John wanted an Italian Sub for dinner so I picked up a container of Panera chicken tortilla soup for myself….easy peezy!

Meal was a little higher in calories but it fit and I was still under so it was all good. Cheddar and bacon burger with baked beans.

I also went grocery shopping to pick up some lower calorie snacks. Late night snacking is my downfall. With my husband needing so much sugar to function we have lots of not good snacks things in the house. I found some chocolate brownie fiber one things. Only 70 calories and wasn’t terrible. Had some protein in it as well. Sure hit my chocolate cravings and I didn’t feel bad!

I popped some powdered cinnamon, some liquid sucralose and 20g of cereal in my left-over plain 0% Greek yogurt! Not as good as a box of Fiber Ones... but not bad either. Actually Yooly, pre-portioned baggies of snacks (15 to 20g each) is what I used to do when I first started out on MFP!

I even had "rules". No eating of the snacks in the kitchen. Only one taken out at a time. Immediately logged. Then transported back to the living room and placed in front of me to eat while looking at the item (not TV or screen). After eating a second snack was allowed following the exact same procedure. A third snack was only allowed if I were to walk around the house block first. A fourth required walking at least to Safeway (7 to 8 minutes back then and back another 8 to 9 uphill). A fifth would require walking to Walmart to purchase something (35 minutes each way back then). I never got to a fifth!

Happy Friday Eve!!!

I'm trying something new today. I pre-logged my meals. I never do that as I don't know what I want to eat. I decided to break up my calories. I usually do very little for breakfast, slightly more for lunch and then a bog dinner so that I can eat whatever my family is eating. Today I have a committee meeting so I wont' be home for dinner. I usually pick up some fast food on the way there since I have patient right up until it is time to start.

Last night I pre-weighed and packed up some low fat cottage cheese and strawberries with sugar for breakfast. Did a "me salad" for lunch and I will have a healthy choice meal for dinner. When I get home I have plenty of calories left over for a bag of healthy pop if I want it.

I don't really eat this way since I get more hungry in the boredom hours. Hopefully by having meals more spread out I will stay full longer. We shall see. It's all trial and error!!

scoutmom1981 wrote: »

@Yoolypr The bane of a skinny husband!!!

I do like the popcorn. I do the mini bag of smart pop. only 100 calories. I never thought to put a flavoring on it. Are they calorie free?

Minimal calories. But very flavorful. You may need to spray the popcorn lightly with cooking spray to get the powders to stick. A few calories there but not many. I get Trader Joe’s “Everything but Elote” cheese powder in bottles.

They have several other flavors. Hidden Valley has small bottle containers of ranch powder near where the mix-it-yourself salad dressing packets are in the supermarket.


I think you can also get the cheese powder that’s in those Kraft mac’n’cheese boxes. It’s sold online but large quantities.

Bunnageddon! Actually I do like some of Laurie's ideas quite a bit. Including the green beans with pasta sauce one.

Yooly your topping idea is also a fast tracker. To begin with the spray really is minimal. You CAN get it to well under 1g / 9 Cal and you wouldn't want more than that anyway to preserve taste. And a couple of grams of powdered toppings are unlikely to be 0 Cal no matter what they claim; but they are also unlikely to be more than 10 Cal or so. While increasing the enjoyment potential! So I LIKES!

Trying something new for dinner tonight. Shredded chicken with some taco seasoning and a jar of salsa cooked in a crock pot. Not sure what we are doing with it. My son said that he wants his over rice but I was thinking it sounded good in a taco shell.

Going to do some mixed veggies as a side.

scoutmom1981 wrote: »

Trying something new for dinner tonight. Shredded chicken with some taco seasoning and a jar of salsa cooked in a crock pot. Not sure what we are doing with it.

Taco shells are fried and fairly high calorie- even homemade ones. You might try these soft tacos sold at Walmart and other grocery stores.

They are 50 calories for an 8” tortilla. You could put in the chicken/salsa, shredded lettuce, tomatoes- maybe a sprinkle of low fat cheese - roll it all up burrito style.
We had these with lettuce, tomatoes, fish and salsa for lunch today. The guys had the soft tacos with fish sticks while mine were plain shrimp.
They work pretty well for breakfast tacos - scrambled eggs, crumbled bacon, dash of cheese. Or the classic retried bean burritos for more calories.

retried re fried recycled... it's the beans without a green in front that is my issue!

Tonight I am having a ribeye steak, baked potato, and roasted zucchini. Higher in calories but fits today.

Going to cut off like a third of the steak after it is cooked and use it to make steak hash for lunch tomorrow.