. honey
2Tbs. canola oil
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
Combine first 9 ingredients. In a saucepan, combine honey, oil, and vanilla. Cook on low for 2 minutes. Pour over oat mixture, toss to coat. Spread in a baking pan coated with Pam. Bake at 275 degrees for 30 minutes, stirring twice. Store in an airtight container. Serve with milk as "cereal," or eat as a snack.
Bananacicles Makes: 4 servings
2 – Dole Bananas-Medium
1/2 cup Smucker's Magic Shell Hard Chocolate Topping
4 Tbsp. Dry Roasted Peanuts
1. Peel the bananas and cut them in half crosswise.
2. Put a Popsicle stick into the cut end of each banana piece.
3. Pour chocolate sauce over bananas until they’re completely coated.
4. Roll chocolate-coated bananas in peanuts. Freeze.
Haagen-Dazs Low Fat Chocolate Sorbet with Mixed Berries
1/2 cup Haagen Dazs Low Fat Chocolate Sorbet
3/4 cup Cascadian Farm Harverst Berries Mixed Fruit-Frozen
Haagen-Dazs Rasberry Sorbet with Fresh Blueberries
1/2 cup Haagen Dazs Raspberry Sorbet
3/4 cup Blueberries
Haagen-Dazs Rasberry Sorbet with Fresh Blackberries
1/2 cup Haagen Dazs Raspberry Sorbet
3/4 cup Blackberries
Romano Cheese Popcorn
1 Newman's Own Natural Popcorn 100 Calorie Mini Bag
1 Tbsp. Romano Cheese-Grated
Reduced Fat String Cheese and V8 Juice
1 Sargento Snacks Reduced Fat Mozzarella String Cheese Stick & 11-1/2 oz. V8 Low Sodium Vegetable Juice-Canned
Turkey Breast on Whole-Grain Bread
Oscar Mayer Deli Thin Deli Style Roasted Turkey Breast Lunchmeat
2 slices Whole Grain Bread (mustard, veggies optional)
Brown Rice Cake with 2 Tbs. nonfat Cream Cheese, 3 oz. Deli Turkey
Broccoli Salad 1 C. broccoli flowerettes mixed with sunflower seeds, a boiled egg, and lite Ranch dressing
Cucumbers in Seasoned Rice Vinegar Add salt & pepper to taste.
Wheat Toast with Natural Peanut Butter and 100% Fruit Spread
Peanut Butter Oatmeal Snacks (from the Biggest Loser Cookbook)
12 pitted dates
1/3 cup old fashioned oats
1 T all natural peanut butter
Place dates in a food processor and process until finely chopped and sticking together
transfer to a small bowl. Add oats and peanut butter. Mix well. Divide into equal amounts and shape into balls. Flatten into a cookie shape and serve immediately. You can refrigerate up to 5 days in an airtight container. Makes 4-5 “Blobs”
WHITE CHOCOLATE PARFAITS
1/2 cup crunchy cereal (low-fat/low sugar)
strawberry preserves (100% fruit)
1 3/4 cups fat free milk
1 package sugar free, fat free white chocolate pudding mix
Mix cereal with 2 tablespoons of preserves. Divide into 4 serving dishes.
Mix pudding according to package directions. Divide into the 4 serving dishes.
Top with 1 teaspoon each with preserves. Chill 1 hour.
Serve. This is yummy!!!!
DEB'S DIVINE DESSERT
1 whole low fat graham cracker
1 tablespoon peanut butter (natural, no sugar added)
1 dollop fat free Cool Whip
cinnamon
baking cocoa (no sugar)
Break graham cracker in half. Spread peanut butter on 1 half, then add the dollop of Cool Whip,
next sprinkle cinnamon & cocoa, top with the the other half of the graham cracker.
Protein Balls or Yummy Peanut Butter Balls
18 oz Adams natural peanut butter
2 medium bananas
1T ground flax seed
Mix the peanut butter and flax seed together. Slice bananas into small slices and mix all together. Shape into small balls (about 30 or make any size you wish) put on a cookie sheet and put in freezer for about 4 hours.
Yummy and so good for you!
Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies (from the Biggest Loser Cookbook)
12 pitted dates
1/3 cup old fashioned oats
1 T all natural peanut butter
Place dates in a food processor and process until finely chopped and sticking together
transfer to a small bowl. Add oats and peanut butter. Mix well. Divide into equal amounts and shape into balls. Flatten into a cookie shape and serve immediately. You can refrigerate up to 5 days in an airtight container. Makes 4-5 cookies.
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