Recipes

I made some new recipes this week from a blog I recently started following called the Weight Watchers Blog. This has been a crock pot kind of week. I love that thing, when I have liners for it so I don't have to clean it. I've used the crock pot twice (lasagna and roast), and plan to use it a third time when I make the Mexican chicken.

-Skinny chili cheese fries...this is actually a video. I wish she would have just put the recipe in normal recipe form...I had to watch almost 10 minutes of video just to get the recipe. Anyway, this was fine, it just used canned turkey chili and the recipe calls for fat-free cheddar cheese, which I call nasty, so I used my 50% fat free. It did teach me a good technique for making oven fries though.
-Slow cooker lasagna...this was a good recipe...easy and not a lot of ingredients. It makes a lot for two people...I think Chad and I have both eaten it twice and we still have leftovers (which, in my mind, is a good thing because it means I don't have to think about what we're going to eat so often). The recipe calls for no-cook lasagna noodles, but I couldn't find those at my grocery store, so I just used regular and par-boiled them before adding them to the crock pot. I think I could have just put them in raw and it would have worked too. Another thing I did was drain the ground beef after cooking it and before adding the other stuff for the sauce. To me that is a no-brainer if you are trying to eat healthy, but oddly enough this recipe didn't say to do that.

-I'm making Mexican crock pot chicken to make chicken tacos with as soon as we're finished with our leftovers. I have an entire roast in the refrigerator that I had to make today because it had already been sitting in the fridge for a couple days.

-I thought this popcorn brittle was going to be my demise this week. True, it is supposedly "light," but I had a hard time eating just a little bit, and a serving size is about 1.5 ounces. It was good though, so try it if you're looking for something sweet that is a little bit better for you than cheesecake or something. Also, we used 94% fat free kettle corn instead of "popcorn popped without salt or fat" like it called for.

I hope these recipes are useful for someone. I know I am always looking for new stuff to make, and I try not to repeat recipes a lot. Enjoy!