Found A Snack That Is Soooooooo Darned Good!

Jun 05, 2009

Well, I guess "ye ole appetite hath returneth!!!"  My best friend says it is a direct result of me working out regularly.  She says my body is burning everything I eat and it needs fuel.  Well, I've been seeking light salty snacks that pack a good amount of protein.  Well, I was just kind of surfing the net and found out about dry roasted soy beans, they have about 14g of protein in about a 1/3 cup serving, 4g of fiber, 6g of carbs, 6g fat.  So today I went to my local(well not so local it's not far from my daughter's high school) health food store- for those of you that live in the Detroit area it's in Roseville just past 10 mile road and it's called Health Nut Vitamin.  It's a small place but the guys that work there are soooo helpful and nice.  Back to the snack,  the dry roasted soy beans were $2.99 for a 12 oz bag- it's a good amount of these little buggers.  Well I was standing there staring at all the nuts and snacks on the shelf there and I saw the raw pumpkin seeds they were $4.99 for a 16oz bag- again good amount for the money. So I grabbed those also.  For a 1/4 cup serving they have 10g of protein, 3g of fiber, 5g of carb and about 15g of fat.  I know that sounds like a lot of fat, but we must remember, this is the good fat, the kind our body needs.  Considering I don't really put fat in anything I eat (I can't stand butter on toast and things like that- to me it may as well be Crisco on a bagel) it won't be a problem for me.  Well, I brought home my goodies and I took a tiny-tiny bit of margarine in a small skillet, I didn't measure I just poured soy beans and pumpkin seeds and toasted them until the soy beans were a little more golden brown.  I then took regular salt ( about 1/8th of a teaspoon of each), Lawry's seasoning salt and garlic powder and put them in a tiny prep bowl and mixed it around, then stirred it into the toasted seed/beans mixture.  I then poured them into a dish to let them cool, but of course I tasted a couple while they were hot- they were out of this world.  So I will measure them out by 1/4 c and put them in the zip lock snack bags and as I need to I'll drop a bag in my purse.  Hope you get a chance to try it!!!  BTW, I'm down 12.3 lbs...Yayyyyyyyyyyyy!! I've been working out almost everyday, I'm working my tail-feathers off.  Hope you all are doing well.

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