About The Recipe Sub-Forum: Please Read!

[aphil]

Hello everyone,

There have been a lot of postings of many different recipes that can be used as part of the LA Weight Loss plan-but up until now, keeping things organized and making it easy to find has been the challenge. The biggest complaint was that the recipes in threads were too hard to find-because you had to search through pages of general chatting to get to them, and then they were not in any particular order.

The new format is as follows:

Recipes are being separated by category, edited, and are being placed in "Sticky" threads. These threads are for recipes ONLY-not for chatting about making it for an upcoming event, or how good it was, etc. ;) I am closing the Sticky Threads to all comments, so that the recipes will no longer be bogged down with that chat-and they will stay easy to find.

Feel free to start a regular thread in a particular category if you have a question about a particular recipe in that section, or you are searching for a particular recipe, want to discuss how a recipe you tried tasted, etc . They will just be in a regular thread on their own-while the recipes themselves will stay uncluttered in the categorized Sticky threads.

If members have a recipe that they would like to be added to the Sticky recipe logs-please pm the recipe to me, or post the recipe as a regular thread here and I would be glad to add it to the Sticky recipe log for you.

Keep up the wonderful work-I plan on trying a few of your recipes myself. :D

Aphil

[Joni135]

Aphil - this was on Hungry Girl site this morning...sounds yummy!

Apple Pie Pockets

LAWL - 1S, 1F
(1 pita-half pie - 139 calories, < 0.5g fat, 207mg sodium, 35g carbs, 5.8g fiber, 16.5g sugars, 3.5g protein = 2 Points)

Ooey-good apple madness!



Ingredients:

4 apples; sliced and peeled

One half tsp. vanilla extract

1 tbsp. brown sugar substitute (or any calorie-free sweetener)

One half tsp. cinnamon

2 tsp. cornstarch

2 Western Bagel Alternative Pitas (*or any reduced-calorie pitas); halved



Directions:

In a small covered saucepan, cook sliced and peeled apples in 1/4 cup of water until tender (2-3 minutes). Remove from heat and drain water. Into 1/4 cup of COLD water, mix vanilla, no-cal sweetener, cinnamon and cornstarch. Cook and stir until thickened to a caramel-sauce-like consistency (adding a few drops more water if it gets too thick). Remove from heat and stir apples into mixture. Stuff 4 warm pita halves (30 seconds in the microwave should do it) with mixture. Serves 4.



*Nutritionals may vary if you use a different type of pita.