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 (1pt)
Pear (1pt)
Afternoon Snack: Kettle Korn – 1
Dinner: White Bean and [...]

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 week.  Ick.
It’s been a [...]

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 Kitchen.com
Friday: Picnic [...]

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 [...]

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)
Whole Wheat Bun, Weight Watchers (2pts)
English Toffee Bar, Weight Watchers (2pts)
20oz. Sparkling [...]

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 Healthy Choice (5pts)
35g. Elbow macaroni (2.5pts)
3/4c. Skim milk (1.5pts)
1 srv. Kashi TLC [...]

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 that was [...]

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)
Afternoon Snack – Kettle Korn – 1

Dinner – Grilled [...]