Hello!
I'm glad I'm not alone and found myself back with Jenny Craig. I lost ~65 pounds many years ago and am a proud success story posted to the Jenny Craig website. I'm here again before I get out of control, especially with the holidays upon us. I'm doing my due diligence following the menu plans and am already getting bored with eating a measly piece of fruit every afternoon and a yogurt/anytime bar in the morning. Has anyone found a way to add some variety to these ho-hum snacks?

Thanks,
Shannon

You should get the volumetric cookbook gives some great tips to volumize JC foods.

Here are some ideas I've used for Fruits /yogurt which I think was your question??

Cereal: I add fresh or thawed frozen fruits, dried raisin cranberry
Egg sandiwich: add onion, mushroom, spinach
oatmeal: mash banana, any fruite same as cereal above

yogurt: i bought danon light and fit new Coconut Pineapple and put pineapple chunks in it tip with coolwhip, Yum!!

put vanilla yogurt over JC double chocolate cake, cool whip, add banana/straweberry kind of like a banana split

I know there are some shake recipe in the volumetric book like my consultant mentioned throwing the cheesecake with milk in blender for cream milkshake

Welcome Back! Glad too see you haven't given up :-)


I love making smoothies out of a cup of nonfat vanilla yogurt and 1 or 2 fruits for my day...i also add some ice to it.....so filling i end up eating it in two servings.

Make a baked apple with cinnamon and splenda.

Make faux cheesecake with fat free Greek yogurt and sugar free chocolate syrup.

Have half a canned pear with a tsp of fat free Miracle Whip and a tsp of grated cheddar cheese.

Have fruit and granola for breakfast, and reserve 1 tbsp for your snack. Cook up apples or any other pie stuffing type fruit like apple with cinnamon until tender, measure out 3/4 cup of of the mixture, and top it with the cereal.

Make a carrot and raisin salad with 1/2 c grated carrots, 1/4 c raisins, and 1-2 tbsp of fat free aisian sesame salad dressing.

welcome back!

you are def not alone, we have plenty of room in our wagon.

I use cottage cheese to make a dip for the veggie chips. Just add garlic powder and dill and you have a pretty decent dip.

Hi, here's what I have done to mix it up a little.

For the afternoon fruit I take 1 fruit serving of frozen berries or frozen strawberries and blend with sugar free lemonade for a fruit smoothie.

For the morning yogurt I do almost the same thing. I blend yogurt with one free limited serving of strawberries.

I hope this helps.

Here's some more.

Peel and cut up an orange into bite sized pieces. Break up a couple sugar free peppermint candies and sprinkle over.

Split half a banana lengthwise. Place on a small piece of aluminum foil. Sprinkle with cinnamon, nutmeg, and lemon juice. Spritz with butter spray. Wrap and bake for about 10-15 minutes. Unwrap and sprinkle with a little Sugar Twin brown sugar flavor.

My favorite! One cup of kumquats! Unembellished, pop 'em in your mouth, kumquats!