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magnusfide
Explorer II
Oct 10, 2020

What goes around......

Jello, among my friends that is. The jiggly dessert is a favorite again because it's light and in many ways lower in calories. Sugar free versions are great for diabetics.

This webpage is really popular in our family lately. The kids ask for a Jello dessert all the time. The parents are finding it to be an easy way to get the kids ot eat fruit by putting it into Jello.
Jello Recipes

Disclaimer: I don't work for Jello or its affiliates. Just sharing that our family has rediscovered a classic.
  • magnusfide's avatar
    magnusfide
    Explorer II
    Nov 13, 2020
    Wanderlost wrote:
    magnusfide wrote:
    Another classic that uses lemon Jello.
    Woolworth’s Icebox Cheesecake


    I made it with sugar-free orange Jell-O, orange flavoring, a toasted almond flour crust, and monk fruit sweetener. Not a drop remained. The family dubbed it Orange Fluff.

    Next time, I'm making it with pecan flour crust and a different flavoring in the plain gelatin I'll be using from now on, since I recently found out the sweetener in sugar-free Jell-O is bad for diabetics.

    We aren't diabetic but I get what you mean about the sugar-free additives. After my wife's cancer bout, we opted for unsweetened for years and just add our own stevia, honey or monk fruit.

    When you have the new recipe perfected would you be willing to share it here?
  • Wanderlost's avatar
    Wanderlost
    Nomad II
    Nov 12, 2020
    magnusfide wrote:
    Another classic that uses lemon Jello.
    Woolworth’s Icebox Cheesecake


    I made it with sugar-free orange Jell-O, orange flavoring, a toasted almond flour crust, and monk fruit sweetener. Not a drop remained. The family dubbed it Orange Fluff.

    Next time, I'm making it with pecan flour crust and a different flavoring in the plain gelatin I'll be using from now on, since I recently found out the sweetener in sugar-free Jell-O is bad for diabetics.
  • squirmyirmi's avatar
    squirmyirmi
    Explorer
    Nov 11, 2020
    magnusfide, thank you for the Cherry Pineapple Gelatin recipe. I'll be making that for Thanksgiving.
  • Wanderlost's avatar
    Wanderlost
    Nomad II
    Oct 27, 2020
    Oh, wow. I remember that cheesecake. I can alter the recipe for a diabetic safe version, no sweat. Looking forward to that one.
  • magnusfide's avatar
    magnusfide
    Explorer II
    Oct 22, 2020
    Wanderlost wrote:
    My sister had a Labor Day dinner, and decided to have each of us bring a dish that was popular the year we were born. So for 1952, I found a Sangria Gelatin Ring. It was so freakin' good that it's landed on our holiday dish list.

    I posted it in a separate thread a couple weeks ago.

    YES! I made a version of that for a weekend family dinner for the adults. There wasn't even a scrap of the jiggly stuff left.
  • Wanderlost's avatar
    Wanderlost
    Nomad II
    Oct 22, 2020
    My sister had a Labor Day dinner, and decided to have each of us bring a dish that was popular the year we were born. So for 1952, I found a Sangria Gelatin Ring. It was so freakin' good that it's landed on our holiday dish list.

    I posted it in a separate thread a couple weeks ago.
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    magnusfide
    Explorer II
    Oct 11, 2020
    A1ARealtorRick wrote:
    BobsYourUncle wrote:
    gbopp wrote:
    propchef wrote:
    **No, I'm not a vegetarian, but having been in the industry for so long I've learned what products to avoid.

    And many of us are probably old enough to remember when Ham, Eggs and Sunshine were good for you. :)

    And drinking from a garden hose...


    And eating SPAM!

    LOL.

    When we were kids and had a stomach bug our parents gave us jello because it wasn't too hard on the stomach and kept us somewhat hydrated. As a kid I liked taking a mouth-full and forcing it through the gaps in my teeth to gross out my siblings.

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