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Health-Full® Nutty Grain Bread

by Erin on March 15, 2012 in bzzagent, food, pure prattle with 1 Comment

This is the BEST healthy, low cal bread I have had in a very long time. I love my carbs (unfortunately) and just can’t give up my bread. It seems though, that the good, hearty breads are always full of calories. So it’s hard to lose weight while not denying myself. There are low calorie breads but they are NOTHING compared to Arnold’s Health-full® Nutty Grain (the version I had—thanks to being a BzzAgent!).

This bread is thick and moist. And BIG! Not teeny little squares. True, we’re talking 80 calories a slice, but since most plain bread is about 120 for 2 slices, you’re only adding a teeny bit more calories into the mix, along with: whole grains, 5 grams of protein per slice, and protein—5 per slice for the Nutty Grain. And have I said this bread is thick? You see and taste the grains (and in my case, nuts). The bread is filling. And that is what you want. There’s nothing worse than eating a sandwich and being hungry 20 minutes later. Doesn’t happen with this bread!

Health-full® comes in 3 versions:

  • Nutty Grain
    • 5g of fiber per slice
    • 5g of protein per slice
    • 80 calories per slice
    • Baked with whole grains
    • No artificial colors, flavors or preservatives
  •  10 Grain
    • 5g of fiber per slice
    • 5g of protein per slice
    • 80 calories per slice
    • Baked with 10 whole grains
    • No artificial colors, flavors or preservatives
  •  Flax & Fiber
    • 4g fiber per slice
    • 5g of protein per slice
    • 80 calories per slice
    • Good source of Omega-3 ALA
    • No artificial colors, flavors or preservatives


Have you tried this bread yet? What were your thoughts? If you want to try it, Arnold’s website has some great recipes to try with it! (I mean, check out that Autumn Turkey Sandwich!)

Yum.

Diet Soda Cupcakes? Yep.

by Erin on January 30, 2012 in food, pure prattle with 2 Comments

I’ve been super obsessed with Pinterest as of late. Not surprising as the site feeds into my pack-rat mentality. Anyway, I’ve been determined to try out some of the things I keep pinning. (Notice how I’m doing a good job of not even mentioning that I stalled on day 3 of the challenge? More about that later.)

So w/out further ado, here are my Diet Dr. Pepper Cherry Funfetti Cupcakes (w/frosting, because, what’s a cupcake—diet or not—without icing???).

And here’s the recipe. Are you sitting down?

1 box of whatever cake mix you like (though I’d stay away from the specialty ones like Angel Food or Devil’s Food)
1 room temperature can of diet soda of choice

Combine cake mix (in my case I used Valentine’s Day Funfetti) and can of soda (I used Diet Dr. Pepper Cherry) until it looks like regular cake batter. (It will bubble at first, it’s normal.) Then here’s what I did: poured batter into cupcake liners (regular old paper ones – actually mine were Halloween ones because I thought I had plain ones but I didn’t) 2/3 full and bake at 350 for approximately 20 minutes. I probably could have gone 22 but I didn’t want to push it and ruin it (only had one cake mix on hand). I got 19 cupcakes out of the mix in the end.

You’re ‘supposed to’ eat them as is; no icing. I just can’t bring myself to do that. So I used Valentine’s Day Funfetti Icing.

They taste yummy! Not exactly like a regular cupcake (the husband ate them, but he’s dieting and was willing to eat anything with the mere mention of  cake). But they will definitely do. I want to try a chocolate root beer with some kind of cream icing next.

So on with my major blog challenge failure. I had the best intentions, but it all went to hell in a handbasket. The kiddo got sick, the baby is teething, I’m exhausted and my eyes are shot to hell.

Apparently I’ve got two things going on: one being that I’m getting old. My eyesight is  not what it used to be thanks to internet usage. Well, really, I’ve worked on computers since day one, starting at the bank and those horrible command type screens (ours was yellow-gold on black) and worked my way up to what I’m on currently. And since I work from home 6 hours a day, it’s a fair assumption that that isn’t helping matters. Anyway, my eyes are not focusing properly thus I’m having a hard time seeing, especially at night after being on the computer all day. (This resulted in eyeglasses.) The second issue is that I have high eye pressure that needs to be rechecked in April. Not fun. This will result in daily eye drops. <don don donnnnn> So not a fan of eye drops. But hey, if it saves my eyesight, I’m all for it.

So, between all this and just conking out at night, I’ve failed at the challenge. I’m thinking I’ll pick it up in a few days, so you’ll all have to forgive my ‘missing’ days. ;)

Ok, I’m outta here. Things to do, people to avoid.

Dieting Sucks.

by Erin on September 11, 2010 in trials & tribulations, weight loss with Comments Off

Photo by IreneKaoru

Man, it’s brutal having to diet. I love food. Food loves me. Too much. Especially at this time of year, when the fall shows are coming back on (so sitting in front of the TV is more common) and comfort, warm food is essential. Bah. I loathe thinking of food all the time. But one look at food and the weight jumps on me.

I haven’t walked since Thursday—the kiddo had off Thursday and Friday for Rosh Hashanah. Monday I’m going to pick it up again. Thursday I walked 1.6 miles. I hope to get it to 2.2 (it’s one more round to get to that).

But, a girl can dream about sanitized tapeworms, canned no less. :)