Thursday, September 29, 2011

This week's recipes

We had great recipes this week:

8 comments:

  1. I made the breakfast shake 'A' mentioned last night. Not exactly as she mentioned, but this is what I included:

    1 c. skim milk
    1 frozen banana*
    1/2 c. oatmeal (uncooked)
    2 T. peanut butter

    Put all ingredients in a blender and blend.

    *If using fresh bananas, add ice to thicken like a milkshake. (I slice ready-to-eat bananas into 1/2-3/4 inch slices, wrap in foil and freeze.)

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  2. 1/2 c quick cooking oats
    1 tsp brown sugar
    2 Tbs peanut butter
    1/2-3/4 c water

    Mix the oats, sugar and water in a bowl. Microwave 1 to 1 and 1/2 minutes and stir in peanut butter.

    377 cal 37g carbs 20g fat 14g protein

    This was great! I used regular Peter Pan peanut butter because it was what I had and it tasted like a warm peanut butter oatmeal cookie. Next time I may try 1 Tbs peanut butter and sprinkle a few mini chocolate chips over it or add some cinnamon. It was very filling.

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  3. The oatmeal/banana shake was really good and filling. I think I'll try less peanut butter next time (like "B" suggests in her recipe), to help reduce the calories.

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  4. Here's another smoothie:
    2 cups frozen strawberries
    container of low fat yogurt
    If too thick use some non fat milk or I use some diet soda

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  5. That sounds yum! :)

    I made pumpkin muffins this morning - to welcome October. They were low-fat and low-enough calorie that I had two! :)

    Pumpkin Muffins
    - 1 egg
    - 1/2 c skim milk
    - 1 15-oz can pumpkin
    - 1 1/2 c flour
    - 1/2 c sugar
    - 2 tsp baking powder
    - 1/4 tsp salt
    - cinnamon & spices to taste

    beat egg & milk and mix in pumpkin
    add dry ingredients and mix
    scoop into 12 muffin cups (I used a bit of non-stick spray in a stoneware muffin pan)
    bake at 350 for about 25-30 minutes

    makes 12 muffins
    each muffin has:
    101 calories
    0.4 g fat (0.1 g saturated fat, 0.2 g monounsaturated)
    15.6 mg cholesterol
    135 mg sodium
    5 mg potassium
    21.2 total carbs (1.9 g dietary fiber, 10.1 g sugar)
    2.8 g protein
    24.3% vitamin a
    0.8% vitamin c
    7.3% calcium
    4.3% iron

    K pulled a container of whipped topping out of the fridge and put that on his. Then everyone else did. So I looked it up. Turns out 1 Tbsp had only 13 calories and 1 g of fat, so I put a bit on my last bite. YUM! It tasted like pumpkin pie!

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  6. Oooh, the muffins sound yummy. I'm the only one at my house who likes pumpkin. I'll have to make some to share or freeze.

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  7. They weren't overwhelmingly pumpkin-y. It's all about how you spice them!

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