Vegetable Pizza Full Size - (cold)

 

Vegetable Pizza Full Size (cold)

Serves 8 people

Ingredients

Topping

• 4 oz fat free cream cheese

• 4 oz - ½ cup of greek non-fat yogurt

• ½  package of ranch dressing

• ½ cup of shredded non fat cheddar cheese

• 1 cup diced broccoli (smallish pieces)

• 1 cup diced cauliflower (smallish pieces)

• 1 cup diced shredded carrots

• ½ cup of diced peppers (smallish)

• 3 scallions of green onions (can used diced red) smallish pieces

• Optional * you can use any thing that you like. 

• **** it tastes so much better if you make sure you bites are small bites, it works better over all.

Crust

• 1 cup greek non-fat yogurt

• 1 cup of self-rising flour

• 1 tsp of baking powder

Preparation

Crust - Mix the yogurt/flour/ and baking powder together.

1. Spread on a non-stick baking sheet.

2. Bake at 350 for about 12-15 minutes. Until brown.

3. Let cool completely.

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Toppings

4. Mix the cream cheese, yogurt, and ranch dressing together. (keep this chilled until ready)

5. Spread onto the cooled crust.

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7. Then sprinkle the veggies all over the top.

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9. Then finish with a sprinkle of cheese. 

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WW notes

This was ww friendly and for cutting it into 8 pieces it made each piece = 3 personal points on my plan. 

https://cmx.weightwatchers.com/details/MEMBERRECIPE:629f0dd6c1fd256af4105067?entryId=6eb7a350-e67a-11ec-98a3-d94e2a7d0770&trackedDate=2022-06-07

Here is also for a single version in case you are interested. 

https://cmx.weightwatchers.com/details/MEMBERRECIPE:629f76a59496977393727928?entryId=4ca6d2d0-e67b-11ec-a7ef-fd14ddf0a6ac&trackedDate=2022-06-07

Living your best life and doing what feels good for you is the secret.

Keep it simple, Stay well and safe.

Welcome to my Journey

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Peace

Louise

Spicy Tuna Sushi Roll

 

I have been obsessed with finding a good quick way to create that same sushi, California, spicy tuna roll taste at home and without all the work and fuss. I think I may have found a way. I happened upon this package of 60 seconds cauliflower rice. The first one that was not really wet inside. It is made my Natures Intent. Definitely will buy over and over. 

A few weeks ago, we went to public and they are selling their sushi for 7-9 dollars a roll. Yes, good and a nice lunch. But I decided to change it up and make at home. 

Here are my little hacks to lower the carbs and make it fit my WW diet. Also making at home made 6 of them for less than one at publix. 

I enjoyed them right away, fresh is best. I will be making these again. Just wanted to share. 

Spicy Tuna Sushi Roll 

 With Quick and Easy Hacks

Ingredients

Sushi Rice

• 2 - 90 second bags of Jasmine Rice (4 cups - 2 cups per bag) (or if you prefer any rice you like. You can also just make your own white rice. )

• Or if you like the lower carb hack  I used 90 bag of Riced Cauliflower in place of one of the Jasmine Rice.

• ¼ cup Rice wine vinegar

• 1 tbsp spoon of sugar (or a lower carb hack use 1 tablespoon of your favorite sweetener, I use truvia)

Spicy Tuna

• 1 can of drained tuna

• Squirts of sriracha (as spicy as you like)

• 1 teaspoon Mayo 

Sushi Paper (or if you want a really quick hack you can just make it like a bowl with the rice on the bottom and build up, you can either use the sprinkle furtake or the sea weed snacks and place the bits in a single sheet for that little bit. Less mess rolling it. )

• Shredded Carrots (fast hack - they come pre shredded in the store)

• 1 cucumber

• Then what else you would like rolled in it. You can put thin sliced green onion, avocado, and even change up the protein.

• I have used crab meat, I have used a breaded shrimp (cooked in airfryer- crispy) I have also used regular shrimp. 

Preparation

1. Prepare the rice. If you are using the bag then microwave per instructions.
   I used one jasmine rice and one cauliflower rice.

   
   
   

2. When done, pour out into a wide mouth bowl, so you can mix the two together and then spread out to cool. 

3. As cooling pour over the vinegar and the sweetener / sugar. 

4. Mix gently and as you mix spread it out, very gently to cool. Set in the fridge while you prep the rest. You could also just prep this and put up for a later time in the day. 

5. Then do the Spicy Tuna. Open can and drain, break up, put in sriracha and then the mayonnaise and carefully mix. Put also in the fridge until ready. 

   
   
   

6. Cut up the rest of what you would like in your sushi roll or bowl.

7. When ready, lay down you seaweed paper -nori and lay the rice as a thin layer and then right below the middle you add your filling, thinly and evenly all the way down, Then start to roll. I just free rolled. starting from bottom up, come up over the tuna and then roll forward. Placing seam side down.

   
   
   

8. Like I said before I have also been know to just make it in a bowl and use the seaweed snacks as a little single sushi bites.

This all turned out really delicious and so affordable. It is just the prep time that takes the most. A Lot can be prepped and put up for when you are ready. I can last maybe a day. So eat it fresh. 

WW Notes

For those on WW this hack of half rice and half cauliflower really cut my points.  For me this was 3 points a roll.

Living Your Best Life and doing what feels good for you and your family is the secret to a beautiful life.

