Wild Rice Stuffing

GAMES FOR WHEN WE ARE OLDER

GAMES FOR WHEN WE ARE OLDER
1. Sag, you're It.
2. Hide and go pee.
3. 20 questions shouted into your good ear.
4. Kick the bucket
5. Red Rover, Red Rover, the nurse says Bend Over.
6. Musical recliners.
7. Simon says something incoherent.
8. Pin the Toupee on the bald guy

OLD IS WHEN:
1. Going bra-less pulls all the wrinkles out of your face.
2. You don't care where your spouse goes, just as long as you don't have to go along.
3. Getting a little action means I don't need fiber today.
4. Getting lucky means you find your car in the parking lot.
5. An all-nighter means not getting up to pee!

Thoughts for the weekend
Just remember, if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.
If raising children was going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor!
Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.

Ponderisms
I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they used to?
How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here and drink whatever comes out?"
Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken there? I'm gonna eat the next thing that comes outta its butt." 

THE TODDLER DIET

THE TODDLER DIET

People are always on the lookout for a new diet. The trouble with most diets is that you don't get enough to eat (the starvation diet), you don't get enough variation (the liquid diet) or you go broke (the all-meat diet). Consequently, people tend to cheat on their diets, or quit after 3 days.

Over the years you may have noticed that most two year olds are trim. Now the formula to their success is available to all in this new diet. You may want to consult your doctor before embarking on this diet, otherwise, you may be seeing him afterwards. Good Luck !!!

Breakfast: One scrambled egg, one piece of toast with grape jelly. Eat two bites of egg, using your fingers; dump the rest on the floor. Take one bite of toast, then smear the jelly over your face and cloth.

Lunch: Four crayons (any color), a handful of potato chips, and a glass of milk (three sips only, then spill the rest).

Dinner: A dry stick, two pennies and a nickel, four sips of flat Sprite.

Bedtime snack: Throw a piece of toast on the kitchen floor.

Breakfast: Pick up stale toast from kitchen floor and eat it. Drink half bottle of vanilla extract or one vial of vegetable dye.

Lunch: Half tube of "Pulsating Pink" lipstick and a handful of Purina DogChow (any flavor). One ice cube, if desired.

Afternoon snack: Lick an all-day sucker until sticky, take outside, drop in dirt. Retrieve and continue slurping until it is clean again. Then bring inside and drop on rug.

Dinner: A rock or an uncooked bean, which should be thrust up your left nostril. Pour Grape Kool-Aid over mashed potatoes; eat with spoon.

Breakfast: Two pancakes with plenty of syrup, eat one with fingers, rub in hair. Glass of milk; drink half, stuff other pancake in glass. After breakfast, pick up yesterday's sucker from rug, lick off fuzz, put it on the cushion of best chair.

Lunch: Three matches, peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Spit several bites onto the floor. Pour glass of milk on table and slurp up.

Dinner: Dish of ice cream, handful of potato chips, some red punch. Try to laugh some punch through your nose, if possible.

Breakfast: A quarter tube of toothpaste (any flavor), bit of soap, an olive. Pour a glass of milk over bowl of cornflakes, add half a cup of sugar. Once cereal is soggy, drink milk and feed cereal to dog.

Lunch: Eat bread crumbs off kitchen floor and dining room carpet. Find that sucker and finish eating it.

Dinner: Drop pieces of spaghetti onto back of dog, insert meatball into ear. Dump pudding into Kool-Aid and suck up with a straw.

Pistachio Fluff

Pistachio Fluff

1 package sugar free instant pistachio pudding mix
1 large can crushed pineapple, WITH juice
1 8-oz. tub cool-whip lite

Beat together with a mixer the dry pudding mixes and the can of crushed
pineapple INCLUDING the juice. With a rubber spatula, fold in the tub
of cool whip. Refrigerate and serve. Make sure you let it sit and get
cold before eating or it doesnt taste as good.

2 points per cup

More Fat Rant by Joy Nash

I lover her. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8dm5VpYGH4

Hashbrown soup

I swear, all I ever have time is to post recipes these days.  But, the dieting is going okay. Not perfect, but better than what I was doing.  Now I just need to drink more water.

