Okay Wednesday...... In the morning at some point I had a Banana, string cheese and almonds.....these are major signs that I am on a diet, the old string cheese and almonds south beach diet standby, LOL! then for lunch while DH and DS munched on a yummy grilled salami and cheese Panini with fixin's(love my big geoge foreman grill), I made my sandwich on a big Portabella mushroom! It was huge, I piled on sprouts, cucumbers, tomatoes, red onion, avocado and topped it with some Gouda Cheese slices. Did you all know I am from California....This sandwich to me screams the Golden state!! 12 years ago when i moved to West Michigan, I couldn't even find sprouts!!! oh yum! DH actually ended up finish it up for me since it really was so big, I was full!
Mid afternoon I made a smoothie..darn I still had no strawberries! But Linda mentioned her favorite and DING DING DING, Hello, I never thought of Coconut!!!!! So I had 2 bananas, coconut, pineapple, and orange and pomegranite juice and spinach all blended up and yummmmmmm-ooooo!!!! And I froze half of it for thursday's breakfast.
Dinner was tacos - very easy since I had to bring the boys to church that night for their cadets(church version of boy scouts) so it was one of those eating on the almost run kind of nights!! I fried up some ground beef and I usually use a great homemade recipe for the sauce, instead of that very yucky taco packet(filled with sugar, starches and MSG) which I will share another day...cause instead...I threw in a bunch of chili powder, some garlic salt and Pace makes a great salsa in a jar called Tequila lime salsa and the ingredients listed on the jar are all great! I had used half of the jar on some chicken breasts a couple of weeks ago, so I still had some left - I only maybe added 1/4 of the jar, I really wasn't looking for too much going on, so between those 3 things - we had some great taco meat! cut up some other toppings, and voila, it was taco night!
Thursday..will be very unexciting in the food sharing department!!! Because I wasn't home and personally did not eat any real meals at all!! I packed lunches for everyone in the morning - including my littlest one to eat while we were out and also got a lunch in the fridge for hubby to eat while I was gone...am I taking care of the family or what!!!!
For myself, I brought along my smoothie that I made Wednesday. That was breakfast! It was my turn to bring the "snack" at bible study, we pair up -so while my friend brought 2 items....of the sugar and chocolate variety, I was in charge of the healthy variety! I tossed together some fresh fruit in a bowl - green melon, blueberries and grapes and I had made spinach wraps the day before - very easy....
2 pkgs frozen spinach(squeeze all the water out)
1 pkg cream cheese
1 cup sour cream
3 tbs chopped green onion
1/2 ranch packet of dressing*****
tortillas
*****which I didn't use - instead I went to my Ranch dressing recipe and threw in all those spices instead!!!!!!! The parsley, dill, chives, onion and garlic powder, s&p
mixed all the ingredients together and spread on tortillas - I had some white and some wheat tortillas. Rolled up the tortillas and put in the fridge. I made these almost a full 24 hours ahead which really gave them time to blend flavors and they were YUMMY!! Right before I served them I cut them into 1 inch "spirals" is that what you call them??? Everyone loved them. So I had a very extended lunch - snacking at bible study on fruit and wraps and later on ate a whole spinach tortilla wrap I saved, along with some marinated mushrooms and olives I picked off the olive bar..while buying my fruit at the store...do you have one of those olive bars at the grocery store????
Dinner was out after the soccer game. We went to The Spicy Pickle, we had never been there before - but one of the kids had a free meal certificate he had earned at school! It is a new eatery here in Michigan and it was pretty good. It was much like Quiznos, except they have ciabatta and foccacia for bread, instead of a sub style bread. I had them toast mine, I am not sure if they usually serve them cold?? One thing I didn't like was you ordered your sandwich and because they make everything in the back...not counter out in front of you like subway or quiznos, I didn't feel like I could add more stuff to it, like vegi's!!! And that is just one of my "things" If I go out and order a sandwich, I want to be able to pile on the vegi's to really make it a good meal for myself!!
I ordered the Santa Cruz - So the sandwich came with turkey, cheese, a sauce, corn relish, slight dab of avocado and lettuce. And the size was maybe 7-8 inches(for $6.75) and that just isn't big enough for me, especially after a day of fruit and vegi's and then a soccer game - I was still pretty hungry!! I think Quiznos or subway would have served me so much better...but I love to try new things and learn!!!!! the sandwich was good - but man If I could have had some more greens and at least some hot peppers!!! And maybe grow the sandwich to 12 inches..okay....enough, LOL! And next time I will just ask if I can add stuff!!!!!
2 comments:
I'm loving reading your blog with all the healthy info, especially the recipes. I already do my own home canning of some things and try to pick good foods, but with the HUGE selection in the grocery store, it's hard to find the products that don't have bad stuff in them. Can you recommend any books that you've read that you thought were particularly helpful?
Hey Stacy!! I am definitely a reader, most of the things I learn are actually online, just bouncing around sites, blogs, and googling stuff and getting tidbits of info.
I have only read a few generalize books that really set my mind at looking at how our food came to be at the present time. Honestly the book that did the best job with it is - The Southbeach diet book. I think the author does a really good job in talking about processed food and added sugar.
I have a long line of specialized books to read - and I will continue to update my blog anytime I find one that is worth the read!!
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