I have a version of your Black Bean Salad, in fact made it this week. I used Black Beans & Garbonzo beans, chopped celery & red onion & red wine vinegar.

This week my high carb snacks & meals look like this:

Protein Shakes & Fruit
Bean Salad & Cottage Cheese
Asian Chicken Wrap (Multi-Grain Tortilla) with Cabbage Vinegar Slaw
Quinoua with Spinach & Mushrooms & Green Onions
Tuna & w/w english muffin (topped with cabbage slaw)
Greek Yogurt with Stevia & Berries

My dinners consist of basic proteins - chicken, salmon, venison, combined with lots of veggies - brussel sprouts, asparagus, brocolli - and some good carbs - quinoua, cuscous, yams

I appreciate feed back if anyone has any.....is there anything I'm doing wrong, anyone have other good ideas I can use? Always looking to learn!!! Also, my diary is open.....any diary police out there please feel free to critique me!!! Remember tho, I just started CTL today, I logged each day last week & did ok, but I was not following the CTL guidelines.

I posted this recipe awhile back & decided to tweak it to fit into the CTL plan. I’m trying to make up my meal plan for next week & felt like something different. What I’m wondering is tho – Can I use fat free cream cheese and/or mozzarella on High Carb days?? As long as it is fat free I should be able to, right?? Well, I hope so. I’m sure this would still be good without the cheese, but I’d rather not leave it out. Anyhow, here is my recipe:


Quinoa & Spinach Stuffed Roasted Peppers:

8 Roasted Red peppers (roast these yourself so they stay firm, do not use ones from a jar, they will get mushy & fall apart)

Filling:

3 C cooked quinoa (1C dry)
6-8 cloves chopped garlic (I use a lot of garlic, use as much as you like)
A small chopped onion (I used a regular onion, but I think some green or red onions or scallions would be better)
2 16oz boxes of frozen spinach (thawed)
1 can of artichoke hearts in water (drained & roughly chopped)
2C fat free shredded mozzarella cheese OR 8oz fat free cream cheese (you could also add half of both cheeses)
¼ C chopped sun dried tomatoes

You can also add any other ingredients you may have as leftovers or that is just laying around. I’ve used leftover asparagus, broccoli, brussel sprouts, anything, really. Any chopped up veggies, mushrooms, tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, etc. – this is a great way to use up those leftovers.

Topping:

whole wheat bread crumbs, whatever seasonings you like & a few squirts of I can’t Believe it’s Not Butter Spray

Ok, so, start by roasting your peppers, I do them on my gas stove, right in the flame until they are charcoaled all over. I put them into a small paper bag until they cool. Cut the tops off, clean out the insides & scrape off the black parts. Done.

Then sautee the garlic & onions in a non-stick skillet. Toss in the thawed spinach, don’t bother to drain & squeeze it, the liquid will cook out. Add in your cooked quinoa, artichoke hearts & whatever other veggies you decide to add. Mix it all up well, heat through & then reduce the heat. Toss in the cheese & stir until it melts. Stuff the peppers. Top with seasoned bread crumbs, & few squirts of the butter spray & bake @ 350 for about half an hour until the peppers are heated through & the topping gets toasty brown.

My original recipe had regular cheese, not non-fat & it also used cheese & regular bread crumbs with butter in the topping. I don’t think these small changes will make much of a difference in taste, just making it more CTL friendly omitting the fat from the cheeses & butter & bread crumbs. This recipe comes out to 178 calorie a pepper & when I made them the first time they were so filling I could only eat half.

Everyone in my family loved these & they were even way more delicious than I expected them to be, I was quite surprised. And the good thing is they can be frozen for another meal later.

Hi. i this is a Michelle bridges recipe.
2 slices of toast
100g light ricotta
hanfull mixed berried or strawberrys
Sugar free mayple (optional)
Toast bread, top with ricotta and berries and drizzle with syrup. yummy

Love the ideas!

Bump- I want to save these recipes! Thanks

great cookies for maybe a breakfast

1 cup quick oats 2 bananas and some cinnomen.. mash (i just used my clean hands lol) and back 350 14 minutes.. not too bad.