I don't know if this is true or not, but one of the ladies in my moms forum stated that a serving of wheat thins is equal to a donut, when you look at whats in them. I'd rather have the freaking donut!
OK, looking at your fitday now. My advice, double check the amounts listed, as in the eggs, did you truly eat a cup of scrambled eggs?
was the chicken in your salad breaded? If not, you can change that, also, if it was, next time pull the breading off
Cheese, try low fat or reduced fat cheese.
I would also advise you enter in the amounts listed on the products you use. I tried to find the nutritional info for wheat thins on the nabisco site, no luck with that but found it at spark people and this is what it states
Nutrition Facts
Nabisco Wheat Thins Crackers, baked
Serving Size: 1 serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 136.3
Total Fat 5.8 g
Saturated Fat 0.9 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.4 g
Monounsaturated Fat 2.0 g
Cholesterol 0.0 mg
Sodium 167.6 mg
Potassium 56.3 mg
Total Carbohydrate 20.0 g
Dietary Fiber 0.9 g
Sugars 2.6 g
Protein 2.4 g
Did you crush them up until; you had a cups worth? thats what fitday states you had. If so, that was probably more than the considered serving, which is probably 7-14 crackers. Pay close attention to servings size, both what you actually eat and what you input for fitday. Again, I cannot reiterate how much putting in brands and your own custom foods will help. It's a HUGE pita initially, but as you can see, if you had 1 serving of wheat thins, the difference in calories between what you think you ate and what you actually ate, calorie wise, is huge.
Reading the journal, we too have a strict food budget. Alot of people think the family sizes of meat packages save money, truly pay close attention to the difference in price per pound on smaller packages and the family packages. Wal-Mart is notorius for marking the family packages 20 cents off per pound, but as I reconfirmed again yesterday, the family package of chicken legs was 2.67 per pound, - 20 cents, the smaller packs were 2.24 per pound, clearly more than a 20 cent saving per poud. I buy large 6 dollar bags of birds eye brand veggies, I think its 5 pounds, the Normandy and Asian mixes are great. Fresh produce, I just bought a pound of carrots for 66 cents for the bag. I normally get the baby carrots, prewashed and peeled. BAH! They were 2.06 for a bag, better to do the work myself. Bananas, apples, oranges, their costs stay pretty consistantly cheap. Grapes vary, right now, here, they're ridiculously priced. When avacodes are looking good and priced good, buy them, alot of them, buy some ready to eat, some close to ripe and alot of lighter green ones, those can ripen over a period of 2 weeks, when avacod prices will possibly be higher. I use Wal_mart's OOPS we baked to much bakery reduction for bread, I buy the whole wheat, harvest grain etc, then come home, cut it in 4 sections and freeze them. I bought a loaf of their sourdough bread for 90 cents yesterday, 90 calories per slice and 1 slice cut in half is more than enough bread for a sandwich. Sourdough doesnt have sugar and tends to be lower calorie. A box of tilapia<sp> fish at Wal-Mart is roughly 4 lbs and comes in presized 4 ounce servings, individually wrapped and is great steamed, baked, grilled atc, its usually 9 dollars or less for the box. Thats a great buy. Brown rice, WONDERFUL, is 2 dollars a bag, long grain is better, it means it has more of the outer shell on it, which is why its better for you, heartland makes a 100% whole wheat pasta, 97 cents a box, add some reduced/no salt added diced tomatos to their rotini pasta, and a few ounces of shredded chicken you have a great lunch. Top pasta with no sugar added pasta sauce. Pay close attn to serving sizes. A serving of pasta is in general 2 ounces. Not 2 cups. Most of us find our idea of a portion and the manufacteres idea of a serving has a huge difference. This is doable, even on a tightly restrained budget!
Also, if you dont have a kitchen scale, I would suggest get one at your earliest opportunity. OUr wal mart had some clearenced out at 7 bucks, I use that thing every meal. I know clearence varies store to store, but keep an eye on them, but until then, keep in mind, a serving of beef/pork/chicken tends to be 3-4 ounces, roughly the size of your palm or the size of a deck of playing cards. Thats 1 serving! seems small, doesnt it?! A serving of fruits/veggies is generally for veggies, 1/2 cooked, 1 cup uncooked. fruits is generally the fruit, some are large, apples, oranges bananas, come in different sizes, so pay attn to that. You can do this!