This is my FAVORITE recipe! Well one of them. I love cooking and creating!

Last nite I made this for my hubby and me. It makes eight so it's also good to cook t the beginning of the week and reheat each day. It's so good I feel like it's not healthy!


Chicken Enchiladas

2 tbsp canola oil
2 tsp chili powder
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp oregano
I add a couple sprinkles of cayan pepper to the mix too
1/4 tsp salt and pepper
4 skinless boneless chicken breasts cut into small bitesize strips
2 onions sliced
1 red and green pepper thinly sliced
1 jalapeno pepper minced
1 cup drained and diced tomatoes
1/2 cup shredded light cheddar or monterey jack cheese
8 large whole wheet tortillas

Toppings
1/2 cup shredded light cheddar or jack cheese
1/2 sour cream

in a bowl combine 1tbsp canola oil, chili powder, cumin, oregano, salt and pepper. add chicken and coat with the mixture. ( i find letting it marinate for overnight or the day makes it extra yummy!)

Heat 1 tbsp of canola oil in pan and cook chicken.

reduce heat to medium and cook onions, red, green peppers and jalapenos until tender.. 10 minutes-ish.

Put the cooked veggies in a big bowl, add in chicken, cheese and tomatoes and mix up.

Divide amoung tortillas and roll up ( i find closing the ends of the tortillas is good to do). Place them tightly into a greased 9x13 baking dish. cover with foil and cook at 400 for about 15 minutes.
remove foil, sprinkle with topping cheese and bake for 10 more minutes or until cheese is bubbly and tortillas are crisp.
Serve with sour cream

I got this recipe from the gi diet book by rick gallop

Breakfast:
1 Slice Nature's Own Double Fiber Wheat Bread
2.5 TBS Peanut Butter
1 TBS Smuckers Sugar Free Jelly

Morning Snack:
1 Yogurt

Lunch:
Santa Fe Beans and Rice Light Michelina's
1 1/2 C. Green Beans


Afternoon Snack:
1 Banana

Dinner:
2 Fat Free Turkey Hotdogs
Potato Salad made with Light Miracle Whip
V8

Menu: 15-9-08

Breakfast:
Fruit and fiber
2% milk
Morning snack:
Spoon of PB
Lunch:
Assorted stirfry veg
pesto
handful of cooked pasta
afternoon snack:
1 hobnob
dinner:
roast chicken
glazed carrots
peas
gravey

Liquids:
60 oz H2O
1 cup coffee, 2%milk
1 cup tea, 2%milk

Its now 9pm and I will only have water before I go to sleep.

Breakfast:
1/2 C Lite Soy Milk
1 serving Special K Cereal
Coffee w/ 1% milk & Splenda

Snack:
Cantaloupe

Lunch:
1/2 C Lite Soy Milk
1 serving Special K Cereal

Snack:
None

Dinner:
Veggie Sandwich
Roasted Veggies - Yam, Broccoli, Red Onion, Tomato, Green & Red Bell Pepper.
Yam Fries (oven baked)

Water - 64oz + throughout the day

Mmmm last night we had this lemon pasta for dinner and it was SO good. I used whole wheat spaghetti, and it worked great. Since it's just the two of us, we had lots of leftovers too, so it'll pop up for lunch later in the week.

Breakfast: toasted english muffin with cream cheese and blackberry jam

Snack: Apple juice and a macadamia nut cookie

Lunch: Pesto pasta salad from one of the cafes near work. Full of peas, onions, tomatoes, etc.

Snack: Probably a Fibre 1 bar

Dinner: An unfortunate binge.

Breakfast
2 slices ezekiel bread, 1 tsp earth balance marg sub, 2 tsp sf jam

Lunch
Homemade creamy vegetable soup
Leftover quinoa, chickpeas, and herbed tofu

Dinner
faux sloppy joes made with lentils and bbq sauce on a slice of bread
green beans

Snacks
1 oz almonds
Kashi snack bar

I will also enjoy a glass of wine if and only if I run tonight. (After the run, of course!)

I am happy to share recipes if anything I ever post looks good to anyone

can i cheat and just put in a link to my food diary?? lol ??


ok rhonda :P lol
TUESDAY

Breakfast ;vegemite on toast .... yes im going grocery shopping today lol

Lunch; skinny hommus and light crackers.. followed by and chicken orange salad.. yummy

Dinner ;omlette=egg, ham. mushroom. subdreid tomato. laughing cow cheese


chicken orange salad
1/2chicken breast
some cos lettuce roughly chopped
1/2tomato cubed
8 cucumber slice
4 snow peas chopped
1/2 large orange cut into cubes
mix it up top it with some nuts or seed
this salad is yum and becuase of the orange you dont need any dressing.. makes alight and refreshing lunch ..
i double it me and leah have it for lunch .. yum

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast; branplus cereal (25g of fibre in one bowl) with milk

No, Amy! You must write it out for us!

Breakfast: Quaker Maple & Brown Sugar Weight Control Oatmeal,1/2 cup skim milk,3 cups of coffee

Lunch: Lean Cuisine

Snack: Tazo Plum-Pomegranate Green Tea, and a light string cheese stick.

Dinner : Apple & Cinnamon Chicken Sausage with steamed Italian Veggies.

Snack: WW Key Lime Pie

I now realize that my eating was crappy today! Way too few veggies and too much processed foods. Pluse, I didn't meet my calorie count for the day.
Tomorrow, I promise myself to do better.

Breakfast
Health Valley Golden Flax Cereal with vanilla soymilk and banana

Lunch
Kaski Black Bean Mango frozen lunch (nom!)
chips with salsa/guacamole
Glass of apple juice

Dinner
Salad - spinach, red onions, carrots, green peas, edamame, lightlife smart bacon, EVOO and basalmic vinegar and a whole wheat roll

Snacks
strawberries

Brkfst- Jimmy Dean Delights Turkey Sausage Egg and Cheese Croissont -300

Snack - Choc Chip granola bar - 110

Lunch - Lean Cuisine Chicken Alfredo and 100 calorie pack of cookies - 390

Snack - PB crackers - 200

Supper - Pizza Hut

Practiseliving: i'm making your lemon pasta tomorrow nite.. I CAN'T WAIT! And I think I will add some chicken too

Breakfast:

Dan Active Strawberry Yogurt
Coffee with Splenda and 5% cream

Snack: peach

Lunch: leftover Catelli Smart Pasta with homemade multi-veggie sauce and one slice provolone cheese

Snack: Banana

Dinner: leftover chicken with spinach and LF raspberry dressing

Snack: 100 calorie popcorn

Not good I know..will improve with time.

Todays Menu:

breakfast - homemade turkey sausage, cottage cheese pancakes

lunch - ground turkey, green beans, peach

snack - string cheese

dinner - turkey burger, tortilla, asparagus