homemade pizzas on portabello mushrooms.

homemade asian lettuce cups :)

Chicken fajitas, Peruvian beans and I have yet to decide which veggies I will add, thinking broccoli. Back to eating healthier this week after a bad week last week.

Salad, black-and-blueberry pancakes, soy sausage!

We are not "soup people" but we got our typical February Freeze blast down here in Florida over the weekend and definitely needed something to warm our water-thin blood and bones. This Quick Beef and Barley Soup was absolutely delicious! If you're looking for something quick and tasty on a cold day it's a winner! We had it for lunch and dinner yesterday and there's enough for each of us to have about 1 cup with a sandwich for dinner again tonight.

Taco salad. Yum!

I made this recipe for Broccoli Pesto. I spooned the pesto over boneless chicken breasts, sprinkled with mozzarella, and baked. I served it with roasted green beans. Very delicious dinner! :hungry:

Ground Sirloin meatballs (meat, egg, spices and parm cheese) Rao's Marinara (3 carbs per 1/4 cup and yummy) and fresh Mozz cheese. OOOHHHH YUM YUM YUM oh green beans too LOL after thought

Ground turkey cooked in Greek spices with peppers and onions over whole wheat couscous.

This looks SO yummy! It's going on my menu soon!

Haleem. :P

Mixed field greens with turkey, feta, walnuts, and a vinaigrette.

Mixed greens salad w/ 1/4 of a leftover buckwheat crepe (w/ leeks, onions, and brie). Not the healthiest thing ever, but my boss bought my lunch and I hate to waste food! I'm going to the gym in a few hours so I'm sure it won't be too bad. :)

Mixed greens with cottage cheese for my dressing and green peppers and onions sauteed in olive oil with melted sharp cheddar cheese. With two thinmints (I ate those first so the aftertaste was quickly replaced with my dinner so I didn't crave anymore)

Apparently I was in a cheese mood today lol

Salad (romaine lettuce, chopped cabbage, parsley, carrot, green onions, cucumber, celery.) and whole wheat gnocchi with a chunky sauce eggplant, onion, green pepper and baby portobello mushrooms stirfried and then cooked with 1 can diced tomatoes, with basil, salt, garlic, oregano, et cetera.

What time should I be there? Sound DE-LIC-IOUS!!! Enjoy!!

If I can't go to mnemosyne's house for dinner, then we're going to have applesauce glazed pork chops, rice-a-roni (which I wouldn't have bought if I'd checked calories properly), salad, and fruit.

The applesauce glazed pork chops is a new recipe for me. (3 new recipes this week!) (I'm branching out!)

I may even stop on the way home and buy long-grained brown rice and pass the packaged stuff onto my son--college students will eat anything free :-).

I always say that failing to plan is planning to fail. So, I always know what I'm eating for dinner about three days in advance. (Saves me money, too!)

Tonight (2/27) I'm having a 4oz grilled steak, a small baked potato with butter and spices, and a Caesar salad.

Tonight I had zucchini stuffed with quinoa, tomato, feta, spring onions, pine nuts and a whole lot of spices. So tasty and only 350 calories or so!

mnemosyne, I've never had whole wheat gnocchi but now I feel silly for not thinking of it earlier! I love gnocchi. Do you buy it or make it yourself?

Tonight are cheeseburgers--95% lean--I'll cook them in the George Foreman grill. I'll skip the bun (DD won't), and we'll have salad, strawberries, and raspberries with it.

Pork roast with a chipotle glaze served over Mexican-style brown rice with a corn and back bean salad. Also, sweet potatoes with cinnamon topped with fat-free sweetened condensed milk and cool whip free

I had a quinoa eggplant casserole with cottage cheese. Yum

jennybee - I purchased it. I'm not so skilled with pasta-making. I actually found it at Aldi, though I've seen it at Cost Plus World Market before, too.

bethFromDayton - I love trying new recipes. Have you tried the brown basmati rice? It is not QUITE as good as regular basmati, but tastier than regular brown rice. And whole grain too!

PluckyPear That sounds really good. Do you have a recipe or link to one? I would like to try!

