Milkshake Use a tall plastic glass. Start with about an inch of milk in the bottom. Fill with vanilla ice cream of frozen yogurt. Add coffee—not too much. The top of the ice cream should look a little melted, but be visible. Mix and top with cinnamon, and/or whipped cream. (This can be varied with yogurt flavors, chocolate syrup, etc.) Recipe Name: Creamsicle Drink Recipe Ingredients: orange juice, seltzer, milk optional: whipped cream, cinnamon Preparation Instructions: Fill cup 2/3 of the way with orange juice. Add seltzer water ("soda") and a little milk or milk-like beverage. Stir. Finish with whipped cream and sprinkle cinnamon on top if you're so inclined. Mmm ... Recipe Name: Sugar-free Coffee or Fruit Flavored Yogurt Recipe Ingredients: round 8 oz plain yogurt, 1 - 1 1/2 packs of sugar substitute (equal stuff), and either banana, apple or 1/8 cup of coffee Preparation Instructions: put yogurt in bowl, add the amount of sugar substitute you want to your liking (if you use banana you will need less), and stir. Add chopped up apple, banana, or a few spoonfuls of coffee (that isn’t too hot). Stir, and enjoy! Recipe Name: Mocha Shake Recipe Ingredients: Vanilla soft serve, chocolate syrup, coffee Preparation Instructions: Fill the cup with ice cream until you've got about an inch of space left. Pour on a goodly amount of chocolate syrup (say half an inch) and then just a bit of coffee. The flavor is mostly from the ice cream and chocolate, and the coffee helps to melt the ice cream and get it to the right consistency. You usually have to fiddle with the amount of coffee to get it just right. Recipe Name: Frappuccino Recipe Ingredients: Coffee Chocolate Soft Serve Preparation Instructions: 4/5 soft serve 1/5 coffee mix Very easy, and amazingly good. Recipe Name: Smoothie Recipe Ingredients: Any flavor sorbet, any juices of your choice, bananas or other fruit (optional) Preparation Instructions: Mash up fruit in cup. Add about 3/4 cup of sorbet. Fill the rest of the glass with juice. Mix vigorously. Recipe Name: Peter's Secret Milkshake Recipe Recipe Ingredients: Soft serve vanilla ice cream; milk; powdered sugar; powdered cinnamon; coffee. Preparation Instructions: Fill a cup almost to the top with ice cream. Then fill it 3/4 the way with milk. Add as much sugar and cinnamon as you would like. Finish with a bit of coffee. Mix it up and enjoy. Honey Cinnamon Tortilla Shell Smear honey on a tortilla. Place in a bowl. Sprinkle with cinnamon, raisins, and granola (apple pieces also an option). Heat in the microwave until honey mixture is slightly bubbly (approx. 2 minutes) Cottage toast Cottage cheese, 2 pieces wheat toast, honey, wheat germ, and bananas Spread cottage cheese thickly on toast. Drizzle with honey and top with sliced bananas and wheat germ. Apple raisin Oatmeal 1 apple, brown sugar, oatmeal, raisins, wheat germ, and bananas Slice up one apple (peel if you have time), place in empty bowl with raisins. Pour oatmeal on top of fruit and mix. Top with brown sugar and wheat germ. *Add yogurt to cereals instead of milk Recipe Name: Tastier Granola Recipe Ingredients: applesauce, granola, cinnamon Preparation Instructions: Combine ingredients to taste! Eat cold or microwave for a yummy treat. Enjoy! Recipe Name: Sweet Breakfast Recipe Ingredients: some kind of bread, preferably pita or English muffin cottage cheese cinnamon raisins opt: cut up apple Preparation Instructions: Spread cottage cheese on bread. Sprinkle on cinnamon and fruit. Eat. Recipe Name: Energy Recipe Ingredients: 1 bowl of wheat flakes with a sprinkling of grape nuts and/or granola 1 small banana a few raisins 1 cup milk cinnamon to taste Preparation Instructions: Combine the cereal, milk, raisins, and sliced banana in a bowl. Sprinkle cinnamon on top. Microwave for 1 minute; stir, microwave for an additional minute. Recipe Name: Yogurt Parfait Recipe Ingredients: Yogurt Granola Fruit (the kind they serve in syrup that comes from the can works the best) Preparation Instructions: Put yogurt in a bowl, put fruit on top of it and sprinkle granola on top. Carrot-Raisin Orange Salad Scoop a spoonful of yogurt in a bowl of shredded carrots. Add raspberry jam, raisins, and cut orange slices as desired. Mix together. Grilled Chicken Salad Use lettuce, tomato, mushrooms, and regular salad fixings. Add feta cheese, vinegar, a grilled chicken patty, and Chinese crackers or croutons. Chicken Caesar Salad Chop up chicken breast. Add lettuce, croutons, and Caesar salad dressing. Also can serve in a tortilla wrap. Recipe Name: Greek Cucumber and Yogurt Salad Recipe Ingredients: Cucumber pickles plain(unsweetened) yogurt garlic (optional) onions (optional) salt, pepper herb seasoning Preparation Instructions: Cut up the cucumbers, pickles and onions really small and put them in a bowl filled with