Green Macaroni and Cheese

1 pound of fresh green beans or 2 16 oz. cans drained whole, cut, or French
2-3 TB of juice from the cans or chicken bouillon
3 to 5 oz of process cheese -- singles or boxed like Velveeta
1/2 tsp of salt with canned beans, 1 1/4 tsp salt with fresh beans
dash of pepper
skillet wide topped 10-12 inches or more
spray Pam or other vegetable or olive oil spray can be butter flavored

Coat skillet, add other ingredients, warm until cheese melts and beans are at least semi limp, the canned beans need not be any softer.

Cheese-y

Serve with sliced tomatoes and salt/pepper, french dressing- with vegetarian bacon chips.

Roma

Crunchy Texture & Protein For The Muscles
 

This should make three generous servings of Fake Mac & Cheese, but it is so low calorie have all you like.
Three servings equal 2 protein, 1 fat, 2 vegetables and 1 extra or 270 calories and 18 carbohydrate grams including 2/3 cup of tomato (2-3 Romas or 1 medium) and a generous spoon of bacon chips.


Serious Cooks might like this.

Spaghetti Squash Lo Mein

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.