Menu ideas please
 

Can u post some of your sample menu so I can get some ideas what to eat every 3 hours? Post what you normally eat? Thanks so much in advance! :) Yes, I'm just starting to read the book! ;) :^: :^: :^:

You can see Melissa's food journal here. I thought Laurie was posting hers but I can not find it.

The plan is balanced but protein -centric IMO. I eat a lot of poultry and tofu - eggs, cheese. Also whole grain bread, veggies like salad and stuff like that... I am terrible in the kitchen so mine would not be a good example, LOL!

Thanks!:)

Daisy-I am terrible in the kitchen too. The word recipe makes me run and hide.

I was posting mine also, but when I got sick I got slack at posting it but will start up again soon!

One of my favorite meals is to toast a corn tortilla, add 1/4 cup fat free refried beans, 1 oz of reduced fat shredded cheese, 1/2 cup shredded lettuce and a chopped tomato.

I also like yogurt, fruit, and cereal for breakfast.

Dinner is usually chicken or beef or pork that's been grilled with various spices and either brown rice or frozen corn or a baked potato with either salad or grilled zucchini or broccoli or asparagus or green beans or something like that.

I like a big salad with a grilled chicken breast for lunch. I also eat a hamburger (no bun) on a lettuce leaf with tomato and onion and add cheddar cheese mini rice cakes and carrot sticks.

Apples with peanut butter. Grapes and string cheese. Strawberries with a little fat free chocolate syrup. A teaspoon of chocolate or vanilla frosting on a peanut butter chocolate chip rice cake. Raspberries with almonds or pecans or walnuts.

Salmon that's brushed with maple syrup and dipped in crushed almonds and grilled.

Chicken that's been marinated in fat free Italian salad dressing and grilled.

Pork chops marinated in the Just 2 Good honey mustard salad dressing and grilled - also works for chicken.

Steak marinated in a mix of BBQ sauce, Pepsi, worcestire (sp?) sauce and Durkee steak seasoning pepper blend.

Shrimp tossed in olive oil and sprinkled with garlic salt and grilled.

Chicken breasts (about 6 or 7) thrown in the crock pot with a bottle of BBQ sauce and cooked until the chicken is done enough to shred with a couple of forks.

Make chili in the crock pot with ground turkey or beef, a can of light red, a can of dark red, a can of black, a can of pinto and a can of great northern beans, a can of tomato sauce, chopped onion and green/red pepper (I cheat and buy the frozen chopped ones) a can of chunk tomatoes if you like those, chili powder, garlic, and any other spices you want to add.

I also do like a veggie omelet with spinach, mushrooms, onion, red/green bell pepper and tomatoes for breakfast with bacon.

Those are some of my favorites.

Nice Susan! Why don't you post your journal for a few days for those of us not as creative in the kitchen, LOL...

:chef: :hun: :hun: :hun:
Susan YUM!

OK we're all packing up and going to Susan's house for dinner!!

Off to Susan's we go......I am packed and hungry! LOL!

All those sound wonderful!! :)

Susan,

You definitely need to post your journal for all to see. I am always ready for something different. ;)

You don't want to see my journal right now - I am doing a protein and fruit cleanse I read about in a magazine to jump start weight loss. I wanted to see what would happen.

If any of you are ever in Denver, CO you are certainly welcome to stop by for dinner. Tonight we are having rotisserie chicken and salad. DH will add a pasta side.

For my salads, my favorite is the Fresh Express Spring Greens mix. I chop up cucumber, tomato and buy the already shredded carrots. I sometimes add sliced strawberries or pears and sliced almonds or chopped walnuts.

It's all about experimenting. You can marinate chicken, pork chops, or beef in just about anything. Any types of salad dressings are great. Honey dijon, raspberry walnut vinagerette, etc.

My husband is the great experimentor. He's a good cook, but you never know what you are going to get and you can guarantee every pan in the kitchen will be dirty when he's done.

We don't have a lot of time for cooking since we both work. I usually put meat in a marinade in the mornings and grill it when we get home. We buy in bulk at Sam's Club and portion it out for 2 people and use our Food Saver to seal it up.

Baked potatoes are easy in the microwave. I have a Black & Decker rice/veggie steamer that is always in use. Steam a whole thing of brown rice on a Sunday afternoon and you have enough for the week. DH likes the Lipton pasta side dishes and I can't eat them so I make them for him a lot - it's easy - one bowl in the microwave. I also slice either regular potatoes or sweet potatoes into pieces, put them on a baking sheet, spray them with Pam and sprinkle them with seasoned salt and paprika and bake in the oven until done.

Steaming veggies takes anywhere from 5-15 minutes depending on the veggie. I buy the large bags of frozen ones at Sam's Club. They have broccoli and a stir-fry veggie mix. Whip up a salad and it doesn't take that long. I also take fresh asparagus or slice a zucchini or yellow squash and put it on a piece of aluminum foil, spray it with Pam, sprinkle it with garlic, Italian seasoning and seasoned salt and throw the packet on the grill.

We use our grill year round on the patio -- just gets a little cold sometimes.

When you are allergic to almost every prepackaged food out there, you learn to get creative. I have to cook from scratch as I don't have much choice.

Wow.

Oh double WOW, Daisy is speachless!! LOL! ;)

Susan-Can I come live with you??