Good Friday, Earth Day and long blog

Since I'm off work today (yay working for a family-owned news station instead of a corporate-owned one!), I'm enjoying the day and catching up on belated housework. I have a LONG list of to-do cleaning items, so I'm effectively procrastinating by blogging. :)

First of all, my friend Dr. Attapol Kuanliang (professor of Criminal Justice at ULM) is on a flight AS I TYPE, right now, with President Jimmy Carter! Here is the pic he texted me:

Isn't that cool? Attapol said he's seated in the first class and the President is there. He says he almost cried when he shook hands with him and he can't stop looking at him, so the Secret Service agents are looking at him funny now.

Anyway, I have a ton of food pictures/recipes to post, so let's get started. Oh, by the way, I'm down another pound. That makes 9 pounds gone in 9 days!

For breakfast, I made Medifast Caramel Chocolate Chip Pancakes. All I did was make the regular Chocolate Chip Pancakes according to the boxed instructions, and topped it with Walden Farms Calorie-free Caramel Sauce and Walden Farms Calorie-Free Pancake Syrup (if you haven't started using Walden Farms Calorie-Free products yet, YOU NEED TO START RIGHT NOW!!!), as well as some I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spray.

That's what it takes to make them oh-so-delicious. It's the extras that really MAKE the dish delish!




Sometimes, when I'm feeling particularly indulgent, I'll add a squirt of Fat-Free Redi-Whip on that. That feels like I'm cheating, but I'm not! Here is the final product, half-eaten:

Sorry it's almost all gone, haha!

Another fun recipe I tried today... Medifast CANDY! Yup, good old candy.



Ingredients:                                                                                                 

--one packet Medifast Hot Cocoa
--3 tbs. Walden Farms Calorie-Free Pancake Syrup   

Mix the two ingredients together and put them on parchment paper (although I sprayed a metal pan with non-stick spray). Freeze for 1-2 hours.

I froze them for too long, so I had to microwave them for a few seconds so they'd be edible. They were good!

I also made a honey bun recipe. It was OK, but I wouldn't recommend it. It came out hard, and I like my baked goods to be soft and chewy. Maybe I baked them too long, but the flavor wasn't enough to entice me to try a second batch.

Tonight, I plan on having a crab salad for dinner. :)

I'm trying to post on YouTube a video I slaved over yesterday... a cooking video of me showing how I make 350-calorie Shrimp Fettucini Alfredo using Miracle Noodles. It's a Medifast Lean and Green. Hopefully I can get it to work and upload today, so I can post it to this blog!

Hope everyone is having a great Good Friday and Earth Day!