Popsicles Strawberry Cream Pops

Strawberry Cream Pops
Serves 6, 55 calories each with sugar, 33 calories with Splenda
2 cups fresh or frozen strawberries
1 cup plain sugar free yoghurt
1/4 cup sugar or Splenda
Pour strawberries in blender. Process until pureed. Add yoghurt and sugar, Blend. Pour in cups or mold. Freeze. Add stick when almost frozen solid.

Cool Summer Treats

Hot summer weather is here, so thought I'd pass along some low calorie treats to help cool things a bit.

Frozen Chocolate Cream Treats
Makes 6 servings
70 calories using instant pudding
23 calories each with sugar free pudding mix

1 pkg Chocolate Instant Pudding mix
2 cups 1% milk

Mix well. Pour into pop molds or paper cups.
Freeze. Insert wooden stick when the popsare almost done.


Raspberry Pops
6 servings, 25 calories each

1/2 cup raspberries
1 1/2 cup plain low fat yoghurt
3/4 cups water

Mix well, pour into molds and freeze. Add stick when almost frozen solid.

Meatballs and Gravy 26 calories per meatball

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 Sunday Night Dinner

It's very difficult to have beef and not have too many calories. Here's how I made the meatballs. Very easy, they turned out delicious. A little difficult to do this by the pound or kilogram, so will do it with the amounts I had.

Meatballs and Gravy
24 calories per 1 in meatball, Gravy(below) add a few calories more.
1.3 lbs of extra lean ground beef
7 crackers
1/2 onion chopped fine
enough water to moisten the crackers
1 tsp dill weed
a few drops hot sauce
( Vary the spices as you like. )
Add cracker and spices to bowl, moisten with water. Add meat and mix well. Make one inch meatballs, this should make a little over 40 meatballs. Place on cookie sheet lined with foil and spray with cooking oil. Bake a 400 for about ten minutes or until done. Make the gravy and put meatballs in gravy and let simmer for a few minutes.
Gravy
I used Bisto. Much less calories then regular gravy. I did not use any of the fat from drippings. Used 1 tbsp bisto for 1 cups water. Adds one or two calories to each meatball. ( about 45 calories in all for the gravy)

Spaghetti Sauce

Spaghetti Sauce

Here's the Spaghetti Sauce I made today. Delicious! Makes 8 cup, 59 calories per cup, traditional from 150 to 200 calories per cup

1 28 oz can tomatoes
2 tbsp tomato sauce
3 oz extra lean ground beef1 medium green pepper chopped
1 medium red pepper chopped
1 cup mushrooms sliced
1 onion chopped
2 cloves garlic chopped
2 medium carrots sliced thin
2 tsp italian spice
few drops hot sauce
Cook meat and onions then add all the other ingredients. Cook until vegetables are tender.
I cup of cooked spaghetti is 170 calories, and it seems I can never stop at one cup. So to night I also cooked half a small spaghetti squash. Placed it on the plate with the spaghetti. Very good and very filling!

I find that I don't need a lot of meat in a spaghetti sauce. A little doesn't seem to affect the taste that much. The other trick is to add a lot of vegetables. The carrots are especially nice, they add sweetness, so I don't need to add sugar. Vary vegetables and spices. I usually add a tsp of oregano, 1/2 tsp of basil and a bay leaf, but today just added the italian spice.