Crock Pot Lima Bean Soup

Crock Pot
Lima Bean Soup
6 servings @ 8 each
Cornbread Muffins
1 muffin @ 3 each
Sliced Strawberries
½ cup @ 0 each
12 oz dried baby lima beans
1 onion, diced
1 ½ c diced carrots
2 c diced red potatoes
14 oz smoked turkey sausage, thin sliced
3 c FF beef broth
(1 t minced garlic, 1 t salt, ¼ t pepper,
1 t dried oregano, 3 c water, 1 bay leaf)
1 bag Betty Crocker cornbread & muffin mix
3 c sliced strawberries
Soak beans overnight; drain & rinse again.
Combine all ingredients in crock pot. Cook on
low for 8 – 9 hours. Remove bay leaf. Use a
potato masher; mash some of the beans &
potatoes. Stir well. Divide into 6 servings.
Bake cornbread as directed. Makes 6
muffins.
Serve strawberries on the side.

Happy Holidays everyone!! Just a reminder all WW centers / travelers etc will be closed tomorrow = 12/25. ♥

meeting topic for the week

Our meeting topic for the week is: Your Get-Moving Goal.

  
Chocolate Chip Meringue Cookies

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Prep time:  8 min
Cook time:  120 min
Serves: 24
These cookies are the perfect combination of vanilla and chocolate. If you prefer chewy meringues, make them the day before you plan to eat them.
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Ingredients
1 spray(s) cooking spray  
1 tsp all-purpose flour  
      4 large egg white(s)  
1 cup(s) sugar  
1/2 cup(s) mini chocolate chips, semi-sweet  
1/2 tsp vanilla extract  
Instructions
Preheat oven to 200ºF.

Coat a large baking sheet with cooking spray; coat with a light dusting of flour and shake off excess.

In a large mixing bowl, beat egg whites with an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar and beat until stiff, glossy peaks form; gently fold in chocolate and vanilla extract.

Drop mixture by heaping tablespoons onto prepared baking sheet about 1 inch apart, making 24 cookies.

Bake until lightly golden and no longer sticky on the surface, about 1 hour. Turn oven off and let cookies sit in oven for 1 hour. Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely. Yields 1 cookie per serving.

Mini Brownie Cupcakes

Weight Watchers Recipe

Ratings (273)
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Prep time:  7 min
Cook time:  15 min
Serves: 36
Just the right amount of chocolate! Serve these as pictured or top with light whipped topping and sprinkles or fresh fruit.
Ingredients
21 oz regular brownie dry mix  
1/2 cup(s) water  
      1/2 cup(s) unsweetened applesauce  
      2 large egg white(s), lightly beaten  
1 Tbsp powdered sugar  
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350ºF. Line 36 mini muffin tin holes with mini cupcake wrappers.

In a large mixing bowl, combine brownie mix, water, applesauce and egg whites. Mix 50 times with a wooden spoon (use 50 strokes); do not under or over mix. Pour brownie mixture into prepared muffin tins, about 1 tablespoon per hole.

Bake cupcakes until a tester inserted in center of a cupcake comes out clean, about 12 to 15 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely; remove cupcakes from pan. Before serving, dust with powdered sugar. Yields 1 cupcake per serving.

 

