I LOVE Nutella! I never even tried it before a year ago, and I didn’t know what I was missing! But how do I incorporate that into healthy eating? I had to come up with a dessert. I’ve only made this once before, but it’s so easy, you can make this in less than 10 minutes!

Won ton wrappers

I had leftover won ton wrappers from making potstickers, and I took a square of the won ton wrapper, used less than a teaspoon of Nutella, and added a slice of banana. Fold it in half and wet the edges with water so that it sticks together.

I sprayed a small skillet with Pam Cooking Spray. Add the won ton bites and cook for a few minutes on each side until browned.

Drizzle with chocolate sauce and if I had it, I would have sprinkled powdered sugar all over it.

My only bit of advice is that the insides are HOT! I burned my tongue by not waiting for them to cool!

For all 3 won ton bites, its only 175 calories! Enjoy!!

What do you make with Nutella?

I am starting a new series on my blog to highlight other people’s healthy recipes!

If you have any kind of dish that you enjoy that keeps you healthy and that you like to make, e-mail it to me at slim-shoppin@comcast.net! OR you can leave a recipe in the comments section too.

If you have a food blog, I will link it to your blog, if you don’t have a food blog, but would like your name mentioned, I can do that too.

I think it will be great to add other people’s ideas and different tastes than mine to this blog. Feel free to enter as many as you like and I will organize them into categories.

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On a side note, I got an e-mail from Erica, who was one of my weight loss superstars to tell me of her two new sites she has!

Click HERE if you missed her story.

Her NEW blog address is www.certifiablyfit.com/blog

Her NEW training site is www.certifiablyfit.com

Check out her new sites, she’s really doing great keeping the weight off and staying healthy and working out! Great job Erica!!

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The window outside of my nieces shop

Last week my family went to my nieces gelato store which just opened a few weeks ago. It’s all very exciting, she’s worked so hard at it, and her dream of opening her own shop has come true!

From the left, my son Mark in the back, my daughter Claire, my niece Jessie and my son Paul on the right

Her shop is at 859 N. Damen in Chicago, it’s a great corner shop with tons of different flavors of gelato. Probably her most popular flavors, goat cheese, cashew and carmel, mexican hot chocolate, sesame fig chocolate chip, OR this…

I cannot lie, this whiskey gelato, dipped chocolate with real bacon bits is amazing!

Look at all those awesome flavors!!

My niece Darby got her face painted - so cool!

So pretty!

AND, she was featured on a local Chicago news station for a great interview!

So, if you live in the Chicago area, it’s worth a trip to try her famous gelato!

For store hours, check out her website at www.blackdogchicago.com

Roasted chick peas

I would suggest using 2 (15 oz) cans of chick peas (garbanzo beans) because the process takes a while and they get eaten fast!

Take 2 cans of chick peas, and rinse them under cold water. Drain on a paper towel. Transfer them to a cookie sheet and add 2 tsp. of olive oil. Then I added a teaspoon of chili powder, a teaspoon of cumin, and a teaspoon of garlic salt. Stir until its all coated.

Bake at around 275-300 for an hour and fifteen minutes.

I would stir them every 15 minutes or so. You will know when they are done because they are crunchy. If they are still soft, put them back in the oven.

To me they taste like roasted soy beans, they are so crunchy and yummy! You can eat them plain, or add them for some crunch to your salad.

You don’t have to refrigerate the leftovers, just keep them in an air tight container.

Enjoy!

This is so cool!

Rouxbe Cooking School is hosting a sweepstakes to win this totally deluxe steamer from their site!

It is open to all my readers, just click HERE and you can enter. No purchase necessary, and you can enter until July 12th!

Does anyone ever steam food, or have favorite things that they steam?

I personally have never steamed much foods, but if I had a deluxe steamer like the one pictured above, maybe I would!