I used to have a couple of different egg casseroles in my freezer meal rotation. They were simple ways to make eggs for many, and it wasn’t uncommon for us to have the for a weekday breakfast simply because it was about as easy to stick four of them in the freezer as it was to make “yolky” eggs for seven kids on a given morning! Efficiency, mama, efficiency! 🙂
Dear Friend,
Welcome to Donna Reish.com! Thank-you for joining this growing community of people who want to learn to cook and bake more healthfully, balance family life and work, grow together in efficiency and productivity, and learn to live well!
This blog (along with my sugar-free and Healthy Mixes e-books) was born out of thirty-two years of homeschooling, home cooking, home “business-ing,” and home ministry to families. Essentially, you can expect me to pass on what I have learned from three decades of “doing the stuff” day in and day out.
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If you take how many years old you are, minus about ten years for girls (and maybe twenty for guys!), you will get the approximate number of years that you have been making new year’s resolutions. Agghhh….
And then there’s the keeping of them…or the lack of keeping them.
And yet here we are again, about to make even more resolutions for 2017!
So how can we stop the madness of making resolutions that do not stick? How can we follow through on these great intentions?
People have been loving my Crock Pot Hot Chocolate Recipe—and I think you will too! (See here!)
Someone asked me to make the single cup version, and I thought it was a great idea! So….here you go!
Have a cocoa-y, Merry, warm, blessed Christmas!
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I have hit on one significant way to stay away from sugar, excess carbs, and unhealthy goodies (when I choose to…see 5 Tips for Ditching Sugar)….and it is summed up in the little bar pictured in this post! Better known as the healthy Scotcharoo!
Okay, well not just the Scotcharoo alone. I am also helped by Sugar-Free Tagalongs, Apple Butter, Eagle Brand Fudge, and Crock Pot Cinnamon Pecans. These are my favorite sugar-free treats, and you can bet that I have these on hand when I’m going to be faced with so many sugary treats!
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There is a sugary hot chocolate recipe floating around Pinterest made in the crock pot with sweetened condensed milk, powdered sugar, and chocolate chips. It is convenient and looks delicious.
I decided that sugar-free people shouldn’t have to go without the best hot chocolate (especially at Christmas time!), so I set out to re-create that recipe in a healthier manner—and without sugar and/or many carbohydrates. And it worked!
The first version (and the one on the pinnable meme) is one in which you simply put everything in the crock pot and stir. Easy peasy. I have essentially taken the recipe for my homemade sweetened condensed milk and put those ingredients directly into the crock pot without making the “Eagle Brand” separately. The second version is the one in which you first make the sugar-free sweetened condensed milk then add it to the crock with the other ingredients.
I have a few fudges in my first Healthy Mixes book (and here at the blog), but this one is the most “normal tasting.” This tastes very close to the marshmallow fudge that my daughters and I have made every year for the past thirty years—except it is lower in calories, sugar-free, and super low carb. And it doesn’t put you in a carb coma on Christmas day.
![Eagle Brand Chocolate Fudge [Sugar-Free]](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/39/31350975552_fc3ff6233a_z.jpg "Eagle Brand Chocolate Fudge [Sugar-Free]")
While it is the tastiest fudge recipe I have so far, it is not the easiest. The Cream Cheese Chocolate Fudge is the simplest. Hands down. And it is yummy too.
This fudge also firms up and stays firm really well. No spoon fudge here—even without marshmallow cream!
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What can I say about these? They made my top five. They have no unusual ingredients except the granulated sweetener of your choice. They taste “normal”! You can take them anywhere!
![Peanut Butter Criss Cross Cookies [Sugar Free & Flour Free]](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/713/31381029711_14ceaaa23c_z.jpg "Peanut Butter Criss Cross Cookies [Sugar Free & Flour Free]")
While these are flour-free cookies, if your peanut butter is too runny, your cookies will not firm up as baking. If the only option you have is to use a loose peanut butter, you might have to add two to four tablespoons of some kind of flour (almond flour, my Very Low Carb Flour Mix, my Sprouted Wheat Flour Mix, corn starch, gluten-free flour, etc.).
