Micky... this is the recipe I used for the Applesauce Fluff, I just substitue the Applesauce for the pineapple, put Maple extract in place of the coconut extract, added 1 teaspoon of cinnamon. Put the extract in a measuring cup and add water to it to make 1 cup of water.(This is the water you mix in with the dry milk and beat)
Yesterday I made it with just the coconut extract, 1 oz. of real coconut and some vanilla extract. 1 piece was 70 calories and that's a big piece. (1/8 of a oblong cake pan.)DH put his over a piece of butter cake with cool whip, I put my old standard on it, FF Cool whip and Fiber One.
P.S. Be sure to always add the fruit, pumpkin, etc last. That has to be folded in after it doubles/triples in volume or the recipe will flop!





Pineapple Fluff (8 servings @ 80 calories each)
Put can of Pineapple and dry milk in refrigerator night before to chill. Put large bowl and beaters in freezer night before. Make the Knox mixture 1st and chill it down slightly so it doesn't heat up the other ingredients.
20 oz. can crushed Pineapple
1 1/3 cup dry milk (92 grams)
2/3 cup Bulk Splenda
1 tsp. Coconut Extract
2 packages unflavored Gelatin (Knox)
Soften Knox in ½ cup cold water, add ½ cup boiling water and mix until dissolved. Set aside.
Drain Pineapple, set aside (fold in last)
Reserve juice in measuring cup, add water to make one cup if necessary.
In a large bowl mix juice, Splenda and coconut extract on low 1 minute or until it stops splattering. Turn up mixer on high and beat until foamy, adding Knox mixture a little at a time. Beat until doubled in size or top of bowl. ( 5-7 minutes, can take longer if it’s not cold enough)
Fold in drained pineapple and spread out in a 7x 9 covered container. Refrigerate until set.
You can make all kinds of flavors:
Cup of left-over coffee and unsweetened cocoa
Almond Extract and unsweetened cocoa
Lemon extract/juice
Applesauce and Maple extract/cinnamon
Pumpkin and Pumpkin pie spices

For tomorrow -

Exercise - 30 min cardio & 30 min weights
Fun - Hmmm - maybe I'll go buy a jigsaw puzzle & round up some of the folks in the condo to do the puzzle
Food -
Breakfast:
1 egg, 1 sl Canadian bacon, 1 sl whole wheat toast, fruit
Lunch: Cabbage soup w turkey, grilled cheese sandwich
Snack: Apple
Dinner: Chicken, mushrooms, onions, ww pasta
Snack: Lt Yogurt w peanut butter & Splenda

Lynn

Hello Golden ladies.....
I'm a bit wet, but I have survived the night....I guess. There were tornadoes to the left and to the right, in back and in front....but other than a lot of flooding and high winds, everything survived.......I guess. Several of the out buildings are flooded, I had to rescue the lawn mower....it was in knee deep water, and move it to higher ground. All in all...considering what some others in the midwest went through, we had it pretty good. But the water continues to rise, and more rain expected tonight.

Diet remains the same, about 800 calories....not much you can eat at that amt of calories. Looks like trying to stay under 1200 calories doesn't leave much room for very much excitment.

Yesterday & today: 60 ounces fluids, 4 ounces turkey, green beans, and 3 program meals.

Exercise: Yesterday: 30 min on recumbant cross trainer....12 hours worrying
Exercise: Today: 35 Min. recumbant cross trainer....40 min. walking

Exercise totals for last week: 6 hours 25 min. Hope to do as well this week.

to all

Breakfast: Slimfast Optima Milk Chocolate Shake

Lunch: Slimfast Optima French Vanilla Shake with 1 cup of Strawberries in it--- Strawberry shake --YUMMY!!!

Dinner: Grilled Chicken Breast, tossed salad with fat free creamy ranch dressing

Exercise: 400 crunches on the Ab Lounge

Fun: Made more bread and also Peanut Butter Cookies for the dogs!!

