Blueberry cheesecake bites & a GIVEAWAY!

Last week, I made yogurt cheese for the first time.  Making yogurt cheese consists of lining a strainer with a paper towel, plopping some yogurt on top, and leaving it to chill out in the fridge overnight.  Doesn’t get much easier than that folks.

I went with 1/4 cup Stonyfield Farms Fat Free French Vanilla Yogurt.  Here’s the lil yogurt cheese:

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Isn’t it cute???

To make the blueberry topping, I put 1/2 cup fresh blueberries + 1 packet Truvia + 1 tsp water into a food processor:

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Then, I poured everything into a little pan and heated the mix on low heat until the sauce thickened up:

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When the blueberries were cool, I took about 1/4 of the blueberry sauce and topped the yogurt cheesecake bite with it:

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I put the cheesecake bite in the fridge while I got to cleaning my disaster kitchen….  Then I dove in to dessert:

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HOLD THE TRAIN!  The key component of any cheesecake is the crust!  Crap!  I didn’t have any graham crackers or nilla wafers (which both would have been excellent options), so I smashed up 1 tbsp of Honey Bunches of oats and put the cheesecake on top:

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YUM. YUM. YUM.  I’m not sure how to compute the calories on this lil guy since a lot of the yogurt is strained out and not used….  But when I include the total calories on the yogurt, this cheesecake bite is only 63 calories.  I had a lot of blueberry sauce left over…  Maybe I’ll use it on toast… better yet, waffles 🙂

GIVEAWAY TIME!

At the Healthy Living Summit this past weekend, I was lucky to get a whole bag of Adora Calcium & Vitamin D Supplements in Premium All-Natural Dark Chocolate!

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What can be better than that?!? 

Ummm… How about a whole bag of Dark Chocolate AND a whole bag of Milk Chocolate Adora discs?!  adora_bags

The nice folks at Adora are going to give one of my readers just that! 

You can enter to win up to four times by leaving one comment on this post for each of the following items:

1. Leave a comment saying “hi” or whatever is on your mind :mrgreen:

2. Follow me on Twitter (you stalker, you 😉 )  My ID is Fervent_Foodie — if you already follow me, leave a comment here saying so

3. “Like” the Fervent Foodie Facebook page and leave a comment on this post letting me know you did so

4. Tweet!  (or blog) about the giveaway, and leave a comment here letting me know you did

I’ll use a random number generator to select the winner, and Adora will ship the chocolate goodies directly to you!  US mailing addresses only.  Giveaway ends Friday August 20th at 11:59pm Eastern time 🙂

 

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PB2 Giveaway!!!

In an effort to get all you silent readers out there to post comments on my blog (so I don’t feel like I’m blogging to myself 😉 ) I decided to do a PB2 giveaway!

PB2 is a powdered peanut butter product.  Basically, all the bad-for-you-ness is sucked out of the peanuts.  All you have to do is mix with water, and you have a healthy PB on you hands!

So here’s the deal:  post a comment on this PB2 Giveaway blog post by midnight Sunday July 4th.  I’ll use a random number generator to select the lucky recipient!

So get to commenting!  I’m interested to hear what you all have to say 😀

Pssst… to comment on this post, click the blue “comment” link below.

Good luck!

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