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!

Crockpot Mushroom Chicken

Busy times for women call for choices...1) eating out, 2) a husband and/or children who will cook dinner, 3) a crockpot, 4) a pressure cooker. I utilize all of the above. Today we're gonna talk about crockpots. I don't know who invented them, but they were a genius and I hope they are living in luxury somewhere. Is there anyone in America who doesn't have at least one? I have three! I know the newest thing is digital and yes, they are really cool looking. That's one of my three. But if I had known then what I know now, I would not have bought it. I thought that since it was digital, you could set it to go from high to low to warm. Not so. I still had to be home to turn it to a different temperature. The digital was really just a fancy timer. Set how many hours to cook at which temperature. It would countdown then just shut off. That's not what I needed! And I had stuff actually burn in my crockpot. They seem to be getting hotter and hotter the last few years. So I got tired of that and got a new one.  Love it! It cooks low and slow! No more burned food in the crockpot! Yea!!! I still have to turn the knob to a different temperature, but at least if I leave it on low all day it won't burn!

Well, now that I've finished my "rant" about crockpots, how about we talk recipe. I was looking around the BariatricEating.com message group and "Mark from Chicago" mentioned he had this in the crockpot and was looking forward to dinner that night. Well, you know of course that I immediately wrote to him asking for the recipe. So here it is! And believe me when I tell you that it is so delicious it will make you drool!
                    
Crockpot Mushroom Chicken

3 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
1 medium onion , chopped
8 ounces canned mushrooms (I slice up a few baby portobellas)
1 clove garlic, minced
1 can cream of mushroom with roasted garlic soup

Combine ingredients in crockpot and cook on low all day.