End Date: July 4th

Today's plan:

B-
Oatmeal
1T Splenda brown sugar
Splash of 1 % milk

S-
Orange

L-
Chicken fajita leftovers
WW tortilla

S- Grapes

D-
Pork chops on the grill
corn on the cob
baked potato
salad

S-
Watermelon

Exercise-
Walking 30 minutes
Gardening

Fun-
Gardening
Reading about gardening
Watching Dancing with the Stars

Sunday's Journal
Calories... 1,068
Fiber... 53 grams
Water... 8 glasses of 8 oz (hard to get my water in on Sundays, we're gone most of the day, I had to chug 4 glasses of this)
Exercise... Strength unit at Fitness Center
Fun... Sunday's are always fun, it's our"Sunday go to meetin' day" with family and friends. We planned our dad's 93rd birthday party.

Menu

Breakfast:
Vitamins/Fish Oil (I always include this since I'm spending 60 calories)
Fiber One, dry

Snack: Coconut Fluff w/Fiber One and FF Cool whip

Lunch:
Large Salad with Sesame Ginger dressing and Crab meat

Snack: Oreo Crisp (100 calories pack)

Supper:
BQ Ribs
Cooked Cabbage (lots of it)
Skim milk

Evening snack: Coconut Fluff w/Fiber One and FF Cool whip
(I skip my popcorn on Sunday nights because I weigh in on Monday morning and I don't want the water retention from salty popcorn)My calories would have been closer to my 1200 calorie goal if I had it.

Have a great day, Bobbi

Awwwww. I missed yesterday!!!!

Well, here's what I ate:

Breakfast: Fiber One cereal, skim milk, a sliced banana and half a cup of sliced fresh strawberries.

Lunch/Dinner: Roasted chicken breast, no skin; a half a baked potato w/skin; green beans & about a tablespoonful of cranberry sauce.

Evening snack: Fiber One cereal....same as breakfast, actually.

Exercise: 30 minute bike ride w/DD

Fun: 30 minute bike ride w/DD (Glad your butt didn't hurt when you rode, Joanne; DD said hers didn't either! Mine hurt until I rode for about the third time, and I even have those gel seats!!! What's wrong with MY butt?????)

TODAY

Running late this AM, no time to make lunch or eat breakfast. I poured some dry Fiber One in a baggie, grabbed a banana and an orange. Meant to throw in a packet of popcorn and didn't even do that! Sooooooo....

Breakfast:

dry Fiber One cereal, a banana

Lunch: an orange

Supper: Leftover chicken from yesterday's lunch/dinner, prolly more green beans, too.

Snack: Popcorn, most likely.

Exercise: 30 minute bike ride after work

Fun: Chatting w/DH, maybe doing a little more of the painting in the spare bathroom.

Have a great day, all!!! (That snow sure is pretty, Karen....the picture would make a nice post card. But in MAY? Now, that's downright unnatural, isn't it?)

TTFN,

Ella

Breakfast: Oatmeal, Whole Wheat toast (1 slice) It was cold this morning and oatmeal sounded great!!

Lunch: Slimfast Optima Meal On The Go Bar

Dinner: Lean Cuisine French Bread Deluxe Pizza

Exercise: 400 Crunches on the Ab Lounge -- I need to start walking again!!

Fun: Made more bread and also made oatmeal cookies for Tim to have on our trip.

Good Morning!
Monday's Journal
Calories... 1,206
Fiber... 47 grams
Water... 80 oz.
Exercise... Putted in the kitchen most of the day, tended chickens
Fun? Got chewed out by my DD because I'm closed minded and a Baptist. Heres the deal, my birthday is coming up and she wants to buy for my birthday present an appointment about getting my body tested with some machine that tells you what your body is missing. I can't remember what it's called, some natural holistic electroid durmal screening or something like that. I told her I didn't want to do it, I am perfectly healthy. That's when I was told modern medicines were all drugs, I was closed minded and a Baptist. I didn't know all Baptist were cloned together in the close minded group. Anybody heard of this type of screening?

