These are this past weeks food journals through yesterday (4/23)
Monday
B: 9:30 AM Fruit Smoothie (no sugar added frozen fruit, no sugar added fruit juice, a lil splenda, water)
L: 1:00 PM 4 light rye crisps with chicken salad i made myself (recipe to follow), and because i was still hungry, a large bowl of popcorn with ICBINB spray and sea salt
D: 7PM not really that hungry so a (freakishly) large cucumber
S: 9PM wanting sweets and a little hungry so i made crustless pumpkin pie (used splenda to sweeten), ate two pieces with SF cool whip
**easy chicken salad**
8-10 chicken tenders (seasoned with salt and pepper), fully cooked, cooled and cut into small chunks
1/8 med. red onion
1-2 cups red grapes, quartered (to taste)
olive oil mayonnaise (just enought to pull it all together)
Tuesday
B 9:30 AM *HUNGRY* fruit smoothie
L 1:00 PM *HUNGRY* chicken salad on light rye crisps, handful of frozen grapes, popcorn
D 6:30 PM *not too hungry* crustless pumpkin pie, decaf coffee
S 9:00 PM *HUNGRY* handful of frozen red grapes, handful of frozen green grapes, bowl of unsweetened applesauce with splenda and cinnamon
Wednesday
B 10 AM *not hungry* banana and small bowl of frozen grapes (to get the motor running)
L 2:00 PM *HUNGRY* tuna salad on light rye crisps (4) (recipe to follow), turkey cutlet (seasoned and cooked in EVOO), decaf cofee
D 7:00 *HUNGRY* popcorn (always air-popped then sprayed with ICBINB and sprinkled w/sea salt), diet gingerale mixed with no sugar added cranberry juice (this is really good, try with no sugar added cranberry blueberry too), a can of carrots and LDL blue berry pie
**tuna salad** (for two people)
3 cans tuna fish in water (chunk light actually has less fat than chunk white, who knew??), drained
red onion to taste
pickle (diced, could use relish), to taste
mayonnaise (olive oil kind) or miracle whip, just enough to pull it all together
as i said, i had mine on light rye crisps, hubby put his on bread, topped w/cheese and broiled (you could do that with the crisps or corn thins and ff cheese if you wanted)
Thursday
B 10:00 AM *a lil’ hungry* i took the recipe for LDL blueberry pie and instead of using blueberries and cinnamon, i used frozen strawberries and a touch of ginger, for something different….this will be part of my LDL menu from now on! 16 oz water
L 2:00 PM *HUNGRY* LDL allowed chili (sprinkled with a little lowfat cheese), popcorn, 1/2 can pineapple, 16 oz water
D late it was late cause i didn’t get hungry til 9 PM *HUNGRY* salad (romaine lettuce, cucumber, carrots, mushrooms, a few sunflower seeds, ranch), frozen grapes
for those who don’t wanna look up the recipe for blueberry pie…
LDL Blueberry Pie
Large RIPE Banana, mash with a fork
Frozen Blueberries (about 2 c.)
stevia to sweeten
cinnamon
original recipe says to put in bowl and heat in microwave 3-4 minutes or til warm and bubbly, i do not put mine in a bowl in the microwave, i use the microwave as little as possible …i just heat mine up in a pan on the stove top…
Friday
It’s Friday…I have been back on track for one week today (5 days, not 7)… YAY!! Feeling Great!!!
B 10 AM *not really hungry* had a banana and a small bowl of grapes to get the engine runnin’
L 2 PM *HUNGRY* pizza soup with popcorn ( i use the popcorn like some would use crackers~yummy~), water
D 7PM *a little hungry* friends took us out to pizza hut, i started out good with a salad and dressing on the side, did the whole dip the tinds of the fork and all….then i had a sliver of supreme pizza (not even half a piece) …oh well, it had veggies on it…and i had water with lemon…then i came home and had LDL blueberry pie (had a sweet tooth)
S 10 PM *got the munchies* bowl of popcorn w/ICBINB spray and sea salt and diet gingerale mixed with no sugar added cranberry juice
so…. i messed up, but hey, tomorrow is another day!!!