Last night I had a Morningstar farms Chick'n patty, a few shoestring fries, some vegetable wraps (from the supermarket sushi people, but wrapped in tapioca paper instead of nori and rice) and fresh green beans/baby bella mushrooms stir-fried in a bit of sherry and soy.

Tonight it will be black bean tacos with cilantro slaw and feta, inspired by this recipe from the smitten kitchen:

http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2009/...feta-and-slaw/

I kept back a cup or so of black beans from the beans I cooked this weekend for soup.

I'm thinking chicken thighs seasoned with smoked paprika and honey (ala Alton Brown), baked sweet potatoes and green beans. Should be about 315 cal.

Leftover Chicken fajita, baked on Naan bread with some cheese on top. Maybe some salad on the side :)

SO freaking good! (works out to be about 500 cals too)

Chicken ceaser salad and shrimp.

I just ate an entire 8x8 pan of eggplant parm to break a 24 hour fast -- it was SO GOOD and only about 450 calories! I like volume so it works for me :)

1 - 1.5lb eggplant sliced very thinly (150 calories)

2 -servings shredded italian cheese blend (160 calories)

1 -1/2 cup serving tomato sauce with a few tablespoons of water to thin it out (80 calories)

a tablespoon of parm cheese on top (25 calories)


Slice eggplant super thin and salt to taste -- layer in a pan --eggplant/sauce/half of cheese/eggplant/sauce/half of cheese-- bake 350 for about 30 mins

sprinkle parm on top. SO GOOD. I also put garlic powder/italian seasoning over the eggplant in addition to the salt.

Of course, traditional eggplant parm has fried eggplant but this was so yummy and filling without it. Really tasted like a comfort meal.

35x35 - that is one of my favorite summer meals. I sometimes mix it up by adding in zucchini and squash if they are in season and available, or even fresh tomatoes in the summertime. I do usually roast my eggplant in the oven first before doing the layering, then (since I don't do the fasting thing and generally want my calories for a dish in a meal somewhat lower) layer them in ramekins so I can cook them when I want them.

Sounds delicious, so awesome that you enjoyed!

3535 Yum, I am going to try that eggplant parm. :)

Mnem I will post the recipe, I kind of altered it, but will post later today.

Dinner- halibut ( got it frozen, generic stuff in sale) baked from frozen with dill and lemon, roasted sunchokes, and some type of veg.

All these sound lovely :) I had home made wholewheat carbonara :)

Simple ground beef stroganoff over egg noodles. Would have had dinner rolls with it but forgot to take them out earlier so blah.

Last night was 2oz macaroni shells with 1/2 cup 0% greek yogurt, 1/8 cup jarred alfredo sauce and 1 tbsp parmesan then topped with 1 slice crumbled bacon. Oh yea, 1/2 cup green beans in there too.

Not sure about tonight.

This is a new one for me (I've not been in the habit of cooking "real" meals for a long time, and this is my first pass at really trying to do it "light".)

Beef stir fry with Asian oil and a bunch of veggies (green beans, zukes, snow peas, green/red peppers, onions)

Brown rice

Salad (or maybe skip the salad since there are already veggies and have a bunch of fresh fruit)

Your dinner sounds really good, Beth!!!

Had beef stroganoff again with piece of bread, mushrooms and a few egg noodles (already had tuna pasta with spinach for lunch so didn't want dinner to be too carbyyy.)

Tomorrow's dinner- Chicken and spinach pizzas using tortilla wraps as the crust, light alfredo sauce as the base and light cheese on top. Yum, can't wait.

Tonight is taco salad--one of our basic "go to" meals, since we all like it and it's quick and easy.

Saturday, I cooked 6 lbs of ground beef/taco meat in the crock pot, bagged it up, and froze it in single meal size bags. It makes it quick to put the meal together after work!

Left over pasta with fresh tomatoes, oregano, garlic, mushrooms, red chili flakes and olive oil.

Chicken sausage, kale, and potato soup. Husband had soda bread in honor of St. Pats Day.

Lemon pepper chicken meatballs with some shredded zucchini and lemony alfredo pasta with some spinach.

Tilapia, rice-a-roni (can't believe I'm making that), salad, blueberries, strawberries

It's okay!! Some of them are actually good, especially over tilapia. :)