Recipe: Crockpot Salsa Chicken

SparkRecipes is a wonderful site with recipes submitted by members with nutritional information for everything. It’s not Weight Watchers or any other plan but having the nutrition makes it easy to figure out points values (if that floats your boat) or other things to watch for such as lower fat, carbs, whatever.
One of the most [...]

Brunswick Stew

The best Brunswick Stew I ever had was cooked out over an open fire at a Mennonite fair in Virginia. It tasted smoky and the meat had fallen apart until everything was thick and totally yummy. I got the original version of this recipe from a WW cookbook almost 20 years ago. It [...]

Crockpot Rotisserie Chicken

I found this recipe on the WeightWatchers.com message boards (must have etools account or a WW monthly pass for access) and made it this weekend. It’s an easy recipe, tasted yummy, but was a little bit messy because I overcooked it and the chicken fell apart. Oops. The meat was just fine [...]

Spicy Vegetable Beef Soup

Winter is a cold time, especially with Arctic fronts and snow/ice storms moving in. I love cooking a big pot of soup or chili that I can eat and reheat, getting warm from the inside.
This soup freezes well and is one of my favorites. I got the recipe from my mom

Spicy [...]

Easy Crockpot Taco Soup

This is adapted from a recipe I found on Recipezaar, a great recipe site. You can just plug in ingredients and see what you get. Most that are interesting end up needing tweaking and adaptation for healthier living. It’s a great place to start, though, especially if you decide at work that you [...]

Making meat sauce

Yesterday I made a yummy batch of meat sauce in the crockpot. It’s one of the basics of my food plan because I love meat sauce over pasta or sometimes just steamed veggies. But to make it, you have to have the ingredients. So I make sure that I always have them [...]