Laughing Cow cheese can be you new best friend!! At only 1 point per wedge it is fabulous and it can be used in soooo many different ways. I like to pair it with the Special K crackers! One wedge of cheese and the 100 calorie cracker serving is only 3 points but makes a great snack! It can also be used on a toast, an english muffin, or a baked potato!
Another favorite is J- E -LL- O, sugar free of course. By itself for one serving is 0 (yep that's right folks ZERO) points. I am a huge fan of the 1/2 cup ziploc containers. It helps me gauge the right serving size and it makes me feel like I accomplished something eating the whole thing!! Add ontop of it a little fat free cool whip and guess what still a big fat ZERO.. okay however sometimes I do like to count these types of things (double zeros if you will) as one point. I mean, of course if something only has 5 calories it is no points but does that mean I can 100 of them and still have 0 point consumption. I think not.
Another use for the containers would be for fat free pudding. It is only 1 point per serving! I always buy things in the boxes and make them myself. It is usually about half the cost and since pudding and jello only takes about 5 min to whip it is worth the savings! Of course you can also top the pudding with a little cool whip too! Makes it just seem a little more like a dessert!!
Another favorite, hmmm and come to think of it can also have fat free cool whip on it (guess you better just keep that in the freezer!) is the 1 point cupcakes!! The best part is that they only take 2 ingredients and they would be a GREAT thing to take to work especially if several people are dieting. They couldn't be simpler, take 1 box of reduced sugar cake mix of your choice and add a can (12oz) of diet pop of your choice. Pour in cupcake pan and bake. Yep that is it. And then of course top with FF C. W. It is really fun to experiment with the cake flavors and pop. A few of my favorite is choc. cake with Diet Dr. Pepper or Diet. Root Beer and white cake with Diet Cherry 7 Up. On the cool whip subject though, you should never use more than 2 TBLS per seving to keep it from counting as additional points!
Okay so off of the sweets for a minute, eggs are also a great snack option. Did you know that you can eat 3 hard boiled egg whites and it only counts as 1 point!! These are a great thing because you can make them ahead of time so they are ready to throw in a lunch bag for work or grab when you are hungry and don't want to consume a lot of points!
This is a start. I need to get my thoughts and items in order a little better so I can get some more stuff on here! Wishing all my new readers the best of luck on their new adventure in getting healthy!!
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