Power Pancakes
1 cup whole wheat or buckwheat flour
1/4 cup quick-cooking oats (optional)
3 tsp. baking powder
1 cup skim milk
3 Tbsp. canola oil
1 Tbsp. honey or blackstrap molasses
1 egg

Optional additions:
Top with fresh berries
2 Tbsp. lite syrup
In a large bowl, combine flour, oats, and baking powder. Stir in milk, oil, honey or molasses, and egg. heat a nonstick griddle or pan over medium heat (use cooking spray). pour or scoop the batter in, using approximately one-fourth cup for each pancake. Brown on both sides. Eat on the spot or make several and reheat when you're ready to eat.

Makes 4 pancakes. 2 pancakes per serving.
Try freezing them and warming them up for a quick breakfast idea. Can also add nuts, or chocolate chips for some fun.


Carbohydrate Free Snacks

* Single Servings of cottage cheese

* string cheese

* carrot and celery with peanut butter

* pickles

* tuna salad (the individual cans of tuna)

* nuts (keep raw ones in the freezer if you think you’ll overeat them)

* Sunflower seeds (get them in the shell so it will take longer to eat)

* Jerky (beef, turkey, etc.) (try to find low sugar varieties)

*Sugar free jello, alone or with cottage cheese and a sprinkling of nuts

*large salad with balsamic vinegar

*hard boiled egg

*green pepper with spinach dip

*cucumber salad

*lunchmeat (low-sodium) rolled up with lettuce leaves

*Ricotta cheese with ground flax seed and vanilla flavoring

*one pan fried (in Pam) salmon patty