Family night mini-pizzas

Monday night dinner: these were sure fun for the kids to make. Just tube biscuits (only since I was lazy -- if I wanted better taste I'd have made my own dough) rolled out and leftover homemade spag. sauce, smoked turkey sausage, olives tomatoes and cheese. Such tiny bits of everything I figured one was 2-3 points depending on the amt of cheese.

lunch

Monday lunch: just another turkey roll-up. figured, if it filled me up once, it'll fill me up again.

part of this balanced breakfast...?

not really proud of this breakfast -- and i had a couple of rough eating days over the weekend. actually i ate each item this morning one by one and then realized i hadn't planned very well. the only way to get myself back on track is to own up to my breakfast, get on the treadmill this morning and make better choices the rest of the day.

Fish Taco

So I realize that these dinner-time pics are waaayy bad -- the lighting is horrible, and I don't know how to make things better. But these fish tacos were really yummy. I bought panko-breaded fish fillets at Costco -- they weren't cheap so I was hoping they were of a much higher quality than your average frozen fish stick. One was 4 pts so I figured I could fill it up with veggies and call it a meal. So we used cabbage, tomatos, avocado and some homemade tartar sauce concoction with ff mayo, must and dill relish. All the ingredients were really good together. If only I'd stopped (or started) with one fish taco. I was such a bad, bad girl today. Ryan made some 7 layer dip - which I didn't feel terrible about, considering everything it was made from was fat free (minus the cheese but I made him leave cheese off my portion); it was the half a bag of tortilla chips that did me in. . .

. . . that and the 7 chilled (my weakness) cupcakes, the scraps of totinos (another weakness) and leftover mac and cheese from the kids. over the course of a day, one can do real damage. and i was feeling so good this morning with my apple right after my sprint intervals. . . at least tomorrow is a new day. if this one would end already so i can quit eating my way through it!

Lower-fat Spaghetti Dinner

Friday night dinner: Ry needs to carb-load for his half-marathon so I tried to lighten up Spaghetti. I jazzed-up our favorite seasoning packet of spaghetti sauce with VERY FINELY (for the kids' sake, and it worked!) chopped red pepper, green pepper, half a red onion and used a half lb. of extra lean ground beef. So my meal totaled only 7 or 8 points. . . . . . leaving me plenty of points for the "healthy cupcakes" we made today for our family's half birthday celebration.
these aren't bran filled power muffins by any means, but i did lighten up the box mix with applesauce for half the oil, and 4 egg whites instead of 3 eggs -- and they turned out delicious. The frosting is 4 oz light cream cheese, 1 t. vanilla, a couple T. of powdered sugar (though I'm not sure it even need that) and 4 oz. fat free cool whip folded in. SUPER YUMMY. i may make these every time a cupcake is needed.

Turkey Roll-up

Friday's lunch: I lived on this roll-up (with a side of pretzels) when I was a new-out-of-the-house freshman at Ricks. Not as healthy of a version, (contributing to the "freshman-15") but the same flavor -- so it brought back memories. This one consisted of a wh. wheat tortilla, a huge slice of roasted turkey, lettuce, tomato, some light BYU ranch (MMMMMMM) and a little salsa. The salsa sounds weird but it adds something special - combined with the ranch. Just 3 points and only 5 for the whole meal. (I think if I wanted to spend some more points, this would also be excellent with a slice of bacon and some avacado.) ps. I think this posting my meals thing is helping me out. sometimes in the midst of feeding kids i tend to be an over-the-kitchen-sink-eater. this forces me to get everything i'm actually going to eat on my plate -- making me realize that i am indeed, eating a full meal. and i get to sit and eat it in one shift -- and i try to do it somewhat slowly -- but sometimes i have to hurry to get the screaming baby to bed or something. but overall, it's good -- i'm planning better.

Garden Veggies with Eggs

Friday morning breakfast: 1 egg plus 1 egg white, a whole (sm) green pepper, green onions, mushrooms, a tomato, whole wheat toast and a glass of milk. I'm stuffed and it was 7 pts with the oil and milk to drink.

Salmon Dinner

Thursday night dinner: Baked Salmon, 0-point garden veggie WW soup (with a couple ABC pastas to entice the kids), watermelon, and I also had a piece of fresh homemade bread, cause it was hot. 9 pts. total and very filling.

back to basics

I'm serious about this healthy-eating business. To prove it I am posting a picture of all my dinners this week. Breakfasts and lunches optional, but certainly may show up as well. This is a last resort to make myself accountable. okay then. . .