Pear Mangosteen Pudding

I really have not forgotten about my food/recipe blog as I do love to eat! I do however hate what it does to my figure but I'll stop there. As you can see I have a new love in the fridge. Pear Mangosteen pudding! Yummmmm! I love Kozy Shacks old fashioned tapioca pudding so much I can eat a whole thing of it in like 2 days and thats being conservative! Pear Mangosteen I had to try as soon as I saw it and its to die for! My taste buds really seem to call out for peachy, mangosteen, mango, pineapplely kind of things and this is a total hit! Its spring time, get your fruit on!

Veggie Bites

I'm beginning to think I'm somewhat of a late night binge eater. I come home from work and totally raid the fridge. I know this is not healthy and that I really need to stop but really, why does one continually open the refrigerator door repeatedly? I mean will anything new appear if I shut the door and open it approximately 42 seconds later? Very doubtful yet I continue to do it. After giving up hope on the refrigerated goods I dug through the frozen foods and came across these babies.



















They have sat in the back of my freezer for some time now and after trying them I don't see how! They were so yummy I ate the whole box! Yes I have issues but come on there are only 9 of them in the box and I can totally justify any food as being healthy. They are chocked full of veggies...spinach at that, and artichoke hello! I baked them in the oven and there are only 3 servings in the box so I really only ate 2 extra servings of vegetables thank you!! Can anyone argue with that???

Seriously tho, they are/were delish!

PB 2

So while I was at the salon getting (all the latest gossip) my hair done Sat. we got onto the subject of powdered peanut butter. My hair dresser (who chopped my hair nice and shorter, yes I keep going shorter and shorter, and gave life back to my still red and blond do) said its good and tastes and looks like regular peanut butter. I told her I'm so a Jif girl and to be totally brutally honest because hello we are talking about (my ears being more visible with this shorter do) Peanut Butter here for Pete's sake! She swears that's all they eat and so being my hairdresser, the one girl in town I can go to for the low down on all the latest and greatest, I took my Jif girl self to the store and bought a jar of PB 2.












So which is which? One is my beloved Jif and the other PB 2. I'm sorry I don't have a fancy shmansy camera to give the best detail and texture in picture for you but just take a guess!

So you just add water and you have peanut butter! You really do! I now know the reason my hips are so wide. Have you ever measured out the suggested serving size of 2 tbsp.? Ya, I gotta tell ya I eat waaaaaayyyyyy more than that on any given day. It's like a big wake up call for me cause I'll fix whatever I'm fixing and then load up the knife and lick it clean. Yikes!

But lets be real here and compare labels











Just so there is no confusion the Jif is on the left and the PB 2 is on the right(I so didn't want to throw you off with the blue lid like Jif's crunchy PB). And that also goes for the guessing game above! Huge difference here when you put the two labels side by side! Huge!

So for my powdered peanut butter review:Yumm! A tad more work than just scooping it out of the jar and shoveling it down my throat but the whole measuring my PB will totally keep me from over indulging like crazy! It tastes and looks like regular PB. Nice nutty flavor, healthy and tasty alternate, way less calories, fat, and on my way to smaller hips I'm hoping! So now that you have my 2 thumbs up go out and get you some! And browse around that health food dept for a minute...all kinds of goodies just screaming wanna lose those hips Mama! That's what they yell at me...they may be kinder to you!