New thread for a new month! All are welcome to come and post your food diary.

Things have been insane the last few days. I can't remember enough of what I was eating to log, but I remember having to eat out a lot (not by choice. Options are limited when you're waiting for your car in the shop...)

This morning I did start out pretty good with a bowl of oatmeal and fat free cottage cheese w/ blueberries.

Lunch is a bowl of Optimum Power Cereal w/ skim milk, a quarter of cantalope, and a small dish of fat free sugar free chocolate pudding.

I'm aiming for whole wheat spaghetti for dinner, but the stupid car is going to have the final say on dinner plans.

friday dinner:
*1/2 baked potato a 1/2 can lf turkey chile, 1 oz cheddar cheese, 1 big spoonful of lf plain yogurt and a handfull of tortilla chips
*2 pieces dragon roll (sushi) w soy sauce and wasabi
*few bites of spinach dip (made w lf plain yogurt and neufchatel) and 4 cubes of bread (taste testing my contribution to a saturday party)

water goal made(!)

saturday (no clear meals-- grazing):
16 oz carrot/apple/lemon/parsley juice
remaining dragon roll (5 or 6 pieces)
one handfull tortilla chips w spinach dip (still testing )
1/2 piece of coconut cake
1 handfull of almonds
1 margarita
more spinach dip w sun chips and bread cubes
few dried garbonzos
1 coconut rum w coconut & pineapple necter
3 rum and diet cokes

water goal, ? half maybe?

sunday:
b:
1 breakfast taco (scrambled eggs, potato, lf yogurt, salsa)

movie snack:
popcorn, m&ms, skittles, sour patch kids, diet coke

l:
1/2 baked potato like friday
1/2 c wasabi peas
snack:

d:
1 c quinoa pilaf (w toasted cashews, almonds, sunflower seeds, and dried cranberries) w 1 spoonful lf plain yogurt
leftover 1/2 piece of coconut cake

water 1 1/2 nalgenes

today:
b:
16 oz coffee w 1oz 2%

l:
1 c quinoa pilaf w lf yogurt
2 c cantelope

d:
?

water goal:
2 nalgenes

B - whole wheat tortilla, 1/4 cup eggbeaters, salsa, spinach leaves,

S - bowl of blueberries

S - horizons fat free organic cherry yogurt

L - Mandarin orange chicken salad, with water chestnuts. Lite honey mustard dressing on the side

S - 1.5 cup cherries

S - tall non fat sugar free caramel latte

S - carrot sticks, grape tomatoes, sugar snap peas, red pepper strips

D - Super food stir fry - tofu, orange pepper, shitake mushroom, broccoli, garlic, onion over brown rice

Super foods 11! whole wheat tortilla/brown rice, orange pepper/carrots, broccoli, tofu, tea, mandarin oranges, cherries/blueberries, yogurt, salsa/grape tomatoes, sugar snap peas, spinach/field greens

Okay this is what I ate today: I can probably do better I'm sure.

Breakfast: lean cuisine - I know it's weird but they are small and I don't like breakfast foods that much. It does it's job

Lunch: Turkey sandwich with lettuce, tomato, oil, and vinegar... I said ALITTLE oil and vinegar but that' s not what I got..

Snack: Nature's Valley peanut butter granola bar

Dinner: Stouffer's grilled entree - chicken teriyaki (3.5g of fat and about 300 calories)

_____________not the best day, tomorrow will be better ____________

Tomorrow I plan to eat a light yogurt and 1/2 multigrain pita w. peanut butter for breakfast

Stupid question alert: What does cottage cheese taste like? I can't get past what it looks like.. you know, all clumpy...but people have told me it's good but what would you compare the taste to? Since it's healthy .. I would like to incorporate it into my diet if it also tastes good.

