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Christmas Coconut Supreme Cake

December 6, 2010 By Jen 1 Comment

You know me, the queen of easy recipes. The Cranberry Sierra Mist has made its grand entrance back into stores for the Holiday season. This is one drink that I so love and so excited every time it makes its way back onto grocery store shelves.

Since it was so cold this weekend, I thought I would do a little combination from a cake mix I had in the pantry and the Cranberry Sierra Mist. The final product equals a delicious Christmas Coconut Supreme Cake.

How do you make this holiday treat?

You will need:

1 box of Coconut Supreme
12 ounces of Diet Cranberry Sierra Mist
1 container of fat free whip cream

Step 1:

Pour the cake mix into a mixing bowl

Step 2.

Measure 12 ounces of Cranberry Sierra Mist

Pour the soda into the mixing bowl

Step 3:

Stir well

Step 4:

Pour into a cake pan

Step 5:

Bake according to directions on back of cake mix

Step 6:

Spread the whip cream all over the cake

Step 7:

Enjoy

The cake really is that easy and oh so delicious. According to Weight Watchers new Points Plus program, this cake is 5 points per serving. That is really not that bad for a dessert

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Quick and Easy Desserts For Dinner

October 11, 2010 By Jen 2 Comments

Fall is finally here and I love serving desserts with dinner each night. The catch is those desserts need to be low fat and easy to create since I am a busy mom. Can it be done? Let’s see!

I was in the kitchen the other night whipping up a couple pans of my Pillsbury Crescent Wow Recipe – Chicken Pot Pie and thought why not put on a couple of desserts that would go good with the pie. I looked in the pantry to see what I had and I was pretty excited to see I had the ingredients for Pumpkin Muffins and Chocolate Brownies.

Take a look and see how easy these are to make!

Pumpkin Muffins

Start with three ingredients and a muffin pan.

Mix the can of pumpkin, the boxed spice cake mix and 3 tablespoons of water into a mixing bowl. Stir well until all the dry ingredients are mixed with the pumpkin.

It is now time to dip by the tablespoonful (pumpkin mix) in the muffin pan. Make sure the pan is sprayed with PAM before you dip the pumpkin.

Bake at 350 degrees for about 15 to 20 minutes. I always insert a toothpick in to make sure the muffins are baked all the way through.

Then it is time to remove the muffin pan from the oven all the while taking in that fresh pumpkin aroma.

You are ready to serve. I have been serving with Apple Cider. Great combination!

Tip – My girls and hubby like a dollop of whip cream on top of the muffins.

Next Quick Dessert – Trader Joes Chocolate Brownies

You know I thought I was sold on the black bean brownies, but I have to tell you an even easier recipe and it even tastes better too!

All you need is 2 ingredients.

You will mix 2/3 cups of fat free vanilla yogurt and a package of Trader Joes Reduced Guilt brownie mix in a mixing bowl.

Then pour the brownie mix into a 8 x 8 dish.

Cook according to directions on the box. Very quick!

Look how delicious these look right out of the oven….

Now it is time to serve the brownies. These are gone in one sitting here at the house… just sayin!

There you have it. Two quick and easy desserts your whole family will love. They are totally delicious with the Chicken Pot Pie too. By the way… have you voted for me? You can win $5,000 you know each time you vote!

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Snacking Can Be Healthy Too

September 16, 2010 By Jen 6 Comments

I get lots of questions and emails on how I create healthy snacks for my family. Most of you all know, that I started a healthy weight loss journey this time last year. It’s still going strong and I thought I would share with you some of my ideas that I do for my family.

At the beginning of each week, I go to the grocery store or farmers market. It depends on our schedule of the weekend to which location that I go to pick up our weekly produce. I select the veggies and fruits that I know we all will eat. I come home then and begin the big divide. I pack the girls lunch everyday so I use several small containers. Each container will get a serving size of either fruits or veggies. All these containers reside on our bottom shelf all week. I then will fix up four big containers of the fruits and veggies. The big containers are used for snacks here at home and the small serving size containers are used for packed lunches every day.

