Did someone say poundcake ? Did someone say cinnamon sauce? Add the 2 together and you get QUITE the dessert. And, of course, it’s available from Plentiful Pantry ! Just add this to their growing list of mixes that get you out of the kitchen in no time flat.

Poundcake with Cinnamon Sauce

As usual with the mixes from Plentiful Pantry, the dish had the guests OOOing and AHHHing as they bit into the most moist poundcake they had ever had (and that was before I even added the sauce !). All I did was add butter and water – how great is that !?!?

Check out the full line of desserts over at Plentiful Pantry. They have so many different ones to choose from and they all turn out perfect dishes full of homemade taste.

Does making risotto scare you? It scares me ! Especially after watching Hell’s Kitchen with Chef Gordon Ramsay screaming at everyone that they can’t get the risotto right

Queue up “Rocky” music….Plentiful Pantry has come to the rescue – and now you can be a winner whenever you make risotto ! Their Three Cheese Risotto mix could not be any easier to prepare. Just add water, simmer, add cheese and you have PERFECT risotto.

Three Cheese Risotto

It’s creamy, elegant, moist, cheesy, and so very flavorful. I think next time I am going to add some sauted mushrooms in for a beautiful Mushroom Risotto. The box makes 6 servings and it comes out to 140 calories per serving.

I don’t know how they do it, but all of their mixes turn out the most fabulous results. They must have some pretty good test kitchen chefs !! Thanks again, Plentiful Pantry – you made another meal a success.

Looking for something a little different for lunch? Instead of regular old pasta salad, how about some Hawaiian pasta salad? Plentiful Pantry makes it so easy and it is such a refreshing change of pace.

Hawaiian Pasta Salad

8 servings
180 calories per serving

Their mix basically handles the noodles and the dressing spices – you just add some cooked chicken (I used leftover Thanksgiving turkey and it was great !), pineapple tidbits, mandarin oranges, onion and avocado. The mixture of noodles (colors and shapes) makes for such a fun salad! And their poppy seed dressing is so special – sweet without being too sweet and just a little tart with the mustard in the dressing and the vinegar bite. Just whisk up the dressing and pout over the fruits, meat and cooked pasta. Chill a bit and presto…LUNCH IS SERVED !

Hawaiian Pasta Salad

Plentiful Pantry does such a great job of getting you out of the kitchen fast providing mixes that are tasty and easy to put together. I have tried several of their products and I find them all to turn out very good food.

Check out our reviews of other Plentiful Pantry products:

Blondies and Maple Sauce
Key Lime Cheesecake Bars
Roasted Tomato Parmesan Bisque

Pumpkin Cobbler

Good through the end of the month……25% off your order at Plentiful Pantry !!

Just use COUPON CODE 4HCOL25 at checkout.

This is PERFECT timing – Plentiful Pantry has some of THE BEST desserts on the planet. And they are sooooo easy to make. You will be in and out of the kitchen in no time ! And the results are just spectacular. Every Plentiful Pantry dessert I make gets rave reviews. Here are my suggestions for a decadent Thanksgiving dessert trio….

Pumpkin Cobbler
Blondies and Maple Sauce
Key Lime Cheesecake Bars

All you do is add a few ingredients from home and mix – they take all the hard work out of it. You can literally be done with desserts such as these in only 10 minutes ! That works for me

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Take Autumn and put it in a dish – this is just what it tastes like !! I just can’t tell you how good this was – it was simply divine ! Everyone who tasted it wanted more. The buttery crumbs on top were way better than any pumpkin pie crust I have ever had – it adds a whole new dimension to this dessert.

9 servings
202 calories per serving

To make this decadent dessert, all you do is grab a Pumpkin Cobbler mix from Plentiful Pantry and add a few ingredients from home – some water, some canned pumpkin and some butter. Bake for a bit and you have a dessert that will make you the Queen or King of desserts in your family Serve with some chopped nuts and /or some whipped cream on top.

I don’t know that I’ll ever make a pumpkin pie again – this is just so special…so good. Please try some today – you’ll be so happy you did ! Head on over to Plentiful Pantry and use COUPON CODE 4HCOL25 and get 25% off your order !

And be sure to check out our CONTEST (which will be announced in just a bit) – you could win 2 free mixes !!

