So, I decided to dust off the Hungry Girl cookbooks, and go digging for guilt-free recipes. If you've never heard of Hungry Girl, she's amazing. She takes fattening favorites and twists them into a healthier solution. For example, she has a recipe for Boneless Buffalo Wings that calls for seasoned Fiber One cereal, and as weird as that sounds, the end result is spectacular, and tastes just like the Applebees' Boneless Wings everyone loves, with a third of the calories! That recipe can be found here, and there is also a step-by-step video. If you'd like to see more recipes and maybe order a cookbook or two, visit her website. (If you haven't noticed, I just recently discovered the value of links haha)
I ended up making the Taco Dip and Buffalo Chicken Dip. Both can be served with veggies, but I just served them with tortilla chips. I found the Skinny Taco Dip recipe on Pinterest (that website consumes your life, don't ever get an account, trust me, you'll lose yourself) and the Buff Chicken Dip came from Hungry Girl. Both were crowd pleasers--actually, I'm pretty sure my sister ate half of the BCD herself, it's one of those things that can't be in front of you, it's that gooood.
This is a picture of my orange and spicy masterpiece:
For a 1/4 cup of this recipe, it's only 68 calories, and it tastes awesome with carrots and celery, as well as chips if you'd like to splurge a bit. Now, I was hesitant at first because it calls for canned chicken (similar to Tuna) and also Greek yogurt. Trust me, and just go for it. Everyone who likes spicy food loved it, and it's not overbearingly hot either. It was gone before 10:30.
This is a pic of my Skinny Taco Dip perfection:
Now, the recipe calls for olives and tomatoes, but I hate both with a passion, so I didn't add them. It also calls for one cup of shredded reduced-fat Cheddar Cheese, and I died laughing after reading that because it was literally *this* much cheese. So, I added about half more of the bag, because let's face it, cheese makes the world go round. It really does. But this recipe tastes just as good as any other full-fat Taco Dip, but only costs you about 60 calories per serving. It was practically gone before the ball dropped. Definite winner.
Winner of the Best New Years Eve 2012 Moment: My cousin Lisa. I had just poured myself a cup of Diet Icy Tea (Clover Farms trumps all) and ice, and came back into the dining room, only to hear Lisa go, "Kayla! I thought you said on your blog that you were doing all water this week!" and I was like "Yeah, well one drink on New Years--" and she goes, "But your blog said 'even on New Years especially' or something like that" and at this point, the entire room chimed in, so I gave my tea to my sister, and went back out and got water with lemon. (No one tested it for Vodka....just kidding, for those of you who don't know, I don't really drink, so that'll never be an issue). But anyway. That moment describes perfectly why I started this blog in the first place. To hold myself accountable to other people and not just myself. To have others watching out for me, to hold me at an expectation that I now have to rise up and meet.
When I write my next post, I'll be in Orlando! Harry Potter World! Excitement! I need to at least allow myself one frozen Butterbeer in the park, but just because it's vacation, doesn't mean that I have to go on a food-frenzy. I'm there to enjoy myself, to walk a lot, to laugh with Aunt Dee, Tammy, and Khrystyna, play games, see the Hogwarts castle, hopefully take a picture with a Despicable Me minion ("Whaaaaat?")...I'm not there to eat a bag of chips back at the timeshare while we watch a movie, or eat something fried by Splash Mountain.
Feel free to comment below or email me at ksta729@yahoo.com! Thanks so much for tuning in, I'll probably be posting once or twice a week. I'll get around to the Support-themed post shortly. Hope you all had a wonderful holiday, and stick to those resolutions!
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