Today:

B - slimfast shake and a banana
S - strawberry nutri-grain bar
L - Lean Cuisine spinach & mushroom pizza
S - raw carrots
D - chicken vegetable stew and garlic bread

TOTAL: 1545

Uh...a very mild cheese? If you can't deal with the lumps - throw it in a food processor and whip the lumps out. That's what I had to do to start liking cottage cheese. I can handle it, lumps and all now. Another good thing to try is the low fat pineapple cottage cheese, I love that stuff. It's also good with salsa.

If you want to slowly ease your way into cottage cheese, here's a spinach dip recipe I make (great for veggies).

2 cup container of cottage cheese
Lipton onion soup mix (half a package)
Frozen spinach (defrosted and well-drained)
small can of chopped water chestnuts
chopped purple onion
Sun dried tomato (not the kind in oil)

Put the cottage cheese in the food processor, whip until smooth. Add remaining ingredients, stir well.

It's not got much flavor in and of itself, but it's great with fruit mixed in. Blueberries and strawberries especially!

Yesterday's dinner ended up being 1 cup of whole wheat spaghetti over 1 1/2 cups mixed vegetables and 1/2 cup spicy spaghetti sauce, and a Skinny cow for dessert.

Snacks: 1 ear of sweet corn, 1 5-calorie ice pop, 6 cups naked popcorn

Breakfast this morning: 1 carton Egg Scramblers, 3 pieces turkey bacon (meant to get two, but didn't notice 2 thin ones were stuck together till they were already cooking)

Lunch will be: 1 cup fat free cottage cheese w/ 1 cup blueberries, 1/4 cantalope, 1 peach, yogurt

Daisy, I've never been able to eat cottage cheese. I think it's gross! I've heard it's an acquired taste though.

Yesterday:
B - multigrain cheerios w/skim milk and strawberries
(light workout)
L - turkey sandwich on wheat bread (tomato, lettuce, turkey, bread)
S - about 15 cherries
D - mixed greens salad w/italian dressing, whole wheat pasta, "italian sausage" pasta sauce with mushrooms, 2 ears of corn
S - leftover dumpling w/blueberry sauce

Total cals: 1474, a little higher than I'd like but pretty good

last night cont...
snack:
1/2 c wasabi peas

dinner:
2 c thai mac'n'cheese w peas (noodles, cheddar, lite coconut milk, fish sauce, green curry paste, lots of peas)
1/2 c lf frozen yogurt

water goal made

today-
b:
16 oz coffee w 1oz 2%
1 c cheerios (no milk)

l:
1 c quinoa pilaf w lf plain yogurt
2 c cantelope

d:
1 c thai mac'n'cheese
1 c mixed green salad

water goal: 2 1/2 nalgenes

Today (if I post now, it will stop me from eating more!):

B - multigrain cheerios w/skim milk and strawberries
L - turkey sandwich (turkey, tomato, lettuce, whole wheat bread)
S - Dannon fruit at the bottom yogurt
(workout)
S - 15 cherries
D - pinto bean skillet chili w/rice
S - leftover dumpling w/blueberry sauce

Total cals: 1425

Dinner yesterday was a brat on a whole wheat bun. Snacks consisted of a Skinny Cow, 5 cups of popcorn, an ice pop, and a bowl of cereal.

Midnight snack: 1 mint cookie

Breakfast: Oatmeal and a banana, coffee w/ creamer

Snack: a peach

Lunch: Fat free turkey sandwich, cucumber, 100 cal oreo pack

Snack: yogurt

I haven't decided about dinner yet...

scratch yesterday's planned dinner- the girl happily came into some free freshly caught (and already grilled) fish so i was happy to partake in a yummy dinner of:
grilled fish tacos (cheese, black beans w garlic, tomatos, salsa, lettuce, grilled white fish, whole wheat tortillas). i ate two w some chips and salsa. had a yummy rum and coke with dinner and finished 2 nalgenes of water.
(i also snitched a few bites of the mac'n'cheese while packing my lunch for today)

today:
b-
16oz coffee w 1oz 2%

l:
1 c thai mac'n'cheese
2 c cantelope

d:
?

water goal: 2 1/2 nalgenes
food goal: get my a$$ to the grocery store and plan some freaking meals already!!!