Hashbrown soup
POINTS: 2
INSTRUCTIONS

6 oz Kraft Velveeta Light Reduced-Fat Pasteurized Processed Cheese Product
43 1/2 oz fat-free chicken broth
1 tsp table salt
1 tsp black pepper
1/4 cup onion(s)
1 serving hasbrowns

Mix & simmer over low-medium heat for approx 20 minutes until thickened
Serving Size is approx 1 cup 

I need more time!!

I thought that once kids started school, I would have more time to myself.  I thought that once the summer was over, I would have more online time.  Hah!  Totally fooling myself on that one.  Ever since my son started school, I have had less time than ever.  I spend my days cleaning and playing with my daughter.  I spend my nights cooking dinner, playing with my son and helping with homework.  I spend my free time volunteering at the school and shuttling the kids to classes and whatnot.  I should never have signed up for the PTA.  I'm starting to become really drained and tired from having no time to myself.  And, I'm never going to get over this stinking cold if I don't get some rest. 

Hmmm....maybe once the school year gets into full swing things will calm down a bit. Though I doubt it.  My son id doing art lessons and tennis and wants to get back into swimming.  My daughter is doing swimming and wants to do dance.

On the plus side, my diet seems to be going well and I'm getting exercise swimming.  ;)

Anyway, I'm sorry if I'm not around as much as I wish I could be.  I'm not ignoring anyone and read the blogs when I get a chance, I don't always have time to reply, though. 

BLACK BEAN-BROWN RICE WITH A SOUTHWESTERN TWIST - CORE

BLACK BEAN-BROWN RICE WITH A SOUTHWESTERN TWIST - CORE
 

                     
* Exported from MasterCook *

             BLACK BEAN-BROWN RICE WITH A SOUTHWESTERN TWIST

Recipe By     :
Serving Size  : 6     Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Beans                           Brown Rice

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  ------------ --------- --------- --
  1                cup  brown rice -- uncooked
  2               cups  water
  2                     beef Bouillion Cubes
  1           teaspoon  minced garlic
     1/4        medium  green bell pepper -- diced
     1/4        medium  onion -- diced
  1          8 oz. can  diced tomatoes -- with jalapenos
  1         15 oz. can  black beans -- rinsed and drained
  1           teaspoon  ground cumin

1.  Place rice, water, bouillon cubes, cumin and garlic in a small sauce
pan.  Bring to a boil and simmer until rice is tender.  Add more water if
needed so that there is always some in the pot.  Cook until rice is tender.

2.  Add pepper, onion, tomatoes and beans.  Heat until boiling and then
simmer for about 10 minutes being careful not to burn rice.

Yields about 1 cup per serving.
Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 369 Calories; 2g Fat (5.0% calories
from fat); 18g Protein; 71g Carbohydrate; 12g Dietary Fiber; 0mg
Cholesterol; 11mg Sodium.  Exchanges: 4 1/2 Grain(Starch) ; 1 Lean Meat; 1/2
Vegetable; 0 Fat.

MAYA ANGELOU'S BEST POEM EVER

MAYA ANGELOU'S BEST POEM EVER

Doritos Casserole

Doritos Casserole
6 points
Servings | 8
1 lb 90% lean ground beef or ground turkey
1/2 lb of Velveeta light shredded (label says 2%) (I also use 2% Shredded Mexi Blend)
2 tbsp of chili powder or taco seasoning
1 can of 98% fat free cream of chicken soup
1 can Rotel tomatoes
6 ounces of baked Doritos - Nacho cheese or Cool Ranch

Brown ground beef (or turkey) then add taco seasoning or chili powder, cream of chicken soup, and Rotel tomatoes. Crush Doritos and pour half into a 9x13 casserole dish sprayed with Pam, then add a layer of the meat mixture, then half the cheese, another layer of chips, then meat mixture and finish off with cheese. Bake at 350-degrees for 30 minutes.

Serve over shredded lettuce.

I also add low fat sour cream if I have the extra points. (points not added)