The Journey Continues

What journey you say? Week 2 of Weight Watcher’s started today and I have to admit last week was easier than I thought it would be and I lost more than 5 lbs. I am surprised at the quality of the pre-packed Weight Watcher foods you can buy. I remember the last time I bought a low fat cream cheese it went straight into the garbage. The Weight Watcher cream cheese is actually edible! Today I bought some Mini Dark Chocolate Raspberry Bars and I would buy these again even if I wasn’t trying to lose weight and they are only 1 point.

So tonight for dinner we had grilled pork loin center cut chops, roasted butternut squash, cranberry apple salad and some grilled zucchini. Dinner tonight was 9 points.

I loved the Cranberry Apple Salad and luckily I had some frozen cranberries. Sugar free jello can really be your friend. LOL This salad would be really good with chicken also. I can see this as a staple in my fridge. A cup of this salad is 1 point.

Apple Cranberry Salad

Yield: Serves 4 at 1 point each

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: none

Total Time: 4 hours

Ingredients:

Apple Cranberry Salad

1 cup(s) cranberries
1 cup(s) water
6 packet(s) Sweet ‘N Low Granulated Sugar Substitute
1 serving(s) cranberry sugar free jello
3/4 cup(s) celery
1 medium apple(s)
1/4 tsp table salt
14 pecan halves

Directions:

Cook cranberries in water until they pop. Add sweetener and cook 3 minutes. Remove from heat and add Jell-O to hot cranberries.

Add celery, apple, nuts and salt.

Pour into serving bowl and refrigerate until set.

The grilled zucchini is easy to do, cut it into spears, spray lightly with Pam. Season with salt, pepper and any spices you like. I tend to use a spice by Penzeys called Mural of Flavor, a salt free seasoning they make. We love it and I use it often.

I roasted the squash for about 30 minutes at 400 degrees in a convection oven. I sprayed again lightly with Pam and added salt and pepper. One cup of this is one point also.