lime pops and hi to everyone

just joined today. what a terrific site. so glad it makes it so easy to tabulate calorie consumption and burning! i'm a math bozo, but the times in my life when i've successfully lost weight and kept it off for many years were the times i just did the math every day with adding up calories, exercised, and weighed every morning before dressing and eating so it was a true read. (it was like keeping track of every penny you spend for a few days or something - you'd never dream until to record everything just how often you're doing it, and how quickly all the tiny numbers add up to huge ones for the whole day). but i used to have to carry a calculator and lots of little calorie books with me everywhere - now MFP makes it so easy! yaaay! wanted to share this in case someone hasn't already: if you have a Trader Joe's store where you live try their Fat Free Lime Pops - delicious and only 60 calories each! yummy, and cool :glasses: for the summer ahead.

The sour cream and onion crisps sound awesome tamim1974! Thanks! ... not for now, but for sometime when I have a few extra calories to spend ....and a salty/crispy craving! I've never seen them, but even though I've been shopping TJs for maybe 10 years now I'm always discovering new stuff every time I'm there. I've been trying to find the lime pops (Lime Fruit Floe bar) recipe online, but no luck. My daughter says she's read the box before and she thinks for ingredients it just says "lime juice, water, sugar" but I'm not sure. I'll try calling TJs headquarters tomorrow to see if I can get them to tell me more. Something that good that's only 60 calories and such a terrific cool-down for the hot months ahead will be worth whipping up yourself if there isn't a TJ's nearby. I'm only the second day in to my diet, and I'm trying to get myself psyched into the feeling that my 8 glasses of ice water are like some sort of dessert...( trying to enjoy that nice clinking of the ice cubes as I drink it. telling myself it's a tall glass of sweet tea or lemonade).... not totally convinced yet, but getting closer! Didn't have any fresh lemons in the fridge this weekend, but will get some and use a slice in my water glass from now on - that'll help! Oh, by the way - Welcome, Mammakat and mking! Best of luck to all of us!

Yep, their web site is www.traderjoes.com I just talked to them and they don't give out the recipes, but the guy said if I'd want to make my own lime fruit flow, searching online for natural flavor lime juice from concentrate (the key ingredient) would be a good start. He was really sympathetic for the folks who live in the states that have no TJs. He said requests come in non-stop for new stores from all over the country. They have a map on their site showing which areas have stores. They're building them just as fast as they can, but they don't want to put any in places where their hub distribution centers couldn't get the food to the stores in time for the food to be fresh enough. They're all about quality and freshness, but the prices are really, really low. The prices here in southern California are phenomenal. (For example, fat-free milk is often close to 5 dollars a gallon at other stores, but at TJ's it's 3.29 a gallon) Anyway, I'll try some experimental lime pop creation when I find the 'right stuff' for the lime ingredient - (it's really tart, way different from a regular lime popsicle) and if I get a close match, I'll definitely post it!