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Got this recipe from a co-worker. It makes an enormous amount of sweet relish with just a touch of tartness from the cranberries. The raspberry jello is the key to even non-cranberry eaters enjoying the dish. Feel free to substitute cranberry Jello if you want a stronger cranberry flavor. I chop my nuts, cranberries, apples and oranges in a food processor. For a chunkier relish, chop the apples, oranges, and nuts by hand. I have thirded everything for a smaller amount using an 8 ounce can of crushed pineapple with good results as well. Can also be made with splenda and sugar free gelatin.

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Sweet Potato Crunch Casserole

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There are many wonderful sweet potato casseroles on this site. After searching every way I knew how, I could find recipes with coconut, recipes with pineapple, and recipes with the pecan topping, but not a single one with all three. So here is the recipe my Mom has made for Holiday meals as long as I can remember. It is so sweet, my Dad sometimes saves it for dessert! This is NOT a light version! If you wish, use the drained pineapple juice and add a couple of Tablespoons of heavy cream or milk instead of 1/2 cup milk.

Recipe #336881

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S'mores Oatmeal for One

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3 Reviews | By ColCadsMom

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I love oatmeal, and my kids do too. But they get bored VERY easily, so I have to really kick it up a notch to keep them from complaining on oatmeal days. This was a spur of the moment recipe, trying to decide what to add to oatmeal. Using the maple and brown sugar packets gives a granola bar flavor to the oatmeal. You could also use regular packets, quick cooking, or old fashioned and sweeten them any way you like. Also, feel free to use graham cracker crumbs, but teddy grahams are what I had on hand. I would eat this for dessert!

Recipe #333601

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Microwave Apple Pie Oatmeal

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2 Reviews | By ColCadsMom

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I came up with this recipe after eating Recipe#58447. I was out of bananas, and was really wanting a warm, comforting bowl of oatmeal that could be made quickly. I already had a can of lite no sugar added apple pie filling that had been opened, so I thought I'd give it a try. If you want it to be a sweet as pie, you might want to add some brown sugar instead of or in addition to the sweetener. Feel free to add raisins if you like them (I don't) and to add to or take away from the spices.

Recipe #322125

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White Chocolate Mousse With Soymilk

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This recipe came from the Betty Crocker Website. I haven't tried it yet. I've always heard that pudding would not set up correctly if you use soy milk, so I'm interested to see if this works. My sister loves soy milk, but doesn't like cool whip, so I don't know how to change it and keep it vegan friendly since the whipped topping is already non-dairy. Feel free to garnish with strawberries, raspberries, or anything you like. The site suggests using chocolate soy milk for a change of pace as well, and you could probably use different flavors of pudding. The recipe originally called for regular pudding mix, but since I will try it with sugar free, I am going to type it as the ingredient. Sugar free cool whip would also make this diabetic friendly.

Recipe #318011

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Cookies in a Cloud

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1 Reviews | By ColCadsMom

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This recipe was in my Mom's power bill. It is credited to Sara Elizabeth Sams of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. I have not made this yet, but it looks yummy! I think it could easily be halved and made into a square 8 or 9 inch pan.

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Italian Pasta Supper

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1 Reviews | By ColCadsMom

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This recipe originally came from a magazine, but I have tweaked it to suit our families taste. The original recipe called for chunky pasta-style tomatoes, but it always seemed a little watery to me. I buy the jarred spaghetti sauce that is chunky and has vegetables in it. This can be made ahead to the first baking time and refrigerated up to 24 hours. Bake for 45 minutes at 350 before adding the shredded mozzerella and baking an additional 15 minutes. I have never tried to freeze this, but I think it would do well. I like to use fresh mushrooms when I have them. If the sausage is in links, remove the casings before browning. Note there is no salt or pepper in the recipe. The olives, sausage, and pasta sauce is salty enough for our family...but take this into consideration when you make this.

Recipe #299411

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Hot Tuna Sandwich Cups

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3 Reviews | By ColCadsMom

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We love biscuit cups with hot fillings, and this is one of the few ways that my boys will eat tuna. They go well with chips or salad, but will also hold up as an entree with veggie sides. This was originally in a Betty Crocker cookbook, but I omitted the peas called for because my family doesn't care for them. I have used light mayo, butter, and cheese, and they are still good.

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Cranberry-Orange Muffin Stuffing

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This is a Rachael Ray recipe that I have adjusted slightly to taste. I saw this on 30 minute meals and HAD to try it. I love the slight sweetness in this skillet stuffing that you don't get from a box or using bread. If you use the jumbo muffins like the ones from the bakery, 2 will be enough. If you use muffins made in a standard size muffin pan, you will need 4. I've also made this with corn muffins, and it is equally as good!

Recipe #278147

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Light Lemon Cake Trifle - Weight Watcher Friendly

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This dessert came about totally by accident! I was trying to make one of the many WW cakes that use diet soda and cake mix into muffins. I didn't use liners and didn't spray my muffin tin with enough Pam, and they stuck miserably! So I looked in my fridge to see what I had on hand, and threw this together to layer. It really turned out pretty, and was delicious too! I highly recommend Waist Watchers soda in any cake you make. It is sweetened with Splenda and every flavor is calorie free, aspartame free, caffiene free, sodium free, and fat free. It actually costs less than other diet sodas too! I have only made this once on the spur of the moment, so feel free to make any adjustments needed. Feel free to try white or yellow cake with different flavors of yogurt and diet soda as well. It could also probably be made with a regular cake mix, but would make more like 20-24 servings than the 16 by using 2 Jiffy boxes. Thanks to Kittencal and recipe#79506, I have found a way to keep the yogurt in recipes from becoming runny and watery! I don't know if this would work using flavored Jello, but next time I make it I might try using the sugar free lemon Jello to give even MORE lemon flavor!

