Sweet Tooth

For about the past year my husband and I have banned sweets from the house. It’s not a diet, more of a lifestyle that we have adopted. I am a chocolate addict. It was just easier to cut it out completely than to have it around the house. Well everynight after dinner I get a really bad sweet tooth. Usually I am really good about it. Last night I just couldn’t handle it. I knew we didn’t have anything in the house…. so I went online searching. I threw what I had together (which was nothing) and came up with this berry pie. Literally I had one pie crust, 1 bag frozen mixed berries, 2 frozen bags blueberries and 1 bag frozen strawberries. I combined two recipes together and came up with this crumbled top crust. It actually turned out really good. I calculated that each slice was about 250 calories. No butter and only a 1/2 cup sugar for the whole thing. I am a huge calorie counter, it’s worked really good for me, I have lost 28lbs! So anyway this was a nice treat, I never get to do this. So husband and I sat down with some coffee (decaf of course, it was late) and enjoyed a sweet treat.

 

I have never tried a cumbled top crust like this, I think it turned out really well. With the berries it tasted like a pop tart. It was from one of Emrils recipes. I think it was 2 cups flour, 1/2 cup sald oil, 3 tablespoons milk and 3 tsp sugar. Yeah that sounds right.

 Since we couldn’t wait, the pie was still warm so it didn’t hold it’s form very well. Thats ok it was delicious. I wished we would have had some vanilla ice cream, but it was wonderful without it.

 

 Hmm, I think we liked it. Hahah. Can you tell we don’t get dessert very often? hahahah. It was nice to enjoy the a treat with my husband with the christmas trees lit up, snow outside, cozied up by the fire with warm pie and coffee. We really enjoyed it.

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