HOLIDAY DRINKS GUILT FREE PART-3

RING IN THE HOLIDAYS GUILT FREE

The holiday season provides use the opportunity to catch up with old friends and family and to partake in the holiday meals and holiday drinking.
This does not have to be an anxiety provoking time. Good Food and A Nice Drink are to be enjoyed without not making you feel so guilty about it.

The holidays are here once again, and I'm always coming up with new ideas to help the holidays along.

I started doing guilt free drinks with part-1 when I started celebrating, my new weight loss this past summer. And I did not want to blow all the heard work I have done. And did not want to give up all the celebrations with my family and friends. So here is a great way to do it all and not feel guilt while doing it. So drink up, have fun and not worried about the scale with these 100% GUILT FREE DRINKS. I kept them all under 200 calories so you can have more then one if you like. I have 24 drink recipes for you. I will give them to you -6- at a time for the whole month of December. ~ Happy HOLIDAYS ~ AND ENJOY!!!!


CHAMPAGNE DRINKS OF ALL TYPES ~ HAPPY Chanukah ~ Merry Christmas ~ Happy New Year


"A Goodnight Kiss"

4 oz Champagne
1 splash Campari bitters
1 sugar cube
1 drop Angostura bitters
Place a drop of angostura bitters on a sugar cube and drop into a champagne flute. Add champagne and splash of campari.
(per 4.1 oz serving)
Calories: 90



"American Glory"

3 oz Champagne
2 oz orange juice
2 oz lemonade
Add ingredients to a frosted ice-filled highball glass.
(per 7 oz serving)
Calories:111



"Aztec"

3 oz Champagne
3/4 oz watermelon schnapps
1/2 oz gold tequila
Pour ingredients into a champagne flute and serve.
(per 4.3 oz serving)
Calories:148



"Two Lovers Black Tie"

3 oz cold Pineau des Charentes white wine
1 1/2 oz Champagne
Pour into a wine glass and garnish with a black grape.
(per 4.5 oz serving)
Calories:90



"A Very Merry Champagne"

3/4 oz Kirschwasser cherry brandy
1/4 oz cherry heering
4 oz Champagne
Stir kirschwasser and cherry liqueur together in a mixing glass filled with ice cubes. Strain into a champagne flute, fill with champagne, and serve.
(per 5 oz serving)
Calories:160



"Champagne Ambon"

4 oz Champagne
1/2 oz Pisang Ambon liqueur
Pour into a champagne flute, and serve.
(per 4.5 oz serving)
Calories:131

Hoilday Time And Feeling Good!

What a difference a year makes.

I'm able to get into that great holiday dress or that great outfit. I'm now that skinny girl in the room that I used to feel envious of. I used to be a size 10-12. I'm back to that size now - almost a size 10, smaller then a 12 but not quit a 10 yet. In the immortal words of Jackie Gleason - How sweet it is!

I am 5'11" and used to weigh 288 pounds. I dropped 121 pounds, and my doctor now calls me "skinny". I went from morbidly obese to obese, to normal, and I'm now being called skinny. How sweet it is!

I thank god and my doctor every day for my band. I am the happiest I have been in so many years. My depression about my weight, and many many medical problems, went away too. How sweet it is!

Last year this time I was 2 months into my lap-band and lost a little more then 25 pounds. I would not go to any of the holiday parties I was invited to, I would not dare to go, still so ashamed of my body and my looks.


Holiday time and feeling good!

RECIPE OF THE DAY! LOW FAT-LOW CALORIE MAC & CHEESE

Macaroni and cheese is perhaps the ultimate in comfort foods, but if you use regular cheese, butter for a roux and whole milk, that's an awful lot of fat calories. Here's a low fat macaroni and cheese that dispenses with the butter and substitutes reduced-fat cheese and nonfat milk for their full-fat counterparts. A great addition to our family meals. Your family will love the taste. Most Mac and cheese have so many calories about 900+ calories in a lot of recipes. Here it's only 203 calories how great is that. ENJOY!!


Makes 6 servings

Prep time:15 minutes

Cooking time:20 minutes


Ingredients:

3/4 cup(s) milk, fat-free evaporated

1 cup(s) cottage cheese, low-fat

1/2 cup(s) cheese, ricotta, low-fat

1/2 cup(s) cheese, cheddar, low-fat

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, ground

1 dash(es) salt and black pepper, to taste

1 teaspoon cheese, Parmesan

1 tablespoon bread crumbs, fine, dry

1 pounds pasta, elbow macaroni, cooked


Preparation:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Heat the milk in a saucepan over low heat. Add the cheeses until they melt, stirring constantly.

2. Stir in the nutmeg, pepper, and salt. Remove the cheese sauce from the heat. Add the cooked pasta to the cheese sauce and mix well.

3. Pour the mixture into a 2-quart casserole dish. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and bread crumbs. Bake the casserole for 15-20 minutes until bubbly and the top is browned.

203 Calories Per serving