Mint Mocha Freeze (vegetarian) - p233

Review: This was a recipe for my husband to try. There's a hint of coffee in this recipe. I thought the overall taste was surprisingly good (mint coffee?). My husband was ok with it but wanted something a bit creamier. He's not sure why HG doesn't just stick with a good base and then make substitutions. He's just upset I haven't made vanillalicious cafe freeze in a while.

Score: 2/5
Prepared: 10/19/09

http://www.hungry-girl.com/genericpreview.php?newsletterid=744

Noodled-up Chicken Soup - p56

Review: HANDS DOWN, this is the BEST Tofu Shirataki recipe I have had yet. This recipe tasted just like chicken noodle soup and I think the texture of the noodles was less noticeable than most. It wasn't too hard but I'm not sure that I'd make this instead of popping over to Chick-fil-a for some chicken noodle soup. One large serving only has 2 points but eat anymore than that and the points increase a lot. I think HG called for this recipe to make 5 servings but when I put it in the WW calculator, I got 4 servings to have the same number of points. BUT when I ate TWO servings, I ended up with 7 points.

Score: 5/5
Prepared: 10/20/09

Baja Taco Blitz - p138

Review: This recipe was really yummy but a taco is a taco, right? The one drawback that kept it from achieving a 5? Meat seasoning. It doesn't add any points, why not season the meat? Corn tortillas aren't my thing so the unseasoned meat didn't bother me since all I could taste was corn. But my question is why add the avocado (1/16 of an avocado per tortilla) and add the fat when you can't taste it?? I don't know how they got their tacos to photograph so well in the book (look like taquitos) but mine were exploding. Guess that's a good thing!

Score: 4.75/5
Prepared: 10/19/09

Swapcorn Shrimp - p110

Review: My usual review for faux-fried stuff: it tastes like FiberOne. My husband liked it alright but I liked it a lot better with some cocktail sauce and I couldn't taste the FiberOne anymore. Check out the link below for the recipe.

Score:3/5
Prepared: 10/18/09

http://www.hungry-girl.com/chew/chewdetails.php?isid=986

Saucy BBQ Seafood Skewers - p88

Review: I'm giving you my husband's Score since mine is a little skewed (no fish rule). The salmon was actually really good which was a HUGE come back from the breakfast adventure. The shrimp were wonderful. Maybe I just don't do scallops? They're gritty when you chew them. Anyway, I thought you would baste them with the BBQ sauce but you actually put the BBQ on after they are done cooking. Oh yeah, we also cooked everything way longer than it said we would need to but it was yummy that way. Check out the link below to see HG's Not-So-Secret-BBQ-Sauce! My husband thought it was really great!

Score: 4/5
Prepared: 10/18/09

BBQ sauce: http://books.google.com/books?id=dnU9Nmxsxd0C&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=hungry+girl+bbq&source=bl&ots=iIdu1qJZ6R&sig=IsedK4RVh52w-L1hZkSCujM-K4Q&hl=en&ei=pwTdSoKILIOl8Abyz9C3BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CCQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=hungry%20girl%20bbq&f=false

HG's Breakfast Rice Pudding (vegetarian) - HG Newsletter Bonus

Review: I was really worried that the brown rice was going to be too hard for this recipe so I slow cooked it for 8 hours (which did nothing) and then just kept going. By the time I tried it, the brown rice was surprisingly soft for brown rice. I really made this recipe for my husband because I don't eat rice pudding. He felt that it came out more like oatmeal and that he'd rather just have oatmeal. What a good sport - trying all these recipes!

Score: 3/5
Prepared: 10/17/09

http://www.hungry-girl.com/week/weeklydetails.php?isid=1889

Super-duper Cocoa-rific Coffee Malt (vegetarian) - p240

Review: Not much to say since I'm not big on coffee drinks. My husband liked it but said he could get the same flavor (and probably more calories) with a lot less effort. I didn't think it was too coffee-y but we're still sticking to the Vanillalicious Cafe Freeze!

Score: 3/5
Prepared: 10/17/09