Easy Healthy Weight Watchers Recipes & Weight Loss Tips

Stephanie’s Slow Cooked Mint Glazed Lamb Recipe

April 14, 2012

I have Stephanie from A Year of Slow Cooking to thank for this delicious Slow Cooked Mint Glazed Lamb recipe. She brought smiles all around our Easter dinner table and turned me into a cooking leg of lamb success story (finally). I didn’t grow up eating lamb and consequently never really learned how to cook it. [...]

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April Bloomfield’s Lemon Dressing – #43 on Gourmet’s 50 Women Game Changers in Food

April 13, 2012

This lemon salad dressing is not for the faint of heart. It’s bold and assertive, using whole lemon segments, lemon juice, capers, shallot, salt, sugar and a whole lot of dijon mustard. The recipe is from April Bloomfield - #43 on Gourmet’s List of 50 Women Game Changers in Food. I recently joined an interesting group [...]

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Ina Garten’s Avocado and Grapefruit Salad Makeover

April 11, 2012

Lighter Healthier Grapefruit Avocado Salad

I can’t seem to get enough of this deliciously easy avocado and grapefruit salad lately. Full Disclosure: It’s actually Ina Garten’s Avocado & Grapefruit Salad Recipe from her Barefoot in Paris: Easy French Food You Can Make at Home - made lighter and healthier. I love Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa Cookbooks. Everything I make from them [...]

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Skinny Easy Healthy Banana Coconut Date Muffins Recipe

April 10, 2012

Skinny easy healthy banana coconut date muffins; Perfect as part of a light and healthy breakfast or snack. And a wonderful way to use up those very black over-ripe bananas that you end up with every now and again. There have been 3 over-ripe banana staring at me from the counter for several days, getting [...]

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Skinny Yogurt Panna Cotta with Honey and Orange

April 9, 2012

Skinny yogurt panna cotta with honey and oranges. I think this was the highlight of yesterday’s wonderful Easter dinner for me. The meal was great. We had mint glazed slow cooked lamb, turkey breast, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and a roasted vegetable medley of broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, brussels sprouts and mushrooms. But dessert was spectacular – [...]

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Green Beans with Ground Pork – Harumi Kurihara – #42 Gourmet’s 50 Women Game Changers in Food

April 6, 2012

Green beans and ground pork stir fried with garlic, ginger, chili, and soy sauce served over white rice. This simple and delicious recipe is adapted from Everyday Harumi, by Harumi Kurihara – #42 on Gourmet’s List of 50 Women Game Changers in Food. I recently joined an interesting group of food bloggers, led my Mary of [...]

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Does Chili’s Have Weight Watchers Friendly Options?

April 4, 2012

Does Chili’s have Weight Watchers friendly options? That’s the first thing that popped into my head when my Mom said that she wanted to go there for lunch today. It’s not a place I visit very often. The last time I ate at Chili’s was with her in Florida last fall when my dad was [...]

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Mixed Greens & Strawberry Salad with Chicken, Goat Cheese & Avocado

April 3, 2012

Mixed Greens with Strawberries, Chicken, Goat Cheese and Avocado

Mixed greens tossed with sliced strawberries, chopped cooked chicken, crumbled goat cheese, chopped avocado and sliced almonds, in a simple honey & citrus vinaigrette dressing. Yum. Yum. Yum. I had this delicious salad for lunch yesterday and just thinking about it still makes me smile. I was able to concoct it by combining ingredients I [...]

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Weight Watchers Friendly Tip: 23 Ways to Get More Fruits & Vegetables into Your Life

April 2, 2012

Do you find it hard to get your daily dose of fruits and vegetables? If you do, you’re not alone. Finding ways to get more fruits and vegetables into your life is worth the effort, especially if you’re a member of Weight Watchers. Getting plenty of fruits and vegetables is a great way to stick [...]

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Green Beans Tossed in Creamy Miso-Sesame Sauce – Elizabeth Andoh #41 of Gourmet’s 50 Women Game Changers in Food

March 30, 2012

Green beans tossed in creamy-miso sesame dressing. Simple and utterly delicious. I have Mary from One Perfect Bite and her 50 Women Game Changers in Food Group to thank for this recipe. I happened upon the group a couple of weeks ago and immediately wanted to join, which is kind of unusual for me (I’m [...]