So for tomorrow we have planned: Overnight oatmeal for breakfast, Tuna Salad Rolls with dipping sauce, Cucumber Salad and Edamame for lunch, and for dinner will be Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas. All 3 for a total calorie count of 1041! I will probably make the Tiramasu for dessert too since I have extra calories available - and I don't want the Lady Fingers to go bad.
Tonight I put the Irish oats on to soak overnight, then in the morning it will only take about 5 minutes to finish off. Add in 2 Tablespoons of dried blueberries and cherries and some light brown sugar and call it YUM!
I'll tell ya tomorrow how it all goes.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
On Today's Menu We Have.....
So for our first day of our "Cook Yourself Thin" Challenge we started off with
Breakfast: French Toast Bread Pudding and Violet Morning Smoothies. For the smoothies I didn't have just blueberries, I have the berry mix combo from Costco that has blueberries, cherries, pomegranate seeds and blackberries and I also didn't have any Pomegranate juice, so I substituted orange juice. I segmented the orange I had jested for the French Toast custard and served that with breakfast too. It was delicious! The bananas in the custard were just great and gave it a sweetness that made it so you didn't mind that it was drenched in syrup.
Lunch: My daughter and I worked together on the Creamy Corn Chowder soup and we paired it with the Cheddar Melts that are made with low-fat cheddar and apples. Hubby got to have a whole sandwich since he can have more calories (256 in a whole sandwich), and my daughter and I split the other. Very good and the soup has great flavor and you don't even miss it not being made with cream!
Dinner: Tonight I will be making Pork with Apples. Now there is cream in this one, but only 2 tablespoons to give it some richness. Along with that we will have a nice green salad with a Ranch Dressing by Ellie Kreiger.
Total Calories: 1014 for all 3 meals!! Along with that I had 4oz of Orange Banana Pineapple juice for 60 calories and 2 Brown Sugar Kiss meringue cookies at 11 calories each.
So I am still under for the day and have some left for a snack, but right now I am not even hungry. I feel full and satisfied by lunch and feel great!
**All the recipes from today are in the Cook Yourself Thin Faster book - even the cookies!
Breakfast: French Toast Bread Pudding and Violet Morning Smoothies. For the smoothies I didn't have just blueberries, I have the berry mix combo from Costco that has blueberries, cherries, pomegranate seeds and blackberries and I also didn't have any Pomegranate juice, so I substituted orange juice. I segmented the orange I had jested for the French Toast custard and served that with breakfast too. It was delicious! The bananas in the custard were just great and gave it a sweetness that made it so you didn't mind that it was drenched in syrup.
Lunch: My daughter and I worked together on the Creamy Corn Chowder soup and we paired it with the Cheddar Melts that are made with low-fat cheddar and apples. Hubby got to have a whole sandwich since he can have more calories (256 in a whole sandwich), and my daughter and I split the other. Very good and the soup has great flavor and you don't even miss it not being made with cream!
Dinner: Tonight I will be making Pork with Apples. Now there is cream in this one, but only 2 tablespoons to give it some richness. Along with that we will have a nice green salad with a Ranch Dressing by Ellie Kreiger.
Total Calories: 1014 for all 3 meals!! Along with that I had 4oz of Orange Banana Pineapple juice for 60 calories and 2 Brown Sugar Kiss meringue cookies at 11 calories each.
So I am still under for the day and have some left for a snack, but right now I am not even hungry. I feel full and satisfied by lunch and feel great!
**All the recipes from today are in the Cook Yourself Thin Faster book - even the cookies!
Starting Today
So I decided to go ahead and start the challenge today instead of tomorrow. Yesterday I went out shopping for the weeks menu. It did not go well. I went to 2 stores and didn't find a lot of the stuff I need, so I get to go out again today! Ugh!
Any who, I added a new page called Stats. That is where I will post my weight and measurements each week. I weighed myself this morning and as usual I think my scale is off. When I go in for doctor visits I always weigh 4-5 pounds more than at home - so that should tell you that my home scale isn't real accurate. But I will make due with what I have.
As for my husband he gets to have 550 more calories than I do, but with him being laid up in bed and not up to eating a bunch, he is eating what I eat and then also adding in saltines and jello to soothe his stomach.
Any who, I added a new page called Stats. That is where I will post my weight and measurements each week. I weighed myself this morning and as usual I think my scale is off. When I go in for doctor visits I always weigh 4-5 pounds more than at home - so that should tell you that my home scale isn't real accurate. But I will make due with what I have.
As for my husband he gets to have 550 more calories than I do, but with him being laid up in bed and not up to eating a bunch, he is eating what I eat and then also adding in saltines and jello to soothe his stomach.
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