All Recipes

Delicata Squash Gnocchi This delicata squash gnocchi was first posted in 2018.  The food photography was just okay, and I’ve updated the recipe by using store bought hash browns for the potato mixture and it worked out perfectly!  Even if you’ve never made homemade gnocchi, you can make this.  This squash is zero Weight Watchers points and available from late summer through Thanksgiving. Here are...

Apple Coffee Cake Muffins I made muffins over the weekend. Not just any muffins – apple coffee cake muffins!  OMG, these are hands down the best muffins I have ever made.  They taste just like coffee cake to me.  And each one is only 6 Weight Watchers points and 191 calories.  UPDATE!  This recipe was originally written in 2019, using an outdated recipe card.  So...

Copycat Starbucks Vanilla Bean Scones Recipe This copycat Starbucks Vanilla Bean scones recipe will be your go to recipe when making scones. My daughter and her husband are obsessed with Starbucks and typically go at least once, if not twice a day.   They love the vanilla bean scones. Hannah texted me and said “Iowa Girl Eats has a good looking recipe.” I’ve “known” Kristin for...

My friend Jenn from my Weight Watchers meeting was meeting her family downtown and we rode the train down together.  It was nice having company on the train ride in yesterday – made the hour trip go by really fast!  My sister Jenn was home sick yesterday and didn’t listen to my Instagram stories until later in the day, and when she heard “the Biz...

These low point banana muffins are still low in points as of 2023!  Back in the day, it wasn’t unusual for me eat a giant Otis Spunkmeyer banana nut muffin with a giant Dr. Pepper on my way to work.  In case anyone is counting WW points – that would be 18 points for just the muffin – and that was my “appetizer.”  I’d probably...

Spicy Roasted Red Pepper Sauce You’ll want to add this spicy roasted red pepper sauce to your weekly meal prep – so good! When I was making my breakfast yesterday I made a 1 point omelette and thought I needed to add some bread to that meal. Luckily my train station has a huge market and I bought a loaf of whole wheat sourdough bread...

I was so excited to leave work on time yesterday – it’s been a while!  I knew I had chicken breasts I needed to use up, and my first thought was to make buffalo chicken bites.  While these didn’t turn out anywhere near I thought they would in my head, what I ended up making was COPYCAT LONG JOHN SILVERS.  Yes, I am shouting that...

Mini Cherry Pies Mini Cherry Pies.  Swoon.  And you know what?  There are only 4 ingredients in these mini pies:  refrigerated pie crust, canned lite cherry filling, egg yolk (mixed with a tiny bit of water) for a wash, and a sprinkle of course sugar.  That’s it! And guess where I found the reduced calorie cherry pie filling?  The Dollar Tree – who knew?  1/3...

More chia pudding!  I love that it takes less than a minute to make, and it provides breakfast for a couple days.  5 points for this bowl – damn granola, why do you have to be so many points?! Another super busy day at work – I hope to power through today so I don’t have to stay late again – I have a goal...

I've always loved Schweddy balls, but never thought to make them with chicken.