Cheese Wontons

This is a recipe for cheese wontons "weight watcher style".

yield: 12 wontons (1 ww pt each)

3/4 cups of shredded cheese, whatever kind you like
12 wonton wrappers
cooking spray

1. preheat oven to 350-degrees
2. coat mini muffin pan with cooking spray
3. gently push wrappers into each muffin
4. spread cheese into each wrapper
5. pinch the edges of each wrapper together
6. spray with cooking spray (this makes them bake crispy)
7. bake 10-15 mins

While these may be missing a little bit of that fried deliciousness...they're still quite tasty! And forgive me...but they didn't last long enough after they were out of the oven for me to take a picture...oops! I think the way Mike described it recently to someone was, "Sam has really been doing some wonderful things with wonton wrappers." Seriously, I could have died laughing. Filling with cheese and baking = Wonderful...just in case you didn't know :)

Deep Dish Pizza

yield: 6 servings (6 ww pts per serving)

cooking spray

1 lbs lean ground beef: browned and drained

1/2 jar of your favorite spaghetti sauce

1 can of refrigerated pizza crust dough (10 ounce)

6 slices of mozzarella cheese

1. prehead the over to 425-degrees

2. combine beef and spaghetti sauce

3. spray bottom of 9x13 baking dish

4. spread the pizza crust dough into the baking dish, bring it up on the sides

5. lay three slices of cheese on the crust

6. top with meat mixture

7. bake for 12 minutes

8. finish off with last three cheese slices

9. bake additional 5-7 minutes

10. enjoy

What I love about this is all the possibilities. You could add as many veggies as you want to this...or heck, take out the meat entirely and make it a veggie pizza for fewer calories/points!

Chocolate Shake

A friend brought this recipe to my attention...and having the sweet tooth I have, I absolutely HAD to try it! It is unbelievable simple and satisfied the chocolate love in me instantly - what a tasty treat!

yield: 4 shakes (1 ww pt per shake)

1 pkg of fat-free sugar-free chocolate pudding mix
2 cups ice
2 cups skim milk

1. blend it all together and enjoy

We have a magic bullet so I actually made two larger shakes (so it was 2 pts each instead of 1 pt) and just put one in the freezer for another day. Having one shake actually satisfied my chocolate craving AND filled me up...this recipe really makes quite a bit! Yum! I think next time I might even add four points worth of peanut butter and turn my 2 point shake into a 4 point shake and maybe even share my other one with the other peanut butter love in our house! Yum!

Wonton Quiche

This is a great appetizer recipe for entertaining. And beyond the actual recipe, you could do so many different things with it!

yield: 36 quiche (1.5 ww pts each)

cooking spray
mini muffin pan(s)
36 wonton wrappers
small onion, finely chopped (I used onion powder)
1 cup egg beaters
1 can of fat-free evaporated milk
.5 cup of low-fat shredded cheese
4 slices of turkey bacon, crumbled (I used 2 tablespoons of bacon bits)

1. preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. spray muffin pan
3. press wrappers into each muffin cup
4. spray edges with cooking spray so they crisp when baking, set aside
5. fry the chopped onion up and set aside
6. in a bowl, mix the milk, egg and cheese
7. add bacon and onion
8. fill each muffin cup with about one tablespoon of the egg mixture
9. bake 20 mins

What I love most about these...you could do so many variations of this recipe to change it up a bit. I tried doing a mexican one later with just a dab of my favorite salsa on top - YUM!

Slimfast Brownies

My friend, Sarah, introduced me to these brownies and they are fantastic! They're great to satisfy those chocolate cravings when you're on a diet!

yield: 24 pieces (2 ww pts per serving)

cooking spray
9x13 pan
1 can of chocolate slim fast
1 brownie mix

1. preheat over per brownie mix instructions
2. spray bottom of pan
3. mix slimfast and dry brownie mix
4. poor into pan
5. bake as directed on brownie mix

These come out pretty "fudgey" but they are delicious!

King Ranch Chicken

So apparently there are one million and one variations of this recipe. Well, I had one ready for us to try and was going to see what I could do to change it around a bit to make it a bit more ww friendly...

yield: 6 servings

2 chicken breasts: cut into small pieces
1 onion: chopped
1 green pepper: chopped (we didn't have one so we missed out on this)
1 can of mexi-corn: drained
1 can of rotel tomatoes: drained
1 can of fat-free cream of chicken soup
1 tsp chili powder (I used .5 tsp of hot and .5 tsp of mild)
black pepper to taste
1 tsp minced garlic
1 package of the small tortillas (we used flour ones)

1. saute the onion and green pepper in a large frying pan
2. add chicken, garlic, chili powder and pepper
3. cook until chicken is cooked through
4. add rest of the ingredients
5. cook until heated through
6. serve with tortillas and shredded cheese

For ww points, if you really limit the shredded cheese (which isn't hard to do because this is really flavorful without it) and tortillas...you can make this really low points. Per serving without any shredded cheese or a tortilla, it is 3 ww pts. Each tortilla is 2 pts. So I took half of a tortilla and broke it into little pieces and ate the mixture with the tortilla pieces in it so it was only 4 pts.

And I was kind of slacking on the photography portion of this recipe...but here is what it looks like in our tupperware for Mike's lunch...lol...