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Here is a place to post all your favorite recipes! Please make sure the recipes are really yummy and healthy!

I get a subscription to Better Homes and Gardens and they always have really good recipes.

1. Nilla Yogurt Freeze
Cover the bottom of a paper lined muffin cup with 1 reduced fat nilla wafer; top with combined 2 tbsp. each thawed cool whip lite and fat free strawberry yogurt, add 1 wafer to stand vertilal in the mix. Freeze until firm. Enjoy! xd

being a chef, i know of many many recipes. but.. >>; rare come the healthy ones.

<.<;

ill look through my cookbooks for healthy ones.

I'll try to find some later.

Bananna Nut Bread

1/2 cup sugar (you can sub for sweet-n-low if you like)
1/3 cup unsalted butter (you can sub with margrine or low fat butter)
2 eggs (eggs are full of protien!)
1 3/4 cup flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup mashed banannas (this can count as 1 out of 3 servings of your daily fruit requirement!)
1/2 cup walnuts (sub with raisins if you like)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350*F. Butter and flour a 9x5x3 pan. Beat sugar and butter for one minute with an electric mixer. Scrape the sides of the bowl. Reduce speed of mixer and add the eggs. Scrape the bowl again and beat for another 1 1/2 minutes.
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Sift together the dry ingredients. On low speed add 1/2 the dry ingredients and 1/2 the bannanas to the sugar and butter mix. Mix for 30 seconds. Scrape the bowl. Add the remaining ingredients and mix for 30 seconds. Blend in the walnuts, combine well.
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Pour mix in the prepared pan. Bake for 40-45 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. ENJOY!

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best thread idea EVER

my favourate low fat thing is just a simple smoothie
low fat milk
half a punnet of berries
half a banana
ice cube
blend

and I would not recomend cooking with sugar substitutes
they never work for me, they give the cake a bitter taste
and some of them shouldn't be heated at all *read the side of the packet*

Does anyone here watch Rachel Ray's 30 minute meals on the Food network? She is always doing really healthy, fast, and satsifying meals.

*cracks knuckles*



MAGICAL AWESOME HAMBURGERS! *an original recipe* wrote:
(recipe makes about 4 burgers)

Ingredients:
Enough ground beef for 4 burgers (it depends on how much you normally use i use about a pound for 4 burgers)
2 cloves of fresh garlic (crushed)
half an onion finely chopped
a huge handful of shredded cheese (any type you'd like)
other seasonings (salt, pepper, others.. add to taste)

put all the beef in a big bowl and mix in the crushed garlic, the finely chopped onions and the cheese. mix that until the cheese is evenly spread out through the meatyness

then put it on a frying pan/grill/in the oven or however you cook your burgers and cook it to perfection (i suggest frying pan/grill and add another slice or two of cheese ontop after the burger is almost cooked and leave it on the grill until the cheese melts a bit). then slap it in between 2 hamburger buns, put on your favorite toppings; lettuce, tomatoes, onion, barbeque sause, whatever the hell you put on burgers normally.


Best Salsa-esque thing ever wrote:
*something i came up with myself*
(Snacky)
Ingrediants:
A block of cream cheese
Salsa (depending on how much you like)
Tortilla Chips

put the cream cheese on a plate, (preferably at room temprature) and put as much salsa on top of the cream cheese as you can stand.

scoop up the cream cheese/salsa in a tortilla chip, bring the chip up to your mouth, open it, shove the chip in, chew and swallow

repeat that until the chips or the creamcheese/salsa is finished.


Chili chip dip wrote:
*something a friend taught me that i modified a little bit*
(snacky)
Ingrediants
One can of chili, any type you prefer
One block of cream cheese
A large microwave safe bowl
A microwave
A GIANT bag of chips

open the can of chili and dump the insides into the large microwave safe bowl then dump in the cream cheese into the same bowl and place all of that in the microwave (i suggest covering the bowl with something so you dont have a mess to clean up later) and run the microwave on high for about 30 seconds, stir and repeat the 30 second thing + stiring until the cream cheese is well mixed into the chili and the entire thing is warm.

then dip the chips into the mixture and eat it like that =)


... not exactly the healthiest things on earth, but theyre yummy @_@

If you want low fat alternatives to cornchips!

First off don't be fooled into thinking that cornchips are a way healthier alternative to regular chips
weightwatchers has one small 50g bag of corn chips listed for 5 points
and one small 50g bag of potato crisps is listed at 5 1/2 points
thats only half a point diffrence
*and only 50g for 5 points eek *

alternatives are that flat corn bread stuff that you can use to wrap your food in *damned if I can rember what they are called* dried out in the oven
or even regular thin slices of bread dried out in the oven
*neither of these have any taste but thats what the dip is there for right*

or even better carrot and celery sticks go great in dips
*except celery is icky xp *