Archive for the 'Recipes' Category

Amyella’s Low-Cal Pumpkin Oatmeal Muffins

Here’s the recipe for the pumpkin oatmeal muffins I am enjoying this week. The ingredients have been modified by the brilliant Miss Amyella to allow you to have TWO dense, moist, delicious muffins as one carb serving. Genius! Maggie’s Note: I subbed 1/2 cup of wheat bran for the 1/2 cup of Fiber One cereal [...]

Sweet Potato Overload!

Erm, so… Anyone have about a month’s worth of sweet potato recipes? The grocery store had them on sale for 25 cents/pound (usually the going rate is an outrageous 89 cents/pound!), and let’s just say that I spent $3.75 on sweet potatoes Tuesday. You do the math. And I’ll probably go back for more. (I’m [...]

Thanksgiving Reloaded

Thanksgiving is almost upon us, and once again I cannot understand the big hullabaloo that surrounds the traditional foods served on this holiday. In my 32 years of life, I have never had an American style Turkey Day meal that I would consider above mediocre, especially considering how much time, effort, and expense is invested [...]

Microwave Apple and Pear Crisp

Apples are one of the cheapest fruits available, but I get sick of eating them in their natural state pretty quickly. This recipe from the Weight Watcher’s Simply the Best cookbook is YUMMY. I usually break it down into 6-8 servings instead of four. Perfectly suitable as a carb portion, and the “normals” in your [...]

10/18/07 Log: You can call me Ms. Spartan, thank you.

139.4 lbs this morning pre-workout. 138 is just around the corner as long as I stick with my workouts and meals. It’s good to be consistently under 140 again after 6 weeks fluctuating between 141-144. (I have a whole calendar month of weigh-ins to prove it, too!) It’s taken a while, but I am definitely [...]

10/16/07 Log: Nuked Pumpkin Protein Muffins

I was running late this morning so my planned 30 minute run and 15 minute incline walk will happen this afternoon (if they haven’t changed the gym lock code at my former apartment complex near work) or tonight. I am almost looking forward to it now that my endurance is back up and I have [...]

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie

I made this recipe from Cooking Light for my company Pie Day today. It’s not exactly clean eats, but you can use it as one of your cheat/splurge/90% meals without causing too much damage. It is quite spectacularly yummy and not too difficult to make as long as your ingredients are already softened, in case [...]

Chinese Barbequed Pork

This recipe is from Weight Watchers Take-Out Tonight cookbook. If you are into ethnic restaurant cuisine like I am–sorry, but the only “American” entrees I really like are BBQ and burgers–but you want to stick to healthy foods, GET THIS BOOK NOW. It features over 150 recipes divided into the following categories: Chinese Classics Viva [...]