Had a frozen Indian thingy. Gave away the big half (64g) of rice to the girl 🐩😜 while adding in some "fine green beans"

well I kept all the sauce section!🤣

Bad food day yesterday even though I don't think I went over calories.

Had lasagna from the grocery for lunch. It was just okay. The ricotta layers had an odd texture that I just did not like at all. Way too... creamy. Like a sauce almost. Hard to explain but it was not pleasant.

Then for dinner I did not feel like cooking so I had a Trader Joe's Butter Chicken and Rice meal. Again, just okay. And it did not fill me up at all so I started to snack. Evening snacking is dangerous for me.

So it was a mess. Gonna for sure try better today. I keep telling myself that if I get through today I have 4 days off work. I so need it.

So not sure where this falls under... stuff to eat or bunnies?

The past couple of days I've been "mainlining" President Choice Stuffed Butternut Squash and Rio Mare Insalatissimo corn variety. Not necessarily at the same time. The first is at about 1 cal per gram and about 700 Cal per box. The second at almost 2 Cal per gram and 300 Cal per box. Plus the "traditional" filler stuff such as "fine green beans" at 35 Cal or less per 100g, and, err, shhh, don't tell Laurie, Magnum Classic thingies that come out the freezer on a wooden stick if ya know what I mean mr bean. All that plus your regular supply of coffee, coke zero, and the occasional cracker... and I am now significantly poorer when it comes to my pocketbook... but within target calories for the day! And a lot of bunnies... I guess PS. The dog definitely believes that the air fryer beep means time for dinner!

When I opened this thread and scrolled to the top I thought I was scrolling past a Dante meal

I saw those frozen stuffed squash, PAV. GOod???? For some reason my hamsters don't like those Magnum thingies on a stick. Can't believe it - but I would gladly pass them up.

Last night I had my French cut green beans as pasta dinner. SO very good. I can't understand why I don't have that in regular rotation these days. Yesterday was a late start to eating day so I had a few extra veggie meatballs - but even still under 700 calories for a ridiculously large bowl of deliciousness with a very generous amount of grated mozzarella and parmiggiano cheese.
All in all a successful day on the food front. Hopefully the first of many.

PAV8888 wrote: »

air frying 219g bananas with 1g of oil spray...

Why? Just to have fried bananas 🍌? Banana chips? Bananas foster?

Fried plantains (tostones) are common here but usually deep fried in oil. And plantains aren’t sweet and are much starchier.

Just curious!

You're right that they came out closer to bananas foster or actualy campground smores than banana chips! incredibly sweet too without any enhancement. the brussel sprouts came out as expected!

Full?🙀🤣

what's wrong with air frying?!?!?!?!

Subway veggie sub no cheese no dressing pepper only. Added jalapeno potato chips in the sub which I should have probably used the Cals better. Left over of black coffee that was in my "yeti" mug was drink of choice! Can't say I find them subs as filling for the calories as they should be. But it WAS convenient at the time!

Made chicken rolls for dinner tonight. Grilled chicken, feta cheese, low carb tortilla. Roll it all up and grill. Super yummy and not a lot of calories. I love me some feta cheese!

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.