Well, if you’ve been in my world you know that my life got… interesting over the last two years, and my 6/09-11/09 weight loss (life-changing as it was: size 12 to size 6) did not last.
The short version is that we discovered food sensitivities in our family the same summer we put our house on the market, so I had to re-learn how to cook: sans gluten, soy or eggs.
Thankfully, the eggs seem to be a problem only when the birds have been fed soy, so now we’re growing our own quacky layers that we’ll figure out a soy-free plan for when they reach production age.
In case you’re interested, cutting the soy from my life virtually eliminated my migraines. Totally worth the sacrifice.
And about the time I begin to doubt, a reminder soars through.
So since the last time I wrote here, I’ve transferred to cooking basically everything from scratch, and using real (as in non-modified) dairy, mayo, etc. This means (cover your eyes, darlings) FULL FAT versions of anything that my grandma ate growing up.
Also since I wrote last, Weight Watchers has “updated” their plan (“free” fruit; OhHunny don’t I know how to manipulate this one!), which means all the pointing-out of recipes before this date are for the old system. Since most of them use ingredients with soy or gluten I don’t have any reason to update them.
(If you like it and update it yourself I’d be happy to include it here on the blog for future reference. Just add a comment the the recipe post.)
I will now provide last night’s creation for your enjoyment:
Chocolate Dip
1 Tablespoon coconut oil (4) melted
2 Tablespoons sugar (3)
2 Tablespoons milk (0)
1 Tablespoon cooking cocoa
Melt oil in microwave-safe dish and stir in remaining ingredients. I used a fork and nuked it a couple blips more to encourage the sugar to dissolve completely.
This mixture got me through a couple cups of strawberries last night. It was basically my dinner. And under the new system the strawberries are free (I tracked!) so a belly-full, goopy chocolate desert only cost 7 (PP) points.
Totally worth it.
Enjoy!
