OMG this is sooooooooooo YUMMY!!!!!

I just made this homemade apple pie (okay, so the crust is NOT homemade - but the rest is) and OMG itis sooooooooooo good! I found a similar recipe online and doctored it a little. I have no idea what the nutrition info is.... but I feel pretty good knowing it's made with splenda and it tastes so good - you just can't tell! Splenda Apple Cobbler Pie Filling Ingredients: ¼ cup butter or margarine ½ cup Splenda Granular for baking 1 egg 2 TBSP flour 1 teaspoon vanilla 5 cups peeled & sliced apples (about 5 medium) Crust: 1 fozen deep dish pie crust Topping Ingredients: ½ cup all-purpose flour ¼ cup Splenda Granular for Baking ¼ cup Splenda brown sugar (loosely packed) 1 tsp ground cinnamon ¼ cup cold butter or margarine Topping: Cool Whip Vanilla Sprinkle of Cinnamon 1. Heat oven to 400°F. Place cookie sheet in oven to heat. In 1-quart saucepan, cook 1/4 cup butter over medium heat, stirring constantly, until melted and lightly browned. Cool completely, about 15 minutes. 2. In large bowl, beat 1/2 cup Splenda and the egg with wire whis****il light and fluffy. Beat in 2 tablespoons flour and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat in cooled butter. Gently stir in apples. Pour into crust-lined pan. 3. In medium bowl, stir together all streusel ingredients except butter. With pastry blender or fork, cut in 1/4 cup butter until mixture looks like coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over apples. Place pie on cookie sheet in oven. 4. Bake 20 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350°F and cover edge of crust with strips of foil to prevent excessive browning. Bake 40 to 50 minutes longer or until apples are tender and crust is golden brown. Cool 2 hours. 5. Top with a dollup of Vanilla Cool Whip and a sprinkle of Cinnamon. Serve & enjoy!

Pam, that sounds so yummy to me too! I'll have to try this recipe. How are you doing these days? Things are so quiet on this board. Thanks. Lucy

Hey Lucy! I'm so glad to hear that you had so much fun on your cruise!! Someday I'll get to live that dream.... I hope! I'm sorry that I haven't been around. I've been adjusting to my new job and my new schedule. I've been putting in some extra hours just to get up to speed on the program. I LOVE this job! I LOVE the new people I work with. I'm so happy to have made this choice and wonder why I didn't do it sooner! I'm feeling like it was definitely the will of God for me to go in this direction. DO try that pie! OMG it was so good. I'm so picky about splenda in pie recipes.... I don't like it when there's so much splenda in it that it leaves an after taste in your mouth and this recipe didn't do that. It tastes like the REAL DEAL! Aren't you counting down minutes now to your ps???? How's that going? Hugs, Pam

Pam, my friend!!! Good to hear from you. I am counting the days now; haven't got to the minutes yet. Next week at this time, I will be sleeping under anesthesia while my body will be going through a major reconstruction. I am getting scared now. I know that I made the right decision for me. I have to say farewell to my hanging belly and sharpeii legs. This will be the most difficult surgery for me in all of my planned plastic surgeries. Oh, the pain! I'm sure going to ask for whatever I need to make me comfortable enough to walk and get out of bed. Maintaining adequate circulation is key to my recovery. I don't want to have any necrotic areas in my legs. I'm so scared of that! I'm happy that you have a job that you LOVE! That makes living so much better. I hope to find another job once I get through this round of plastics. Don't fret about not being here. I sure know how busy things can get, as I am going through that right now. Not enough time for everything. Once I am home and comfortable, I will be on the OH website quite a bit. Then I will have a lot of time on my hands. I want to wish you and your family a Happy, Healthy and Safe Thanksgiving Holiday. I am going to my Mom's for Thanksgiving dinner. I have so much to be thankful for this year: my friends, family and mostly my health. Take care! Love, Lucy

