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Go on, admit it - you know you miss my food posts! It seems a while since I talked about food on here. Well at least a week! I think I mentioned in a previous post that my friend Jules had found a great magazine called Clean Eating. I couldn't find it anywhere around here (she lives in MD) and I couldn't wait until I received a free copy from their website, so she bought a copy and mailed it to me and it arrived last week. This mag only comes out 4 times I year I think and it is packed with some great stuff. Lots of healthy recipes, good articles to read etc. One of those mags you just want to read from cover to cover (which I have been doing during the past few days).

One of the recipes I wanted to try from the magazine this week was a yummy looking meatball sub! I know!!! Doesn't sound very healthy does it, but I assure you it is. You make your own meatballs with very lean ground turkey and you make the tomato sauce with canned tomatoes which I've read is just as good as fresh tomatoes for all the benefits like lycopene and vitamin C. Actually I cheated on the sauce part and used a small amount of spaghetti sauce for the sandwiches that I had in the freezer. The sub is of course a healthy whole wheat one (does anyone even eat white bread these days? I can't remember the last time I had it, I've eaten whole wheat bread for years!).

So there ya go, a nice crisp green salad and a healthy sub. A yummy way to start off the week.

After making the meatballs I tried a quick recipe for yogurt pops from a book I got out of the library this week. It's called Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfeld. And YES, that is the wife of Seinfeld, I thought it was just a coincidence until I opened the book and she mentioned 'her husband Jerry'!! These pops are pretty easy and a great way to get Kristen to eat more fruit. I halved the recipe and got these 4 pops out of it and enough to make one more but I didn't have a mould for it! The recipe is simply 1 cup of low fat plain yogurt, 1 cup of frozen strawberries slightly defrosted, and 1/4 cup of confectioners (icing) sugar. This made the 5 pops, you'd get double if you did the original recipe. So Kristen gets nearly a 1/4 cup of fruit in one serving - not bad at all.

I know Sadie mentioned watermelon coolers and other pops she's made too from Annabel Karmel recipes. I bought a watermelon and need to try that next, but I need more moulds too or just some pop sticks, that way I can un-mould these and put them in a freezer bag and make more just using the wooden pop sticks instead of the plastic ones provided.

It's bed time for Kiki and American Idol time for me - have a great evening!