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(deactivated member)
on 11/15/12 4:38 pm - Canada

Ooh...thanks for the pumpkin recipes...I love pumpkin as well. I made some yummy mini-muffins with pumpkin and Bran Buds from the Bran Buds website. Pumpkin quinoa sounds good...how do you prepare that? Or maybe I'll find it on the hungry girl website...thanks for that tip as well.

How's the recovery going?

Supergirl7877
on 11/15/12 11:34 am

Topic: RE: Kitchen Fun

Making changes to my favorite foods seriously helped a ton. I never feel deprived and I have tweaked all kinds of things. If you have time I highly suggest HungryGirl.com. I get so many ideas from her site.

Pumpkin pie:

PER SERVING (1/8th of recipe, 1 slice): 144 calories, 0.5g fat, 110mg sodium, 30g carbs, 2g fiber, 26g sugars, 5g protein -- PointsPlus® value 4*

Prep: 15 minutes	Cook: 45 minutes
Chill: 2 hours or more

Ingredients

One 15-oz. can pure pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling; the kind by Libby's is best)
One 12-oz. can evaporated fat-free milk
1/2 cup fat-free liquid egg substitute (like Egg Beaters Original)
2/3 cup granulated sugar (or HG Alternative!)
2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
2 sheets (8 crackers) low-fat cinnamon graham crackers, finely crushed
Optional: Fat Free Reddi-wip, cinnamon

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a deep-dish pie pan with nonstick spray. In a bowl, combine all ingredients except graham crackers and optional ingredients. Whisk thoroughly. Transfer to the pie pan.

Bake in the oven until partially firm, about 45 minutes. (It will firm up completely once chilled.)

Refrigerate until completely chilled and firm, at least 2 hours (the longer, the better).

Top evenly with crushed graham crackers. Serve and, if you like, top with Reddi-wip and cinnamon!

I love, love, love pumpkin anything so I have been living off of a pumpkin quinoa for breakfast since my surgery....a high dose of fiber along with protien...I will have to get that out of the cabinet when I get up again :)

(deactivated member)
on 11/15/12 6:22 am - Canada

Topic: RE: Kitchen Fun

Sounds like a step in the right direction by health-ifying your favourite foods/recipes. I read on one of the Ontario OH forum that someone found a high-protein bread at Metro...may be worth trying for your tuna melt.

I love egg sandwiches...salad, fried (non-stick pan w/Pam), or scrambled but instead of toast I have it on half of a Haddad high-protein pita...it's 50 calories for the pita with 5g of protein. And I sprinkle 1/8 cup low fat tex-mex cheese and a couple tablespoons of salsa (or ketchup in a pinch).

I'll also make tuna or chicken salad for my pitas...lots of chopped celery for crunch and I use calorie-wise Miracle Whip. Very tasty and satisfying. I have that for lunch at work or my latest "addiction" of sweet potato/butternut squash/carrot soup with ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon. Or I'll switch it up with ginger, curry and cumin. Num num!

Tammy

DebColCam
on 11/15/12 4:30 am - Canada

Topic: Kitchen Fun

Hello OH Friends. I have been trying to pay attention to my food choices and slowly making changes. And my least fav tracking my food. I love tuna melts old style lots of mayo on big buns. Yesterday I swapped the big bun for an English muffin calorie count was 540 cals and 38 grams of fat. Which I thought was a bit high. I blamed the mayo. So today I mixed same ingredients with 2 tbls balsamic vinegar and 1/2 packet splenda instead of mayo. I plugged it into my fitness pal and today's tuna melt lunch 320 cals and 18g of fat. Much better I think and it actually tasted very good! Gotta keep paying attention and making simple switches to my favs. Next time I buy cheese I'll try the low fat old cheddar. Do you have any fav recipe swaps to share? Have a great day! Deb

Supergirl7877
on 11/15/12 2:54 am

Topic: RE: Anyone on Facebook?

It just means I was the 35th person to like the page and Deb was 37 :)

brock2006
on 11/15/12 12:09 am

Topic: RE: Anyone on Facebook?

I do not have a facebook account. What's the story with these people posting numbers?

DebColCam
on 11/14/12 11:46 pm - Canada

Topic: RE: Hello All....new here :)

Hi Stacie good for you for throwing the scale away. I can't part with mine because as annoying as it is it keeps accountable. If I don'****ch my numbers frequently I could easily put 10 ponds on in month. It as long as I stay within that 4 lb range I don't stress. I find it keeps me motivated. I hear that weigh****chers is a good program. Keep posting to let us know how you are doing. Deb

STACE518
on 11/14/12 3:20 pm

Topic: RE: Hello All....new here :)

Thank you so much Deb!! I also was having a prob with the scale going up or down a few pounds either direction lately. So I threw it away! Lol...since I rejoined ww I promised myself I will only weigh in there for now.I keep telling myself it's not the weight I should be worries about it's the habits that caused it. That's great that you're up and around more, I need a little more motivation in that dept lol. Thanks again Deb for the warm welcome!