Menu Monday Recipes

So-Easy-Mac-and-Cheesy (Thanks Hungrygirl!)
Ingredients:
1 package Green Giant Family Size Cauliflower & Three Cheese Sauce (freezer aisle)
2 cups uncooked Ronzoni Healthy Harvest Whole Wheat Blend Rotini Pasta (or another whole-wheat or whole-wheat-blend pasta)
3 wedges The Laughing Cow Light Original Swiss cheese
Optional: salt and black pepper, to taste
MAKES 4 SERVING
Serving Size: 1 cup
Calories: 202
Fat: 4.5g
Sodium: 825mg
Carbs: 36g
Fiber: 5g
Sugars: 6g
Protein: 8.5g
POINTS® value 4*

Chicken Cordon Bleu-hoo-hoo (5.5 Points)
4-6 chicken breasts (pounded out thin) •
4-6 pieces of ham •
4-6 slices of Swiss or mozzarella cheese •
1 can cream of mushroom soup (can use any cream soup) •
1/4 cup milk

Put ham and cheese on chicken. Roll up and secure with a toothpick. Place chicken in the crockpot so it looks like a triangle /_\ Layer the rest on top. Mix soup with the milk; pour over top of chicken. Cover and cook on low for 4 hours or until chicken is no longer pink. Serve over noodles with the sauce it makes. Note: Its the best recipe I've tried so far, very flavorful.
5-6 pts. , depending on the size of the chicken breast. I used a 3 oz chicken breast (3 pts.) 96% fat free ham (.5 pts), 2% moz cheese (1 pt.). Then when you add the cream of mushroom soup (98% ff) and 1/4 c. milk (fat free) and divide by the 6 servings I had in the crockpot, I only came up with about 1 pt. for that (at most). Total = 5.5 pts.


Pineapple Upside Down Cake
(are you ready for this? It is ridiculously easy. This is NOT an april fool’s day joke)
1 box angel food cake
1 can crushed pineapple, drained
1 pan
Cool whip, if you please

Take a pan. Spray with Pam. Pour pineapple. Dump cake mix. Mix. Bake according to directions.
12 servings= 1 point a piece.

Hungry Girlfredo=gross and Dr.Crocker's Pumpkin Pie

Last night, after a two hour nap from heaven, I tamed my hunger with a hungry girl recipe: Hungry girlfredo. For those of you that don't know, this involves Shirtaki tofu noodles, laughing cow cheese (also sent from heaven) and low fat sour cream and parmesan.

This was my first adventure with the noodles, and while I have not written them off my list I do believe it will be awhile before I purchase them again. It comes down to two things: texture and smell.

The minute you open the bag this intense, unnatural, rotting-like smell seeps out and bit** slaps you in the face like "whoa". I see now why they say you must rinse them VERY well.

and then the texture. They are chewy and hard to swallow. Not much like noodles at all.

I might give them another chance-- maybe in a casserole or during the inevitable time when I do not have so many points for a day and must make do on one to two points meals. But as an entree, I would much rather use the recipe for the alfredo part and slap it on some whole wheat noodles for a whopping five point dinner.

In other news, a wonderful faculty member at my place of work brought me some AWESOME 2 point pumpkin pie. She gave me the recipe a few days back and I'll admit-- I was a little apprehensive.The pie has no crust-- which is something I have always considered sacrilegious, that is, until I tried it. It actually fills you up. It is dense and delicious and I am going to make it, love it and live it. I actually ate it for breakfast, which is how I foresee it fitting into my life. I love tricking myself into feeling "naughty" while doing ww and this is just the ticket. "Look", I will say as I cram my face, "I am eating pie for breakfast!!"

ok, enough for now. I'll post that pie recipe later for anyone that wants to try it. I plan on making it for the party this weekend as well-- so that when I am two drinks in and have no control, I have a low point place to land!

Until then my friends-- live it. Love it. Lose it.