Weigh in and a summer treat

Happy Canada Day!

It's a long weekend for me, which is much needed. Work has been busy, as kids are out of school and in care full time so we have more children thrown into our daycare mix. On the plus side beach days start soon, so it's nice to get the children out of the centre for a day.

Weight Watcher's wise I weighed in this morning and was down 0.8lbs. I am happy with that, as I gained last week and I didn't track this week at all. I needed a break and I took it. I started tracking again today. I also started walking more consistently, as I had not been really walking at all. This coming week I would like to get 40 Activity Points, and not eat them. I really want to reach my 2nd 10% weight goal.

I went for dinner at my father in law's tonight and I wanted to make a dessert that didn't cost me like a million Points +. I remembered a dessert that was featured on the Biggest Loser, and it was Jell-O mixed with Cool Whip. Since it is Canada and everything is closed, I looked through the cupboards and I had tons of Jell-O and no Cool Whip, but I had Dream Whip. So I searched Kraft Canada and found a recipe that I could tweak. It was called "Fruity Mousse Cups." I changed the fruit cocktail to frozen strawberries, as my father in law is allergic to cherries and I didn't feel like killing him, LOL. I also changed the Cool Whip to Dream Whip as that is what I had. It was yummy and point friendly.

Strawberry Mousse Cups
Source: Inspired by: Kraft Canada
Serving: 4 • Size of Serving: 1/4 of serving dish • Points+: 4
Calories: 140.9 • Fat: 1.9g • Protien: 2.4g • Carbs: 31.9g • Fibre: 1.1g

• 1 Package Strwberry Jell-O
• 1 Package Dream Whip made according to package directions or 1 cup Cool Whip
  
• 1 ½ cups Fresh or Frozen (defrosted) Strawberries
• ¾ boiling water (for Jell-O)
• 2 Cups Ice (for Jell-O)

First make the Dream Whip according to the package directions and set aside to set (if you have Cool Whip skip this step- obviously).

Defrost the strawberries if you are using frozen and drain if there is excess water. If strawberries are whole, chop them into pieces. Place them into the bottom of the dish you are using. A 8X8 square dish or a similar size round dish.

Next make the Jell-O. Boil ¾ cup water and mix with the Jell-O powder. Stir 2 minutes or until powder is dissolved. Next add 2 cups ice and stir until Jell-O starts to set, 3-5 minutes. Remove any left over ice cubes.

Add 1 cup Dream Whip (or ¾ Cool Whip) into Jell-O. Gently stir until mixed. Pour mixture on top of strawberries. Chill until set. Spread remaining Dream Whip on top of the Mousse or top with remaining ¼ cup Cool Whip if that is what you are using.

***This was SO good!! Definitely a nice treat for a hot summer day. Everyone enjoyed it and said it was a make again dessert. It would be good with all kinds of different fruit/ Jell-O combinations.

Enjoy!

~Eryn