Oatmeal Waffles

Oatmeal Waffles

2 c. evaporated skim milk

2 tbsp. vinegar

2 c. whole grain oats

2 eggs, separated

2 1/2 tsp. baking powder

6 tbsp. canola oil

1/3 c. whole wheat flour

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

Mix milk, vinegar and rolled oats. Soak overnight in cold place.

Add egg yolks. Beat. Add oil. Stir in flour sifted with soda, baking powder, and salt.

Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites.

Pour batter into a waffle iron.

Makes about 16 waffles.

I know that the whole wheat flour is not Core but if your recipe makes 16 waffles, you can eat up to 4 waffles and still be at 0 points. 5 will put you over the edge to 1 whole point. I find that a serving of 2 waffles is perfect. They freeze well. Just microwave for 45 sec and pop in the toaster if you like them crisp.

Soaking the oatmeal overnight really breaks it down so that they have a texture close to a regular waffle. You can probably substitute applesauce for at least some of the oil, if not all of it, but I haven't tried it yet. It is a good way to get in your healthy oil. Each waffle would have about 1 t of oil in it if made with the recipe above.

Both my toddler and my husband love these. They are a tough crowd to please, especially my husband. Hope you like them too!

What I Ate for Breakfast

So healthy, right?

Well it was delicious.

I love pumpkin pie and pumpkin muffins, pumpkin smoothies, pumpkin everything!

Hot cocoa is such a treat, especially for breakfast.

So how did I justify eating this?

This is how.

Pumpkin Pie:

I was reading on Hungry Girl some new ideas for spicing up oatmeal. She had some great ideas for add-ins. One of them was canned pumpkin along with some pumpkin pie spice. I have been dying to try it. This morning I gave it a try. So delicious. Like warm pumpkin pie. So much better than plain old oatmeal. I gave my daughter a taste and she loved it too so I made her a bowl too. It is only 40 calories and 4 g of fiber in 1/2 c. I used about half that much.

Hot Cocoa:

I am not a big milk drinker so I am always looking for good ideas for meeting my daily milk guideline. I have tried the diet cocoa and have not been that happy with them. Very watery. Las night I had planned to have 1 c of milk for a snack and just didn't find it appealing. I decided to heat up the milk and stir in a packet of the diet cocoa mix. Just 25 additional calories and it doesn't up the points, still only 2. So creamy and delicious and felt like it was so much more than it actually was. Try it! You will be in love.

Lasagna

A few weeks ago, I bought the ingredients for lasagna. I was planning on making some sort of casserole dish for a friend who had a death in the family and I bought enough to make it for us too. I splurged on the ingredients because I was making it for someone else. For example, 4% cottage cheese, regular spaghetti sauce and a big bag of cheese. I had taken one of her pyrex dishes while she was away to the funeral with the intention of returning it full. Well with the holidays and getting back into my old schedule, I thought that it was a good time to return it. I also had another friend that was recently in a bad car accident and could do with someone else taking care of dinner for the night. With that, I decided that I should make a double batch of lasagne and split it between the three families. One large, and two smaller. based on the family sizes.

We delivered the two other pans, one piping hot with all the fixings and rocky road brownies (Mmmm, so glad they were made in a pan to give away so I couldn't sneak one) and the other ready to freeze. We can home and threw ours in the oven. An hour later, it was hot and ready to eat. I served it with french bread brushed with olive oil and spinked with garlic and parsley and a green salad with Italian dressing. The dinner was so delicious and satisfying. My husband loved the lasagne and said that it was the best I ever made. Our dish had 4 servings in it and he ate 2 1/2 of those. I had one and the baby had the other half. It is unusual for him to eat that much. Also, in the past we both would have eaten half of the casserole dish. It felt wonderful to enjoy the dinner and not be so stuffed that I felt sick. It was the perfect amount.

In reading WW materials, I came across something that said that lasagna is one of those high point favorites that should be eaten sparingly. Luckily, I planned my day around it and so the points weren't a problem. It calculated out to 8 in the recipe builder. The dinner was only 11 all together. I could bring that down to 6 for the lasagna with a few adjustments such as lowfat cottage cheese, fat-free pasta sauce, and ground turkey breast instead of regular turkey breast. I am not willing to put in fat free cheese. There is something so wrong with it for me. I think that it squeeks like rubber when melted and chewed. Yuck! That serving size is 1/9 of a 9 x 13 pan which is a generous serving.

It was nice to have an old favorite. I don't feel like I am missing out on anything.

Speaking of not missing out, I am off to have my ice cream bar. Mmmm, Cookies & Cream.