Makes 8 servings

Ingredients:

5 Tablespoons Vinegar, (preferably balsamaic)
1 Tablespoon Water
1 Tablespoon Mustard (like Djion)
1 teaspoon vegetable oil (like olive oil)
1 clove garlic (peeled)
8 leaves basil (peferably fresh)

Directions:

Whisk liquid ingredients together,
Add garlic clove and basil leaves to marinate in the bottom of the jar.

One Serving = 1 Tablespoon

Calories: 8
Carbs 0.8 grams

 
Makes 1 serving

Ingredients:

1/3 cup Chocolate unsweetened almond milk (Almond Breeze Blue Diamond)
1/8 cup Protein Powder (Designer Whey) chocolate
3 pkg Splenda
1/2 banana (preferably frozen)
1/3 cup crushed ice.

Directions:

Combine amond milk, protein powder, splenda, banana
and ice in Magic Bullet (or a Very Heavy Duty blender)

Bluzz up until the banana and ice become smooth
and the mixture is cold and thick. (about 2 or 3 minutes)

One Serving = entire recipe

Calories: 113
Carbs 15.2 grams
Protein 10.4 grams

This is my 100th Words of Wisdom Video,
and I found this one appropriate for the occasion.

Just checking in from VidCon in Los Angeles.
I'm having a good time, passing out diet cookies 
as the YouTube Grandma to all my YouTube Grandbabies.

My activity level is very high,
and my injured left wrist/hand and another old injury to a muscle in my right thigh
are acting up and causing me some discomfort.

The past two days I've eaten more than I burned,
and, now that I'm in the situation, I expect that this will also be the case
for the remainder of the time I'm here. I'm going to do my best to limit the damage,
and deal with corrective behavior when I get back home.

So, if any of you thought I was perfect, you are mistaken.

Today's blog lacks inspiration, but I don't have the energy.
It seems like I've talked to a million people
and It's time for me to get back downstairs again.
Today, I found out that they have allowed 2500 people to reigster
and that there are another 2000 hanging around the hotel, hoping to
participate outside the meeting rooms. 

I like cats.

Recently I've been busy making, individually wrapping, 
and freezing tiny diet cookies to give out at a YouTube conference
which I'm attending in LA at the end of this month
together with my web-genuis son.

These cookies' claim to the status of diet, is because they are sugar-free
and only about 1 in square by 1/4 inch thick, and less than 25 calories each. 
I need between 600 and 1200 cookies. 
Making them is easy, because they are bar cookies,
but wrapping them invididually is quite a time consuming task. 

For those who are interested in watching my most recent
Ask Grandma YouTube video, which talks about the cookies and event,
you can find it HERE under RESOURCES, Videos, Ask Grandma.