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Evil Spells


By Diva Weigh (Visit website)



Another Halloween has come and gone.  Before I know it, I'll be singing Old Lang Syne!  It seems these last 2 months just fly by!  Every year I say I'm going to take it slow and enjoy the season and Woop! there it goes! 

Weigh-in day.  +1.

bloody hell.

My fault.  I was test kitchening a recipe last week and I over-tested and taste-ed these:

sweet potato strips.

They are baked and have no oil but they are sweet potatoes, and, well, they do have calories.  I went through 4 sweet potatoes to get to the recipe I wanted.  I probably ate half of the failures.  They were still good!  Just not crisp enough or not salty enough!  Burned or too salty got tossed.  So here's how to make these:

Sweet Potato Strips

1/4 sweet potato, washed, sliced very thin and cut into strips
PAM
1/4 tsp salt

preheat oven to 350

spray sweet potato strips with PAM then dust with salt

spread strips on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper in a single layer

cook for 20 minutes, stirring and turning strips halfway through

1 serving

These are a good snack or salad topping.

I made them to go along with the recipe I was working on for the contest at Sparkpeople. 

Be sure to stop over there and try it!


These probably also contributed to this weeks unfortunate scale movement:


Fudge!  It's not just for Christmas anymore!  yeah!  Who knew!

This recipe comes from Natalie's Killer Cuisine.  And she does make some killer cuisine! 

I added fun Halloween candy sprinkles to the fudge.

Who wouldn't want to try that!

I was inspired by the fudge recipe and applied it to rice krispies treats.

Like there needed to be more sweets on Halloween!

I did try 1 piece of fudge and more than a few pieces of rice krispies treats.  I took the plate to DD's house on Halloween and offered it around to all the people who were there and left it there when I left.

That way no more of those evil calories can junp into my mouth!

I'm pretty sure I was under a spell or something that night!

So what did I learn.

Everything I put in my mouth, counts.  Sweet potatoes, while full of good things are also full of calories. 

Too much of a good thing is a good thing is not a good thing.  I can make treats without eating them.  And I can make treats that are not calorie and fat filled.

Today I will make good choices.


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