The recipe today is one that I bet you thought could never fit into a healthy lifestyle, right?  Well, check out these babies:

If you’ve heard of “Hungry Girl” or read much of her stuff you may have seen this recipe.  I actually just got it off of the back of my box of Fiber 1 cereal.  So, no, I didn’t make it up unfortunately.  Here’s what you do:

• 1 onion
• 1/4 c. egg beaters
• 1/2 c. Fiber 1 cereal, crushed in a blender to bread crumb consistency

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Slice onions into approx 1 inch slices.  Separate into rings.  Pour 1/4 c. egg beaters in one dish and 1/2 cup of crushed Fiber 1 in another bowl.   (Optional:  Add seasonings to the cereal like garlic powder, salt, pepper, oregano, etc)  Dip onion rings in the egg and then the cereal mixture.  Lay in a single layer on a greased cookie sheet.  Bake for 30 min flipping half way through. 

The second time I made these I did it a much quicker way.  I put the onion rings in a bigger bowl (that they would all fit in at once) and then I poured the egg beaters over the top and made sure they were all coated.  I put the cereal crumbs in a gallon size ziplock and threw the onions in there.  Shake, shake, shake and wala!  You have your onion rings.  This way is much quicker and less messy too!

I hope you enjoy these!

1.  Drink up!  DO drink lots of water during your turkey day feast.  Right when you walk in, pour yourself a big glass of water (or other calorie free beverage) to sip on as you mingle.  Continue to drink up all night long!  DON’T drink your calories.  Calorie laden drinks do nothing to add to satiety but they will definitely add to your waistline!
2. Workout Hard!  Hit the gym a little harder or a little longer (or both!) than normal tomorrow morning. (YES, I said you better be working out tomorrow!)  This will increase your metabolism for the entire day and burn off some the extra calories you will probably consume later in the day.
3. Compensate.  Compensate for the splurges by eating much healthier than normal the day before, the day of and the day after your event.  Do this by following my 6 day Post Holiday Meltdown meal plan.

If you don’t have this meal plan, email me at lindsmm@gmail.com and you will get one right away!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Take your asparagus:

Break off the “woody ends”.  To do this hold each end of the asparagus and bend in half.  It will naturally break where it is supposed to.  The leafy end is the side you eat.  Discard the bottoms.

Toss the asparagus with 1/2 -1 T. of olive oil, depending on the amount of asparagus.  Lay in a single layer on a pan and sprinkle with salt. 

Roast at 450 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until they look a little like this:

These are SO good!  They are a little bit crunchy and you can eat them down like candy!

The recipe I made over this last week is a Hershey’s Recipe and it is SO good!  It’s not so good on the waist line though.  I made it last week with some little changes and it was still really good!  I probably wouldn’t take it to Thanksgiving dinner with a lot of extended family or I wouldn’t take it to some fancy party but for a dessert for just the fam, it was great!  A warning to you artificial sweetener haters.  I used … Splenda.  I didn’t feel like figuring out the ratio for stevia and I still use Splenda on a rare occasion like this.  I’m not yet convinced that it’s going to kill me.   But do what you want for the sweetener.  And please, don’t send me hate mail.

Hershey’s Best Loved Chocolate Cheesecake
VS. 
Lindsey’s Best Loved Chocolate Cheesecake

(Adjustments are in bold)

• Quick Chocolate Crumb Crust (I used a store bought graham crust)
• 3 packages cream cheese, softened (12 oz fat free cream cheese and 6 oz low fat cream cheese)
• 1 1/4 c. sugar (1/2 cup sugar, 3/4 c. Splenda)
• 8 oz sour cream (6 oz fat free sour cream)
• 2 t. vanilla (1 1/2 t. vanilla)
• 1/2 c. cocoa (6 T. cocoa)
• 2 T. flour (1 1/2 T. flour)
• 3 eggs (1/2 c. + 2 T. egg beaters)

1. Prepare crust.  Combine 1 c. chocolate wafer crumbs and 1/4 c. butter; press onto bottom of springform pan. (Again, I used a store bought crust)
2. Preheat over to 450 degrees.
3. Beat cream cheese and sugar until blended.  Add sour cream and vanilla; beat until blended.  Beat in cocoa and flour.  Add eggs, one at a time; beat just until blended.  Pour into crust.
4. Bake 10 min.  Reduce oven temperature to 250 degrees;  continue baking 40 minutes.  Remove from oven to wire rack.  With knife loosen cake from side of pan, if using springform.  Prepare chocolate drizzle (I omitted chocolate drizzle).
5. Place 1/2 c. chocolate chips and 2 t. shortening in small bowl.  Microwave for 30 seconds.  If needed, microwave an additional 15 seconds at a time stirring after each heating, just until chips are melted.  Drizzle over cake.  Refrigerate 4-6 hours.

I am sorry I don’t have pictures of my creation.  To be honest, it’s not near as pretty as the regular picture.  But really, it did taste great.  You’ll notice I used less of each ingredient.  I used 3/4 ‘s of each ingredient amount because a store-bought crust is smaller than a springform pan and we didn’t need the 12 servings this cake makes.  So I made a little less and it fed 8 of us!

Let me know if you try it!

Start by throwing these things into your magic bullet or blender:

• 1 container cherry yogurt (I use weight watchers brand because it doens’t have high fructose corn syrup OR aspertame)
• 1/2 c. cottage cheese
• 1 T. low fat cream cheese
• 1 T. cocoa
• 1 packet Truvia (Stevia)

Blend all that goodness up and put into your bowl.  Top with about 15 chocolate chips and enjoy!

Don’t forget to email me if you are interested in my 6 day “Holiday Melt Down” Meal Plan!  See here for details!

I would like to thank you all for supporting me, my blog and my business.  To thank you guys I will just jump right into the big news that I promised for you all today.  Here goes:

The big surprise is…

My new 6 – Day “Post Holiday Melt Down” Meal Plan!!!

This is my FREE gift for all of you who are on my email list!  If you’d like to be included on this list email me at lindsmm@gmail.com with the words “I want a big surprise!” as the subject line.

This meal plan was specifically designed to be used after a day of indulgences such as a holiday or vacation.  Each days meals, food choices and guidelines were carefully chosen and thought out.  If followed as directed this meal plan WILL help you get rid of the little extra bloat or weight gain you may experience after a holiday.  Use this plan right after Thanksgiving and Christmas and you will start the New Year hotter than ever!  This meal plan will be emailed out on Friday so get me your email address to recieve your free gift!

We will be back to our regularly scheduled recipes on Wednesday.

These prices are CHEAP people!  I promise you won’t want to miss this!