Mythical One Point Cheesecake
I share the teacher staff room with a handful of teachers that are on the Weight Watcher program. I've never been on the WW program myself, but I've become very familiar with the terminology from listening to them and other friends on the program.
We sit in the staff room at lunch and swap tips back and forth, both food ideas and exercise ideas, moan when we've succumbed to a chocolate sundae, bragged when we've hiked five miles. We examine each other's lunches, comparing soups and yogurts and puddings, telling each other where we found them and how many points each food is.
Ah, points. The lifeblood of the WW program. I once had someone try to explain the WW point system to me and she slipped into an alien tongue talking about food counts and slide rules and bewildered me so that I didn't ask again :). But I've come to understand that foods with low point count are a good thing, though high point things are fine if you stay in the point range assigned to you.
Anyway.
One day I was talking in the staff room about one of the Richmond Hill walking routes I take on a regular basis. One of the WW gals spoke up and said, "Hey, that takes you by Reid's Dairy. They sell small cheesecakes in there that are only one point." This caught the attention of all other WW folks around the table. One point cheesecake, this was a very good thing.
For weeks afterwards people would ask me, "Have you tried the one point cheesecake yet? Can you bring me a one point cheesescake? How is the one point cheesecake?". Curiousity never got the best of me enough to veer off my trail into the mall to search out this low-cal manna.
Until yesterday when I decided that with two weeks left of school I should surprise and amuse my staff room co-horts by picking up one point cheesecakes for the three of us to try. So, I made my way to Reids Dairy and went looking for the cheesecakes. I found them in a freezer cooler and discovered they come in four flavours- raspberry, lemon, key lime and blueberry. I bought a half a dozen of the raspberry and key lime cheesecakes and headed back on the trail for home, sampling one along the way.
Well, they aren't Baskin and Robbins, but they are good. Crumbly, unsweetened graham cracker bottom, creamy flavourful filling which is either like ice cream when frozen or cheesecake when thawed. The raspberry cheesecake also had a thick and tasty fruit topping as well. And for those of us not hip to the WW lingo, the label said one cheesecake is 56.6 calories. Should be a good halfway treat during hot summertime walks.
Looking forward to the surprise and excitement when I dump these mythical cheesecakes on the staff room table Monday morning :).
Exercise log- 3.5 miles yesterday while I ate my raspberry cheesecake. 171 miles along the challenge. John and I are off to Belfountain today in search of more hiking merriment. Hope it gets a bit less overcast...
We sit in the staff room at lunch and swap tips back and forth, both food ideas and exercise ideas, moan when we've succumbed to a chocolate sundae, bragged when we've hiked five miles. We examine each other's lunches, comparing soups and yogurts and puddings, telling each other where we found them and how many points each food is.
Ah, points. The lifeblood of the WW program. I once had someone try to explain the WW point system to me and she slipped into an alien tongue talking about food counts and slide rules and bewildered me so that I didn't ask again :). But I've come to understand that foods with low point count are a good thing, though high point things are fine if you stay in the point range assigned to you.
Anyway.
One day I was talking in the staff room about one of the Richmond Hill walking routes I take on a regular basis. One of the WW gals spoke up and said, "Hey, that takes you by Reid's Dairy. They sell small cheesecakes in there that are only one point." This caught the attention of all other WW folks around the table. One point cheesecake, this was a very good thing.
For weeks afterwards people would ask me, "Have you tried the one point cheesecake yet? Can you bring me a one point cheesescake? How is the one point cheesecake?". Curiousity never got the best of me enough to veer off my trail into the mall to search out this low-cal manna.
Until yesterday when I decided that with two weeks left of school I should surprise and amuse my staff room co-horts by picking up one point cheesecakes for the three of us to try. So, I made my way to Reids Dairy and went looking for the cheesecakes. I found them in a freezer cooler and discovered they come in four flavours- raspberry, lemon, key lime and blueberry. I bought a half a dozen of the raspberry and key lime cheesecakes and headed back on the trail for home, sampling one along the way.
Well, they aren't Baskin and Robbins, but they are good. Crumbly, unsweetened graham cracker bottom, creamy flavourful filling which is either like ice cream when frozen or cheesecake when thawed. The raspberry cheesecake also had a thick and tasty fruit topping as well. And for those of us not hip to the WW lingo, the label said one cheesecake is 56.6 calories. Should be a good halfway treat during hot summertime walks.
Looking forward to the surprise and excitement when I dump these mythical cheesecakes on the staff room table Monday morning :).
Exercise log- 3.5 miles yesterday while I ate my raspberry cheesecake. 171 miles along the challenge. John and I are off to Belfountain today in search of more hiking merriment. Hope it gets a bit less overcast...