It Really Is Important

Yep! It really is important to check the ingredient and nutritional listing on items before you buy them. Hot chocolate, for instance. Now who doesn't love hot chocolate? I know Bob and I do! And we love Swiss Miss hot chocolate. Which do you think would be better for wls patients, diet or no sugar added? I automatically reached for the no sugar added. Wouldn't you? Now click on the link and take a look at the nutritional information. Wow! 7 grams of sugar and 60 calories! So I picked up the box of diet hot chocolate. Well now, that's much better...2 grams of sugar and 25 calories.

So here's the lesson. Check the labels! Don't just assume a product is okay because of the wording on the front of the box.

Hmmm...I think I'll have a nice hot chocolate tonight! LOL!

If It's Yogurt, It Must Be Cheesecake!

So remember the Cheesecake Pie recipe I posted a while back? Well, did you know that wls patients really need to eat yogurt every day to keep things, ahem, moving along. Well I love yogurt and we all love my cheesecake pie so one day I made the cheesecake pie but just left it in the bowl in the fridge. No pie crust, just the cheesecake part. Yum! Now I can have cheesecake for dessert every night! And it's just my yogurt! Yeah...I know! Wanna be really decadent? Put a spoon of sugar free cherry pie filling or sugar free Smucker's strawberry topping on top then a dollop of sugar free Cool Whip. I also like to add a teaspoon of milled flax seed to the yogurt and stir it in before I put any topping. Good Omega-3 and fiber!