Check out our reviews of other Plentiful Pantry products:

Blondies and Maple Sauce
Key Lime Cheesecake Bars
Roasted Tomato Parmesan Bisque

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If you’re looking for a Campbell’s type tomato soup, then don’t look here ! This mix produces a restaurant quality bisque that tastes like you made it from scratch.

Roasted Tomato Parmesan Bisque

6 servings
180 calories per serving

Just grab a box of Roasted Tomato Parmesan Bisque from Plentiful Pantry and add some water and simmer for 25 minutes – that is literally all you have to do to get the creamiest, richest bisque your kitchen has ever produced !

The flavor profile of the soup is GREAT. It takes like you roasted tomatoes, cooked them down with garlic and a nice parmesan rind, the pureed and strained the whole thing. Of course, that would take hours. And this soup….under 1/2 hour and no sweat on your brow! Try serving with a dollop of low fat sour cream.

You’d be proud to serve this at your next dinner party. So head on over to Plentiful Pantry and use COUPON CODE 4HCOL25 and get 25% off your order !

And be sure to check out our CONTEST (which will be announced shortly) – you could win 2 free mixes !!

Check out our reviews of other Plentiful Pantry products:

Blondies and Maple Sauce
Key Lime Cheesecake Bars

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Any associated contests available only to US residents

It’s that season ! We’re done with BBQ’s and cookouts and focusing on fall flavors and rich comfort foods. Plentiful Pantry is sponsoring 3 great prizes and you’ll find the contest information exclusively here on 400 Calories or Less.

Stay tuned over the next weeks for information on how you can win some great comfort foods mixes so you can quickly whip up Roasted Tomato Parmesan Bisque Soup, Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars, and Pumpkin Cobbler.

Beginning 9-20-10 and running for 3 weeks, each Monday I will be putting up a review of one of the above mentioned products and will announce a contest where you can win that product. You don’t want to miss your chance – these products are fantastic. The dishes taste completely homemade, yet they are quick and easy. All you do is add a few ingredients from home and you end up with authentically awesome dishes.

So mark your calendars and be on the lookout for three weeks of contests with prizes from Plentiful Pantry. As well, we will have a special checkout code available for you that gives you a 25% DISCOUNT for any shopping you do over at Plentiful Pantry !!

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The good folks at PlentifulPantry sent me a couple of their dessert mixes to try and here is the second installment….Chidester Farms Blondies with Maple Sauce. The mix makes is sooooo simple to whip up a batch in no time and the blondies were very good – but what made this dessert GREAT is the maple sauce !! IT was rich and sweet without going overboard. It is a perfect sauce – I want to buy it and put in on EVERYTHING

Blondies and Maple Sauce

The big box comes with enough ingredients to make 2 batches – 2 batches would fit in a 9×13 baking dish while 1 fits nicely in an 8×8 baking dish. This is as simple as putting together a cake mix – - simple, simple, simple . And the blondies….oh they just melt in your mouth !

Blondies and Maple Sauce mix

As well as the mix, you will need a few ingredients:
¼ c water
1/3 c vegetable oil
2 eggs

1 batch yields 12 servings
250 calories per serving

Just follow the package instructions and then sit by the oven and wait – because you want to dig into these as quick as humanly possible !

Try serving with some lite vanilla ice cream or some whipped topping.

Be sure to visit PlentifulPantry and check out their products – they have a whole bunch of ‘partially prepped’ products that get you out of the kitchen faster without skimping on quality. This is also available this month at Costco – so be sure to get some and put the sauce in your coffee, on your morning cereal, in your granola – and even on the blondies

The good folks at PlentifulPantry sent me a couple of their dessert mixes to try and here is the first installment….Chidester Farms Key Lime Cheesecake Bars.

Key Lime Cheesecake Bars

The big box comes with enough ingredients to make 2 batches – 2 batches would fit in a 9×13 baking dish while 1 fits nicely in an 8×8 baking dish. These are amazingly easy to put together and the results are outstanding – the bars definitely taste completely homemade. I had doubts about a chocolate crust with a citrus dessert, but it was a perfect accompaniment.

As well as the mix, you will need a few ingredients:
1 c hot water
2 8 oz. blocks of cream cheese
6 T butter

1 batch yields 16 servings
120 calories per serving

Just follow the package instructions and in an hour you will have delightfully rich cheesecake bars with just the right amount of lime flavoring.

Be sure to visit PlentifulPantry and check out their products – they have a whole bunch of ‘partially prepped’ products that get you out of the kitchen faster without skimping on quality.