Soft Serve Success

The regular soft serve instructions are to add 1/2 cup of crushed ice and 1/4 cup water to the powder then blend. I do think my little blender I bought at Target is weak, but this recipe just doesn't work for me.

First of all, I want a bigger serving without any extra calories. Who's with me? Here's how I do soft serve.

First I use my Hamilton Beach food processor to crush up a dozen or so ice cubes into snow. (You don't really have to wash it afterwards because it's just ice! I always think of the dishes, I'm a mom.) Then I put in my personal-size blender 1/2 cup water and the soft serve powder. I give it a couple of good pulses to mix that up. Then I start adding the ice/snow, one quarter cup at a time, and I probably use a cup or so of snowy ice all together. This gives me a big, delicious ice cream shake.

I have tried mango, coffee, peanut butter, and chocolate mint soft serves. They are all wonderful, except mango. Mango in my humble opinion should be taken out into the street and murdered.

Happy eating!

Peanut Butter Soft Serve "Plus"

I love the soft serve. I've thought before that I could survive on Medifast soft serve, bars, brownies, and chocolate chip cookies alone. So it's hard to top regular soft serve, but I think I may have found an improvement.

I added one tablespoon of sugar-free chocolate syrup, which contains only 15 calories, to my peanut butter soft serve. Umm, it's delicious.

I've also thought of adding it to my coffee soft serve! Haven't tried it yet. Can you say mocha?

Oatmeal Muffins, Part 2--- (BEST!!)

I've been making myself the Medifast oatmeal box recipe for muffins until today, when I tried another muffin recipe online that someone said they got from their coach. The recipe calls for scrambled eggs, which deterred me from making them for several weeks actually. Weird!! But I tried it and let me emphasize the following statement:

THESE MUFFINS ARE DELICIOUS!!!  POSSIBLE MY FAVORITE MEDIFAST FOOD OF ALL!

Here is the recipe:

1 packet Medifast scrambled eggs
1 packet Medifast pudding
4 packets Medifast oatmeal
1/2 cup sugar-free syrup
3 tsp. baking powder
1 1/4 cup water

Preheat oven to 350*
Combine egg powder, syrup, and water. Let stand at least 30 minutes.
Combine the pudding and oatmeal powders, and baking powder. (I blended mine up in my mini food processor.)
Mix the oatmeal mixture into the egg mixture.
Spray standard 12 muffin pan and then pour muffin batter in.
Bake at 350* for 15-18 minutes.
Makes 12 muffins (6 meals of 2 muffins )


Here are my comments:
*Very delicious pudding taste (not Medifast tasting)!
*I used regular scrambled eggs, vanilla pudding, and brown sugar & maple oatmeal.
*I wonder how different flavor combinations would turn out!! (Try and let me know)
*The muffins came out nice and round, but flattened a bit after resting. They were less tall than a tuna can.

Oatmeal Muffins, Part 1

I was excited to find the recipe for oatmeal muffins on the side of the box, mainly because I hated the oatmeal. It was my mom's favorite so I ordered some but I don't like regular oatmeal either. Without thinking during storing my Medifast, I threw away the boxes of oatmeal so I lost the recipe. Luckily I found it online but I keep having to refer back to it. So here it is, handy as can be:

Regular Medifast Muffin Recipe
(you get the whole batch to yourself!)

1 packet Medifast oatmeal
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 packet Splenda (I just use a teaspoon because I don't have packets!)
1/3-1/2 cup water
1/8 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. vanilla

Mix up the dry ingredients, then add the wet and stir. Bake at 350* for 12-15 minutes in a prepared muffin pan.


Here are my pointers:

*Have 1/2 cup of water in your measuring cup, and add it slowly until the consistency is right. I think 1/3-1/2 is too much but that's what the recipe says.
*Some people say let the batter sit for 10-15 minutes but I never do.
*Use a mini muffin tin.
*The tops will not be round. They will not taste awesome. But you will get used to them and actually like them eventually.