Favorite Ingredients Friday-Tortilla Bake

Tortilla Bake
12 small tortillas, torn into bite size pieces
2 cans (15 oz. each) chili beans, undrained
1 ½ cups salsa
1 ½ cups shredded cheese
3 tablespoons diced onions
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Spray a 2-quart casserole with non-stick cooking spray. Place half of the tortilla pieces in casserole. Top with one can of beans. Repeat layers. Pour salsa on top of beans. Sprinkle with cheese and onions. Bake, uncovered, about 20 minutes or until bubbly around edge.
Serve with sour cream(not included in nutritional information)
Makes 8 servings
260 calories, 9 g fat, 5g fiber

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FIF- Refreshing Drinks Edition 2

It is time for Favorite Ingredients Friday. Today is Refreshing Drinks Edition 2. It has already been so hot here in Kentucky so a refreshing drink sounds GREAT! Trying to eat healthier makes it harder to pick a cool refreshing snack or dessert, so I tried out some new smoothies. This is one I LOVE! It taste just like an Almond Joy candy bar, well almost! lol! Anyone can go to a Weight Watchers meeting and buy smoothies unless the site is a privately owned. I like to use the Weight Watchers smoothies because they are loaded with dairy and when added with fat free milk, you can count the drink as your 2 dairy servings. Getting those servings of dairy is part of the Weight Watchers program. I am also going to give you a recipe that you can make it without using the Weight Watcher smoothie mix. At my site, for the next couple of weeks the smoothie boxes are on sale for $5.00 they are usually $7.50 a box and the box has 7 packets in it. I hope you enjoy this cool treat! I know I shared this not too long ago, but right now it really is my favorite refreshing drink!

WW Almond Joy Smoothie

1 Weight Watchers Chocolate Smoothie Mix

1 cup fat free milk

1/2 tsp almond extract

1/2 tsp coconut extract

8 ice cubes

Mix all of the ingredients in the blender and enjoy!

Made this way it is 3 Weight Watchers points and 2 dairy servings.

Almond Joy Smoothie #2

1 c. ff milk

1/2 small pkg. ff sf choc. pudding mix

1/2 teaspoon coconut extract

1/2 teaspoon almond extract

8 ice cubes

Mix all of the ingredients in a blender and enjoy!

(I have tried this and it is also really good!)

Also 3 Weight Watchers Points but only 1 dairy serving.

Note: You can also use any flavor s/f f/f pudding mix to create a smoothie play around for one you might like.

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FIF-Weight Watchers Week

This week the theme for Favorite Ingredient Friday is WeightWatchers. I have been doing Weight Watchers since January and have lost 46.6 pounds! Here is my favorite main dish and dessert recipe!
Doritos Casserole
6 ounces Velveeta Light(I use Weight Watcher Mexican Shredded Cheese)
2 Tbsp Taco Seasoning mix
1 can (10 3/4 ounces) Cream of Chicken Soup, 98% fat free
1 can (11 ounces) Rotel tomatoes
6 ounces Baked Doritos, Nacho Cheese8
ounces 95% lean ground beef
Cook meat, drain and add taco seasoning. Mix the tomatoes and soup together. Then, layer meat, soup mixture, crushed Doritos, and cheese. Keep layering until done. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.Makes 6 servings, 7 WW points
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We bought some strawberries and I decided to make this low point dessert! It is so easy and very yummy!

Crustless Strawberry Pie
4 cups sliced strawberries
1 small box sugar free cook & serve vanilla pudding
1 small box sugar free strawberry jello
2 cups water
1 small container cool whip free
Layer sliced berries in bottom and up sides of 9 inch pie plate or round pan. Mix pudding mix and water and bring to a full boil. Remove from heat and add dry jello mix. Let cool down some about 5 minutes. Pour over berries in pan. Put in refrigerator for at least 4 hours or overnight to chill. Serve with fat free cool whip free add points if needed.
Special Notes
* Make sure pudding mixture is thickened enough or berries will rise to the top. The strawberries are the "crust" This is a very yummy pie!
*I served this with 1 tbsp of FF cool whip and did not even have to add points for that! This makes 8 servings at 1 point each and worth every bit of that point.
*I am going to try this with other fruits and jello flavors. To make a dreamsicle pie add Mandarin oranges instead of strawberries and orange SF/FF Jello. To make a peach pie add peaches instead of strawberries and peach SF/FF Jello. I have not figured out the points on either of these yet.
*You can also put this in a pie shell if you want, but I am telling you my family loved it without the shell.
*If you are doing the CORE program, you could add FF milk instead of water to the pudding. you can add this on FLEX too, but you have to add the points and that's a lot of points! It was really good with just the water though and I did not have to add those points!
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Chips Ahoy Dessert

1/2 cup fat free milk

18 reduced fat Chips Ahoy Cookies

2 cups fat free milk

1 8 oz. fat free Cool Whip

1 small box chocolate fat free, sugar free pudding mix

Pour 1/2 cup of the milk in a shallow bowl. Dip cookies in the milk very briefly and line 8 X 8 dish with them. Take 1/2 the Cool Whip and spread over cookies. Mix the chocolate pudding with 2 cups milk. Layer over top of Cool Whip. Dip next 9 cookies in the milk and lay on top of pudding. Top with remaining Cool Whip. Refrigerate at least 2 hours before serving.Makes 9 servings, 2 WW points.

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Favorite Ingredients Friday-Desserts Edition

Well desserts are not something that I get to enjoy a lot these days since starting my new healthier lifestyle, but every now and then you just want something and these kind of recipes take the guilt out of it! I usually post on my other blog, but thought it would be nice to send some people over here to my weight loss blog. I have lost 35 pounds since January doing Weight Watchers! So, for now my desserts are going to be WW friendly.

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German Chocolate Cake

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One box German Chocolate cake mix

12 oz. diet coke or diet Dr. pepper

1 small box sf/ff butterscotch pudding

1 3/4 c. skim milk

1/4 c. flaked coconut

1/4 c. chocolate chips and/or chopped pecans (optional)

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Mix cake mix and diet soda thoroughly, pour into a pam-sprayed 9x13 pan, bake as directed on package. While still some what warm remove from pan and put on serving plate. Poke holes in top of cake. Prepare pudding with the milk and before fully set pour gently over top of cake. While still wet sprinkle coconut and, if desired, chocolate chips and pecans. Refrigerate and allow to set for a few hours before serving.Special Notes:The pudding is a decent substitute for the usually decadent coconut/pecan icing. Since you are just sprinkling them on top you don't need too much.Makes

18 Servings: about 3 Points per Serving, please check this with the ingredients you use, as some cake mixes NI are different!

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