This is a quick recipe that is actually pretty healthy. You make the pudding from scratch (it’s not that hard) and add the rest.
If you make the pudding ahead of time, your kids can make their own pudding sundaes. Chocolate chips and sliced bananas add a lot of appeal. The recipe calls for putting crushed graham crackers on the bottom of the dish, but you could sprinkle them on top. Or layer them with the pudding in a clear glass for a parfait look that’s nice for entertaining. Kids might like to just have graham cracker segments to dip in the pudding. You might like to add some peanuts to this for even more goodness. Could be like a Dairy Queen Peanut Buster Parfait, only healthier.
My favorite diet trick to get instant chocolate pudding is to mix unsweetened cocoa powder into vanila yogurt that is sweetened with aspartame (Nutrasweet). You could use plain yogurt and add an alternative sweetener like Stevia if you prefer.
All of this goodness can be frozen into pudding pops if you use paper cups and popsicle sticks. I don’t ordinarily use paper cups, but for this I can’t think of anything else that would work. Your kids might really like making their own pudding pops for the hot days ahead.
Click title for link to the recipe at Prevention where it is part of their Flat Belly Diet. If you make the recipe as written the serving size is 391 calories. There is a lot of nutrition in the recipe, just don’t tell the kids!
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