Dessert is a huge part of my life. For years I would end each day with a bowl of ice cream. I cannot express how much I love ice cream. Mainly Moose Tracks flavor... but recently we've discovered a Salted Caramel Truffle flavor at Kroger. YUM. But, the sad thing is: eating a heaping (heaping as in: at least 3 scoops, chocolate sauce, and various toppings) isn't the best thing for you. Especially when you aren't working out or being active enough to burn off the extra 540 calories. So, with our new gym routine - super intense gym routine - one great way to help stay fit is to limit dessert to once a week. Uhm, hardest thing ever. I've accomplished it only once in the past month. (There is just something about ice cream, am I right?) Faith is really good about it though and we've had many conversations about small things we can do to improve our lifestyle. So, I try to do this one dessert a week thing. We've chosen Sunday to be our splurge day - also we get caught up on Parks and Recreation on Sunday as well. This way, we can plan all week about what we want our dessert to be and look forward to eating it, but we aren't stuffing ourselves every night. Now, I'm the type of person that when I set out to do something, I'm serious about it. I don't want to fail at it - and with Faith here with us, it's much easier with a buddy. Now, onto the dessert - S'mores. One Sunday we didn't shop for dessert ingredients and sadly... I had very few in the house - but I remembered a recipe I saw online. S'mores.
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| Instead of graham crackers, Hershey's bars and big marshmallows, I used crescent dinner rolls, little marshmallows and chocolate chips. |
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| I also threw in some butterscotch chips on a couple. |
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| Here's the whole tray of them. |
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| Put the tops on, pinch shut and then just about 6 minutes in the oven at 350. AMAZING! |
So, that's my tasty, cheap, and easy recipe. And, they are so good, it's difficult to eat more than one. So, leftovers for lunch! :) I'm always looking for more ideas like this: please let me know them!
The Russell Family is doing well. Getting ready for a birthday party here in a few weeks. Hoping to get everything ready for it! We took a family picture yesterday:
Wilson was being so cute! Also, it looks as if he has red hair - but the light is just shining through some red/gold curtains we have hanging. I think he looks like a little lumberjack though! Well, Wilson woke up from his nap!
In Christ,
Julie
Frugal Momma
