Karen's Zone Recipe Box

Cream Cheese Delight It is only "Cream Cheese Pleasant" if you don't try it with Watkins Vanilla Nut Flavoring, from Karen's Kitchen Catalogue.

Chocolate Pudding Decadence No one will ever know it is good for them!

Tofu Jerky Don't laugh until you've tried it!

Turkey Jerky Needs no refrigeration, handy to carry along, low in fat, make it yourself or now find it in many stores. Alternatives for other meats as well.

Peanut Butter Protein Balls You don't have to be a kid to enjoy these!

Nico's Peanut Butter Pudding Pops These wonderful frozen works of art will knock the socks off your kids AND you!

Mock Mashed Potatoes, or "Faux-Tatoes" 1/3 cup mashed potatoes or 2 cups of these...each is a block, and you will like the flavor of these BETTER than mashed potatoes!

Salsa Fresca Store-bought salsas are very carbohydrate dense, often have sugar in them, and allow for very SMALL servings. Making your own salsa will give you LOTS to eat for your weekly Nacho Fix!

Mega Mush or MONSTER MUSH!!! The ultimate sneaky way to get protein into your kids! Call it Mega MONSTER Mush if you have to!

Sunrider Products Recipes
This is an herbal food product line that is SO NUTRITIOUS that it takes Zoning to a whole new level. Truely in line with letting "your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food" here are some exciting ways to use these awesome herbal foods. Read more about Sunrider Products on my Sunrider Products and Description Guide.

NuPlus Oat Bran Muffins These muffins use NuPlus, an herbal food from Sunrider which can be purchased in Karen's Kitchen Shop.

Most Everything OATS!
Once you have been Zoning for awhile, you will have lots of questions about OATS. This page is pretty much the know-all, end-all culmination of 2 years of talking OATS on the Discussion List, put here because of the recipes I've included as well!

Oatmeal Cream It calls for ricotta cheese, which sounds weird, but tastes DIVINE! Karen and Katt give their favorite variations.

Nutty Honey Granola A balanced cereal that is good with milk in a bowl or just to grab and munch.

Colossal Zone Cookies Made to munch with a glass of milk or Cream Cheese Delight Frosting

Power Pancakes These will satisfy your hunger all the way to lunch--just don't tell the kids what's in them.

Oat Groat Pilaf Don't stir it much, and it is a GREAT substitute for Rice pilaf for your side dish.

Oatmeal Soup Tastes great, but we probably need to come up with a different NAME...

Apple Crisp When you think you can't have a special desert anymore, talk to me. I just happen to be eating a bowl of it RIGHT NOW!

Cream Cheese Pudding with Crunchy Topping This is a great one for the kids, too!

Scot Oatcakes There is a funny story about these crackers...

Oatmeal Tea Crackers A variation on the Oatcakes

NuPlus Oat Bran Muffins These muffins use NuPlus, an herbal food from Sunrider which can be purchased in Karen's Kitchen Shop.

Texturized Vegetable Protein Info and Recipe Page
And you thought it was only HAMBURGER...Here is how to USE it!

Fruit Crisp Okay, maybe a little more like "Fruit Chewy" but it makes for a delicious breakfast!

Granola For those who miss cereal for breakfast!

Monster Mush Almost indistinguishable from the oats!

Reader's Submit Their Favorites

One thanksgiving we had a "Party" here in Karen's Kitchen where everyone brought their favorite recipe. They were SO GOOD, I've put them back up for you to use at any time of the year!

Olives Olives are a FABULOUS SOURCE of monounsaturated fats, and better texture than a small glop of oil to a recipe.

Orange Turkey Lovely glaze to go on a bird that is GREAT all year long!

Pralines Meeting the challenge, "Will fructose carmelize?" these delicious nuts are GREAT on your OATMEAL!

Fiesta Chicken Tastes like a PARTY in your mouth!

Golden Dome One more delicious way to enjoy cauliflower!

Lemon Cranberry Cookies Leftover from one wonderful Thanksgiving party!

Maple Pralines Fun stuff we learned to do with Fructose and Nuts!

Seafood Chowder Nothing like SOUP to warm the cockles of your heart...Vegetarians can substitute the seafood with Wothington "Skallops"

Tasty Turkey Wraps Add more veggies on the side if you use LETTUCE to make these wraps instead of flour tortillas!

Toffee Bars Desert is not out of the question, simply out of this world...

Chicken and Turkey Wraps Easy to pick up, easy to pack, try them in the KID'S LUNCHES!

Turkey Stuff Peppers Using Turkey instead of beef really cuts back on the fat in this delicious recipe! Vegetarians, use Texturized Vegetable Protein instead!

Kid's Favorite Zone Meals
Put your kid to the test and send me a menu and a picture of your little Zone Chef!

Nutty-O Bars Packs a wallop of a crunch, the kids will LOVE them.

Peanut Butter Pudding Pops Make them when the kids aren't home before you get around to telling them WHAT'S IN THEM...

Peanut Butter Power Balls We've started using Designer Protein Powder in Vanilla or Chocolate to make these really special!

No Cook Recipe Index

There is a population out there who has NO TIME TO COOK. If you are one of them, send me your recipes and menus to post here for your fellow no-cookers, although I SUSPECT that the None-Cooks are also the NONE-Recipe Makers, so folks, can you Cookers help them out? Rules for submittal are above

Chicken and Turkey Wraps Easy to pick up, easy to pack, try them in the KID'S LUNCHES!

Tasty Turkey Wraps Add more veggies on the side if you use LETTUCE to make these wraps instead of flour tortillas!

Weird Foods You Need to Learn About

Spaghetti Squash comes onto our Discussion List every few months, and now is the time to buy it and enjoy fun food.

Hope you enjoy adding these recipes to your collection! Join the Discussion Group and delve into our Recipe Archives at in Contact Karen.

Thanks for stopping by!

Karen