Thursday May 12, 2011

So the blog website has been down for a whole day, so I'm going to go ahead and post yesterday's meals.

I woke up early to meet Aunt Lucille in Louisville to chauffeur her to her retirement lunceon at ECCC. The food was delicious, but I did a good job of not eating everything on my plate. Two reasons..............1. A lady never finishes everything (or so I'm told) 2. Calories

I didn't eat my dessert and only ate the veggies from the salad. I'm so proud of myself.

News for people who love Ruby Tuesday's salad bar. Awhile ago they went back to the "old" salad bar, where they had all the old options back. It was great news, since I love it so. We went last night and they're back to the bare bones. Booooooooooooooooooo!!! They didn't even have thousand island dressing. There was no ham, no fruit for the cottage cheese and they can't even bother to cut up the zucchini like they used to. Oh well......we won't be back.

Breakfast:
1/2 cinnamon bagel
Bucket of coffee
Surprised?


Lunch:
Beef tenderloin
Corn pudding
Potato casserole
1/2 roll
Green Beans

Snack:
Got home late, so I just opted to eat supper.

Dinner:
Ruby Tuesday's salad with lite dressing
1/2 Grilled chicken
Zucchini
A bite or two of spaghetti Squash
I forgot to take a picture before, so I took a pic of my leftovers. Didn't like the spaghetti squash, so I left it for the trash.

Dessert:
5 chocolate covered peanuts (totally not worth the 100 calories)

Wednesday May 11, 2011

I'm officially going to turn into a chicken burrito..........literally!!!! I need to break away from being such a creature of habit. Sometimes I get so into something that I end up eating it over and over and over again, which leads to burn out. Food isn't the only thing I do this with. If I feel particularly good about myself in an outfit, I'll wear it over and over again.

Since I'm the only person who eats veggies in this house, there ends up being a surplus of some veggies or a side dish with veggies made for a meal. Take the Mexican Zucchini for example. I'm going to be eating on that stuff for a week. I suppose I need to make smaller quantities of it.

Breakfast:
1/2 cinnamon raisin bagel
bucket of coffee
Lunch:
Chicken burrito (fat free cream cheese, chicken breast, tortilla, taco seasoning)
Reduced fat sour cream
Mexican Zucchini (yellow squash, zucchini, diced tomatoes and corn)
Snack:
Low calorie popcorn
Sugar free pudding
Dinner:
Chicken burrito (fat free cream cheese, chicken breast, tortilla, taco seasoning)
Reduced fat sour cream
Mexican Zucchini (yellow squash, zucchini, diced tomatoes and corn)
Salad (Whales, watered down ranch, sharp cheddar, Fiber One)
Dessert:
Granola Bar

Tuesday May 10, 2011

Now that I'm at home and settling into my routine again, I'm back on track. I tried something new on my salad today. It's the Wishbone spray ranch dressing. It tastes sort of weird. I imagine when it's all gone, I'll just keep filling it up with my watered down regular dressing, since that's all it really is anyway.

Breakfast:
1/2 cinnamon raisin bagel with bucket of coffee
Lunch:
Zucchini Pizza
salad
Snack:
Low fat popcorn
Cottage cheese with peaches
Sugar free chocolate pudding
Dinner:
Chicken Burrito (made with fat free cream cheese, chicken breast and taco seasoning)
Mexican Zucchini (made with yellow squash, zucchini, onion, diced tomatoes and corn)
Reduced fat sour cream
Dessert:
Orange Jell-O with Cool Whip

The Weekend

Well, I've got to work on taking pictures and posting when I have a busy weekend. I took sporadic pictures here and there, but I've just decided to "verbally" post what I ate and start back with the pictures tomorrow.

Friday:
Breakfast: 1/2 Bagel and Coffee
Lunch: Wendy's Cheeseburger Kid's Meal
Dinner: Homemade Zucchini and Sausage Pizza with a salad

Saturday:
Breakfast: 1/2 Bagel and Coffee
Lunch: Gumtree Festival Vendor Hamburger
Supper: 3 Fried Mozzarella sticks and 2 Small Sliders

Sunday:
Breakfast: Coffee
Lunch: Wendy's Grilled Chicken Sandwich
Snack: Sonic Vanilla Cone
Dinner: Steak Shish Kabob and Small Baked Potato
Dessert: Orange Jell-O with Cool Whip

It was a great weekend with my mom.

Thursday May 5, 2011

I treat Subway like the husband who beats his wife, where Subway is the husband and I'm the wife. I just keep going back, even though he's beating the stew out of me. There's hope it will be better the next time. He's changed. He really does love me as customer. But.............nope.

