I saw the interest in menus, and thought that in addition to reading the old threads for ideas, it is always helpful to post current menus for accountablity, planning and motivation. Sort of like the exercise thread(or so you say )

so menu plan for me saturday is:

b-breakfast cupcakes
l-chicken salad on romaine
s- mozzarella, pepperoni
d-steak and garlic green beans

sf jello?

Anybody else want to do menu's?

newbies?

Hmmmmm.... here goes.....

B - 2egg cheese omelet (american & swiss) cooked in lOTS of butter

L - probably a salad w/turkey in it

S -- no idea just yet! probably chicken cutlet w/stirfry veggies

snacks: gonna try either the Atkins slushie or mudslide; also SFjello and maybe some sunflower seeds (or not!)

I'm probably someone who should post menus AFTER the day is done!

<groan> do you ladies REALLY want me to post my menu?????

ok. for a good laugh...

7:30 am 16 oz SF lemonade

9:15 am 25 gram protein shake made with chocolate whey protein, 1 tsp unsweetened cocoa, 1 packet sweetener, 2 tsp sf/ff chocolate pudding mix, 8 oz milk. mixed and poured over ice

10:30 am 2 tbs tuna salad, 2 very very very thin slices american cheese, and 3 crackers

16 oz water

1:30 pm 3 oz salmon, 1/4 salad [brought about 1/2 of that up], and 2 tsp rice

16 oz water

snack.. 1 tbs cheese log with nuts

1 sf lemon hard candy
2 chewable calciums and 2 flintstones chewables

dinner... i have no idea.. maybe lobster from last night and a little caesar salad. or maybe some cheese or maybe just a protein shake. although i'm behind on the protein.

ok ok ok. it'll be a protein shake and some food protein.

I was in a hurry this morning, so my breakfast was not exactly LC
It was McDonalds Yogurt Parfait

Lunch: chicken cesar salad, no crutons

Dinner: meatloaf made with g.meat and a special "Old Fashioned Meatloaf" mix total of 8 grams carbs and cooked cabbage.

WELL! You think you eat funny?

here is my update: saturday night, I'm done eating, probably...

b'fast-had 2 egg breakfast cupcakes, coffee with 1/2 and1/2

11Am snack/lunch-macdonalds double cheeseburger, ripped off the bun, diet pepsi

2 snack-vanilla whey protein powder in 3 oz 1/2 and 1/2, 3 oz milk, extra vanilla extract, and lots of ice and splenda and some psyllium powder

4- snack- 2 small spoons of peanut butter

6-dinner- steak, and cabbage sauteed in butter

drank lots of green sun tea- about 2 quarts probably

so much for planning. didn't do too bad, but couldn't face a salad on Saturday, lets be realistic, sometimes you just want fast food!

B-3 black decaf // hb egg // a pinch of leftover roast chicken

L-chicken breast from roast chicken // 1/4 tomato // diet pepsi

D-chicken wings and chef salad

In between - managed about 80 oz of water and 1 more D Pepsi

Yes, I will have a patio drink tonight-DS's aren't home and I want to enjoy this time with butthead (dh aka sh)

We really need to keep the menu thread going! It sure seems to help!

Jif-you've got me drooling and craving that damn shrimp! Maybe in Hotlanta Deb knows a place?

J

ladies... if you EVER get a chance to have lobster with a caesar salad GO FOR IT!!!!!

end of day:

7:30 25 g vanilla whey protein shake with 1/4 c strawberries, sweetener, 2 tsp sf/ff vanilla pudding powder

9:00 2 oz lobster and 1/4 c caesar salad, and 1 oz of this really good new cheese: yogurt cheese with peppercorn and chive, very very good

I am posting my food logs in a Word doc so I will just cut and paste here at the end of the day. I do eat fruit, but usually it is only in the form of a smoothie. I was craving some brie today so I ate it on a nectarine, so I guess that is cheating...I need to pick a diet, I just do whatever and that has to quit. I have managed to lose 3 pounds this week though.

B Fruit-N-Flax smoothie, no added sugar

S approx ¼ cup of mixed nuts

L Chicken salad sandwich on revolution roll, 2 roast beef cream cheese roll ups, nectarine and brie -- too much!

S small handful of mixed nuts at the movies. I wanted popcorn SO BAD

D Chicken Caesar salad

S Mock Danish

Oh goody! A menu thread. I really need this for inspiration. Keeping in mind that I'm still on Week I Atkins Induction, I don't branch out from the basics too much.
Today's menus (Saturday)
Breakfast
4 slices bacon
2 egg herb omelet with cheddar cheese inside

Lunch
Chicken breast sauteed in butter
Small mixed salad with oil/vinegar

Dinner
L.C. Recipe Cheeseburger Quiche (not bad and very filling)
Sauteed red pepper, onion and mushrooms (in butter of course)
S.F. Jello and whipped cream.

It's now 10 pm and I still feel very full. This is so amazing. I'm eating less food than I did on WW but it's satisfying me more.
Managed about 70 oz water today.

jennifer.. a nectarine and brie!!! sounds DIVINE!!!! and i'll share this with the wls folks, since we can't EVER eat fruit without protein. [and, by the way, neither did you, so that's really a good thing; don't be so hard on yourself!!!!] and since we can eat about 1/2 of a large nectarine, this will be extreme luxury!

in fact, i picked up some wonderful mango nectarines yesterday, and i'm going to the grocery store today. peachie. do you want to share?????

OK - I KNEW I shouldn't have posted my menu yesterday before I ate!! Here's how it ended up.......

B - 2egg cheese (american & Swiss) omelet in tons of butter

L - Atkins crab&cheddar souffle (good, but way too expensive!)

D - went to a diner!: large steak, brocolli and small salad w/ranch dressing

Snacks throughout the day: 1 oz sunflowerseeds and one of those Atkins slushie's that I made --- tasted good, but lots of trouble to make! AND, they don't "blender" well - dh suggested that I just eat the cubes! Gonna try that later today for a snack!

well, here's the plan:

b-vanilla whey protein shake with 1/2 and1/2, milk, spenda, etc

l-shrimp on cesear salad

d-fluke(sort of like flounder, my mother's DH is retired and love to fish, we get tons of fresh fish!) Either green beans or broccoli.

Snacks- provolone cheese, celery stuffed with veggie cream cheese, leftover steak

Iced tea, water, iced tea, water...

YUM----- dotti - share some of that fluke out here in suffolk!

I think I did okay today~ here goes.

B-promsied DH we would eat out

3 cups of black decaf at home // 2 at restaurant
eggs/bacon/sausage-did ok-till the 1/2 cup of grits-anyone have any input here? What kind of damage did I do?
L-small salad
D-grilled steak and salad

approx 80 oz water - 2 diet pepsi

J -- grits are 15.7 carbs for 1/2 cup cooked grits.........

ok ... now that the day is almost done, I can post my food:

b: 2 egg omelet w/ amer & swiss cheese, cooked in BUTTER

l: salad w/ turkey, tomato/basil dressing (YUM!)

d: chicken cutlet w/stirfry veggies: mushr, stringbean, brocolli, onion (frozen storebrand "oriental style")

snack: 1 serving of the slushie ice cubes I made yesterday (don't know if I'll finish the whole thing, but am counting 1 serving; also, 2 small bites of the remaining atkins advantage bar........