RECIPE - Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients:

4 medium-large sweet potatoes
1/2 cup skim milk
1/2 cup Olivio
Olive Oil

Directions:
1 - Preheat oven to 375 degrees
2 - Place tin foil over one of the racks in the oven (so potatoes don't drip while baking)
3 - Thoroughly clean the sweet potatoes
4 - Poke holes in sweet potatoes with fork (so they won't burst in the oven)
5 - Lightly cover sweet potatoes in olive oil
6 - Bake for 30 minutes
7 - Let cool, till the sweet potatoes can be touched
8 - Cut each sweet potato in half
9 - Scoop out insides, place into bowl with skim milk and olivio
10 - Use potato masher to mash
11 - Scoop mixture back into potato skins
12 - Continue baking at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes
13 - Remove and enjoy!

RECIPE - Slimming Sunrise Smoothies

Alright, here is another recipe. This one is for Slimming Sunrise Smoothies! It is a fabulous recipe for breakfast, getting a bunch of fruit into that would otherwise take quite awhile to eat. And it's low in calories, at roughly 240 calories per 8 oz smoothie.

Ingredients:

1 cup chopped strawberries (5 large strawberries)
1 cup chopped seeded watermelon
1 cup chopped peach (1 large peach)
1 cup sorbet (raspberry, strawberry or mixed berry all work well)
1/4 cup orange juice (low or no pulp varierty preferable)

Directions:

1 - Place all ingredients in blender
2 - Pulse blend a few times to get ingredients stirred up
3 - Blend on med-high until ingredients become smooth
4 - More juice can be added if desired to make smoothie less thick
5 - Pour smoothies into cups and enjoy!

(Smoothies can also be frozen into popsicles!)

RECIPE - Kicken Honey Glazed Pork Chops

Ok, I thought I would share with you all, a recipe I love that helps make dieting not suck so much. These are are my Kickin Honey Glazed Porkchops ...

Ingredients:
4 Boneless Pork Chops
1 Cup Honey
2 TBSP Southwestern or Spicy Mustard
1 TSP Frank's Red Hot (or other hot sauce)

Directions:
1 - Heat a nonstick pan to high on the stove
2 - Mix wet ingredients together in a small bowl
3 - Arrange pork chops in pan
4 - Cook for 3-5 minutes on one side
5 - Turn pork chops to other side
6 - Reduce heat to med-high
7 - Pour in wet ingredients
8 - Continue cooking 3-5 minutes on this side until pork chops are no longer pink inside
9 - Remove and serve with sides and enjoy!

Best part about these pork chops. They're only 270 calories per serving! (A serving is one porkchop)