Life, Family, and Home - Simplified & Sweetened
This week I’m sharing some lean grilling tips. One super easy way to go lean is with turkey burgers. I recently bought box of Jennie-O Turkey Burgers. These are found in your grocer’s freezer. They come pre-patted and pre-flavored, and they only take 7 to 9 minutes to cook on each side. Excellent!
And if you’re like me and can’t stand the heat, these are terrific on the George Foreman Grill!
Today I’m excited to have Dorothy from Crazy for Crust guest posting. Dorothy is a regular participant at my Friday Favorites event, and I’m always excited to see what kind of scrumptious treats she’s going to share each week! Dorothy also has a linky party called Crazy Sweet Tuesday, where you can link up your own sweet treats!
And without further ado, here is Dorothy:
Come join The Salad Social at TidyMom sponsored by The International Olive Council’s Add Some Life.
Between May 14-21, bloggers will be sharing some of their favorite salad recipes over at Tidy Mom, so this is the perfect time to pick some new salad recipe for the summer season! For the Salad Social, I’m sharing my husband’s favorite salad, which is the Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad. Since going on a diet a few weeks ago, he’s been taking these for lunch every day.
I’m really excited to bring you today’s recipe! I first saw this on another blog last minute and forgot about it. But then several months ago, I saw it again on Food.com via Pinterest, and I made it almost immediately!
This is a homemade version of Wendy’s chocolate Frosties! You are going to love this! It only requires three ingredients, and it tastes so yummy and just like the ones you get at Wendy’s. (Maybe even better!)
And if you like this idea, you should also try these homemade fudgesicles that I posted last year! They are fantastic!
This post is sponsored by Country Crock. I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective, and the content and opinions expressed here are all my own.
With so many food choices out there from pizza and chips to pasta and hamburgers, there’s no wonder so many of us don’t get the recommended daily amount of vegetables in to our diet.
And it’s especially difficult this day and age to get picky kids to eat their vegetables. But did you know that 8 of 10 kids think veggies with Country Crock are delicious?
And Country Crock Chronicle has tons of great recipes to help you bring delicious flavor to the table.
I previously posted this recipe before here, but it’s a favorite in our household, and I got some better pics of it, so I figured it was time for an encore presentation! It is a traditional sour cream pound cake that my mother-in-law makes, but the family calls in sweet bread.
It actually reminds me a lot of Amish Friendship Bread, or it would be a really great coffee cake as well, or share a slice over a glass of sweet tea on the porch this spring! Either way, it’s an amazing good cake!
You don’t have to be around me long to find out that I LOVE ice cream, milk shakes, and generally any kind of frozen treat! And for me, it doesn’t matter if it’s a hundred degrees outside or twenty degrees. For me, there’s never a bad time for a frozen drink!
Recently I decided to make a milkshake that was a little more healthy, than the usual ice cream and chocolate syrup combo. The result is a tasty snack that’s actually fit for breakfast! That’s right! Milkshakes for breakfast!
To help with his weight loss goals, I’m thinking back to his diet routine, which was very high in vegetables, fruit, and protein. Here are some things he used to eat during the day to stay on track with his weight loss goals:
Favorite Breakfasts included:
Fruit Smoothies made with milk and protein powder.
Chicken Scrambles with turkey bacon
Whole Wheat English Muffins with Turkey and cheese slices
And what’s great about a lot of the foods on my husband’s diet plan (at least the foods we’ve decided to make) is that they are readily available, they’re actually things that are quite easy to make, and best of all, they’re things that my husband actually likes to eat.
Do you have any weight loss or healthy cooking tips you’d like to share?
Recipe for Lemon Buttercream Cupcakes:
For the cupcakes, just use a yellow cake mix or yellow supreme. Or you could try this Lemon Pound Cake recipe (my favorite!) and just adjust the baking time.