Recipe #261779

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Diet Green Tea With Citrus

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1 Reviews | By ColCadsMom

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I LOVE Lipton Diet Green Tea with Citrus. I searched for a copycat recipe, and posted it here: Recipe#261587. But I couldn't find the exact ingredients, so I modified what I could find and found that, although it doesn't taste exactly the same, it does have a similar taste and is equally delicious. The cost per serving is much less when you make it yourself, so I don't feel as badly about drinking as much of it as I do! I hope you'll try either this recipe, or the original one that was free on the Top Secret Web Site.

Recipe #261778

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Sweet Milk and Sugar Icing (Frosting)

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If you like frosting so sweet that it will gag you, then give this one a try. It uses 4 ingredients always on hand. The sweet milk in the title just lets you know it doesn't use buttermilk or sour milk. My family likes this on yellow cake or white cake, and to sandwich together teacakes. A word of advice...don't try to make this frosting if it is raining...it will NEVER get hard. And make sure to boil it the full 90 seconds, so that the icing isn't grainy.

Recipe #261588

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Diet " Lipton " Green Tea With Citrus

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3 Reviews | By ColCadsMom

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I LOVE the new Lipton Diet Green Tea, Citrus flavor. But I can go through a 12 pack in a HURRY. Although 50 cents a bottle doesn't seem like that much, it can REALLY add up when you drink as much of it as I like to :OOPS: I searched for a copycat recipe and found this one on the Top Secret web site. I actually haven't made this recipe, because I couldn't find the True Lime at my grocery store. I did find True Lemon with the artifical sweeteners, and have posted the recipe I made using it also, recipe#261778. I hope to find the True Lime at another grocery store and make this exact recipe as well! ***Recipezaar recognizes True Lemon, but not True Lime. This recipe should have True Lime Crystals instead of True Lemon crystals***

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Chocolate Icing (Frosting)

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2 Reviews | By ColCadsMom

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When my Mom says she's making chocolate cake, she is making a yellow cake with this icing. It is exactly like her recipe#261588 but with cocoa added. Just like with that recipe, do NOT try to make this frosting if it is raining, it will NEVER get hard. I also love this spread between 2 teacakes (recipe#251091) to make a sandwich cookie.

Recipe #251093

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Anne's Teacakes (Tea Cakes)

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1 Reviews | By ColCadsMom

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I can remember sitting in the kitchen watching my Mom make these as a little girl. I didn't even know what a rolling pin was for the longest, because my Mom always used a smooth glass to roll the dough, then used the opening as the cookie cutter! I love these plain, but my Mom quite often frosted and made sandwich cookies with recipe#251093 and recipe#261588. There are a couple of similar recipes, but they use more shortening. My Mother listed the amount as 1/3 cup heaping...which is more like 1/2 cup.

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Warm Banana Pudding Light

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This is a lightened version of the banana pudding served in the South...warm with meringue on top. This is similar to Recipe #32625. It appeared in the Oct/Nov 2003 edition of Light and Tasty. Since then, Splenda for baking has come out, and you could probably use it for the pudding and meringue.

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Italian Mixed Vegetables

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6 Reviews | By ColCadsMom

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This was in the Oct/Nov 2003 edition of Light and Tasty magazine. It is a quick and easy way to prepare frozen mixed vegetables with much less calories than using olive oil. Fresh vegetables may also be used. I have also used fat free Italian salad dressing with no problem to reduce fat and calories even more.

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Homemade Banana Pudding in the Microwave

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My Mother made her banana pudding (ok, it's really vanilla pudding poured over sliced bananas) in the top of a double boiler on the stove. It was always topped with meringue and baked, then served warm. This is more of a modern version, made quickly in the microwave for convenience. Although this is served cold and topped with whipped topping, you can still reserve the egg whites, beat them with sugar, spread over the top of the pudding and bake until brown to serve it for Southern style warm banana pudding. Cooking time does not include cooling.

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Carbonara Deep-Dish Pasta-Crusted Pan Pizza - Rachael Ray

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1 Reviews | By ColCadsMom

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When I saw this recipe I thought you have GOT to be kidding me. Didn't see this exact one posted here, so I'm posting it for future reference. Would take me more like 45 minutes to make I'm sure. She says it serves 4, I think it would serve more like 8 if you add a side or salad. One day I might actually get up the nerve to make it. Edited to add amounts since she often uses a handful of this or that.

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Not Real Rouladen

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This is a super quick shortcut version of Rouladen. My family loves it! I never do a good job of rolling round steak, so this one starts with deli roast beef. The inside has ground beef (make your prep even quicker if you keep Recipe#31008 in your freezer)to give a similar flavor to the original. If you want, roll the raw meat into the deli roast beef, but it must simmer for 1 hour to ensure it is cooked all the way through. I prefer to precook my ground beef. We don't use pickles in ours, but feel free to add pickles to make it more like the real thing. Also feel free to add tomato paste to the sauce if you choose. We prefer the all beef sauce. Great over rice or potatoes.

Recipe #249215

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