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Foundation Recipes
--- ALL POSTED RECIPES ON THIS PAGE HAVE BEEN UPDATED FOR THE 2023 PLAN ---
What is a Foundation recipe? To me, they are recipes for food items that act as the BASE for other dishes. Such as how to make low point & calorie Masa, for tortillas and tamales. A guide for making low point Fresh Pasta, that you then use to make low point pasta dishes and lasagnas, recipes for a low point pie crust or breading. On their own, they are just a foundation for larger dishes and meals, but they are an integral part of the cooking process. Included in this section, I'm also putting all 10 of my 0 point ground turkey seasoning mixes. You can download all of the pages as one large file by clicking the picture above... or you can open and view/print the different recipes individually below.
Meat Seasonings, Rubs & Marinades
10 AWESOME recipes
Seasoning mixes for 98-99% fat free ground chicken & turkey, as well as NEW dry rub and marinade recipes for chicken, seafood, turkey and pork.
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2 Ingredient Dough
Fast & Easy Dough
This incredibly simple and fast dough, is low in points and can be used a million different ways. All you need is self rising flour and some Greek yogurt.
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Breading (Low Point)
2 different recipes
My 2 breading recipes. One utilizing mashed potato flakes and flour, the other using crushed rice krispies treats with flour and different seasonings.
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Cream Cheese Hack
Fat Free Cream Cheese Sub.
Showing you how to easily strain Greek Yogurt, to act as a viable substitution for Fat Free cream cheese in recipes. Great for spreads, dips and frostings.
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Dark Ground Turkey Hack
Making It Look Like Ground Beef
Tired of your husband being a big ol' killjoy about your ground turkey burgers? By adding a couple of seasonings, you can mimic the color of cooked cow. Moo, Baby!
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Fat Free Cheese Hack
Melting FF Cheese
One of the biggest complaints with fat free cheese, is that it won't melt. There's an easy way to make it nearly as melty as the full fat stuff, for 0sp.
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Low Calorie, Point & Fat Masa!
Latin Dough for Tamales, Tacos & More
Want to make your own low point tacos, tamales, empenadas and more? Swapping out the Lard from traditional Masa is a piece of cake! Plus, it tastes better.
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Low Calorie & Point Fresh Pasta
Make it yourself and you'll never go back
Making your own FRESH, low point pasta is so much easier than you'd think. It's easier to portion and tastes 1000x better than the dried store bought stuff.
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Low Point Pie Crust
Graham Cracker-style Crust
Instead of graham crackers, we're making ours with crushed bran cereal, molasses, sweetener, and other ingredient swaps. It adds 1 point per slice o' pie.
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Pudding Hack
Dairy Free, Fat Free Pudding
You know how people always post that "you can't make instant pudding with almond milk, soy milk, water, etc... Well, they're wrong. You can... and it's easy.
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Ricotta Gnocchi
Fresh, Low Point Gnocchi
Easy to make, even easier to eat FRESH pasta gnocchi. Absolutely no special equipment required. If you've played with play dough, you can make these Gnocchi.
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Roasted Garlic
0 Point Roasted Garlic
Learn How to make a big batch of Roasted Garlic in your slow cooker & olive oil cooking spray, rather that heating up the whole house with your oven.
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Spices
Toasting & Blooming
How to amp up the flavor in dishes, quickly, by toasting and blooming spices and herbs. It only takes a minute or two with a hot pan and your stove.
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Slider Buns - Pretzel
Pretzel Slider Buns
How to make low point, slider sized mini pretzel buns. They are a bit time consuming, but the payoff is legit, fluffy, tasty pretzel buns at home.
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YEAST Buns
Burger & Slider Buns
My recipe for low point, REAL yeast buns. The recipe makes 4 point buns... HOWEVER, scoop bread out of the top bun and they go down to 3 points.
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YEAST Pizza Dough
REAL Pizza Dough!!
Pizza dough that doesn't taste like a sad little fluffy biscuit. This is the real deal, made with yeast, flour, water and sugar. Can I get an Amen!.
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