Posted on 11/30/2011 10:07:02 AM PST by GonzoII
Preheat oven to 350 F. In a medium bowl, beat butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer for 30 seconds. Add sugar and salt. Mix until combined. Beat in egg and 2 teaspoons vanilla. Bet in flours. Stir in chocolate chips. Shape dough into 1½ inch balls. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 15 minutes, until bottoms are golden. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool. Meanwhile, combine confectioners’ sugar and ½ teaspoon vanilla in a bowl. Stir in 1 tablespoon of soymilk at a time until icing reaches desired consistency. Dip each cookie into frosting presentation side head first into frosting. Lightly sprinkle with green and red sugar crystals for a more festive design. *Note, the frosting dries quickly.
Makes 36 balls, serving size 2 cookies
Skinny Facts:
Calories 106
Fat 4.5 g
Carbs 16 g
Pro 1 g
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Line a rectangular baking pan with parchment paper. Spray parchment with cooking spray. Combine egg whites, molasses and brown sugar in a medium mixing bowl and whisk until frothy. Combine cinnamon, ginger, clove, espresso powder and salt a small bowl and mix well. Add spice mixture to wet mixture and lightly whisk. Add nuts to gingerbread mixture and coat well. Spread evenly on to lined baking pan and bake for 25 minutes at 300. Remove from oven and let cool for 30 minutes. Pack into small decorated jars tied with festive ribbon. I use old jelly jars or tea tins.
Makes 20 two ounce servings.
Skinny Facts:
Calories 105
Fat 10 g
Carbs 4g
Pro 3g
Melt chocolate in a heatproof glass bowl over simmering water, stirring until chocolate appears smooth. Reduce heat as low as possible. Dip half of dried apricot into chocolate. Transfer to parchment –lined plate. Refrigerate until chocolate has set, about 1-2 hours, preferably over night. Wrap in recycled brown paper dessert boxes purchased from your local restaurant supply store. Tie with ribbon and recipe gift tag.
Serving size, 5 dark chocolate dipped apricots
Skinny Facts:
Calories 100
Fat 3 gm
Carb 19 gm
Protein 1 gm
Preheat oven to 350°. Coat 5 mini loaf pans with cooking spray and set aside. Combine first six ingredients in a medium mixing bowl. In a separate mixing bowl combine baking soda, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, salt, baking powder and flour. Pour liquid mixture with dry mixture and mix well. Pour mixture into mini loaf pans, filling pans half the way to allow room for bread to rise. Bake for 25 minutes or until you can poke a toothpick into center that comes out clean. Let cool on wire rack for 20 minutes, wrap loaves in colored plastic wrap and tie with a festive ribbon.
Serving size, ½ mini loaf
Skinny Facts:
Calories 162
Fat 5 g
Carbs 35 g
Pro 5 g
I’ve known some women who ate fat free/low fat food while pregnant. They even “dieted” if they gained more than 20 pounds. They gave birth to sickly babies and had trouble with the babies health. Eat for you and the little baby you are growing. I would rather give a baby a good, healthy start than to fit right back into my jeans after birth. You can lose the weight later... after you have that little angel in your arms!
Fluffy is desirable for pregnant ladies. Keeps the chickadee all safe and cozy.
Absolutely not! :)
I’ll go back to Weight Watchers after a while, although I’m not going to be trying to get to meetings in mid-winter with a newborn baby. After Easter will be fine, when I’ll be taking the kids to the fitness center to get ready for summer swim team, anyway ... and I’ll expect to be my usual size by next fall.
I’ve had some pregnancies where I was much heavier. I’m not making any special effort to avoid gaining weight now, but I think there’s just not as much available for me to eat, with so much competition. By the time I sit down to supper, some of the boys are already asking for thirds!
Two of my sisters liked helping out with the meals. I liked reading. :)
Most of the Offspring help with meals in some way, but they can still eat a huge amount before I manage to sit down.
Blech. Why would you use Splenda when you could use Stevia? Splenda is not only poison, it's wretched tasting poison. Stevia tastes good and is natural.
That’s difficult. One of my brothers was like that. He’s now 6’2. He was overweight when he was younger, but slimmed down as he grew older and taller. Many teens and young adults can eat whatever they like, particularly if they’re involved in sports. My mother had a tough time keeping food in the house. My brothers could eat a loaf of bread in no time at all.
I can’t do soy milk, low fat anything or just use egg whites and i’m a skinny chick. I can change a few of the recipes around to make them good though!
We have the tall, skinny one, and the even taller, heavy one, and the small ones, like army ants. They eat amazing amounts. I just figure they’re all growing taller, while I’m not, so they can have more.
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