Breakfast: Vitamins/Fish Oils
Fiber One, dry

Cinnamon French Toast
3 slices low cal bread
2 egg whites
vanilla
cinnamon
2 T. Vanilla soy milk
SF/FF syrup

Lunch: (wasn't hungry, too big of a breakfast)
4 oz. turkey breast
Apple

Snack: Pumpkin Dessert with SF Cool whip and Fiber One

Supper:
4 oz. Elk Burger w/Salsa
Low cal whole wheat bun
large veggie salad
Sesame Ginger Dressing

Evening Snack:
Kettle corn (100 cal)
skim milk
1/2 serving almonds

Back from our trip and have lost the 1 1/2 lbs. I put on so off to a good start this week.

Yesterday (Monday)

B. Cinnimon Toast and peaches
S. lite cheese stick
L. Ck. noodle soup, 6 low fat crackers, 1T peanut butter
S. 10 wheat thins with 1 cube laughing cow cheese
D. 3oz. grilled chicken breast, 1/4 flavored noodles, green beans
S. 1 handful of thin pretzels
WATER, WATER, WATER
Exercise - 1mile walking dvd
Fun - caught up on all my computer groups!

Tues.

B. Cin. Toast, peaches
S. 1 lite cheese stick
L. Turkey, 1 slice bread, low fat cheese, onion, pickles...about 10 low fat wheat thins
S. Apple
D. Roast Pork, 1/4 cup mashed potatoes & a bit of gravey, veggies (eating at the Elks so not really sure)
WATER WATER WATER

Exercise: 1 mile walking DVD
Fun: Eating dinner with several friends tonight.....

Phyllis

Okaaaayyyy!!!! And for TODAY'S magnificent menu <drum roll>
We have for BREAKFAST...

A BIG surprise! Fiber One cereal, a sliced banana, a quarter cup of skim milk. What? You say I have that EVERY morning???? Not true! Not true! SOME mornings I have berries or strawberries along WITH the sliced banana! Nobody can say that I'm in a rut, here!!!!

Water*Water*Water*Water*Water

Okay, and for LUNCH...

One multi-grain tortilla
One scoop of home-made chicken salad made from chicken breast meat, dice celery and low-fat Miracle Whip.
@ 2 cups of Reddenbacher "Smart Pop" @ 15 calories per cup.
WATER

SNACK...
MAYBE an orange

SUPPER...

Wheat pasta w/Smart Choice tomato sauce, chopped onions & peppers, 1 can diced tomatoes, sliced black olives. Small tossed salad with Asian Silk spray-on dressing.

EVENING SNACK...
MAYBE some popcorn. Maybe not.

EXERCISE...
30 minute bike ride

FUN...
Chatting w/DH, taking a long, luxurious bath with my Bath & BodyWorks bath oils and lotion. Reading for a while - "Her Mother's Daughter", a book by a well-known feminist author (same one who wrote "The Women's Room" - I disremember her name...old, doncha know?) And, sinking into my big, soft - but not too soft -bed.

Have agreat day, all! Keep up the good work!

Ella

Congrats on the weight loss Phyllis.

Today:
B
Oatmeal
1T Splenda brown sugar
Splash of 1% milk
small glass OJ

S
Banana

L
Leftovers:
a little grilled pork chop ( about 1/4 of a thick cut chop
1/2 baked potato
1/2 ear corn
Garden salad

S
Yogurt

D
Leftover Olive Garden
Potato crusted chicken
pasta
garden salad

S
Strawberries
1 Hostess shortcake
lite cool whip

Exercise:
30 minute walk
moving Rose Of Sharon cutting to wood pile

Fun:
Enjoying the outdoors and watching my TV shows tonight. ( Dancing with the Stars... Go Apollo and American Idol...Go Blake)