Adjusting your PointsPlus® Budget in the Plan Manager Your Leader will have told you about some new ways to make the PointsPlus program even more flexible. Find out how you can make these changes in the Plan Manager. Article By: Elly Trickett McNerney We’ve always prided ourselves on providing a flexible and livable weight-loss program. But recently we’ve added some new features that we feel really take the program to the next level of flexibility, including the ability to adjust your daily PointsPlus Target if you need to. We’ve also made changes to the Plan Manager Settings that allow you to do this, plus choose how you swap your earned activity PointsPlus values (or not to swap them at all) and how much of your weekly PointsPlus Allowance to use. All this can add up to more ways to help control your weight-loss progress, or your success in Maintenance, and more ways to make the Plan right for you. Not everyone will need to make any of the available tweaks, of course. Talk to your Leader to find out more about the changes that are possible, and once you have decided together which, if any, are right for you, this article will explain how to make them in your Plan Manager. If your daily PointsPlus Target was lowered for you First things first: Some people have found that their daily PointsPlus Target has been lowered. If you are one of these people, your Receptionist or Leader will have explained why. You will also have learned that a new plan feature for PointsPlus 2012 is that the daily Target is flexible. If, in talking to your Leader, you decide that you were happy with your weight loss or maintenance with a higher number, then you can adjust your settings here. Lowering your budget Every now and then it can become necessary to make some tangible changes to the way you use PointsPlus values. We’ve always given members the flexibility to choose how (or even whether) to swap activity PointsPlus values for food, and to choose how much of their weekly PointsPlus Allowance to use. We’ve now added features in the Plan Manager that will make it easier for you to keep track of these choices. In the Settings panel you can now: Change the way you swap your activity PointsPlus values, from weekly (they roll over day to day), to daily (use them or lose them!) — or vice versa. Choose not to swap your activity PointsPlus values for food at all Play with your weekly PointsPlus Allowance, experimenting with using fewer than the full 49 Draw first from your activity PointsPlus values rather than from your weekly PointsPlus Allowance when you go over your daily PointsPlus Target If you’re losing weight too quickly Remember, a safe rate of weight loss is between .5 and 2 pounds per week. If you’re consistently losing more than an average of 2 pounds a week even while using your weekly PointsPlus Allowance and/or any activity PointsPlus values you may be earning, your Leader may advise you that you might want to increase your daily PointsPlus Target. Again, you can do this in the Plan Manager Settings. Going into Maintenance It doesn’t take a huge leap of logic to figure out that you’re going to need to add a few PointsPlus values to your day to move out of weight-loss mode and into Maintenance. You’ll need to do this when you’ve reached your Goal, plus you may choose to do this during a particularly tricky time (a vacation, say) when you’re OK with maintaining your weight rather than losing. The default increase for going into Maintenance is to add 6 PointsPlus values per day, but you may find that’s too many or, even, not enough. In Maintenance, it may take you a little while to stabilize your weight. If your weight goes up, or down, by more than 1 pound in a week, ask your Leader for tips on how to adjust your Target accordingly. You can do this in your Plan Manager Settings.

There Are No Shortcuts
Miracle diets, pills and potions are mere shortcuts that will lead you to a dead end. If a healthy body is aimed, you have to work for it. You have to earn it.
People have problem areas. Even people, who have achieved their ideal body weight, will still have problem areas. It could be the love handles, the flabby arms, the sagging skin or the hips. Then you will find the market offering all sorts of products, from creams and applications to get rid of the fats to gadgets and machines to tone the arms, thighs or the abs. Don't waste your money.
Bottom Line.... Consistent daily effort and making healthier Choices, and having a workout plan will get you and keep you where you want to be and help you look younger too. Who doesn't want that?

Savory Balsamic Chicken

Savory Balsamic
Chicken
6 servings @ 5 each
Carrot & Apple Casserole
6 servings @ 4 each
1 ½ lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts
(1/3 c AP flour, 2 T butter-divided, 1 T veg. oil,
½ c Worcestershire, 1 ½ T balsamic vinegar)
1 ½ c low sodium chicken broth
16 oz bag sliced carrots
2 large Gala or Fuji apples, thin sliced
(¼ c sugar, ¼ c brown sugar, 1 t cinnamon,
2 T light butter)
Season chicken w/ salt & pepper, & flour.
Heat 1 T butter & oil in large skillet; cook chicken
until browned & done. Remove chicken. Add
remaining ingredients to skillet; bring to low boil;
cook 5 min. Pour sauce over chicken.
Boil carrots in water for 3 min; drain. Combine
carrots & apples into a sprayed 8 x 8 baking
dish. Top w/ sugars & cinnamon. Dot with
butter. Bake 45 min @ 325.

Be sure to come into your meeting rooms this week for the topic of : A powerful option!

   Come to your meeting:
        Learn more: Pick up your new Meet PointsPlus 2012 booklet
        Recharge your efforts: Stay for a PowerStart® Session with a new
PowerStart tracker filled with a week’s worth of preTracked meals.
        Learn ways to personalize your plan: Options for greater flexibility.
        New weekly PointsPlus activity goal: To help you move more.
Check out our site and see what’s new:
        New site design: Find what’s relevant to you, faster
Coming Soon:
        New tools: Calculate and track at the grocery store with the new
Barcode scanner app

next weeks meeting topic

Be sure to come in tomorrow to find out al about: Your new flexible Daily points target!

one glass of beer or wine can contain close to 100 calories. If you're having a couple of drinks with your pals a few nights a week, you could be adding 1,000 unexpected calories to your diet.

"You can have anything you want if you want it badly
enough. You can be anything you want to be, do
anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that
desire with singleness of purpose." - Abraham Lincoln