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THM FP or E Berry Cobbler

September 8, 2020Desserts, Tasty TuesdayTHM, THM-E, THM-FPLife of Joy

Some time ago we were looking for a light dessert. We found this berry cobbler from A Home with Purpose. We don’t like raspberries, so we use a mixture of strawberries and blueberries.

It’s a pretty simple recipe and my lovely daughter Tiffany is pretty amazing because she not only made the dessert last night but also took the pictures for me to use. Such a jewel!

Start by measuring out a total of 3 cups of berries and putting them in an 8x8ish pan. Then sprinkle them with sweetener. Tiffany can’t do THM Super Sweet very well, so we use about 3 tablespoons of THM Gentle Sweet. But taste your berries and add sweetener as needed. Our strawberries were pretty tart and could’ve used a bit more sweetener.

Then mix the topping ingredients in a bowl.

We use the ground oats because Tiffany cannot tolerate the flax in the THM baking blend well. Sometimes we go with the greek yogurt and other times we use the applesauce. This time it was applesauce.

Combine and spread evenly over the berries and bake.

We follow her directions of baking uncovered for 20 minutes and covering it with foil for 10 minutes.

As you can see, it is really an easy recipe. It is also very yummy.

This serves 4, so there are no leftovers.

I hope you’ll hop on over to her website and make this one for yourself. Oh, it is gluten free, dairy free, and of course, sugar free.

Until next time, God bless,

Michele ºÜº

Instant Lemon Glucomannan Pudding

June 16, 2020Desserts, Tasty Tuesdaylow carb, low fat, sugar-free, THM, THM-FPLife of Joy

It has been blazing hot here in sunny Oklahoma recently! I like light desserts when it is hot. So I’ve turned to puddings.

When I first tried things with glucomannan (or gluccie (pronounced with the k sound not the s sound), as referred to in THM), I did not like it at all. But over the couple of years that we have been following the Trim Healthy Mama eating lifestyle I have grown to the point that I now really enjoy it, especially in a pudding!

This recipe is done completely in the blender.

Instant Lemon Glucomannan Pudding

Ingredients

4 cups liquid (water, almond milk, any combination I use 2 cups water, 2 cups almond milk)
Juice of 2-3 lemons (or 4-7 tablespoons bottled lemon juice)
2 pinches salt
2 heaping Tablespoons THM Super Sweet or 1 scant cup sukrin melis (measures 1:1 with sugar)
slightly heaped tablespoon of glucomannan

Instructions

Put all ingredients except glucomannan in the blender and begin to blend.
While the blender is running, add the glucomannan and blend for 2 minutes
Rest for a minute or so
Blend for about another 2 minutes

https://lifeofjoy.me/instant-lemon-glucomannan-pudding/

Enjoy! I like to chill mine before I eat it so it is super refreshing.

Yet Another Bread!

September 3, 2019Bread, Tasty TuesdayTHM-FPLife of Joy

The bread I’m sharing today is a single serving (but there’s also the recipe for a whole loaf too). This is the bread I shared for the beef and cheddar sandwich last week.

It’s so quick to throw together. Just put the dry ingredients in a small bowl.

Add the egg whites and water.

Combine well.

Now, I have this small gravy pot that is a perfect size. I spray it with olive oil spray and add the swiss bread batter.

I bake this in my toaster oven for about 10 minutes

This is a great bun. I really like it with a lot of filling.

So if you are wanting to try this bread, head on over to Trim Healthy Mama’s summer e-zine.

I hope you like this too,

Michele ºÜº

Super Simple Snack

August 20, 2019Tasty Tuesday, Veggiesquick easy, snack, THM-FPLife of Joy

There are a lot of days that I just don’t feel like making something for an afternoon snack. Some of those days I go ahead and have a couple of Wasa cracker snacks. But some days I don’t even feel up to that. So what do I do?

Take some deli lunch meat (the lighter the better) and slice some strips of some kind of pepper. (Sorry about the pictures. We used a pink plate and it washed everything out and we were too tired and hungry to retake the pictures on a different plate. )

Sprinkle on some salt and nutritional yeast (if so desired).

Roll it up

And eat!

Now if you don’t like bell peppers, you can do this with whatever veggie you do like. I try to keep it low carb. I like it with cucumber.

At lunch today Tiffany even wrapped some of her sweet potato in lunch meat. It was quite good. (It was with a carb, THM-E, meal.)

Today I added a slice of cantaloupe to my snack and it was delightful. I haven’t had a good cantaloupe in years.

Well, I hope this snack idea helps you stay out of those high calorie snacks of cheese, nuts, and chocolate; it has me.

Until next time,

Michele ºÜº

Jello: Easy, Homemade, and From Scratch

August 13, 2019Desserts, Tasty Tuesdaygelatin, healthy snack, low carb, THM, THM-FPLife of Joy

When I made that delicious healthified version of Strawberry Pretzel Salad for Independence Day, I remembered that I really like Jello and gelatin desserts. Thing is that I don’t want the bad-for-you sweeteners and bad-for-you ingredients, so I hadn’t considered making it. But part for part of that dessert you use plain gelatin (which is very good for you) and fruity tea to make a gello to pour over the strawberries. That’s when this idea was born.

