Have you been holding out on us, PAV? How can you have the remainder of broccoli chicken noodle soup if you haven't yet "had" the beginning of said soup??????

Missed you Alexandra!

I'm trying a Tahini Chicken salad with Napa cabbage tonight. The recipe is in a South Beach cookbook I have. Though I don't have plain greek yogurt, so I'm subbing in sour cream and a little cream cheese for the dressing base. I'll add some roasted carrot sticks in to go with.

I have been out shopping most of the day….I had a horrible Egg McMuffin early this morning, some almonds and that’s it….baked beans and a couple of deli chicken legs for dinner….I bought some cherry pie filling but couldn’t find the lighter kind….this has 90 calories in 1/3 c. So I won’t get very much!….

Alexandra, it may have been "ready made"; but you did make it all special!

@Athijade and @bmeadows380 these do sound like special meals! I admit to being sometimes "afraid" to play with more calorically dense items because my "eyes" are almost never full. But, then again, after eating something calorically dense and giving it some time to settle, it often does work out for me in spite of the smaller visual quantity!

Garfield this looked beautiful enough that I want some!

I started the day with a piece of "toast" (32g white bread) and 19g old cheddar slice and 32g of sweet pickled onions... all adding up to just under 200 Cal!

alcohol and fire gets rids of feathers

I had (sweet) pickled onions for breakfast... at noon! I usually drink black coffee (loads) first. And only then either eat something for "breakfast" or not and leave the calories for later. Actually a pattern where I have a big breakfast and then nothing or just snacks till late at night, or one where I have multiple snacks and then a larger meal late at night is probably my preference.

at this stage it is just past 17:30 and I had a good 550 Cal worth of mini meal that should keep me going for a few hours.... (a repeat of "breakfast"; but with the addition of Connies favourite: a stinky boiled egg And a clif bar for the quick extra calories!)



Now I have to go get tilapia for the puppy. I am thinking of stealing her food again... though I sincerely question the nutritional theory that purports that plain pasta, tilapia and squash with a tiny bit of corn oil makes sense as an "ibs friendly" diet. Why tilapia (cultivated: so higher fat and antibiotics etc) and not pollock or whitefish equally low on fat (pollock especially) and wild caught? If tilapia is OK why not basa or any other whitefish? Why enriched pasta and nothing else? since when is semolina "good for the tummy" ?

Anyway. I don't know if I want PASTA with my tilapia... but last time tilapia and fries wasn't too bad!

And looking at the numbers I expect to have a good 1300-1500 Cal available which means fries are do-able unless I blow the calories on skittles before then!

uh-oh. playing with water weight you are! sounds... lovely?!!?

You guys seem to be so "concerned" about my almost noon time pickled onions! Remember that these guys are in a bread and butter pickle jar... they taste like bread and butter pickles--sweet like me!

How’s the pickled onion experiment going PAV? Will you do it again? You can toss in other veggies like peppers, cauliflower, carrots like Italian giardiniera. I’d parboil the harder veggies first.
Today I’m having chopped roast chicken with a no flour gravy on top of zoodles. Not the most inspired meal but it does the job. Light salad and crackers later. Maybe a frozen Christmas cookie or two for dessert.