Not the best of evenings, but certainly not as bad as the past few days prior to this one. I made ice cream with fat free sweetened condensed milk, fat free half and half, and 1/2 a cup of baking cocoa. Oh, yum! It tastes wonderfully. I ate more of it than I should have, and tomorrow, when its fully frozen, I'll be good and only eat a scoop at a time. Then it'll be about two points. I think there are ways to make it lighter, maybe by stretching the recipe. The hard part about the sweetened condensed milk is that even fat free its a lot of points because of all the sugar. And it does make it almost too sweet. So what I'm wondering is if I chilled a bowl, and whipped the half and half, maybe twice the amount, but the normal amount of sweetened condensed milk, and twice the chocolate I used... yeah, I think that might work. I'll try it next time I can get the ingredients, although I'd have to freeze it in two batches.
For dinner we made a sort of spinach pasta dish. Sautee garlic and onion in a little bit of oil. Add 1/2 pound turkey breast cubed and stir fry all that. Add 1 lb of spinach chopped and let it wilt. We added a small pile of herbs too. Then toss with spaghetti (4 cups cooked) and about 1/2 cup grated romano or parmesan cheese. Makes five servings, and I think each serving is about 6 points. And it was really really good. I've got leftovers for lunch. Yay!
So...
(2) Fat free chocolate pudding
(2) Chocolate covered soybeans
(Stressful afternoon, which seems par for the course lately)
(6) Dinner
(3) Ice cream
(28) Total for the day
Posted by Deb Atwood at June 11, 2002 10:08 PM