Spiral Butternut Squash Spinach Salad

Winter still hasn’t loosened her grip on us, but I’m ready for this long, long winter to be over. Since it’s not quite salad weather yet, I did a meet in the middle type of salad. Spiral Butternut Squash Spinach Salad still has the comfort of winter food, but also, the hope of Spring.

Spiral Butternut Squash Spinach Salad

In my last post, I used a spiralized beet for Panko Crusted Cod with Spiral Beets  I’m still spiralizing this time with butternut squash. Continue reading “Spiral Butternut Squash Spinach Salad”

Panko Crusted Cod with Spiral Beets

Looking for an elegant looking easy dinner? Look no further Panko Crusted Cod with Spiral Beets checks all those boxes.

Panko Crusted Cod with Spiral Beets

Frozen foods have come a long, long way. Convenience is king in this day and age. Finding the trendy spiralized veggies was a bonus for me. Don’t get me wrong I’m all about gadgets. I’m not sure, after purchasing veggies already spiralized that it would a gadget for this is for me. I bought beets and butternut squash, check for a recipe using the butternut squash soon.

Panko Crusted Cod with Spiral Beets


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Skinny – Caramel Frappuccino

The following is a repost of what is becoming one of our most popular recipes. After a 2015 trip to the nearest Starbucks, which was at the time almost 50 miles away we did a calorie re-make of one of our favorite drinks Caramel Frappuccino. Behold…… Skinny – Caramel Frappuccino !

Today we have a Starbucks less than a mile away, but they kept all the calories in our favorite drinks 🙄 we still enjoy the real deal but we also enjoy this recipe, and we hope you do too!!

PS….updated picture too!!!
Skinny Caramel Frappuccino

This post is gonna be a real quickie……Starbucks is the bomb for coffee……well, at least Tim and I think so. One of our favorites is the Caramel Frappuccino………but with a Grande coming in at about 380 calories……… yikes! Talk about drinking your calories.

When I saw the recipe for Skinny – Caramel Frappuccino from Averie Cooks, and it boasts only 50 calories…….we were in!!

We tried it yesterday, as a light dessert after our Grilled Spaghetti and Cheese Sandwich, which was not light, but excellent! Continue reading “Skinny – Caramel Frappuccino”