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Dinner with Friends — best diet therapy

Published by LadyGray on 2nd December 2009
Filed Under About Me, Healthy Recipes, South Beach

I have a very thin friend who invited me to dinner last night.  She knows I’m trying to lose weight and she’s a very good friend — she cooked South Beach.  The dinner was wonderful, but one of the best things to happen was she found a dessert recipe I’ve not seen and it was FABULOUS (gear up chocolate lovers!).

 

Recipe: Frozen Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup

Summary: Chocolate and Peanut Butter — and now ice cream!

Ingredients

  • 1 – No sugar fudge popcicle 2 tablespoons natural peanut butter (no sugar added) 1 tablespoon fat free cool whip

Instructions

  1. Melt the popcicle in the microwave for about 20 seconds. Stir in 2 tablespoons of natural peanut butter and melt these together in the microwave for another 20 seconds. Stir until smooth. Microwave in 5 second increments until they are mixed well. Refreeze the mixture for a minimum of 3 hours. Serve with 1 tablespoon fat free cool whip. Easy and yummy!

Cooking time (minutes): 5

Diet (other): Low calorie, Reduced fat, Reduced carbohydrate, Gluten free

Meal type: dessert

CulinaryTradition: USA (General)

My rating:5.0 stars
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South Beach Holiday Cookbook

Published by LadyGray on 1st December 2009
Filed Under Eating Right, South Beach, book review

 

One of the very best investments I ever made was the South Beach Diet Parties & Holidays Cookbook  for holidays and parties!  The recipes are easy to follow and simple to make!  Best of all, most of them are very, very good.

I suffer from Uncreative Diet Dilemna, which simply means that I’m incapable of preparing beautiful, fancy menus without calories.  This book helps.  There are more than 20 difference menus and 150 recipes (WITH PICTURES) .  Just browsing through the menus motivated me to put together the rosemary shrimp skewers.  Last Thanksgiving I treated my family to chocolate cake and pumpkin pie using the recipes in this book.  Could I have figured out how to substitute splenda in my cheesecake recipe without this book — yes.  Would I have decorated it with lemon zest or cocoa to add visual appeal — probably not.  It’s only $10.  Well worth the investment!