Once I accepted that I was going to have to account for every little thing that I ever put in my mouth for the rest of my life in order to get anywhere close to a healthy weight, I joined Weight Watchers which just made it easy for me to keep track of everything. It’s working for me (for now) and I’m not trying to push it on anyone else. What I’ve gotten from it is that food is like money. You have to decide what’s worth your points and I decided a long time ago that anything Jesse makes is “worth it.”

So when he offered up one of these cupcakes on the way to the hockey game, I didn’t even think, just took one. It was AMAZING. Every time I bit into a cranberry, it was like there was a burst of cranberry filling in the middle of the cupcake. They were so moist. So I guessed there must be 8 points per cupcake. All that butter, sugar, flour… I made my decision, NO NACHOS at the hockey game, but Jesse’s food is definitely worth it.

Well, I took this recipe and asked Jesse for exactly what he used. Turns out, each cupcake is only 3 points. The benefits of all the fiber in the pumpkin and the cranberries. So I figured it had to be 4-5 points for the icing, but they didn’t seem LOADED with icing (which was good because if they’re totally covered, are you eating the cupcake or just the icing?). When I asked Jesse, he thought that the amount of icing that he had leftover would probably cover another 1/2 recipe. So when I punched that into the computer, 1 point. The whole cupcake was 4 points. AND SO WORTH IT!

So this is my way of telling Jesse how many points it ended up having in it and sharing my quirky little story…