Soda Cake
 Dear Readers, I went to a tupper-ware party the other day, and they made Soda Cake, so I thought I would try it. I was encouraged to put this on my Blog
I took a box of Pillsbury Moist Supreme chocolate cake mix with (1 cup of pudding in the mix.)
I mixed 1 1/2 cup or 12 oz. to the mix.
you do not add eggs or oil.  I was able to put it in the micro-wave, which was very nice,
especially when the heat is about 112 here in the desert.  This is something that needs experimenting.
You can use 1/2 mixture, and make a double cake, or  1/3 less mixture in the pan, to have a little left over for next time.
     One main tip, you should use dark pop with dark cake mix, and light pop with light or vanilla mix. (the cake mix does not have to have pudding in the box.)  

the two main ingredients
12 oz of Dr Pepper and cake mix. 

I stirred in the pop.
It was a thick consistency.

I then put it in to a 8" corning-ware casserole dish.

I placed it in my small micro-wave and put it on for about
10 minutes  This is how it turned out. 

It turned out pretty good, very moist, but was very dense.
not bad for my first time.
I ate the cake with no frosting, you can put whipped cream on it,
 or get a can of frosting, add a little water to it, and make a light glaze over the cake.
So there you have it.

"Fun,Nacho Bake"

My Dear Friends,

The other day I talked about veggiegal.com, well here is another healthy fun meal.

Fun, Nacho Bake,

You take a whole bag of BAKED Tositos chips.

crush the chips into small pieces, not dust,

You then take a can of diced tomatoes, MEXICAN Style, put them into the bowl over the chips, then you add TWO cans or jars of Picante sauce, (We used hot, which looses a lot of it's hotness with all the other ingredients.)  We also added a small pinch of fresh cilantro.   And a small can of hot diced green chilies  (4 oz)

you then mix all the sauces into the chips, making sure it all gets moist.

The ingredients call for Mexican style frozen corn, but at this time we only had a small amount of frozen corn, so we put that plus a can of whole kernel corn into the mix. (We drained the can)

We then added a big 290z  can of black beans, drained.

Once everything is mixed and moist, put into a 13 inch casserole  dish  and cover it with cheese, you can use soy cheese. 

but we used shredded mild cheddar and Monterey jack cheese cuz it's cheaper.

Cover the top with cheese and put it into the oven at 350, uncovered.  Cook for about 35-40 minutes.

Voila, enjoy a great healthy fun meal.  (I added a few sun chips on the side) 

"Avocado Health Drink" / Getting Healthy

My Dear Readers,

My husband did some research on the internet to find ways of eating healthier. He found this one site called veggiegal.com on Net Flex. She has a video on eating vegetarian, and different recipes and links to other sites with more recipes. We started to check these sites out and have used a couple of her recipes, they are very good.

One of the things that we are doing is eating Ezekiel Bread, (Sprouted 100% Whole Grain Bread) it is very healthy and has no flour in it. Also, if we have cereal like Raisin Bran, we just use apple juice instead of milk. (It's not bad) We also put a few shakes of cinnamon and ginger into our food or drinks. It is an anti inflammatory, and has helped my husband walk again. At one point he was almost in a wheel-chair.

Since eating very little meat and lots of fruit and veg. We both have lost weight and are healthier.

So I thought I would share this healthy avocado breakfast drink that we got from veggiegal.com We drink it almost every day.

you take a handful of fresh spinach

you then chop it up, and put it in a blender.

you take a quarter size pinch of cilantro, and chop it up, then  put in blender.

you then take a lime, and cut it  into eight pieces

you then fa-lay it (taking out the insides and cutting it up.)  when you put into the blender you add the juice that squirted out.

you take about a fourth of a cumber, and cut it up. add to blender.   We add a little ginger, cayenne, garlic, onion powder, and  sea salt, or regular salt.  I then add a whole ripe avocado.  Spooning it out of the skin.  If you are like me, I leave a touch of it in the skin, so I can eat it!.  I then add about a cup of water and turn the blender on.  You don't need to mix prior to this.   

Our little blender makes almost two full cups.   It is very filling and healthy.  Please let me know if you have tried this and what you thought of this.  Enjoy!