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I want to loose some weight so started with my dog's favorite snack !

I want to loose some weight so started with my dog's favorite snack !

Old 02-05-2013, 02:45 PM
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I don't know how you can say that is only two ingredients. The boxed mix contains (lower quality) versions of everything in your from scratch cake. I can't understand why you don't just make your from scratch cake with less sugar and some pumpkin?

Sorry, just makes no sense to me.

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I eat and cook very healthy foods and exercise three times a week and my weight has been constant for the last five years. I want to lose, not stay the same, and to perk up my recipes to different things I usually don't cook to get over the boredom of the same healthy meals. I think the Hungry Girl recipes may be the choice. I bought the Hungry Girl to the Max cookbook. I made the brownie recipe first of course. LOL. It's very good and much better then depriving myself of a piece of my favorite from scratch cake. Only two ingredients, do not add anything else.

One box chocolate cake mix
1 can 15 oz pure pumpkin (not pie mix)

Stir until smooth, may take several minutes. Scoop into muffin tin lined with muffin papers. Bake 20 min at 400 degrees. She notes the aluminium muffin papers will not stick to the food as much as the paper ones.

My vet told me to give my dog a bit of pure canned pumpkin every day instead of a bought treat. He said it was very healthy for her and she will love it so I have canned pumpkin in the pantry all the time.
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Old 02-12-2013, 11:40 AM
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Originally Posted by noveltyjunkie View Post
I don't know how you can say that is only two ingredients. The boxed mix contains (lower quality) versions of everything in your from scratch cake. I can't understand why you don't just make your from scratch cake with less sugar and some pumpkin?

Sorry, just makes no sense to me.
I could make from scratch but I've been baking and cooking from scratch all my adult life. I'm tired of it. I don't mind at all using pre packaged cake mix instead of measuring out all the ingredients. I have lost 6 1/2 lbs so far using the recipes for half my meals and my desserts. The tofu shirataki noodles are strange to me but DH likes them! We love pasta and these noodles are 20 calories for whole 12 oz package! By using the recipes along with my own recipes I am reducing calories and not feel like I'm dieting.
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Old 02-14-2013, 06:35 PM
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Thanks for mentioning Hungry Girl. I just spen a long time over there checking out her recipes. They sound so good and easy to do. I try to eat healthy too. I give up on loosing weight but I feel so much better when I eat right.
Congrats. on your weight loose. Keep up the good cooking.
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Old 02-15-2013, 06:47 AM
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Hungry girl has some good recipes. You can subscribe to her website and get a daily email with a lot of good tips and recipes.
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