It's Monday and if you remember in my earlier post that I lost a lot of weight with no real help from anyone or any specific diet other than my cheer leaders Lisa and Steve. Many weeks my husband and myself have a date to go out to breakfast and shooting.
Now mind you when we go out that would be my free day as I call it. You know when you can have a treat or something you wouldn't eat on a daily basis. Anyways I always got the same thing because I enjoyed it so much and I figured it would be fair with calories. Well my daughter one day said she had this application on her phone where she could look up almost any restaurants menu and the calories of the meal, well I wasn't to concerned because I was losing weight consistently every week so how bad could it be right? Wrong! I always got vegetable stuffed crepes made with egg beaters even, that's it no hash browns, no toast, no meat on the side or in the crepes. Well that breakfast was approximately 1, 040 calories!! not to mention the grams of fat! I was blown away when I heard that. So the following week, I figured let's go simple and get a plain and simple breakfast of simply french toast, just three pieces and nothing else. Umm that cost me over a 1,000 calories as well.
So today I want to start with making over my version of a much lower fat recipe for french toast.
Now I have to admit I can also make a much nicer fattening version myself but, if your needing to lose weight we have to be reasonable. This recipe is still filling and taste pretty good and you don't feel cheated and it's especially nice when you see the numbers on the scale go down and you really didn't miss out on much. So here is a pic of a french toast from a famous chain that cost you over 1,000 calories and you don't want to know how many grams of fat !
Ahhhh six pieces with just a smack of strawberries and a pinch of whip cream, looks innocent enough. And here's my makeover version...
You'll need 3 slices of healthy living low sugar/ low carb bread.
1/4 cup egg beaters or egg whites
1/4 cup Almond breeze
1/4 splenda
1/2 teaspoon of good vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon of good cinnamon
and a few sprays of Pam
1/4 cup _ 1/2 cup sugar free syrup
2 nice strawberries
Now minus the bread, mix the first 5 ingredients well, spray a pre-warmed griddle with Pam, dip your bread in the mixture and cook on both sides till golden brown, Serve with strawberries and syrup and sit down and enjoy it with your favorite morning beverage.
And here's my finished french toast, don't look bad and it will only cost you about 160 calories and almost no fat !
Now mind you when we go out that would be my free day as I call it. You know when you can have a treat or something you wouldn't eat on a daily basis. Anyways I always got the same thing because I enjoyed it so much and I figured it would be fair with calories. Well my daughter one day said she had this application on her phone where she could look up almost any restaurants menu and the calories of the meal, well I wasn't to concerned because I was losing weight consistently every week so how bad could it be right? Wrong! I always got vegetable stuffed crepes made with egg beaters even, that's it no hash browns, no toast, no meat on the side or in the crepes. Well that breakfast was approximately 1, 040 calories!! not to mention the grams of fat! I was blown away when I heard that. So the following week, I figured let's go simple and get a plain and simple breakfast of simply french toast, just three pieces and nothing else. Umm that cost me over a 1,000 calories as well.
So today I want to start with making over my version of a much lower fat recipe for french toast.
Now I have to admit I can also make a much nicer fattening version myself but, if your needing to lose weight we have to be reasonable. This recipe is still filling and taste pretty good and you don't feel cheated and it's especially nice when you see the numbers on the scale go down and you really didn't miss out on much. So here is a pic of a french toast from a famous chain that cost you over 1,000 calories and you don't want to know how many grams of fat !
Ahhhh six pieces with just a smack of strawberries and a pinch of whip cream, looks innocent enough. And here's my makeover version...
You'll need 3 slices of healthy living low sugar/ low carb bread.
1/4 cup egg beaters or egg whites
1/4 cup Almond breeze
1/4 splenda
1/2 teaspoon of good vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon of good cinnamon
and a few sprays of Pam
1/4 cup _ 1/2 cup sugar free syrup
2 nice strawberries
Now minus the bread, mix the first 5 ingredients well, spray a pre-warmed griddle with Pam, dip your bread in the mixture and cook on both sides till golden brown, Serve with strawberries and syrup and sit down and enjoy it with your favorite morning beverage.
And here's my finished french toast, don't look bad and it will only cost you about 160 calories and almost no fat !
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