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Tequila Lime Honey Chicken and Shrimp Avocado Salad
The name is too long lol I'm making this for my boyfriend and my anniversary tomorrow night. Crossing my fingers that it will be good, but I'm pretty hopeful. You can cook it all up in the same pan. Ideally everything would be grilled, but I'm going to put it in a cast iron pan with some pam. Serves 2 8 oz chicken 8 oz…
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Delicious Reduced Fat Pizza!
Pineapple Turkey Pepperoni Pizza! Now it's not LOW fat but for a 1/4 of the pizza serving it's 486 calories and 19 grams of fat, so it's good to enjoy once in a while ;) Ingredients: 1 package of Hormel Turkey Pepperoni 1 Thin Crust Boboli Pizza Crust 1 can of diced pineapples 1 can of Dell Alpe Pizza Sauce 1 package of…
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Favorite Oatmeal?
I need to add some healthy, filling carbs to my diet so I decided that i will try oatmeal. I don't know much about it so I need some advice before I go out and buy it. Your input is greatly appreciated. Is it only a good choice for breakfast or can I use it with other meals? What are your guys' favorite…
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salad Dressing Ideas>>Need Sum
I Love Ranch!! Kraft Fat free although the sodium is high so i am looking for a new type of dressing maybe homemade! It has to be fairly low in cals because i use 3 to 5 tbsp on my big bowl of salad for lunch...Any ideas
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Sludge Love
I've seen a few threads on here that mention a recipe called "sludge". My peanut butter and chocolate-loving tastebuds want to know more about it! I know that its a frozen chocolate pudding/peanut butter combination but i would love to have the recipe. Also, is this more of a treat or a meal replacment?
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Natural spreadable butter (better than margarine)
While there are lots of smart people on both sides of the butter debate, my husband's cardiologist is in the 'anti margarine' camp. He would rather my husband use butter because he believes the body digests and uses the saturated fats in butter better than the body digests and deals with hydrogenated oils. We've been…
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Roasted Broccoli (fast, easy, good)
Roasted Broccoli (Food Network, Recipe courtesy Cut the Calories Cookbook) (note: I revised the original recipe, by removing the extra butter & increasing the olive oil) Prep Time: 5 min Cook Time: 12 min Serves: 4 servings 1 pound broccoli 4 tablespoons olive oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper Preheat oven to 500…
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Roasted Pork Chops and Potato/Carrot Medley
I did this, and it appears to have under 500 calories per this site. To feed 4: 4 pork chops (about 5 ounces a piece) mustard (dijon) 1/2 cup bread crumbs - Italian 4 large potatoes, cut in cubes (you decide if you want to peel) 20 baby carrots 1 onion sliced 1 tablespoon olive oil Italian herbs (I used fresh basil, fresh…
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Sauteed Apple Tortilla
I felt like having something different for breakfast today, so I came up with this. It was really good. About 398 calories for 2. One filled me up, I made this for 2 people. 1 serving about 242 cals. Ingredients: -1 large green apple-Cored, peeled and sliced into about 1/4 inch thick. -Tastes Like Butter (probably the…
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Care to share your low fat chicken && pork recipes with me p
Care to share your low fat chicken && pork recipes with me please???
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Recipe Question
I found a recipe that calls for 1/3 cup baking cocoa. Are they talking about cocoa powder or baking chocolate or is there something I'm missing? Please help, I was hoping to make it for our New Year's party tonight. Thank you!
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website to input food for cal. count
I know it has been posted over and over, but i cant find it! What is the site where you punch in everything in a recipe and it gives you all your numbers?? Please help me out, THANKS!
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Delicious stir fry
Made the best stir fry today and thought would share! base of whole grain brown rice sliced zucchini red bell pepper jumbo shrimp clove of garlic diced little diced onion cooked it in a sauce made with: lime juice little cayenne pepper tsp brown sugar tsp soy sauce salt and pepper to tast cook and serve over rice!
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Veggie Sandwich
I love sandwiches and this one is packed with nutrients and has a slight "tast of summer" Ingredients: Arnold's 100 calories multi-grain sandwich thins (or any other whole wheat sliced bread) raw avacado tomato any kind of onion brown spicy mustard (substitutions: light mayo, any mustard, any spicy spread, dressing)…
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I need cheesecake!
