I bought a box of that Swiss Miss Sensible Sweets- Diet once when it was on sale for a dollar (I'm a sucker for a good sale). I took it home, all kinds of giddy about having discovered 0 point cocoa; mixed it with 3/4 cup of water, and sat down to enjoy my find.
Of course it would be practically flavorless. Ah, well, it was only a buck, so I wasn't upset about the failed experiment. I put it in my cabinet and promptly forgot about it.
Fast forward a year past it's Best Before Date to this morning. I was frowning into my tea cabinet, at a loss for which one to pick when it occurred to me that I just wasn't in the mood for some tea. I'm not a coffee drinker either, so that was out of the question, but I really wanted a cup of something warm to wake up with. That's when my eyes fell upon the long-forgotten box of Swiss Miss.
I sighed and pulled it down, wondering what the new points value was since the system changed.
Calculator: That vile stuff is no longer free, my friend.
Me: What?!
Calculator: Yup. That cup of watered down, not-quite-sweet hot chocolate will now set you back a whopping one point.
Me: . . . Life hates me.
Calculator: Sometimes.
I went to put it back in the cabinet, when the last line of instructions caught my eye: For more indulgent cocoa, make with milk instead of water.
Huh. Couldn't hurt to try, right? I have a hard time getting my milks in anyway. But upon opening the fridge, I realized we had no milk.
Me: Life really hates me.
Fridge: Yeah, sometimes. Maybe try the soy milk?
Me: I have soy milk?
Fridge: Yeah, it's buried behind the ketchup bottle, the 2 liter of Pepsi and whatever's growing in that blue tupperware bowl.
Me: Right! I bought it for my chai the other day. Thanks, man!
Fridge: You can thank me by cleaning me out today.
I exhumed the soy milk from the back of my refrigerator and calculated the points. 2 points for a cup, 1 for 3/4 cup. I decided it was reasonable, warmed it up, and proceeded to make the cocoa. I was almost afraid to taste it.
The first sip wasn't so bad, but it seemed like it was missing something. I went back into my cabinet and pulled out an unopened bag of gingerbread marshmallows I'd bought on a whim (and because they were on clearance for a buck after Christmas). Crazy, I didn't think I'd ever find a use for those things.
Calculator: You can have up to two for free.
Two seemed plenty, since the cup was pretty small. I mixed the two little gingerbread men in and took another sip. It was heavenly! Exactly what it needed! So here's the point of this unnecessarily long story- a low point recipe for yummy cocoa, while satisfying one of the two milk requirements:
1 packet Swiss Miss Sensible Sweets- Diet, 1 point
3/4 cup Soy Slender soy milk, Vanilla flavored (I bet chocolate would be awesome too!), 1 point
2 Jet Puffed Gingerbread flavored marshmallows (I'm sure any marshmallow would do nicely, but these are unbelievable if you can still find them), 0 points
Heat and enjoy!
2 comments:
Gingerfreakinbread MARSHMELLOWS?! S.T.F.U. Why do I live in the middle of canfindanythingville?
Dude! The first time I saw them was in Sedalia! I saw them at Walmart, and I didn't buy any because I couldn't think of anything to use them on. I regretted it, and when I got home, I scoured our grocery stores looking for them.
I finally found them at OUR Walmart.
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