It’s happened again and I’m frustrated. I went to the store this morning to pick up a few things for dinner. I always forget one odd item (even with a list). Anyway, I strolled down the dairy isle to get some Parmesan cheese and that’s when I saw it. There it was, in a 24.2 oz container, with a sunny yellow lid…Kraft, Philadelphia, Ready-to-Eat, Cheesecake Filling. I groaned. Here we go again. It was too early in my commitment to consider “cheating”, but I did. My willpower deserted me, after seeing the simple illustration of a spatula smoothing the creamy filling into a graham cracker crust. Life, just, isn’t fair.
Before I could put the groceries away, I grabbed that tub of filling and showed it to my husband. “Honey, look what I found.” I grinned, almost devilishly, because he is the one person who wouldn’t talk me out of making that cheesecake. We each took a spoonful. Well, it wasn’t homemade, but it was good, creamy, and too convenient. In less than a minute, I spooned the filling into a ready-made chocolate, graham cracker pie crust and popped it in the fridge.
Sugar is an ingredient in the filling, no artificial sweetener as a substitute. The nutrition facts state that there are 370 calories (with a crust), 240 calories come from fat. There are eight servings per container and there are five of us, so I figure that I’ll get two slices unless my kids bring company home for dinner. I know that there are more diet friendly cheesecake recipes that won’t settle around my middle. However, I haven’t found one that can be made in less than a minute, with no mess to clean up, and for three dollars.
I guess I have to consider which I want more, a flat tummy and thin thighs or a couple of slices of cheesecake. Lose weight or cheesecake, that’s a tough choice, hmm. I’ve taken a moment to think about it and this time the cheesecake won. Tomorrow is another day.