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

Thick and Bold Chocolate Milk Shake

!/3 cup evaporated skim milk
1 1/2 Tb Sugar free pudding mix (chocolate or chocolate fudge)
1/4 tsp sweet n low bulk
5-7 medium to large ice cubes
2 tsp. unsweetened cocoa powder
Cool Whip for garnish
1/2 cup water or more if needed
1TB. sugar free Hershey's Syrup in place of one tsp, of the cocoa if desired

Put everything in the blender except the ice and Cool Whip
Add 2 ice cubes and blend
Add ice one more cube at a time
Add ice until as thick as you like and fully blended

Pour into a large 12-16 oz. glass or insulated tumbler
Add Cool Whip and a spoon

Alternate version
Substitute 1 1/2 - 2 envelopes reduced calorie hot cocoa mix for the pudding mix.

Makes one or two servings.

 

Eggs For Royalty

I am eager to jot down this recipe for egg salad and olives. It is especially gratifying and filling. Another tasty and non-fattening, nutrient dense combination that will make you happy.

4 eggs
1/3 cup of your favorite mayonnaise type dressing-- this is where you can cut calories or not-- that's up to you.
salt
sweetener
15-18 olives
lettuce
vinegar 2 tsp.

Hard boil the eggs by placing them in a sauce pan with enough cold water to cover, and bringing them to a boil, but not before adding a teaspoon of vinegar. Boil a couple of minutes and let set for twenty minutes covered with a lid. Boil again for a minute, and then pour off the boiling water and drown the eggs with cold water by placing them in a plastic bowl of cold water, or ice water, and then one by one removing them, and, cracking the shell, to peel, Keep the bowl of water and eggs chilled until they are all peeled. Discard the shells and slice the eggs into 1/4 inch cubes. Add dressing, salt, 1 tsp, vinegar and sweetening equal to 2 tsp, sugar. Leave pimento stuffed green olives whole and put on top of the egg salad. You can add a little seasoned salt if you want or not. It may be best with regular salt so you can really taste the olives.
When you are ready to eat it, take large leaves of any lettuce you like and stuff them with the egg salad, add a couple more olives to the wrap and roll up and eat. You could also layer two lettuce leaves like a sandwich and stuff them with the egg salad. You should also salt the outer leaves of the wrap or sandwich so this won't taste too bland. Use regular table salt.