Dinner!

Yesterday I had a baked chicken thigh (I like stuffing cheese and mushrooms under the skin) seasoned with an herb mix, a portion of broccoli and a piece of calabaza squash (which is a tasty winter squash, I baked it drowning in butter).

Tonight, I have no idea. I haven't gotten hungry yet.

lemon dill salmon with roasted yellow squash, baby bella mushrooms, onions and brown rice.

Quinoa flake chicken, stir fried veg, and the hubby gets some roast new potatoes.

For the chicken:
Marinate chicken (I like thighs and drumsticks, you could use breasts if you are virtuous) in some buttermilk and garlic salt.
Batter with quinoa flakes.
Place in oven tray and spray with a little olive oil.
Bake at 200C for 40 minutes. It's calorie-poor man's kentucky fried.

Tossed quinoa and veggie salad with basalmic vinegar, spicy mustard and olive oil dressing

whole wheat pasta from scratch with fresh vegetable sauce (tomato based this time because I have a jar of passata)... cooking some Italian sausages for the meat eaters in the house but I think I will skip it in mine.

Not the lowest calorie meal, but I'm working outside today, and doing the 30DS, and I didn't eat much this morning...

Tomorrow I'm roasting a whole chicken to feed everyone for the week while I'm away...

I'm going to make vegetarian chili next week for taco salad in a tortilla bowl...

Tonight, I'm planning on a veggie burger on a rye sammich thin with parmesan cheese, cauliflower, green beans, cucumber, tortilla chips, and salsa verde.

80% 20% fat hamburger , 3 oz ( mix onion garlic powder,)2natures own brown bread, toasted ,american cheese, egg white n margarine.all the lettuce you like on it an 1/2sweet tater with cinnamon.yogurt butter, 1tsp brown sugar total cal bout 300 cal

Tonight I'm going to have Cuban style black beans over brown rice with avacado...and it's going to be YUMMY!

Wow, those wraps look yummy!

We're trying the Tofurky Italian sausages for the first time. I cut them up and browned them, along with some sliced mushrooms, then added 1/2 jar of Mezzetta Napa Valley Roasted Garlic pasta sauce (the best jarred sauce I have found). It's simmering right now. We'll have it over spaghetti (a real treat because I haven't made pasta since we started on MFP in January).

The banana "ice cream" someone posted here earlier today is for dessert. I'm getting really hungry...

Tonight I'm going to have Cuban style black beans over brown rice with avacado...and it's going to be YUMMY!

how do you make something Cuban style? I tend to fall right back on chili powder and coriander (I call that Mexican style) or turmeric and cumin (middle eastern-ish) or is this a recipe?

Here's the recipe (it makes 4 portions, I just freeze the other ones for lunch or dinner later)

Ingredients:
1tbsp of olive oil
4 cloves of garlic chopped (or 4tsps of the pre-minced - I use more because I love garlic)
1 onion finely chopped
1 1/2 tsps of ground cumin
2 cans (15oz each) of no-salt added black beans, drained
1/2 cup of pure orange juice (I usually make this with a tbsp of orange marmalade and a 1/2 cup of water)

1 avocado, sliced

Building it:
Heat the oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add garlic & onion and cook, stirring frequently until the onions soften and get kinda translucent. Around 3-5 minutes - Just keep an eye on them.
Stir in the cumin and cook for a minute or until it gets fragrant (it smells so nice n' yummy!)
add the beans and the orange juice (or marmalade & water if you do it like me), turn down the heat to low and let it simmer for 15-20 minutes until the sauce begins to thicken.
With the back of a spoon or spatula, smash up some of the beans into the sauce and let summer for another 5 minutes.

You serve it with 1/4 of the avocado sliced up on top. It goes really nice on rice. I prefer brown rice because of the texture and the protein.

And there you go

Nutritional stats per serving (without the rice)

250 calories
11 g protein
34 g carbs
9 g of fat (but these are good fats - not french fry n' Doritios fats)
1 g of saturated fat
0 mg cholesterol
426 mg sodium
11 g fibre

Sorry, don't know the sugar count.

ETA: 6 g Sugar