dessert

I often get a sweet tooth after dinner. I can live without chocolate or ice cream (most of the time) but I like fruit desserts. My problem is if a make a dessert it is so good I end up eating the whole thing in 1-2 days and it becomes a "danger food" for me, eg. low fat blueberry cheesecake. Does anyone have any ideas for ways I can satisfy my sweet tooth and still stay on program (possibly some  ideas for ready made prepackaged desserts out there that I can  keep on hand?)

Make the dessert you want. Cut your cheesecake into slices. Keep 2-3 in the fridge and put the rest in the freezer. If you've only got 2-3 pieces ready to go in the frigde at a time, it might make it easier to "save" it for tomorrow. It does take several hours for things to thaw once coming out of the freezer. So keeping that in mind hopefully will make it worth it for you to keep to one of your pre-portioned pieces at a time.

Prepackaged desserts are handy, but they are also expensive. There's tons of them in the frozen-foods aisle in the grocery store. But I think its better to make what you WANT to eat with good, wholesome ingredients and make your own pre-portions.

Alternatively, you can easily scale down the recipe to make it a smaller pie/cake/etc. Less of it around may help you keep in mind that dessert should be savored a little bit each day. It will still be there tomorrow, so there's no reason to eat the whole bit at once.

Also, I make my own desserts with healthy foods. Chocolate brownie oat bran, pumpkin pie oatmeal, carrot cake oatmeal, peanut butter cookie, apple pie...give me a dessert and I guarantee I can turn it into a bowl of oats lol. Whats also really good is using yogurt as a base and putting your dessert toppings on it. So if you want blueberry cheesecake, a plain yogurt with cinnamon, crushed graham cracker, and a handful of blueberries (maybe a drizzle of maple syrup and some flaked coconut?) might just hit the spot, and you only need make your one portion at a time.

you could try different sugar free (very low calorie but  still delicious!) instant puddings mixed with fruits... Like banana pudding with strawberries in it.. delicious! Even fi you eat the whole box of pudding, it's only about  200cals and thats a LOT of putting and most of the calories come from the milk used to make it.

I cannot keep desert in the house. Twice a week I have desert. I get takeout. I get stuck on the same foods so normally it is a grilled chicken grinder, potato and desert. I eat it and it is gone until the next time.

Get a bit creative: Slice an apple, cook it with a bit of cinnamon, maybe some nutmeg and vanilla, then spoon it onto half of a graham cracker.  Voila! An individually sized, low cal apple pie.  I also really liked the pudding idea someone else posted, and freezing part of a larger dessert works pretty well for me, especially since I put it in the large freezer in the garage!

I really like the Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches for a store-bought dessert.  They are larger than the usual ice cream sandwich, only 140 calories, and have a bit of fiber as well.   But they aren't a fruit dessert, so if that's what you are craving, might not work for you.

i usually eat an apple to crave my after dinner sweet tooth. also, sugar free jello with fat free whipped cream, or weight watchers ice cream sandwiches will satisfy my sweet tooth.

do you like cherries?

http://verysmallanna.com/2009/05/when-life-gi ves-you-cherries/

I made a half batch (4 servings) its around 207/serving if you use skim milk.