My biggest struggle was to get the amounts of ingredients right. I did a little search to find other people that made homemade gello and found some that used fruit juice. Well, that will not do for me, as I need this to be low calorie and low glycemic.

I decided to go with the Wild Berry Zinger tea from Celestial Seasonings for my flavor. When I make something, I like to make enough that I’m not going to be having to make it or something else again the next day. I started by boiling a pot of water.I placed four tea bags in a measuring cup and added four cups boiling water.Meanwhile, I put 1/4 cup cool water in a bowl, added two tablespoons of plain gelatin and stirred to soften the gelatin.

I was doing two batches: one wild berry and the other peach.

Then added 1/4 cup just-off-the-boil water to dissolve it.

When the tea is as strong as it is going to get or as strong as desired, remove the tea bags and add sweetener. I used 1/2 cup Gentle Sweet. Stir to dissolve it in the tea.

I did not get a picture adding the sweetener to the wild berry one.

Then add the dissolved gelatin to the tea. Just pour it in and stir it to mix it all together. At this point you can pour it into individual containers. When it is cool enough, put it into the refrigerator to firm up. It will take a few hours to do so.

Jello: Easy, Homemade, and From Scratch

Ingredients

4 cups of boiled water
4 tea bags, desired flavor
1/2 Gentle Sweet or sweetener preference
1/4 cup cool water
2 Tablespoons plain gelatin
1/4 cup just-off-the-boil water

Instructions

Steep flavored tea bags in the 4 cups boiled water (about 15 minutes or so)
Put 1/4 cup cool water in a small bowl
Add 2 Tablespoons plain gelatin to cool water and stir to soften
Add 1/4 cup just boiled water and stir to dissolve gelatin.
Remove tea bags and add sweetener
Stir in gelatin and cool about 15-30 minutes
Refrigerate until set (a few hours)

https://lifeofjoy.me/jello-easy-homemade-and-from-scratch/

This is a nice sweet snack that will help cool you off a bit during the brutal heat of summer.

What is your favorite fruit flavored tea?

Thanks for stopping by,

Michele ºÜº

Hot Cocoa – THM version

November 27, 2018Beverages, Tasty TuesdayTHM, THM-FPLife of Joy

Warm chocolately goodness in a cup. Just the thing to warm you on chill evenings. Made sugar free and dairy free too.

For years we’ve made hot chocolate or hot cocoa, whichever you prefer to call it, using the recipe I found on the Hershey’s Cocoa can years ago. I don’t know if it is still on the can or not.

We substituted almond (or cashew) milk for the regular milk and Gentle Sweet (a blend of xylitol, erythritol, and stevia but you could use your favorite sweetener) for the sugar. It’s such a simple recipe that it was quite easy to modify.

Here we go . . .

Combine 1/3 cup cocoa (or as little as 1/4 cup if you prefer a milder chocolate flavor)

with 1/2 cup Gentle Sweet or your preferred sweetener (Gentle Sweet is supposedly a little less than twice as sweet as sugar. If you use straight xylitol or erythritol, you’d use the same amount as you would sugar, so I’m told.)

with a couple pinches of salt in a pot.

Whisk it, add in 1/3 cup of water, and bring to a boil on medium to medium high heat.

Boil for 2 minutes.

Add in about 5 or so cups of almond (or cashew) milk.

Keep whisking until it reaches desired temperature.

Pour and serve!

We really enjoy this. I hope you do as well.

Hot Cocoa – THM version

Ingredients

1/3 cup cocoa (1/4 if preferred less dark) powder
1/2 cup Gentle Sweet
2 pinches mineral salt
1/2 cup water
5+ cups almond (or cashew) milk

Instructions

Whisk cocoa powder, sweetener, and salt together in saucepan.
Add water and turn heat to medium/medium high.
Whisk until it comes to a full boil.
Reduce heat slightly and continue stirring. Boil for 2 minutes
Add milk and continue whisking until desired temperature is reached.
Pour into mugs.

https://lifeofjoy.me/hot-cocoa-thm-version/

Until next time, God bless,

Michele ºÜº

Matcha Nin

July 31, 2018Beverages, Tasty TuesdayTHM, THM-FPLife of Joy

Energy Boosting drink with great health benefits.

Matcha Ninny is the newest of the Trim Healthy Mama drinks. It can be served hot or cold. It’s summer, so we are drinking ours cold. Here’s the link to the video on the benefits and how to make it. If that link doesn’t work for you, here’s a different one.

So we make a few tweaks to their recipe. We use chocolate protein powder!!!! They use plain protein powder but we love the hint of chocolate that the other gives to the drink. I’m not a huge fan of milk, but chocolate milk, that’s a different story entirely.

