Baked Potato Skins with Creamy Spinach and Turkey Bacon

These look really good. I've had this recipe for a while but forgot about it. Won't forget about it much longer. Gonna make it Thursday night. Can't wait!

Points: 2
Servings: 6

INGREDIENTS
3 medium potatoes, baked, sliced in half, and cooled
1 spray cooking spray
20 oz chopped frozen spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
4 oz light cream cheese
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
3 slices crisp turkey bacon, crumbled

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Scoop out flesh of potatoes, leaving about 1/4 of potato flesh in potato. (Reserve remaining potato flesh for another use such as mashed potatoes.)
Place potato halves on baking sheet and coat with cooking spray.
Bake until lightly browned, about 15 min.
While potato skins bake, combine spinach, cream cheese, salt, and pepper in medium bowl until well blended.
Remove skins from oven and spoon 3 tablespoons of spinach mixture into each skin; bake until warmed through, about 5 more min.
Remove skins from oven and top with about 1 tbs. crumble bacon.
Yields 1 potato half per serving.

Note: To easily dry spinach, place thawed spinach in a clean kitchen towel and squeeze out the liquid over the sink, as though you were ringing out a wet towel.

Green Stuff

Well I forgot to make this for St. Patty's Day. But I'll eat pistachio any time of the year so who cares!

Servings: 4
Points: 2

INGREDIENTS
1 package ff pistachio pudding mix
2 cups ff vanilla yogurt
1-20 oz can crushed pineapple (in its own juice)
1 c. ff cool whip

DIRECTIONS
Mix all ingredients. Chill and serve.

Pumpkin Mousse

Servings:4
Points: 2

INGREDIENTS
2 packages SF vanilla pudding
1 c. skim milk
1 c. ff cool whip
1 can pumpkin
1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice

DIRECTIONS
Combine all ingredients. Chill and serve.

Weekly Weigh In

For the week : +1.8 lbs

Total loss : 14.8 lbs

Whoops!

Strawberry Pie

Its not quite warm enough outside for this yet, but it will be great this summer!

Points: 6 for the entire pie!

INGREDIENTS
1 package SF vanilla pudding
2 cups water
1 package SF strawberry jello
4 cups sliced strawberries

DIRECTIONS
In medium saucepan, stir together water and pudding mix. Heat to a boil. Remove from heat and immediately add the jello. Stir until dissolved. set the pan aside and let the mixture cool to room temperature. Place strawberries in bottom of a deep dish pie plate. Pour cooled pudding mixture over the strawberries. Refrigerate until chilled. Let it set well before slicing.

Mandarin Orange Mousse

I'm in charge of this for our Chinese Easter this year. Seems easy enough. And its a good excuse to buy a new electric mixer since mine went kaput on me last week. Hope it's good!

Servings : 4, 1 C. Each
Points: 2.5

INGREDIENTS
1 box SF orange jello
1 box SF white chocolate pudding
1 can mandarin oranges
1 8 oz tub fat free cool whip

DIRECTIONS
Mix jello with 1 c. boiling water. Dissolve jello completely.
Add 1 c. cold water and let it sit for 5 min.
Using electric beater, beat in pudding mix until well combined.
Fold in drained fruit and cool whip.
Chill and serve.

White Cake with Pistachio Frosting

I think this is the birthday cake my mom made me this year. It was really good but kind of messy. I think I may make a version of this with the bog cake recipe using white cake mix, applesauce, and mandarin oranges. Then I'll frost it with this pistachio frosting. Yum Yum!


INGREDIENTS
CAKE

18 1/4 ounces white cake mix
3 egg whites
2 1/2 cups diet 7-Up

FROSTING
1(1ounce)package sugar-free pistachio instant pudding
8 ounces fat-free cool whip(small)
1 cup diet 7-Up

DIRECTIONS
Mix all ingredients together. Spray 13 x 9 pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 - 35 minutes. Test cake top by lightly touching the center which should feel slightly firm and will slightly spring back to the touch. (Cool cake completely before frosting.). Mix together frosting ingredients and spread over cake. Refrigerate until ready to eat and hold in the fridge for up to two weeks.