I am craving cheesecake really big time! Does anyone have any "better for you" recipes? Mmmm...cheesecake.... *drool*
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wraps
I eat dinner a lot at night by myself due to my husbands work and I think I may try wraps. Any really delicious wraps that people eat? I am sort of picky but I am trying to expand my eating! I usually have 500/600 calories left for dinner. Thanks! :smile:
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Classic Tzatziki
I am going to make like a veggie gyro but using amazing NAAN bread I found at the commissary (I know kill me hey it's wheat lol) But I found this low cal tzatziki sauce and thought maybe someone else could use it. I plan on putting a tomato medley (beautiful purple, green, yellow mini tomoatoes if you haven't tried it do…
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split pea soup recipes please
i love split pea soup!:bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: if u have a recipe, cooking suggestion, low fat idea, yummy idea, or anything else about split pea soup, please share it here! i froze a large leftover ham bone+ and i intend to make some killer soup w/ it and your suggestions.:wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:…
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sugar-free jam
I hear that jams and jellies aren't very good for you because they're loaded up with sugar, so I thought of making my own, but I'm not much for boiling the fruit, sterilizing the jars, etc., etc. Plus, I don't eat that much jam. Anyway, I happened to have some berries in the freezer, so I defrosted about 1/4c each of…
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Coke Cake Recipie Needed!
Hi everyone.. Nothing like waiting till last minute.. I brought 2 boxes of cake mix: milk chocolate and red velvet. I have coke zero and diet cherry coke. I was thinking of using the coke zero with milk chocolate and cherry coke with red velvet. What are your thoughts? Also, do I add oil and eggs in the mix? I heard once…
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Recipe Counter - don't miss this!
I struggled trying to figure out meals calories that I made at home, found this website to add up meals and it helps to take the "guess" work out. Hope ya'll like, has been so helpful for me. http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php?process=resubmit&count=55
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Light airy cheesecake
1 (3 oz.) pkg. lemon Jello 1 c. boiling water 8 oz. cream cheese, softened 1 c. sugar 1/2 tsp. vanilla 13 oz. can cold Milnot or evaporated milk Dissolve Jello in boiling water and cool slightly. Combine 1/2 of warm Jello with cheese, sugar and flavorings and blend until smooth. In separate large bowl, whip the Milnot…
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BIG 150 Cal Pancakes!
I was bored this morning with the crummy weather outside, and with this weekend being a refeed weekend, I wanted to make something special for breakfast! Granted, it's now 1pm so it's brunch LOL. I found a recipe for whole wheat pancakes and tweaked it a little bit to make it healthier! 2 cups whole wheat flour 2 teaspoons…
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My twist on granola
I like granola in my yogurt but we had non today so I made a yummy snack with Fiber One Bran Cereal instead: dannon light and fit vanilla yogurt fiber one bran cereal some fresh blueberries mix and enjoy! so good :)
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Red Velvet Cake Recipe
This is my Grandmother's recipe - I plan on making this cake for Christmas- it's so festive (red). I have no nutritional information on it, (sorry) but I thought I'd post it in case anyone else wanted a great dessert for Christmas. I know, it's festive, but not altered to make it healthier. I still make this one without…
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Fish tacos
This is my new favorite food, folks. I have to share. It's so flavorful, filling and low calorie. Tilapia tacos 1-2 filets tilapia mango cut cabbage onions asian chili sauce Cut the tilapia into pieces (not too small because they'll break apart) cook in olive oil or plain, with the cut up onions. then, put the fish into…
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jazz up your boring oatmeal!
Up until about a year ago, I HATED oatmeal. It was mushy, flavorless, and sometimes made me almost want to gag while eating it. Even an unhealthy coating of sugar and gobs of honey couldn't make it taste right. Then one day, I decided that I would try to cut up an apple into small pieces and cook it along with the oatmeal.…
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looking for salad dressing ideas
Hey all, Anyone have any salad dressing ideas they'd like to share?! I'm so bored with my usual balsamic vinegar/evoo/s&p dressing. I want something new!!!
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How do you make virgin Pina Colada?
I don't drink anything but water but in the future when I'm maintaining, I would love to know how that was my favorite drink when eating out in restaurants.
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Help!! Recipe for Crock Pot-Pork
I have some Pork Ribs, I cut up and removed the fat. I want to throw them in my crock pot, but need a easy, few ingredient recipe? Does anyone have one? I would like to start cooking ASAP! Please Help I have alot of spices and low cal BBQ Sauce or kraut or what ever is easy and taste good. Trying to impress a friend who…