However, you should know that a jar of my beloved namesake sits upon the shelf of our fridge ready to lend its sodium-riddled cheezy goodness to a series of recipes that I will present to you soon. That's right, baby--Cheez Whiz!
After Monday's Spinach Smoothie craziness, I needed something to cleanse the palate, and the first in a series was born. I don't want to spoil the surprise, but I will say that it was good, y'all.
Since I'm trying to keep things light on the waistline and the budget around here, I've decided to milk my precious jar of Cheez Whiz for all that it is worth. I plan to get at least three, but hopefully four or five good dishes out of that sacred jar without compromising any of its store-bought cheezy goodness. Without that goal in mind, I would be far too tempted to plop down on the couch with the jar and a bag of tortilla chips and just call it a day.
So now that I've got us all hot and heavy for some corn chips and oh-so-processed cheeez, here's another fresh and healthy snack for you. This will provide two fruit servings, and third of a milk serving. You can hardly contain yourself, can you?
You will need:
One cup blueberries. I most often use frozen berries that I zap for a few seconds to thaw in the microwave, but I scored some fresh berries at a reasonable price last week. Fresh berries make this a lot more fun to present and photograph, by the way.
1/3 cup vanilla yogurt. I stopped buying vanilla yogurt once I realized that I could make my own with the sweetener of my choice. So now, I buy a container of plain nonfat yogurt and flavor it with a couple teaspoons of vanilla extract, a few shakes of cinnamon, and either sugar or xylitol to taste.
1/4 c Kashi GoLean Crunch Cereal. To be completely honest, good old fashioned granola would be better, but Kashi is very Points(tm) friendly (i.e. it has enough fiber to ensure victory in a gas war, if you know what I mean).
I don't usually get all fancy with my blueberries and yogurt--I usually just throw it all into a bowl and start chowing--but I thought I'd dress it up a little for you:
Estimated Nutritional Data* per serving, prepared with nonfat yogurt sweetened with sugar or Xylitol: 191 calories, 1g fat, 0mg cholesterol, 102mg sodium, 44g carbohydrates, 6g fiber, 31g sugars, 7g protein.
*Nutritional data derived from www.nutritiondata.com.
2 comments:
That looks yummy.
How do you make your own yogurt?
After a misguided attempt to put more soy into my diet and trying to eat more healthy cereals, I renamed Kashi's "Go Lean" Crunch cereal, "Go Fart, Go Poop" because that is what it did to me. Soy bad for this mama's colon. That being said, I bet it would be good with another cereal. Honey Bunches of Oats, perhaps...But it looks lovely.
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