Maybe we need protein meringues to nibble on instead???🤔

Had a binge last night on McDonald's after a panic attack. I don't even want to think about the amount of calories. So today I don't feel great. Luckily that means I have an extra day of Pot Roast so I don't have to worry about cooking tonight. It will also push everything back a day on my meal plan which will end up helping me out with NEXT weeks plan.

I have to go down to the office 3 days next week. Which makes dinners a lot more difficult for me. So next week will most likely just be a "get through it without blowing it totally" week. I plan to get a frozen pizza and a bagged salad kit for example for 2 of those nights (and may add veggies to the frozen pizza).

I am also going to try really hard to do no fast food for 30 days. I would LIKE for that to be no ordering in/out for 30 days, but if I really want a poke bowl or a burrito bowl then I am okay with that. Those sorts of options I know I can fit into my calories and meal health needs. There are just some things I can NOT make fit.

So tonight will be the last of the pot roast. Tomorrow will be a salmon bowl. Then Sat/Sun will be Thai coconut chicken (Kevin's brand). I am working on my plan for next week and the following week today and tomorrow.

Had a Whataburger bacon 🥓breakfast on a bun (BOB) 350 calories. Hubby and I only go to fast food when either of us is fasting for lab work. Kind of a reward for waiting for breakfast until after the 💉blood draw!

Lunch was 4 small canned dolmas (palirria), salad 🥗and mini crackers. Not sure what dinner will be - probably more salad 🥙maybe with chopped hard boiled 🥚egg. We’re expecting severe 💨thunderstorms, hail and possible tornadoes 🌪 this evening. So a no-cooking dinner as the power 💡will probably go out.

We get our storm warnings in English and Spanish. In Spanish, storms are called appropriately TORMENTAS. 😱

Nice planning, Athijade!
I love your concoctions, PAV. Please don't stop daring the ingredients the way you do, and especially please don't stop sharing them with us
Yes - such torment! FOUR little dolmas. I guess they are sort of an accessory

lauriekallis wrote: »

Yes - such torment! FOUR little dolmas. I guess they are sort of an accessory

Woulda had more but they were hubby’s leftovers from the day before. Worked out okay. Four dolmas and a big salad - not the most exciting meal but easy.

PAV8888 wrote: »

Not sure if I like your mustache; but hey: whatever floats your boat!

Thought I’d shake things up! Cause you know at my age women can grow mustaches... not that I have personal experience.

So I saw something online today and got a hankering, and I had to stop by the store anyway, so I got the stuff to make jalepeno poppers.

3 jalepeno about 3" long each
1/3 less fat cream cheese
Center Cut bacon (already had)
Reduced fat shredded Cheddar (already had).

Cut the peppers in half, removed the stems and seeds. Mixed 3oz of softened cream cheese together with the shredded Cheddar. Added some lite salt, black pepper, garlic and onion powders. Filled the pepper halves, ate the leftover cheese mix with a spoon, lol. Took 3 slices of the bacon, cut them in half, stretched them and wrapped the cheese stuffed pepper halves. 25 minutes at 400 degrees. So good. Strangely filling and under 500 calories.

Jalapeño poppers - a staple in Texas! Every party, appetizer menu, tailgate, cookout. Even get them ready made at the grocery store. However, Nics better version at least uses low fat cheeses.

Have you tried jalapeño jelly? Awesome on a cracker/bagel with a smear of cream cheese. Not a meal but you sure remember you ate it!

Make your own jalapeño jelly. Bag of fresh jalapeños, pectin, and some stevia or sucralose. Cook it up. Store in fridge.

PAV8888 wrote: »

honest to goodness never ever thought of it. And I have cranberries I bought fresh and froze... jalapeno cranberry jelly with pectin and sucralose? hmmmm.....

You won’t need the pectin if you use fresh cranberries because they make their own pectin jell when cooked. Just don’t cook the minced jalapeños cause they lose their heat. Oh - wear gloves when mincing!

I make cranberry sauce at thanksgiving with jalapeños added. Of course there’s canned sauce too. Canned sauce and canned pickled jalapeños?

The most common jalapeño jelly hack is to stir in fresh chopped jalapeños into store bought apple jelly. They do sell low sugar versions. Let it sit for a day or two in fridge to “mature”. Make it hot as you like.