Mushroom Tuna Luncheon Salad

In order to make this 'salad' you need a can of mushrooms, boiled eggs, a can of tuna and mayonnaise. This concoction will also ask for seasoned salt and a small amount of sweetening. It is faster and easier than a tuna noodle casserole, it is more slimming since the noodles are omitted and it is cooler to prepare and eat in the summer than the casserole is. It also really tastes like a tuna noodle casserole when you have finished. Yumm.

Here is the finished product:                                                         Somewhat gone.

Assuming position as a lettuce wrap.

Yogurt Decadante

Can you see the strawberry hiding under the yogurt? Chocolate fudge cookies on the side are yummy too, recipe is in an earlier blog post. Also use mixed berries if you want to.

Fudge Cookies 

Mix some fruit flavored YOGURT (no bits of fruit please, smooth is better here) and cool whip and top everything with some of the yogurt that isn't mixed with the topping. Voila.

p.s. FREEZE the strawberries first.

Root Beer Float with a Twist

You've got to try this *smashing* Black Cow soda, with Root Beer and Praline|butter Pecan Blue Bunny ICE Cream.


2 small scoops of ice cream
1 dollop of low fat frozen non-dairy topping
Root Beer
Additional vanilla extract and a pinch of Stevia or Splenda.

Glass, a tall thin glass, a maragarita glass, a wine glass, a parfait glass or something like that, even a styrofoam cup, so it stays chilled. Do you have one of those insulated tumblers from WalMart? That's good.

Line up the 1/2 - 1/3 cup of ice cream into two or three scoops, top with one or two spoons of cool-whip and add Root Beer to Cover. Use a tall teaspoon and two or three -- or just one straw -- whatever you think is fun.

Summer ICE!

Try adding 1/2 a pkt. of this to 16-18 oz of diet cola. Amazing. One more way to cool away summer. I think this tastes like watermelon & pineapple with maybe a little mango and it is cold... tasting, I find it unbelievable. One pink measuring spoon of sweet 'n low can be added (part of and individual pack -- it won't take much).

Also, the color is blueberry.;]

Chocolate Stovetop Custard

4 oz cornstarch
8 TB cocoa
10 cups water
2/3 cup non-fat dry milk or 1 cup evaporated skim milk
2 Tb ground flax seed
8 tsp. sweet' n low bulk
1 Tb salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/4 cup water for dissolving corn starch

Large sauce pan that will hold 12-14 cups

Put water, milk, flax, cocoa, sweet 'n low and salt in large sauce pan or Dutch oven, do not use Pyrex it gets too hot. Mix corn starch into the additional 1 1/4 cups of water at end of ingredient list. Stir both mixtures with wire whisk whisking the cornstarch and water until dissolved, turn on heat and whisk the dissolved cornstarch into the chocolate milk mixture in the sauce pan. Bring to a boil stirring with a wire whisk and a large spoon until the mixture has boiled one minute.

Makes 12 cups plus.

Faux Pepsi Max

I hope I am not infringing on any copyrights here.

16 0z. diet cola ice cold
1/2 teaspoon of fruit punch flavored powdered soft drink mix such as Kool-aide
2 1/2 packets of an artificial sweetener such as splenda, sweet 'n lo or Fasweet
ice cubes 3 or 4
2 straws

Combine everything in a tall tumbler and stir. Get high.

Berry Banana Sherbert

This is kind of like a Smoothie, but you don't have to get out the blender or smoothie machine every time.

4-6 cups of seeded watermelon
1-2 cups fresh or frozen strawberries (hulled)optional``substitute more watermelon``
1 cup of whole milk (or at least 2%) This won't taste 'milky--either way.'
1 cup orange juice
3-4 bananas (I always use 4)
sweetener equal to 15 pkgs.
1 TB lemon juice
Mash all together with a potato masher or back of a large spoon
Freeze in ice cube trays or Popsicle molds or used yogurt cups etcetera. Insert a plastic picnic spoon if you don't have anything else.
The first two ingredients are flexible, the rest are not.
By: Martha Stewart
You can also add 1TB of vanilla flavoring if you want.

Something strange for a change? Koolpickles