Food Journal – Monday

Breakfast: Cereal – 4.5 1/2c. Fiber 1 Cereal, General Mills (0pts) 1/2c. Heart to Heart Cereal, Kashi (1pt) 1c. Puffs, Kashi (1pt) 2/3c. Skim Milk (1pts) 1 medium Banana (1.5pt) Morning Snack: Granola bar – 2 Peanut butter Granola Bar, Kashi Lunch: Veggie Lasagna – 8 Frozen Lasagna, SmartOnes (6pts) Sugar Free Pudding Cup, Jello [...]

Beans n’ Cornbread

Beans n’ Cornbread Strawberry Salad with Almonds and Fat Free Balsamic or as my husbands says “The food, my food eats” I needed some comfort food tonight.  It’s Thursday and it’s the first night I’ve been home all week.  I’m so tired and cranky.  I’m off schedule (not diet wise) and I haven’t exercised all [...]

Menu Plan Monday

Menu for the week: Monday: Herb Focaccia Egg Sandwiches with Yogurt Tuesday: Texas Road House with friends! Wednesday: New England Turkey Burgers with “The Works” (Rachael Ray Recipe) & Green Salad Thursday: Spring Panzanella Salad (I have to figure out a way to make this lighter…I think it can be done!) Photo courtesy of Smitten [...]

Saturday Supper Recipes

Wheat Berry and Wild Rice Salad Pesto Wheat Bread Pot Roast with Veggies Click “read more” for full recipes!

Saturday Supper

It’s a lazy Saturday ’round these parts. My husband and I took twenty screaming teenagers to a concert last night for youth group (Thousand Foot Krutch, Skillet!). It was great. Hot, but great. Loud and scream-y, but great. It was “neat” to hear Skillet again. Skillet was my very first CD purchase way back in [...]

Food Journal – Thursday

Breakfast – 6 1/2c. Puffed Cereal, Kashi (.5pts) 1/2c. Fiber 1 Cereal (0pts) 1/2c. Go Lean, Kashi (1pt) 1/2c. Heart to Heart, Kashi (1pt) 12g. Unsalted Organic Peanuts (1pt) 3/4c. Skim Milk (1.5pts) Blackberry Pomegranate Tea (0pts) 16.9oz Water (0pts) 8oz Light Orange Juice, Tropicana (1pt) Lunch – 8 3oz Leftover Diet Coke Chicken (4pts) [...]

Organic Beef

I have a few weird (hereditary- thanks Mom!) things going on with my hormon- ies (think Big Fat Greek Wedding), so my doctor suggested that I switch to all organic meats.   She said the hormones injected into regular meat, mainly beef can cause things to go “out of wack”.  Has anyone done research on this, or [...]

Food Journal – Tuesday & Wednesday

TUESDAY Breakfast – 5 1/2c. Fiber 1 cereal (0pts) 1/2c. Go Lean Crunch, Kashi (1pt) 1/2c. Heart to Heart, Kashi (1pt) 1c. Skim milk (2pts) 8oz. Light Orange juice, Tropicana (1pt) 1tsp Milled Flax Seed (0pts) 33oz Water (0pts) Morning Snack – 2 Canned Pinnaple, no sugar (2pts) Lunch – 12 1.5c. Tomato Soup, Campbell’s [...]

The Great Peanut Butter Exhibition is…

happen’ over at Peanut Butter Boy.  I decided to enter for 2 reasons:  1) because I love peanut butter and 2) because I desperately wanted to get out of watching the movie my DH brought home from the video store (The Water Horse, ugh).  I didn’t really have a peanut butter cookie recipe in mind [...]

Food Journal – Monday

Breakfast: Bagel -7.5 Whole Wheat Bagel, Dunkin Donuts (6pts) Light Cream Cheese (1.5pts) 40oz. Water (0pts) – I was rather thirsty Morning Snack – Granola Bar – 2 Cherry & Chocolate Granola bar, Kashi (2pts) 16.9oz Water Lunch – Lentil Chili -8 1 srv. Lentil Chili (6pts) Sugar Free Apple Sauce (1pt) Tootsie Roll (1pt) [...]