How I make rich, chocolate peanut butter low calorie muffins!

How I make rich, chocolate peanut butter low calorie muffins!

If you are looking for a great chocolaty muffin – which is low in calories – read on! For my Weight Watcher Friends – Use THIS LINK to have the #personalpoints for your plan on the New #personalpoints plan 2021. I love finding inspiration from 

PB2 granola bars – 5 Weight Watchers Points

PB2 granola bars – 5 Weight Watchers Points

I was on a mission to make homemade granola bars – that were low in Weight Watchers points – that were easly ad delicious – these PB2 granola bars – which are 5 Weight Watcher points fit that bill! Granola bars are a popular food 

Crunchy Breakfast Tacos

Crunchy Breakfast Tacos

I have a YouTube channel! Building it day by day – but here is probably one of my favorite breakfast ideas! Crunchy breakfast tacos! I fill them with various things, based on what I have on hand. This version I added 1 egg, peppers, turkey 

Steel Cut Oats Bowl – 8 Smart Points

Steel Cut Oats Bowl – 8 Smart Points

I am a huge lover of overnight oats, and just oats in general. I’ve made steel cut oats in the past, but was unaware there is a quick cooking variety that cooks in 5-7 minutes! This is the kind I used. This breakfast is literally 

Pancake Bake

Pancake Bake

It was 10:00 p.m. at night and I wanted to make Lindsay from Cotter Crunch flourless pancakes, but I didn’t want to be standing at the stove making a whole batch – so I decided to bake it in the oven! I made the batter 

Breakfast Pizza using Skinny Pizza Dough

Breakfast Pizza using Skinny Pizza Dough

If you haven’t tried my twin sister’s – Skinny Pizza dough – you have to put it on your to-do list asap! She posted the recipe over a year ago and only in the last 4 months I would say it has taken off – 

2 ingredient dough

2 ingredient dough

This recipe is going crazy on the internet right now and in Weight Watchers circles on Instagram.  It seems quite impossible that just 2 ingredients can make bagels, pretzels, pizza dough, rolls or cinnamon rolls, but it does!     2 ingredient dough Category Side 

Quinoa Chocolate Breakfast Bowl

Quinoa Chocolate Breakfast Bowl

I made a take off of Minimalist Baker’s Chocolate Quinoa Breakfast Bowl and ate it 3x last week I loved it so much!  I’m following Weight Watchers again this year – just started again January 2018 – so I adapted this a little bit to make 

Oat/banana/dried cranberry pancakes 85 calories each!

Oat/banana/dried cranberry pancakes 85 calories each!

I had some really ripe bananas that needed to be used up and believe it or not I didn’t make muffins with them! I decided to make pancakes. I used an ingredient I just tried for the first time: Almond Milk! There are lots of 

Amazing Chocolate/Banana Oat Jumbo Muffins

Amazing Chocolate/Banana Oat Jumbo Muffins

Sometimes I surprise myself by making something by just throwing things into a bowl and it coming out not only good, but one of the best muffins I’ve ever made. I think I’ve made about 25 varieties of muffins on here too over the last 

Spicy Savory Oats

Spicy Savory Oats

I dressed up my daughter like Randy from a Christmas Story today. The actual temperature is 0 with expected wind chills @ -25 below. Snow pants, snow boots, sweatshirt over shirt, heavy gloves, hat, scarf around her face. We only live a few blocks from 

Egg Souffle for one

Egg Souffle for one

I’ve actually never made any kind of souffle before, but over the weekend when I went to a luncheon with my Mom, the buffet had one and even though I didn’t put some on my plate, I tasted some off my Moms plate. I loved 

Denny’s All American Breakfast re-make – way less calories less than the original!

Denny’s All American Breakfast re-make – way less calories less than the original!

My HEALTHIER version of Denny’s All American breakfast slam. Just as good, but way less calories and fat!

Breakfast quesadilla

Breakfast quesadilla

Did anyone watch the new Biggest Loser last night? I thought it was a good one. I didn’t start watching it until late, so I fast forwarded through the workouts, but I like these contestants. There are a few of them who are my favorite 

Lemon poppyseed donuts?

I mentioned yesterday, that I got a new cookbook for Christmas. As I was reading through it, I saw a recipe for baked donuts. I’ve made several variations and I love lemon poppyseed, so I set out to make them. One problem, I don’t have 

Egg/potato pancake stack

I didn’t do a full grocery shop last week, so I was faced with running to the store last Thursday to pick up dinner. And believe it or not, I did NOT feel like cooking! So, into the frozen food section I went. I ended 

Deluxe breakfast sammy with homemade turkey sausage

Deluxe breakfast sammy with homemade turkey sausage

This recipe actually comes from the Biggest Loser Cookbook. If you haven’t checked one of their cookbooks out, go to your library and I’m sure they will have a few. Then copy your favorite recipes and return the book! It was super easy to make 

Cinnamon Jumbo Muffins – My healthy version

So yesterday I told you I don’t mind making things with weird ingredients, so I am re-posting a recipe for muffins I made where I replaced the butter with silken tofu. Since tofu doesn’t really taste like anything, you won’t even know its in there. 

Mini quiches

Mini quiches

I was inspired to make these when Dave from Year on the Grill made quiches for his wife. Instead of a crust, he used shredded potatoes as the base. I LOVE quiches, so decided to make individual ones for my breakfast this week. Makes 2 

Egg/turkey bacon stuffed potato

Egg/turkey bacon stuffed potato

I hope everyone had a great weekend! I had a great Sunday with my daughter at a pumpkin farm. It was also going to be apple picking, but all the apples were picked, so my vision of making apple pies, and things with apples was 

Wheat berries!

Wheat berries!

I bought this bag of Wheat berries a few months ago and they’ve been in my freezer ever since! So last night I decided I would cook some up to have on hand, and part of that went into my totally deluxe breakfast this morning! 

I’m hosting BSI this week + Guest recipe from Snack-Girl.com

I’m hosting BSI this week + Guest recipe from Snack-Girl.com

I have to thank Sandhya at www.sandhyas-kitchen.blogspot.com for passing the BSI torch to me! For those of you who aren’t familiar, BSI stands for “Blogger Secret Ingredient” and whoever is hosting gets to choose the ingredient and anyone can enter (even if you don’t have 

Doughnut Muffins – 175 calories each!

Doughnut Muffins – 175 calories each!

Last week I was reading Food Buzz’s Top 9 picks of the day and one of the recipes was for doughnut muffins!! I knew I had to make them but I did tweak the recipe to make it more calorie friendly for me. The recipe 

Baked Donuts!  100 calories per donut!

Baked Donuts! 100 calories per donut!

I was kind of nervous about trying this recipe out. It’s a little time consuming. I made the dough and cut out donuts/holes the night before and then stored them in the fridge. I let the dough get to room temperature for about an hour. 

Healthy Brown Sugar Banana Muffins

Healthy Brown Sugar Banana Muffins

This muffin is my version of a brown sugar cornmeal muffin from the 2000 Cooking Light Complete Cookbook. I didn’t have any cornmeal and I had bananas to use up, so I threw those in instead. I also didn’t have vanilla yogurt the recipe called