yogurt so that they are completely covered. Add all the seasonings and mix. Bagels Bagel melt Bagel or pita bred Fresh spinach Red onion Mushroom 2 slices Swiss cheese Toast bread layer with spinach, red onion, mushrooms, and top with cheese slices. Put in microwave for 45 seconds to 1 minute. Top with salt and paper. Tortillas Cereal bowl, brown rice, mushrooms, black beans, cheese (shredded), fresh spinach, salsa, red onion, tortilla, plain yogurt Pile ingredients except tortilla and yogurt in any order in cereal bowl and microwave for 1 minute 30 seconds. Toast tortilla. Pile ingredients in tortilla, top with plain yogurt, role up and enjoy. *Flour tortilla filled with flaked tuna fish, grated cheese, lettuce, and tomato. *Flour tortilla filled with refried beans, grated cheese, and guacamole. Pitas Recipe Name: Hummus & Pita Recipe Ingredients: pita hummus olive oil Preparation Instructions: cut pita into wedges (3 per half works well) toast drizzle olive oil on toasted sections 9rub with a napkin to distribute thinly and evenly) eat by dipping into hummus Recipe Name: Sweet Pockets Recipe Ingredients: Pita bread (2 halves), cottage cheese, cinnamon, sugar or sweetener, raisins or diced fruit (optional) Preparation Instructions: Put enough cottage cheese to fill both halves of pita bread into a bowl. Mix thoroughly with as much cinnamon and sugar/sweetener as desired. If desired, add fruit or raisins for extra pizzazz. Spoon the mixture into the pita pockets, and enjoy! Hummus and Pita Chips Hummus Salsa Pita bread Garlic powder Spices Mix in spoon full of salsa in hummus. Split open pita bread and divide into eighths, toast (2 times for crispy chips). Sprinkle chips with garlic and spices. Use chips to dip into hummus. Varieties: To make a sandwich, spread hummus and salsa mixture in a pita pocket. Add lettuce, tomato, feta cheese, and olives. Spread on grilled chicken and put on a whole wheat bun. Add lettuce, Swiss or feta, and tomato. Pizzas Recipe Name: Thin Crust Pizza Recipe Ingredients: red pasta sauce shredded cheese tortilla veggies from salad bar Preparation Instructions: Coat tortilla with sauce, sprinkle with cheese and top with veggies (I like onion and green pepper) Microwave for 45 second to melt cheese. Recipe Name: Inverted Pizza Recipe Ingredients: White flour pizza dough, tomato sauce, cheese Preparation Instructions: Prepare pizza dough per usual, then add cheese only, and bake the pizza. Once the pizza comes out of the oven, apply a thin layer of sauce that will warm as it sits on the pizza, and that's it! Reversing the order of the ingredients makes for a different taste, and allows the oils from the cheese to soak down into the bread while cooking. Protein- meats, fish, eggs Recipe Name: EZ Tuna Melt Recipe Ingredients: tuna salad, two slices of cheese, two slices of bread Preparation Instructions: 1. Sandwich two slices of cheese between two layers of tuna salad on a small plate. 2. Toast two slices of bread. (Toast it well.) 3. Microwave the small plate for 45 seconds. 4. Invert small plate contents onto one slice of toast. 5. Place other slice of toast on top and enjoy. Recipe Name: Real(er) Chicken Parm Recipe Ingredients: Italian Chicken Breast Pasta of your choice Tomato or Marinara Sauce Mozzarella Cheese (salad bar) Italian Seasoning Red Pepper Garlic Powder Granulated Onion Parmesan Cheese Preparation Instructions: Get an Italian chicken breast or two from the grill, put on top of pasta. Add sauce. Add mozzarella. Add seasonings and parm at condiments station. Nuke 1-2 minutes, depending on size. Recipe Name: Chicken Caesar Sandwich Recipe Ingredients: Baked Chicken Breast Bulkie Roll Lettuce Shredded Mozzarella Caesar Salad Dressing Preparation Instructions: Spread desired mozzarella over chicken breast. Microwave for 45 seconds. On a separate plate, put some lettuce on the roll, then drizzle the caser dressing over the lettuces (not on the roll itself: the bread will soak it up if you do it that way). Then, transfer the chicken breast with the melted cheese onto the roll, on top of the lettuce and dressing. Recipe Name: Tuna-Luna Recipe Ingredients: tuna (plain) red onions garbanzo beans (a.k.a. chic peas) lemon olive oil Preparation Instructions: Put 2-3 scoops of tuna into a bowl. Add red onions (about 1/3 cup). Add 2-3 scoops of garbanzo beans. Squeeze two lemon-wedges-worth of lemon juice onto everything. Lastly, add olive oil to taste. It's important you add the oil last, as it will keep the tuna from absorbing the lemon juice. Recipe Name: Deviled Eggs Recipe Ingredients: hard-boiled eggs mayonnaise mustard relish paprika salt pepper Preparation Instructions: Peel eggs and cut in half, removing egg yolks. In an empty bowl, mash yolks while mixing in about a tablespoon each of mayo, mustard, and relish for each egg.