The Tastiest 2-Ingredient Dessert!

Another Weight Watchers recipe that I found to be super-delicious is Moist Cherry Angel Food Cake. This cake is so easy that even if you're a dodo in the kitchen, you can make this!

Ingredients:

1 Box Angel Food Cake Mix

1 can Light Cherry Pie Filling (or Blueberry)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9 x 13 cake pan. Mix the cake and pie filling together; pour batter into the cake pan and bake for about 30 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean. Batter will rise while baking, but then settles down after you remove it from the oven. Place the pan on a cooling rack; cut into 24 pieces when cooled. Each piece is 3 points.

Crunchy Asian Chicken Salad

I found this recipe in Pampered Chef's "Make it Fresh, Make it Healthy" cookbook, which is new this spring. I modified it just a bit, since preparing a salad for 6 people when there are only 2 in the house is more than I can eat without getting bored with it -- so I adjusted it for 4 servings. Since I'm now on the Weight Watchers Points Plus Program, I'm always looking for new recipes that are low in points but very filling.

Ingredients

1/3 cup(s) rice vinegar

2 Tbsp creamy peanut butter, without salt

2 Tbsp low-sodium soy sauce

1 Tbsp canola oil

2 tsp toasted sesame oil

1 Tbsp sugar

2 tsp ginger root

1 clove(s) garlic clove(s), pressed

1/3 tsp black pepper

1 1/2 cup(s) Napa cabbage, shredded

1 1/2 cup(s) romaine lettuce, chopped

1 cup(s) shredded red cabbage

2 medium scallion, sliced thin (both green and white parts)

3 small (about 9 oz) uncooked boneless, skinless chicken breast

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 tsp black pepper

2 medium orange(s)

3 serving(s) Wonton Strips (found in the Produce Section with the croutons)

Instructions

Season the chicken with salt and pepper and grill on a George Forman grill or something similar. Set aside.

For the dressing, whisk together vinegar, peanut butter, soy sauce, canola and sesame oils, sugar, gingerroot, garlic and plack pepper until blended; set aside. Combine cabbage, lettuce and onion together; toss to combine and set aside.

Slice the chicken into thin strips and toss with about 1/4 c. of the dressing. Gently toss the rest of the dressing into the lettuce mixture. Split into 4 servings; top each serving with oranges, chicken and wonton strips.

I'm on the Weight Watchers Bandwagon!

Image via WikipediaYep -- I'm one of the slew of people who have hopped on the Weight Loss Bandwagon at the beginning of the year. I've been dieting for most of my adult life - I have yet to get to a weight that I feel comfortable with. Why is that? I have a few opinions, the most plausible being that I -- along with about 70% of the U.S. -- am totally addicted to sugar and empty carbohydrates!

I decided to join Weight Watchers, partly because I had 3 friends who had already joined and I thought it would be good to have some buddies going through the same ups and downs. I also had heard that the program has been totally revamped and was very easy to follow. Mostly I joined because I needed to be accountable to someone other than myself.

I followed the program - mostly to a T -- and ended up losing 5.8 lbs my first week - HOORAY! It's definitely a psychological boost when you see a healthy weight loss your first week, I'm definitely motivated to continue following the program and counting my points. The Weight Watchers website is great; it keeps track of all my points for the week as well as my weight. It definitely makes it pretty easy to stay on the plan.

I noticed that if I kept foods in the house that I could eat and still stay on plan, it was that much easier. I did go out to lunch once and dinner once but was able to stay within my points. They encourage you to use your weekly extra points but I only used about 1/2 of the 49 points.

I'm pretty motivated to stay on the program and will report any new recipes or tips that I come up with.