Sooo, in this house, you don’t make one of anything. So we are making two here. For yours, you’d just use half of your chosen container for both almond milk and water. Ours are these cute pint jars. We got the red one at Dollar Tree, so cute. The other has a chalk board label and was about $3 at TJMaxx or Ross or someplace like that.

By using half almond milk and half water it lightens the caloric load.

Add the liquid to the blender. Then add the other ingredients: matcha, sweetener (We use Super Sweet.), vanilla, coconut oil, and salt. We just get inexpensive matcha at Walmart. It probably isn’t the best quality but we like it and can afford it.

Don’t forget the vanilla.

Blend.

Then add the protein powder and give it a quick whirl. Now if you like it frothy/foamy, then blend it longer but we don’t like foam.

Pour into your containers. We add a couple ice cubes because it is so hot right now that we need cool refreshment. Enjoy!

Yum!

Until next time, God bless,

Michele ºÜº

Another Kind of Bread

February 6, 2018Bread, Tasty Tuesdayketo, low carb, THM-FPLife of Joy

Low-Calorie bread that you can have slathered in butter if you so desire.

My first attempt at this Wonderful White Blender Bread from the Trim Healthy Mama Table cookbook page 242, turned out less than stellar results.

Although it did some serious collapsing, it was still edible and good enough that another loaf was desired.

The second time yielded much better results. I also made a batch into buns. They weren’t very large buns but they made some nice hamburgers. I’ll make them again this week to have with the Slim Sloppy Joes.

Brian, Lauren, and Liam were here this weekend and they liked it too. We finished off the loaf I made a few days prior.

It looked really nice and didn’t have that big fold over top that I’ve had on previous loaves and that I’ve seen online of other’s loaves. This time I changed up a few things per other’s experiences on the THM Facebook group, so I think that contributes to the lack of fold over.

I’ll walk you through it, as I make another loaf. (That is my only regret about this recipe, it makes only one loaf instead of two.)

So first up is to get a whole lot of eggs whites. Yes, it is easier to use egg whites from the carton but I cannot pay $3 or even more for a quart when I can get 5 dozen eggs for just $2.08 which turns out to render quite a bit more than four cups. So, I start this (and many recipes) by separating eggs. Thankfully we have animals that love the cooked yolks.

The whites go into the blender while I go measure out the other ingredients.

I measure out the ingredients into a bowl. All the dry in one and the cup of Greek yogurt. Then I run the blender for a minute with just the egg whites and xanthan gum.

Add the remaining ingredients.

Blend for another minute or so.

Pour into sprayed straight sided loaf pan.

After it is baked, lay it on its side and keep it in the oven with it turned off for about 10-15 minutes to keep it from falling.Then put it on a cooling rack on its side to cool some more.

When it is freshly baked, it has a squishy sponginess. I don’t know how it tastes because I waited and toasted mine.

I shared though; it’s hubby approved.

Hope you like it too.

Another Kind of Bread

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups egg whites
1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
3/4 cup whey protein isolate powder
1/2 cup THM Baking Blend
1/2 cup oat fiber (THM or LIfesource 500 brands)
1 cup greek yogurt or 1% cottage cheese
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon THM Super Sweet Blend (Or possibly Sukrin +)
1/2 teaspoon mineral salt
1 tablespoon yeast (optional)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350º and spray loaf pan with coconut oil spray.
Blend the egg whites and xanthan gum on high for about a minute in the blender (or some say a mixer will work too)
Add remaining ingredients and blend for about 30 seconds.
Scrape down the sides of the blender to ensure it gets well blended.
Blend for another 30 or so seconds.
Pour into loaf pan.
Bake for 40-50 minutes.
When it is done, turn off the oven and lay the pan on its side and stay in oven for another 10 minutes or so.
Then remove from oven and put on its side on a cooling rack.
When cool, slice.
Store in gallon size baggie with a paper towel in the refrigerator if it will last longer than a day.

https://lifeofjoy.me/another-kind-of-bread/

Until next time, God bless,

Michele ºÜº

Cottage Berry Whip

September 5, 2017Tasty Tuesdayketo friendly, THM-FPLife of Joy

A surprising and refreshing snack so good even someone that doesn’t care for cottage cheese (me and my kids) enjoy it! Oh! And it is EASY!

This refreshing treat has only two ingredients and sweetener of your choice. I use an inexpensive food processor to whip it up in a jiffy.

I got this recipe from the Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook. They are incredible and amazing! I would never have thought of combining these ingredients but it works.

Put 1/2 cup cottage cheese (use whatever percentage you desire – those on THM will want to use low fat).

Add 1/2 cup frozen strawberries. (You can use whatever frozen fruit you desire, although if you use all blueberries, it will be a bit carby and thus a THM E. We tried using peaches and it was a bit chalky, so we added strawberries and saved it. We also have tried frozen mixed fruit successfully for an E as well.)

Next add your sweetener of choice. I went with a doonk of pure stevia extract and half a tablespoon of sukrin: 1. I actually prefer the taste using all sukrin:1 or even xylitol but I have to watch how much I use in a day or I get intestinal discomfort.