This thread is a place to post your daily food intake to be accountable, and also a place to share new food ideas/recipes and offer each other advice.

Anyone counting calories, WW points, etc. can post their running tally for the day as well.

Even though it's Thanksgiving, I'll start today.

Breakfast:
1 small onion bagel (5pts)
2 tbsp. LF cream cheese (1 pt)
1 peach (1 pt)
tea

Lunch:
1 haddock filet (5pts)
1/2 c. pasta (3pts)
1/2 c. homemade tomato sauce (0 pts)

Dinner:

Okay, here it is.

I had two tortilla chips with dip with my glass of white wine. (2pts for the wine)

At dinner I had about 4 oz turkey, (4pts)
1/2cup sweet potatoes, (1pt?)
1/2 cup mashed potatoes (2pts)
baby carrots (1 pt for the butter)
1/2 cup stuffing....???? pts
gravy

tea and chocolate silk pie...don't even want to guess!

The measurements were eyeballed, since I didn't actually ask my aunt for a measuring cup, but it was a serve-yourself dinner so I did the best I could.

Tomorrow is another day!


Total Points: Probably close to 40 with dessert
Water: 48oz so far
Exercise: 30 minute walk

be right back... going for a walk with DH...

My aunt always asks me to bring this dip to family get-togethers, and I thought I'd share the recipe with you all:

Whip 1/4 cup LF cream cheese with 1/4 cup LF mayo.

Spread over surface of plate/platter. It should be a thin layer.

Top with just enough salsa to cover. Too much will make it runny.

Sprinkly finely diced tomato and green pepper on top of the salsa.

Top with grated LF cheddar or marble cheese. Chill.

Serve with a basket of baked tortilla chips.

I worked out the points once, and I think it was about 9 points for the entire dip.

oh my gosh, Wildfire. What an idea THIS was!!

For breakfast I had two buns with butter. Then I had some leftover yummy potato casserole.
I just this minute ate a piece of beef pie. It's good cold. burp.
My SIL has just gone out with my MIL to look for an open grocery store so that we can have a roast tonight. My entire day is shot. I may have another piece of pie.
If they DO find a grocery store that's open, my MIL will come back with bags of food. Lemon merangue (sp?) pie, pumpkin, berry,...

Tomorrow I will journal in earnest. Today I am a porker readying myself for the slaughter.

Wildfire, you mean I can eat that entire plate by myself? It looks yummy. I'll look for some recipes to share...

xoxo

No-Bake Sugar Plums


1/2 cup dried apricots
1/4 cup dried figs or dates
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup golden raisins
1/4 cup flaked coconut
3 tabvlespoons orange liqueur or orange juice
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
1/4 cup granulated sugar

Yield: 36 Cookies

In a food processor or by hand, finely chop apricots, pecans, figs or dates, raisins and coconut. Add liqueur or orange juice and almond flavoring. Stir until well blended. Roll into 36 balls, about 1-inch, by placing a small amount of the mixture between the palms of your hands. Roll each ball in granulated sugar. Layer in an airtight container, placing waxed paper or plastic wrap between each layer to prevent sticking. Store in the refrigerator until ready to serve. Serve on a glass plate lined with a paper doily.

Per Cookie:
33 Cal; 1gm Fat; 5gm Carb

No prob, ellis...Thanksgiving is meant for pie! Tomorrow we will do much better. Those cookies sound yummy. Especially the no bake part. Now, tell me...dried dates....is that like the kind you buy in a brick shape wrapped in plastic? The kind you soak in water to make date squares with?

Oh bleah! I out this weekend but here goes anyway:

Breakfast:
1 cup Scottish porridge with 1/2 cup 2% milk
1cup decaf tea

Lunch:
Ham sandwich with oat bran bread
2 slices of mild chedder cheese
2 pepperettes

Snack:
1cup tea
4 Orange ginger wafer cookies

Dinner:
1bowl of homemade Scotch Broth soup
3oz roast beef
1 small new potato
1 cup green beans
1 slice pumkin pie
1 glass of milk

geez, Mauvais, if that's pigging out, I'd like to see what you USUALLY eat! I ate about 6 times what you ate yesterday!

Yes, Wildfire... dried dates in a block. You don't have to soak them, though. They're supposed to be chewy. Also, I'd skip the step about the glass plate and doily.

Going to be better today. SIL and her partner are leaving today and are making eggs and bacon before they leave. I'm NOT going to have any!

later darlings...

Breakfast: Drug cocktail (claritin, lisino, sinus meds)
orange juice

Snack: 6 oreos
can of root beer

can of Wild Cherry LaCroix (sparkling water, no sugar added)
1 banana
2 cups green tea w/mint

Lunch: 1 can Portobello mushroom & beef & rice soup
3 fat free Ry Krisp crackers
1 green apple

small snack: few handfuls of goldfish crackers

Dinner: baked salmon w/Miracle Whip coating, sprinkled w/Mrs Dash
whole wheat pasta w/steamed broccoli drizzled w/a little olive oil & sprinkled w/Mrs Dash
glass of milk

Dessert: a square of Mom's homemade apple-blueberry crisp w/half a scoop of cinnamon ice cream

Damn. Looks like my appetite has come back.

This will probably seem a little off base - but it is the Protein Power Plan...


AM: Homemade Protein Shake


PM: cheddar slices with small amount of sliced apple
celery sticks with almond butter


Tonight I am having homemade chicken and veggie soup with a glass of white wine and piece of sugar free chocolate

- 2 pieces of toast w/butter
- square of pastry (just ate the top... didn't eat the meat and stuff...) about 5 by 5 inches
-3 coffees w/cream

I'm starving...

.........

Okay, to add to my journal....

-large bowl of spicy Dorito chips
-4 glasses of water
-5 Advil

I just had a nap. If I go to bed now, I'll have had; if not a balanced day, at least a comparably low-cal day.

I should start doing the food journal thing again.

Breakfast:
Tea w/sugar & a little 2% milk
1 bowl of Oatmeal

Lunch:
1 can diet Coke
Slice of Buffalo Chicken pizza (chicken & blue cheese on top)

Dinner:
No time to cook before I left for class so:
a PB&J sandwhich
a small (like 2"X2") piece for apple cream kuchen.
another can of diet coke

I know I am not one for a balanced diet, but I am working on it.

*putting away doilies* No one would see them but me, anyway, since I don't like company. I just happen to have a block of dates in my cupboard, now I know what to do with them.

Breakfast:
everything bagel (7pts) (bigger than yesterday's bagel)
2 tbsp LF cream cheese (1pt)
tea

Lunch:
1 cup tomato soup (2pts)
cheese sandwich on high fibre bread, toasted, no butter (5pts)
banana (2pts)

Dinner: still cooking, but the menu is:
boneless chicken breast, shake'n'baked (4pts)
peas/carrots (0 pts)
1/2 cup instant mashed potatoes (2 pts)
splash of instant gravy (1/4 cup = 1pt)

That's 24 points....3 to spare
Water: 32 oz so far, more with dinner
Exercise: not yet, going for a walk after dinner

I will start journalizing my food intake tomorrow. This is a great Idea. Will help us to see where we are going wrong or right whichever the case may be.
Virginia