Keep it simple.

Stay well and safe

Welcome to my journey

Louise

Watermellon Popsicles

Summer is here and on the front of the vegetable-fruit stands are the amazing. Watermellon. 

I am a watermellon fan. I love anything watermellon. I especially like it fresh and sweet and seedless is our preference.

When I was young, and they were more seeded than seedless,  my mother would cut it into triangles and we would sit outside and eat it and spit the seeds. Such a fun memory and those days were hot. 

I tend to get in the summer one every week. With my large family we seem to always finish it. So for us, I have to hold back half to make the popsicles and I do a small cube cut and freeze those to make for my daily water bottle. It is a nice natural fruit water enhancer. When I do it again I will share it here for you guys.

Making these on your own, leaves you with lots of imagination. Combinations, even a bit of coconut milk, or coconut water and different fruits. The best part is you know what ingredients are in them. Also have you looked at the prices of fruit bars? Making them for me, is a frugal way of also keeping produce and fruit without wasting. 

For now.

The Watermellon Popsicle

What you need to make popsicles with is a popsicle mold (any type you like) I particularly like the one from amazon that looks like a real popsicle. It makes ten at a time.

Sticks, just regular old craft popsicles sticks. Also sold on Amazon or in any store. 

Baggies, The single portion long baggies fit the popsicle that I make, and it seals. This time however I actually bought popsicle bags, because I make them all summer long. The only set back is they do not seal. I folded over the top and used painters tape to seal. Worked great. 

My are in baggies and in the freezer. A few are missing. I wonder where they went.

My popsicles I try to keep as less ingredients that I can. The watermellon ones this time have a little lime juice in them and just a touch of stevia, to keep it sweet. 

You can use mint also if you like. 

So lets do this.

Watermellon Lime Popsicles

The players

Watermellon

Lime

Stevia (or your fav sweetner- you may not need it, you must make to your taste.)

The game

Take 1/4 of your watermellon and put into a processor. I have a ninja blender, does the job. Blend up

Add in some lime, taste, and then if you need sweetner taste again. and blend

Take your popsicle mold and slowly pour in the mixture to the top. 

I put foil on top and then take a knife poke small hole and then slide the popsicle stick 3/4 way in. 

Put in freezer. and freeze

When all frozen, take out one by one and put into the baggies and then into a container in your freezer.

This is really a great idea during the summer. Fruit pops for the most part are very, very expensive. Using fruit in season is a great way to keep some pop in the freezer. I usually buy the fruit for the week and then watch it, if it doesn't get eaten it goes into a baggie for later to make freezer pops.

My son's school was sending home weekend lunches and in it were atleast 2-3 little containers of fruit. I froze them until I was ready, Thawing them out today and making them into popsicles.

"Waste not want not"

Have a great day. Hope to see you soon with more of what I have to share. Subscribe with your email and you can keep up with what I am doing. If you try it, leave a comment, would love to know what you think.

Until then....

Living your best life and doing what feels good for you is the secret.

Keep it simple, Stay well and safe. 

Louise

Scotch Eggs ww blue

Scotch Eggs

First let me explain. I am trying to use what I have at home with a normal family. So some of the items I use will be higher in points.

For this one you can use other meat to wrap around the egg.

The Butterball Turkey breakfast sausage is 2 points for 2 oz 

The Jennie O is 3 points for 2 1/2 oz

The Jimmy Dean Pork breakfast sausage is 7 points for 2 oz

One more option which would be to purchase the leanest ground turkey and add to your own breakfast spices for sausage. I found some at the Amazon.com. If I had all this, then this would be what I would have used. 

This is for the blue plan. and boiled eggs are 0 points.

 The choice is all yours and your plan and your points. 7 is still okay for me, because I only eat one and it is filling enough. The are good cold also. So matter what meat you use it is all the same technique. 

The Menu:

Scotch Eggs   (ww blue - this recipe and with the jimmy dean - 7 points an egg)

The players:

1lb of jimmy dean breakfast sausage ( I doubled mine)

8 hardboiled and peeled eggs.

Pam spray

The game:

Cut the sausage up into 2oz portions.

Spray your hand with a little pam spray or non-stick, makes it easier to mold onto egg.

Take 2 oz and patty down a bit in your hand and lay egg in it. 

Carefully squoosh and mold it like a cover on the egg.

It will make 8 with the 1 lb, but I double it for a large family. Plus they are very good cold. 

Spray air fryer and drop in 6 and cook 360 for 10 min. (go in once and turn over gently)  If you want browner, then step up the heat to 400. for another 2-4 minutes.

** make sure all of the egg is covered.

If you do it in a regular oven, spray pan, or parchment, or foil and the lay in eggs, Bake 350 for 20 minutes and turn over in middle also.

The reward:

There are such a hearty fast quick pack of protein. What could be better than sausage and an egg.

These also are a great idea for meal planning. You can trim the points down and add a little fruit and you have a complete meal. 

WW Blue Notes

This was a really satisfying. I used my instant pot to make 24 eggs at one time. I will post on how easy that can be. I love just a hard boiled egg and a cheese stick.

That is one of my ww blue hacks to stay on my journey. 

Living your best life and doing what feels good for you is the secret.

Keep it simple, Stay well and safe. 

welcome to my journey

Louise

*** If you do not make them right away, make sure to store in fridge to keep the sausage from getting warm and melting a bit.