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Week 1: Your Challenge -- Pack a Healthy Picnic
This Week: Pack a South Beach Diet-friendly picnic and enjoy it outdoors (whether you venture to the beach or park, or even in your own backyard!). Let us know what kind of meals you prepared. Did you make sandwiches? Chilled soups or salads? What did you prepare for dessert? How did you keep your food fresh when you packed them? How did you give your picnic a South Beach Diet spin? Report back to us with your ideas and recipes, and share photos of your picnic spread.
Jan
So I'm going to take the challenge and spread my checkered cloth inside. I'll still pack a healthy picnic, and I'll enjoy the trees and sky, but it will have to be through the window! LOL.
The kids and I had already planned to ride our bikes to the event tomorrow night - a 2-mile ride. We have been riding together almost every night... between 2 and 3 miles... for over a week now and I am LOVIN' it as much as they do! So I will prepare our South Beach picnic feast and we will go an hour early so we can set up and have our dinner on one of the picnic tables outside the museum. HOW FUN!
Will report on the fun tomorrow night! :)
CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PICNIC
Heidi that sounds like a wonderful evening! I wish I could come along (don't you love how I just invite myself on your family outing). Your town sounds like something out of a quaint movie. Can't wait to see pics.
It's been so hot here as well. Tomorrow and Thursday it's going to be 98 degrees. However, I am still planning on a nice bike trip and picnic on Sunday with the hubby. I don't care how hot it is! I'm thinking of whipping up some summer gazpacho to bring along. Maybe some grilled shrimps too.
So we also will be picnic-ing with the AC blasting, and dreaming that we're in Vermont or something! :-)
Barb
All of you gals looking for a Phase I dessert, I have a perfect one. I made this for Super Bowl Sunday back when I was on Phase I. It's divine!
Heavenly Lemon Mousse
6 Servings
Description: Making mousse is not hard, but you do have to watch the mixture carefully as it cooks, since it thickens quickly. Phase 2 and 3 diners can top with fresh seasonal berries.
Ingredients
6 egg yolks
2 whole eggs
3/4 cup Splenda or sugar substitute
1 tablespoon lemon peel (from 1 large lemon)
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice (from 2 lemons)
1 1/2 cup South Beach Diet-approved whipped topping
Instructions:
In medium stainless steel saucepan over medium heat, combine yolks, whole eggs, Splenda, peel, and juice. Cook 4 minutes, whisking constantly, until thickened to a custard consistency. Remove from heat; pour into medium bowl and refrigerate until cold (about 30 minutes). Just before serving, fold in whipped topping until combined and lightened. Spoon into serving bowls.
Nutritional Information:
136 calories
8 total fat (4 g sat)
275 mg cholesterol
10 g carbohydrate
5 g protein
Already planning what, where and how! I am working most of the weekend and will be by myself. So I think I will plan a picnic out in the yard and invite my neighbor. Now what to make. I am in phase 1 and will try and get creative.