Pineapple Jell-O Rings: 0 Weight Watchers Freestyle Smart Points
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Yield 8 slices
Pineapple Jell-O Rings – 0 Freestyle Smart Points
Thank you Kathy from the If You Have an Egg Facebook Group for sharing this easy, fun and oh so colorful zero Freestyle Smart Point treat with us. I don’t know who came up with this originally, but I thank you too!
My dad was a traveling salesman so my sister and I spent a lot of time at home alone on our small farm. He’s kind of a picky eater (fickle is more like it) so the handful of days a month he was home you could count on an unexciting bland same old same old menu blindfolded. I can still order for him at almost any restaurant, he’s that predictable.
If you’ve met my mom you already know she’s never really been one for a schedule. Or a plan. Or really any sense of a menu for the week much less forever. So whenever our dad was home more than a day or two, we had to resort back to Meatloaf Monday, Stogranoff Tuesday, Fried Chicken Wednesday, and Beans & Taters Thursday (but not two kinds of beans mind you…you can’t eat two kinds of beans in the same meal according to him hahaha) and mom always liked to stir it up a bit. One morning when he had been home waaaay too many days in a row, she added what I’m sure was an unhealthy amount of food coloring for Green Eggs & Ham. He was not amused. Another favorite was to take pear halves, put them in a baking pan and add green jell-o. We would slice it up and have a little jell-o fruit cake on our plate. My sister and I thought it was awesome, he tolerated it because then we didn’t ask for any of his very plain, very 70’s vanilla ice milk after supper.
ice milk
noun
NORTH AMERICAN
- a sweet frozen food similar to ice cream but containing less butterfat.
Ingredients
- 1 can either sliced or whole pineapple in its own juice (no sugar!) drained completely and left in can
- 1 small box any flavor SF Jell-O or other brand gelatin
- ½ the amount of water called for on the box
Instructions
Prepare gelatin according to directions (except you are only using half the water, remember?) and pour directly into open can with pineapple still inside. Cover with cling wrap, or an open plastic sandwich bag, or I used the lids for Dusty’s dog food cans (clean of course!). Leave in fridge at least a couple of hours, I did it overnight because of course it was like 11pm when I started this J. When you’re ready to serve set can out for about 5 minutes at room temp, take a regular knife and slide it around the outside of the pineapple ring to separate it from the can. The if you watch my video you shake until either you or the jell-o give up. After the video my husband said “just put the lid back on, turn it over and use the can opener on the bottom”. Yeah yeah yeah…that worked. It’s so fun I took it to work and everyone, yes EVERYONE loved it!
Courses Snack
Cuisine American