It does take time on Sunday’s to do this every week, but it is worth it during the week when the girls and I can just go to the fridge open and take out a quick and easy snack. Now, we also have a wooden cabinet that sits in our dining room. This is our dry food cabinet. I will fill that cabinet up with wheat thins, veggie crackers, baked lays, fruit snacks, peanuts, graham crackers and granola bars. The girls are allowed to pick one of these snacks when they get home from school and one before they go to bed. Now notice, they can go into the fridge unlimited to get the fruits and veggies, but we do limit them on the dry snacks. For the dry snacks, they are allowed to fill a bowl half way.

That is the big thing, it is all about portion control and teaching the kids early on. Now, listen up! Do you notice what types of snacks I have? I do not have little debbie cakes, cookies, and etc sitting around. All that carb, and high fat stuff will do is cause your family to be unhealthy, so why even buy it? Do not bring it in the house and you will not be tempted to eat it! It is simple as that. Make sure you have the healthy snacks and just keep doing this process each week. You will feel better about yourself (not sluggish) and you will lose weight in the process.

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Exciting News One Moms World Opens Their Own Store

April 7, 2010 By Jen 5 Comments

I am so excited to tell you about a new feature here at One Moms World. As you all know by now, I am on a more healthy journey with my family. I often get emails on what products I use in my healthy journey. You can now shop live right here at One Moms World. All the products that I use in our healthy journey is going to be available right here in my new store. Guess what? The prices are very reasonable too!

Getting your family on a healthy journey does not have to be hard, and that is what led me to open up this store. I want to be there for you and help you launch your own journey. As we are raising our kids, we have to remember their little eyes are looking up to us. We truly are their role models, so we need to make sure the steps we are taking in life are the steps we would want our kids to take when they are adults.

I will continue to add to my store new products so keep checking back very often. We can be on this healthy journey together and help each other. If you ever have any questions, please let me know by commenting here or emailing me at jenhouck @ gmail.com.

Here’s to a more healthy journey :::cheers:::

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Weight Watchers Chicken Pot Pie

April 4, 2010 By Jen 4 Comments

Ingredients:

1 cup reduced fat Bisquick
1/2 cup skim milk
1/4 cup egg substitute
2 boxes green giant frozen boxed mixed veggies
2 cups boneless chicken (cut in small bites)
2 cans Healthy Request Cream of Chicken
Cooking spray

Steps:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F

Spray an 13 x 8 inch baking dish with Pam

Put the vegetables, chicken and soup into a mixing bowl

Mix Well

Pour into baking dish

In another bowl, mix Bisquick, milk and egg

Pour the dough mix over the top of chicken mixture in the baking dish

Bake for about 30 minutes or until crust is golden and then Enjoy. Only 4 points per serving. Remember your fist equals a serving.

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This Weeks Weight Watchers 5 Day Menu

March 28, 2010 By Jen Leave a Comment

I have a new page here at One Moms World that I will be updating each week. I have some new recipes that I am going to try in this week’s menu so make sure you stop by the new Weight Watchers Meal page to see the recipes with pictures.

Monday:

Quick and Easy Lasgna – 8 points
Salad – 2 points

Tuesday:

Chicken Pot Pie – 6 points
Applesauce – 2 points

Wednesday:

BBQ Cola Chicken – 4 points
Green Beans – 0 points
Baked Potato – 3 points

Thursday:

Deep Dish Pizza Casserole – 6 points
Breadsticks – 2 points each
Salad – 2 points

Friday:

Crockpot Italian Herb Tenderloin – 3 points
Corn on Cob – 2 points
Okra – 2 points

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Weight Watchers Meal Baked Chicken Tenders

March 22, 2010 By Jen 8 Comments

I am so trying to find new ideas for meals so I took a leap and used a couple ingredients I had here in the pantry. The ingredients included:

1. Tiger Sauce (I found this at our local grocery store)
2. McCormick Salt Free Garlic & Herb

I took a pack of fresh chicken tenders made from chicken breast. Poured the tiger sauce all over the chicken tenders, then topped that with the Salt Free Garlic & Herb all over.

4 chicken tenders = 3 points

I added the following sides:

Fresh cut cucumbers = 0 points
Bush Baked Beans = 2 points
Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce = 2 points

Total Points for Dinner Meal = 7 Points

Easy and fast meal that is so delicious!