Fooled again. I ordered their Footlong for $5. Since the employees fling the toppings around like Kung Fu Pandas on steroids, pieces of red onion were all in my sandwich. If you know me, you know that onions are like Kryptonite for me. One taste of a raw onion and I gag. The taste lingers for a long time, so each subsequent bite I would begin to get over the taste and then I'd find another hidden nugget of evil. After suffering through one half of the sandwich, I took the other outside and gave it a proper burial. You know, one that includes burning it at the stake.

Other than that, it was a pretty good day. I put a grill together the other day, which had about 10 million pieces. I decided to use it tonight for supper. As soon as my husband told me to wait until he got home to use it because I might blow something up, I decided that I was definitely GOING to use it before he got home.

Breakfast:
1/2 cinnamon raisin bagel and a bucket of coffee (New Orleans Blend)

Lunch:
6 inch Black Forest Ham on Honey Oat bread
Fat free cottage cheese with no sugar added peaches

Snack:
Banana and granola bar

Dinner:
Shish Kabob (sirloin and onions)
Roasted Asparagus with reduced fat Parmesan cheese, salt, pepper and Spray Butter)
Small baked potato with Spray Butter and reduced fat sour cream

Dessert:
Sugar free orange jello with Cool Whip

Wednesday May 4, 2011

I did pretty well yesterday. I'm sort of a creature of habit, so nearly every morning for the last year or more I've had the same breakfast. I'll just be reposting the same picture of it. You might get tired of seeing it, but I have yet to get tired of eating it.

Breakfast:
1/2 cinnamon and raisin bagel with strawberry cream cheese and a bucket of coffee.



Lunch:
4 oz. pork chop
Salad
Cucumber slices
Fat free cottage cheese with no sugar added peaches
Saccharin sweetened tea



Snack:
2 cups of low fat popcorn
Sugar free pudding cup



Dinner:
Zucchini and cheese pizza on homemade pizza dough.
Baby carrots
French onion dip

Dessert:
Granola bar

Tuesday May 3, 2011

My main thought at the end of this day is, "I'll be glad when I start teaching Summer School." All day long there is a desperate feeling to find something to entertain myself so I don't end up noshing every couple hours. I've pinned things on Pinterest, made homemade pizza dough, gone to Walmart, and washed some clothes. Maybe tomorrow I'll make a quilt out of gum wrappers and then place it in a well lit shadow box for displaying.

Listed below is the recipe and then some pictures of my pizza dough goodness. These are about 200 calories each if you can get 8 crusts out of it.

Recipe courtesy of my good friend Karen:
1 cup warm water (it should feel slightly warm to the touch, too hot and it will kill the yeast.)
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 teaspoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 package active dry yeast (it's usually sold in a three pack)
3 cups all purpose flour

In a small bowl, combine the water, sugar and yeast. Stir it until it looks cloudy. Let it sit for a few minutes so that all the yeast is activated. Add the vegetable oil.

In a large bowl, add one cup of flour and the salt. Stir in the water/sugar/yeast/oil mixture. Mix until it looks like paste. From here on, add half a cup of flour at a time. The amount of flour you need will vary by how humid it is. In the summer time you may need to add a little more than 3 cups. You'll know you have added enough when the dough has pulled away from the sides of the bowl. It will be a little sticky, but not sticking in clumps to your fingers.

Next up, you'll need to kneed the dough. Flour your work surface and fingers lightly. If starts to feel very sticky, work in some more flour. Kneed it until the dough is fairly smooth. Usually 10 to 15 minutes will do it.

Spray the bowl you used to mix the dough with Pam and put the dough back in it. Cover it with a tea towel and let it rise until it has doubled in size. Put it somewhere warm and away from drafts. This could take 45 minutes to an hour.*

*If you wanted to use the dough the next day, put in the refrigerator overnight. It'll need to sit on the counter for a few hours so it can warm to room temperature before using it.

This recipe is enough for two large pizzas or 4 medium size pizzas. It will really depend on how thin you want your crust.

Cook the dough on a cookie sheet or a pizza stone for 5 to 8 minutes in a 450 degree oven. You want the crust firm and just barely brown. You can pull it out and store it for a couple days at this point. To finish it off: sauce it, top it and pop it back in the oven until everything is nice and melty.


Exercise: DDR for 30 minutes = 3oo calories burned

Breakfast:
1/2 Cinnamon and Raisin Bagel with Strawberry Cream Cheese
A bucket of coffee

Lunch:
Turkey sandwich
No Sugar Added Peaches saccharin sweetened tea
Snack:
Quaker Oats Granola Bar











Dinner:
4oz. Pork Chop
2 Tbsp Barbecue Sauce
1 Roasted Zucchini sprinkled with salt and Reduced Fat Parmesan Cheese
No Sugar Added Peaches and Fat Free Cottage Cheese

Dessert:
Cool Whip with Sugar Free Jello