Danish Cheater

The Fairy Blogmother is always looking for ways to take off those same 10 pounds. I know, I know- yo-yo dieting is awful, but I keep trying, and that's important. Consistency is the key to successful weight loss whether you go the way of South Beach, Atkins, Weight Watchers, or use the diet of the week from your favorite magazine. Blah, blah, blah. I know it.

Unfortunately, the Fairy Blogmother gets bored easily and switches from one plan to another, resulting in perpetual weight loss and gain. But boredom is the enemy, and the need to try new things is both a real habit and a passion. (Alas, I like to cook and prepare food as much as I like to partake. And the refigerator is always dangerously full.) Eventually, I'll find the 'fountain of slim.'

So, this morning I came upon a new dish to satisfy my hunger and my need to create.
Banish the donut, pass the bag of cookies and go for something full of healthy ingredients.

And thus was born: "The Blogmother's Danish Cheater."

A slice of whole grain bread - toasted. (I found a cranberry-pecan variety made by a local 'artisan bakery,' and you'd be rewarded if you found such a brand in your area.)

Spread with light cream cheese. (Add more dried cranberries or fresh fruit?)

Top with a good sprinkling of cinnamon.

It has fiber, protein, fruit, nuts, and cinnamon (which, research has just revealed, can significantly reduce your cholesterol rates as much as statin drugs if used at the rate of 1 tsp per day)

If you can, add chopped Brazil nuts on top, you'll give yourself added protection against Ovarian cancer. (Women in the area where these nuts are grown, and eaten daily as a diet staple have 0 incidence of ovarian cancer.)