Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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I know myself too well to go anywhere advertising all-you-can-eat. Nothing good can come of that!!!
I will not be going to the buffet on the cruise ship next week. Too much temptation there. The dining room meals are more than enough to deal with.2 -
Oh my.1
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I’m wide awake in the middle of the night thinking it might sneak out of bed and grab a few omens from the kitchen. I’m feeling almost saintly 🤣2
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Lol… make that almonds. But I really kind of like omens so I won’t go back and edit! I wish to see how this adventure turns out 😁2
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Hmmm nighttime omens sounds like it may include some danger of consumption.
Didn't take fur face out to get sleep....but a bit too full to sleep so wasted opportunity
Oh well I hope the almonds were good and low in quantity.... and I'm off to bed1 -
Maybe 7??? 8??? a few rather than a handful. Yesterday was a big walking day and the restaurant we planned on going to for dinner was closed so we ended up stopping at McDonald’s. Vegetarian options are pretty slim. So dinner was an ice cream cone… and a few fries 🙂 part of me knew i needed more nutrition than that!2
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I am back to the night-shift life, so I slept til almost 3pm.
Pre-work meal is a big plate of eggs and egg white scrambled in some non stick spray and half a tablespoon of butter for flavor. No sugar added ketchup on top. Plus 2 big cups of coffee with half and half.
Work food is small pickles, 2 cheese sticks (colby jack and mozzarella), a pack of zero sugar beef jerky, lemon Greek yogurt, sugar free jello and a Cafe Latte Protein shake.
Mostly I didn't feel like meal prepping, so this will be my food tomorrow and Thursday too, lol
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Nic -Any chance of work in some fruits and veggies? Perhaps some berries in the yogurt. An apple or orange? Carrot sticks. Just something that doesn’t require prep while you’re doing night shift.0
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Berries would be low carb but not necessarily apples or oranges. Celery sticks or cucumbers or broccoli or cauliflower crowns would be less carbs then carrots if I recall correctly from back in the days when family members did Atkins1
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Nic -Any chance of work in some fruits and veggies? Perhaps some berries in the yogurt. An apple or orange? Carrot sticks. Just something that doesn’t require prep while you’re doing night shift.
My husband did the grocery shopping this weekend and I've been trying to avoid an extra trip to the store, lol. Normally I would have berries or veggies like Cucumber, peppers, cauliflower, etc1 -
Also, frying the eggs and skipping the sugar-free ketchup today. It tasted like tomato paste, ugh2
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I had a few late patients today so I didn’t get home until almost 7. My son (13) made dinner for us. Mostly because he didn’t want to wait so late to eat. He made chicken parm. He even measured it out and weighed it so I could input it correctly. My kid wins the awesome kid of the day award!5
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I'm jelly that your kid can make chicken parm in the first place... without even taking the measuring and weighing the ingredients for you into account! Definitely awesome kid of the day award!2
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Good on you Scout for raising a man who can cook!2
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Hubby and I celebrated our 49th anniversary yesterday. It was low key because we’re off to Hawaii next week. He made a shrimp and eggs breakfast. I made ricotta and spinach stuffed shells for dinner. Topped off the day with hubby’s cinnamon coffee cake from the freezer.3
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Happy Anniversary @Yoolypr 49 years is a huge accomplishment!
I know you are going to have an amazing time in Hawaii!2 -
Wowzers
GO TEAM YOOLY!
CONGRATULATIONS
to you and
to one of my favourite grocery store deal seeking guys!
And what a nice menu!
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So I wasn't feeling my planned stuff, so I ended up having a big bowl of salad with shredded Parmesan and lemon vinagraitte before work, then stopped at the grocery store on the way in for a small container of raspberries, real good brand frozen chicken enchiladas, some shredded cheese to gussy them up and a big can of diet Arnold palmer. I'll eat some of the raspberries in the lemon yogurt I left in the work fridge.5
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Congratulations Mrs. & Mr. Yooly!!!
Lots of great menus here today!1 -
everyone quiet here...
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I prepared a "carnitas kit", it claims to be about 1500 Cal (3x480 "portions"). I fluffed up the sad portion of included frozen bunnies using the only "low cal" frozen bunnies I could find... some cauli rice. The only other veggies around appear to be the puppy's squash and a couple of bags of higher Cal peas, so no good as add-on veggies. I will have to check on how many cals come from the tortillas as the kit had 264g of tortillas in there....
Anyway. Best before was end of August... so it HAD to go!
it tastes... ok. Not my first choice for the calories which I guess also highlights how seldom I venture towards Tex-Mex type food 
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Flour tortillas are usually about 100 calories each. Corn tortillas are a bit less. Made with lard? Assume the carnitas were full fat. Not drained or de-fatted. Was there cheese involved?
Home made Tex Mex is controllable. But restaurants or kits are challenging. It’s the food of people who work incredibly hard in merciless heat thus burning lots of calories. Not the first choice for sedentary city folk!1 -
Unknown how made but the same company/brand large flour tortillas when reduced in weight to 33g (the weight of the ones in the kit) come up as 102 Cal each so it sounds spit on.
Kit at 1500 doesn't sound too far off... 800 for tortillas, about 500 to 550 for the 280g meat pack including sauce (very little visible fat), 40 for salsa (125g), leaves about 100 to 150 for token veggies mostly low cal except for some corn kernels. Kit at sub 1440 sounds low
adding up plus spice pack probably cloaer to 1550!
Nursing it along so far! The 100 Cal of cauli rice definitely helped with the visual. Taste is not bad but not my first choice obviously!🤷♂️1 -
Packaged Tex Mex quality is like having Italian spaghetti or ravioli in a can. Or canned Chinese meals. No comparison to the real thing. Frozen gets closer but still not as good as doing it yourself.2
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It was a frozen kit 1
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Supper tonight was a veggie burger from Harveys - no cheese (not being virtuous just forgot ) - getting back into the swing of being home. Did have some green soup from the freezer for lunch though
I like Tex/Mex - find it holds for a long time - but it is dear on the calorie front.2 -
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Mais our, monster 🙂
Getting my head around doing a little bit of pre-cutting. Not quickly🙂 but I’m roasting a bunch of beets ($2.49 for a 10 pound bag!!) making a batch of green soup and perhaps some white beans in broth (with kale and carrots and cherry tomatoes) today…
Tomorrow I have this plan for breakfast Dahl (a yellow Dow with squash and spinach and mellow spicing)
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Lol… that was supposed to read pre-cooking … not pre-cutting! NOT going to be doing any of that! 😳2
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Meal prep for weeks lunches:
White chicken chili (light on beans), with shredded Mexican cheese blend and sour cream.
Celery, cucumber and radishes with helluva Good French onion dip.
Sugar-free lime jello.
Tomorrow night dinner: cheesy scrambled eggs with ham and onions.
Tuesday: Taco bowls (seasoned lean ground beef, onion, lettuce, shredded cheese, sour cream, garlic Hot sauce and salsa).
Wednesday: cheesy scrambled eggs with ham and onions.
I'll have to look at my calories and macros and fill in around the edges. I have some protein shakes and Greek yogurt cups.3
