Lower Calorie, Yet Delicious, Cakes

Some ways to get lower calorie yet very delicious cakes:
1. Replace oil with apple sauce.

2. Use diet-soda instead of eggs and oil while making a box cake:
http://www.skinnytaste.com/2008/12/diet-soda-cake-35-pts.html

(source: http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/ Stuart Miles)

Example:

Here is a lemon-poppyseed cake I love, but I replaced the oil with apple sauce and eggs with mostly egg whites:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/lemon-poppy-seed-bundt-cake/detail.aspx?event8=1&prop24=SR_Title&e11=poppyseed&e8=Quick%20Search&event10=1&e13=A%3aSearch%20Results-List%28control%29&e7=Recipe%20Search%20Results

PointsPlus Calculation:
1 box cake (lemon flavour) = 55 PointsPlus
1 instant pudding mix (vanilla flavour) = 11 PointsPlus
1 egg = 2 PointsPlus
4 egg whites = 1 PointsPlus
1/2 cup apple sauce = 1 Points Plus
TOTAL = 70 Points Plus

Total weight of cake made = 892g
Each slice (1/6th of cake) or 1 Cupcake = 72g

Points per slice or per cupcake = 6 PointsPlus

Broccoli with besan

A very nice idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZibdpSaep4

I also added a bunch of vegetables I had in the fridge: cauliflower + green peppers.

A Treat: Stuffed Peppers

And its low calorie + low carb!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQat94Ixig

Guaranteed Tasty Chhole/Chick peas

 Forget about frying onions. It ruins the nice authentic "chhole" or Indian Chickpeas taste. I was floored with how GOOD this tasted! And I got an AWESOME complement for it too!

3 cup cooked chhole/chick peas/garbanzo beans
1 tsp whole cumin seeds
3-4 cloves garlic minced
1 inch ginger minced
1 dried red chilli
1 tsp whole garam masala (2 cardamom pods, 1 small stick cinnamon, 2 cloves, 2 whole peppercorns)
1 tsp garam masala powder
2 tbsp MDH chana masala powder OR 2tsp cumin powder + 1tsp coriander powder
1 tsp turmeric
2 large tomatoes
2 tbsp oil
1/2 to 1 cup water

1. Heat oil on medium heat. Add cumin seeds, garlic, ginger, whole garam masala, dried red chilli. Let it sizzle.
2. Add tomatoes, haldi, garam masala powder and haldi powder. Cover and cook till tomatoes are cooked and reduced to a thick gravy.
3. Add chick peas, salt. Stir well. Add 1/2 - 1 cup water. Cover and cook for 20 minutes.
4. Once it's all cooked, Mash the chick peas in the pot with a potato masher or the back of your spoon  to make the sauce thick.

DELICIOUS Low Carb Fajita/Taco Salad

I had this for supper today because I had all the ingredients in the fridge and I wanted to avoid refined carbs if I could for supper. And MAN was this ever a delicious dinner!

2 oz. cooked meat/chicken/turkey/fish cut into bite size pieces and warmed through (I had leftover chicken drumsticks and some leftover leg of lamb)
2 cups romaine lettuce, washed and sliced
1 spring onion, sliced
3/4 cups salsa
1-2 tbsp fat free sour cream

Combine everything except the sour cream in a bowl and mix together.

Dot with sour cream and dig in!

This was delicious, satisfying, filling and awesome!!
Naturally, the success of the dish is dependent on how much you like your salsa. Also, I had previously cooked the chicken drumsticks with a dry taco seasoning with no added fat.

Weight Watchers points: 5