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Diet Tips Skinny Cow Truffle Chocolate Ice Cream Bars

I've been dieting for 10 months and lost 86 pounds. I've made a lot of food swaps: lowfat butter, cream cheese and yogurt, soy and skim milk, light bread. I cut meat and sodium and upped vegetable and fruit intake. I use zero calories sweeteners.

All that cutting sometimes leaves me feeling deprived. Sometimes, I crave something sweet. When I do, I'll have a Skinny Cow Chocolate Truffle ice cream bar. Skinny Cow is made by Nestle. They're expensive-- $3 for 6 bars. I don't get why less costs more but I do indulge. That way, I won't be tempted to binge on fattening food. I only have one occasionally.   Diet Tips Skinny Cow Truffle Chocolate Ice Cream Bars for Sweet Tooth

Tightwad Mama's Common Sense Christmas Shopping Tips

I have a long shopping list of people to buy for at Christmas. Four kids and their three significant others, 15 extended family members, husband--and I buy several church giving tree gifts. I'm also a tightwad mama, by necessity and choice. Here are penny pincher shopping tips to save money, keep costs low and buy meaningful gifts for everyone. And best of all, it keeps Christmas the Biblical way--simple, the ways it was meant to be.Tightwad Mama's Common Sense Christmas Shopping Tips

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