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Day 7 Thankful for Weekly Menus

November 8, 2009 By Jen 1 Comment

I am a planner believe it or not. We do like to plan certain things even though we do just take random road trips. Today I am thankful for the weekly menus that I plan out. With my busy schedule throughout the week, it really helps me to know what I will be making for dinner that evening so I don’t have to stress about that everyday. Menu planning also helps us eat healthier as we are not just trying to throw something together last minute that may be on the unhealthy side like sandwiches and potato chips.

Here is our weekly menu for this week.

Monday:

Weight Watcher Chicken Cups
Baked Mac N Cheese
Orange Slices

Tuesday:

Herb Chicken
Cream Style Corn
Candid Sweet Potatoes

Wednesday:

Oscar Mayer Turkey Hotdogs
Tater Tots
Applesauce

Thursday:

BBQ Pork Loin
Pork Loin
1 Bottle of BBQ Sauce
12 oz. of Diet Coke
Chopped Onion
Cook on low in crockpot for 6 to 8 hours or on high for 4 hours.

Baked Beans
Baked Potato

Friday:

Pizza – Little Casears (4 points a slice)
Salad

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Weight Watchers Lose For Good Campaign

September 13, 2009 By Jen 8 Comments

As I am sure everyone knows, I am a huge Weight Watchers fan. It has helped me and continues to help me lose weight! When I heard that the Lose For Good Campaign was back for the second year, I was stoked.

Weight Watchers is teaming up with its members and online subscribers and charitable partners, Share Our Strength and Action Against Hunger, along with celebrity ambassador Jenny McCarthy, to fight hunger at a local and global level.

As Weight Watchers members lose weight from August 30th to October 17th, Weight Watchers will donate up to $1 million to help feed children and families who need it. Plus, members can participate in local food drives at Meeting locations. So for the second year in a row, losing weight and getting healthy means healthy meals for kids, stocking food banks, and helping those in need.

Here’s a link to the Lose For Good page: http://www/weightwatchers.com/loseforgood.

Last year’s Lose for Good campaign not only raised $1 million to fight hunger, but 2,000 local food drives were established, 1.5 million pounds of food was donated to those in need, and Weight Watchers members lost a total of four million pounds! In fact, the money donated from last year’s campaign saved the lives of 6,000 malnourished children in impoverished areas of the world, helped build community gardens, stock food banks and provide after school and summer meal programs for kids in the U.S.

This year, Weight Watchers aims to make the program even more successful by hosting an online social media day, Lose-A-Palooza, that lets everyone show support by getting the word out on the Web. For every mention of Lose for Good via blogs, Twitter, Facebook and MySpace on September 15, Weight Watchers will match with $1 to Share Our Strength and Action Against Hunger – up to $25,000.

Here is a video as well that will help share more about this campaign:

For more ways to participate on Lose-A-Palooza day, September 15, you can either click on “discover even more ways to do a world of good” at the link above or visit http://www.weightwatchers.com/loseapalooza

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5 Day Dinner Menu Week 1

August 2, 2009 By Jen 11 Comments

I have received several requests through email on what meals I eat throughout the week. So, each weekend I always sit down and make out my grocery list/meal plan for the week. I thought what better way to tell everyone than to share it with you all; my readers each week. I hope this will help in some ways to you all . I will be adding the total weight watcher points for each meal as well!

Monday:

Spaghetti noodles with Ragu Spaghetti Sauce and 93/7 Ground Turkey Meat
Salad (Lettuce, Tomatoes, Green Peppers and Cucumbers) & Fat Free Dressing

Total Points: 10

Tuesday:

BBQ Pork Loin
Green Beans
Yellow Rice
Applesauce

Total Points: 8

Wednesday:

Turkey (Fat Free) Hotdog with White Wheat Bun, Mustard, Chili
French Fries
Fresh Blueberries

Total Points: 7 – Each additional Hotdog is 2 points

Thursday:

Pork Roast with basil, oregano, minced onion, worcestershire sauce and 12 oz of diet coke. (I pour all these ingredients on the roast and cook in crockpot for 4 hours on high or 8 hours on low)
Baked Potato
Fresh Cucumbers

Total Points: 7

Friday:

Chicken Breast Boneless with Lemon Juice
Corn on Cob
Baked Beans
Fresh Strawberries

Total Points: 8