Yummy! But anything with that many steps is too much for me!! LOL!!!!! I HATE to cook. I do it now and then, I might try it though since my dad is diabetic and coming for Thanksgiving. He loves fruit pies. I kind of have the holiday baking bug a little bit. I am such a non kitchen person usually, that this is unusual of me. Lucy is right. It has been really quiet on our board. I have felt really sad and kind of glad at the same time. I think people are moving on with their lives and not just centering themselves around wls. It is hard for me though to part with this board, so I don't think I ever will. I hope everyone checks in once in awhile. I'd like a reunion post every now and then to see how we are doing. Wendy

LOL funny you should say that.... I am NOT a made from scratch any kind of cook! I have recipe books for stuff with 4 ingredients or less. Normally, when i look for recipes, I click right past the stuff that's long like this! But I guess I had the cooking bug too. It is so sad how quiet it's gotten on here. I miss Lisa and MaryJo and Alecia and Renee....a whole bunch of people!! I hope everyone comes back. AND I just got a phone call the other night from our support group... our leader has decided to stop the meetings due to lack of attendance. They asked if I would be interested in taking over the meetings, but i just don't know if I can give the time to LEAD....I had such a hard time making the meetings in the first place. *sigh* I think if my kids were all gone their separate ways I might stand a better chance of having more to give to that.... but right now, I just feel like I would let people down. It frightens me not to have a group to go to though. At least i still have this place. So, don't count on me disappearing!! Hugs, Pam

I am glad your not going away. I need this too. So many times this is my "venting" place and my support group. I guess it will take us diehards to keep it going! Wendy

I am hear PAM! I just tend to read more then I post. I wonder if i am capable of makeing this recipe! sounds yummy... but my cravings are so naughty that i dare eat this i wont stop. I cant even get on the scale and weight myself im so scared. I know i did not loose more but fear im putting on a few. HARD times we are in now cause we have to rely on the right choices now and i feel im failing. HOPE you all have a wonderful thanksgiving! and ill try to post more! hugs

Lisa!!!!! I have so missed you! Girl, I feel you on the cravings! I'm having a terrible time with the carbs right now. My new office is so far away from everything that i can't go out for meatballs, salads, chili, taco's, ANYTHING - so i have to pack a lunch. That would be fine, except the fridge at work is busting at the seams with the lunches of 200 other people - and it SMELLS BAD - which grosses me out. So I've been living on carbs, carbs, carbs - which is making me crave MORE carbs! I have GOT to get a handle on it. I have been stuffin myself with hershey's kisses - grazing on them all day and night. I've gained. And I've only been in this new job two weeks! I wish I could find a protein bar that I loved....but I just HATE those darn things. They hurt my pouch - all of them. And I have to have hot real food - MEAT - or I just feel sick - then I get all tangled up in the web of carbs for comfort (which doesn't even work - but there I go doing it anyway) and then i just want more carbs which make me feel worse.... and so it goes. So, you are definitely not alone. I'm freaking out on myself too. I'm even freaked about Thanksgiving. Last year, i did sooooooooo good. I'm not so sure about this one....and then...what about the next one? What about CHRISTMAS??? AUGH. I'm scared to death! I have got to get on a routine. (a GOOD one) That's a HUGE part of my problem - my routine has been altered. So I'm floundering around all lost and stupid. I need to be here. Exposed to other people who are permanently altered like I am. I need to be exposed to what people like us are eating. I think it helps reinforce some sense of "normalcy" for me. If I'm only exposed to NON-bypass people, then what THEY are doing is the "norm." If I expose myself to bypass patients, what WE are doing is more the "norm." I'm trying to make an effort to visit the "what did y'all eat today" links - that way, I can stay in touch...get back to reality. We just have to hang tough and know that as long as we wake up the next morning, we still have a chance at success! Have a happy Thanksgiving!! Hugs, Pam

PAM i guess were all in the same boat now. I dont know i dont get why I worked so hard, lost weight and im easily messing it all up right now not eating how i should. I do find i eat the healthy meal my protein, veggie then a nibble of a carb...i get sick.... but the junk doesnt do that to me and i think thts why i am reaching for more of that. ITS hard. and i get embarassed for how im eating. EVERYDAY i wake up and say im gonna do better and i mess up. I did incorporate excersise in again as of last week so hopefully that is gonna keep a balance on me . SO HARD thanks pam its nice to know im not alone.