Showing posts with label homemade and healthy meals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homemade and healthy meals. Show all posts

Monday, April 30, 2012

Last Night's Dessert: No Bake Nutella Cheesecake


I decided to try this last night, and I'm glad I did! The entire family loved it!

The original recipe can found here, you will need to read these. The directions on that site said to separate into cups or bowls, but I chose to make mine in a pie plate.

The ingredients I swapped are as follows:

1. Instead of Oreo cookies for the crust, I chose to mix graham cracker crumbs (much healthier than Oreo cookies) with the unsalted butter. I didn't really measure the crumbs, just mixed until I was happy with the crust texture.
2. I used fat free cream cheese (not really swapped, but chose the healthier one).
3.  I used fat free frozen whipped topping for the mixture and the garnish (not really swapped, but chose the healthier one).
4. I used chocolate flavored almond bark for the garnish, instead of regular chocolate (I figured that was healthier).
5. I couldn't find hazelnuts in our stores around here, so I swapped them for pecans.

P.S. I don't have a pie server (not yet anyways), so I had to use a stainless steel spoon, but if you use this recipe, I strongly recommend using a pie server. It will be much easier to loosen the graham cracker crust from the bottom.

Monday, April 23, 2012

Practically Guilt Free - No Bake Pizza

Kids and I just made this for our supper, twas delicious!!!

Ingredients include 8oz. low fat or fat free flavored cream cheese, 1 cup low fat or fat free sour cream, 1 whole wheat Italian pizza shell, 1 (12 to 12.5 oz) can drained grilled chicken, chopped yellow, green, red, and orange bell pepper, chopped baby carrots (optional), chopped red onion (optional), and quartered cherry tomatoes. (I didn't measure the veggies, just filled the pizza up to our liking), and 1 cup bacon toppings.

Directions: Mix cream cheese and sour cream together, well. Spread mixture evenly over pizza shell. Top pizza with chicken and veggies, then sprinkle the bacon over the pizza.