Last week I shared with you about how I have been meal planning with Plan to Eat and how I want to share my meal plans with you to hopefully inspire you with your meal plans. Now I am on a high protein low carb diet and I am a big believer in healthy fat so do [...]

Mini Taco Salads
I first made these trying to stuff the tortillas in the muffin pans cups, but then my wonderful husband sent me this picture on google+: Source: lifehacker.com via Pepper on Pinterest That is how I’m going to make them next time! I can’t wait to try it out so we are having them again right [...]

Weigh In Wednesday: Lap Band Surgery Truths
There is a belief that lap band surgery is an easy way out or that you will loose your weight fast with lap band surgery. Some people may lose weight quickly at first but this is not typical, usually the weight loss is slow and very hard at the beginning. In the following video I talk [...]

Skinny Creamy Black Bean Chicken Soup (Crock Pot)
Are you looking for something quick and easy to make for dinner? You can’t get any easier than this. Basically you are going to through everything in the crock pot and do a little prep before dinner and you are ready eat. To top off how easy and yummy this turns out you end up [...]

Pepper’s Planning to Eat
I have been fighting a hard battle with my Meal Planning. I hate meal planning, I bang my head on the computer as I sit and try to get the thing together. I’ve just started using Plan to Eat which has helped. I like that I can pull in recipes from anywhere online and that I can [...]

Low Carb Chicken Lasagna
I was hit with inspiration the other day as I was planning our meals. I have been doing a lot of recipes with soft cheeses stuffed into flattened chicken. I had some low fat ricotta left over from another recipe and I was trying to think how could I use this up. Lasagna was the [...]

4 Months Since Surgery
It’s been 4 months since my surgery and I wanted to share a little more about my recovery and my progress so far.

Creamy Shrimp Cucumber Sandwich
I recently had a request for some recipes here on Pepper Scraps, now I’m the first one to admit I’m not the best cook out there. But sometimes I do a good job combining a few flavors and making something yummy. Today it was a very yummy light lunch: Creamy Shrimp Cucumber Sandwiches. 3 oz [...]

Non-Scale Victories (NSV)
One of the things that you will find on many weight loss forums is people sharing their non-scale victories (NSVs). I haven’t been really good about keeping up on my NSVs, it is one of the things I’m supposed to keep in my weight loss journal. So today lets catch up, and while we are [...]






