20th Dec 2009
72 calories each! AND HERE’S THE RECIPE! You’ll need:
1 Cup yellow cornmeal
1/2 Cup Self-rising flour
1/2 Cup Whole-wheat flour
1 tsp baking powder
dash of salt
1 T Splenda for baking
1 egg
1 1/2 Cup skim milk
1/2 Cup chopped onion
4 Chopped green onions
4 chopped Jalapenos
Butter flavored cooking spray
Large skillet and spatula
Mix all dry ingredients together well. Add egg and milk and mix thoroughly. Add onions and Jalapenos and mix (and this is optional if you don’t want them spicy, plain they’re very delicious too). Spray skillet with butter flavored cooking spray (you’ll do this in between each batch you cook) Turn your heat to medium and allow the skillet to heat up. Drop by spoonful a portion of the mix onto the cooking surface, like pancakes, and I used a large skillet so cooked four of these at a time. Once the cake bubbles through, again like a pancake, flip and cook until golden brown on each side. The diameter of each should be between 3-4 inches each. This recipe will give you at least 17 cakes each - so once prepared you can store in a baggie what you don’t eat for the next day. And these will freeze too.
I ate mine plain, but my son used the sugar free Smucker’s Apricot jelly and made sugar free syrup. (To make this all you have to do is place about 1/4 cup of any sugar free jelly in a microwave bowl and pop it in the microwave for 30 seconds on high and it becomes instant syrup)
So enjoy!!! REALLY delicious and can you believe 72 calories each.
Here’s the total breakdown..
Calories 72, Fat 0g, Fiber 1g, carbs 14g
Now go enjoy!!!
Happy Holidays,
Kitty
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17th Dec 2009
Last week during my radio show, “Seth and Kitty Weighing In” (which is every Thursday morning at 8:00 am on WONA in Winona, MS with Seth Kent) I had a listener call in to see if I could convert a family peanut butter cookie recipe to a lower calorie version of the same thing. The original recipe was 118 calories per cookie so it was pretty high. These are 90 per cookie so almost saved 30 calories per cookie. And HERE IT IS! I call them CashNut Brown Sugar Cookies! Check out the pic above!
They have, per each cookie - 90 calories - 10.4 grams of fat (but that’s only 2g Saturated Fat) - 1.3g of fiber and 8.5 carbs. And this is how you make them:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees - then mix together -
1 Cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 Cup Splenda brown sugar blend
2 Medium eggs whites
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 tesp baking soda
And you’ll need 12 whole cashews to top them for baking. 1/2 for each cookie..
Once everything is mixed well drop by spoon onto a nonstick baking sheet (Don’t use any cooking spray. I tried it on a few and they burnt on the bottom.) I got 24 cookies out of the recipe. After they are all on the sheet take a cashew half and press it down in the cookie. The original recipe for these cookies says they will melt down and become more cookie shaped but this recipe they didn’t do that so you’ll need to press them down slightly. Bake for 25 minutes but check after 20 to make sure they are not too done.
Then enjoy. In my mind 28 calories saved on a cookie means I can have 4 cookies instead of 3. I mean who in the heck eats one cookie?! They probably aren’t reading this blog because they more than likely don’t have food or weight issues…like I do.
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7th Dec 2009
This is the subject we talked about on the radioshow, “Seth and Kitty Weighing In” on WONA last Thursday and I felt it deserved a blog.
Should you or shouldn’t you even attempt this? I mean there are so many temptations around this time of year and a feeling of deprivation could take over easily if you start saying NO to everything. I know that I was always afraid of the Holidays. I knew what I was capable of regarding food, so as Halloween ended and I saw Thanksgiving and Christmas approaching - I would almost panic wondering what kind of mischief Fat Kitty would get me in to this year. She rarely let me down. So I’d come out on the other end of January ALWAYS heavier.
So is it a good idea to actually diet as the Holidays approach? That’s a question only you can answer but I do have some thoughts on what you can do.
I was always afraid of failure, so rather than all out diet during this time of year, maybe pick a few days each week that you know you’ll be strong on. I have already done that and mine are Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. If you wonder why I didn’t put Wednesday in there, well this is because I know myself so well now - and I know that if I put too many days together in a row I might feel trapped and do something I shouldn’t. Now this doesn’t mean I plan to overeat on Wednesday - it just means I am giving myself that day to think about it. And I don’t even plan to overeat on the other remaining days, but what I have discovered is that if I give myself the chance to stay focused and not put too much pressure on myself, I’m more likely to not eat wrong any day of the week.
So this works for me and I thought I should share it because it might not be something you thought about. In the days to come, heading up to Christmas, I’ll share more tips of what I do during the Holidays, to stay on track. My recipes have made my life so doable - but I don’t kid myself that the grocery stores full of candy canes don’t have a pull on me. They do and I still have to enter them to buy the food I do eat.
If you are struggling - write me with your struggle and I’ll try to figure a way to help you too. Losing weight is not easy and keeping it off is even harder - but it IS something you can do. I failed my whole life till now - so if you feel like one more try is more than you want to attempt during the Holidays, why not try just one day a week - then add another day you feel you’ll be strong - a month might go by and you’ll wake up and you’re strong more days than you’re not. We have been programmed to think that dieting and losing weight is all or nothing. Well, how well is that working out for our nation that is 66% overweight or obese? Not so good I fear.
My way is certainly food for thought - pun intended.
Happy Holidays!
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