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My backyard April 2016 |
Today marks my 4 weeks of following Weight Watchers and I'm down another 1.2lbs. After 4 weeks that brings my total weight loss to 13.1 pounds! My goal, at the beginning, was to work on the habit of tracking my meals and being more aware of what I was putting in my body for the first 4 weeks then slowly introduce more activity into my lifestyle. I'm not yet the early morning workout person I hope to be so evening workouts are what I'll start with. Good long walks with my dogs, yoga classes, setting up my home gym with my treadmill, elliptical and captains chair along with some cardio and body weight activites are where I will start.
I keep seeing this post pop up on my Facebook and Pinterest and thought I'd give it a try
I used to own a dehydrator but found it was one of those things I thought I'd use a lot more than I actually did and it was just taking up counter space. Using a dehydrator would be much simpler but I did these 'old-school' in my oven.
I bought a pound of strawberries, cut the stems off, sliced them in half and sprinkled a little bit of salt over them all. I preheated the oven to 250 degrees and set my timer for an hour. One of the posts I read said the oven door would need to be opened every 30 minutes to allow the air to circulate. I thought propping the door open a bit would do the same thing and it saved me from having to set my timer for every 30 minutes.
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I remember seeing my Aunt do this years ago when she would make her Baked Alaska :) |
After 1 hour
After 2 hours I flipped them
After 3 hours
They were almost done but I wanted them a little drier out so I put them back in for another 45 minutes
They tasted just like the berries in Special K Red Berries. They were a good treat but for 4 hours work I felt a little ripped off. I will do this again but I'm going to try frozen strawberries next time. This was a lot of time spent to end up with just a little yogurt container full of berries. Frozen berries will be cheaper and I'll try 4 trays in my convection oven to see how that works.
Off to work on my meal plan for this week :)
Enjoy!