Mary, great idea for a thread!
Jams, love your interesting menu choices and use of hot sauce in dressing! Yum!
Here's my approximate daily schedule. I go nuts if things are the same all the time, so I switch it up a lot.
A regular daily menu:
B: 1/2 cup cottage cheese, diced cukes, Lawry's seasoning salt, 6 oz. V-8.
Snack: Fruit flavored yogurt (or cheese stick)
L: Leftovers of a starch free meal and a salad, or tuna (with mayo, cut up pickle, Lawry's and garlic powder) with a salad, or celery sticks with dressing as dip, roast beef rolled up with mayo and Lawry's, etc. One creamsicle or a jell-o cup with 2 Tbsp cool whip free for dessert.
Snack: Pear with Laughing Cow Light cheese (or pickle with peanut butter or apple with PB or berries with vanilla yogurt, etc.)
Dinner: Something with a lot of veggies or something without many but with a salad (prebagged salad mix with cukes, grape tomatoes, and dressing...maybe cheese, but rarely) and a starch...usually part of the dinner (like pasta or couscous), but sometimes a wholegrain roll. (get a lot of recipes from Cooking Light)
Dessert: PB cup (if I didn't have nuts that day) or a fudgesicle.
If I am starving during the day, or have to go several extra hours before a meal (like when I had class from 6-9 after working from 8-6), I would eat an extra snack, usually nuts if I had not had them, or perhaps a cheese stick. There are lots of other options, but I was looking for something that did not make a mess or a lot of noise (like celery).
Hope that helps. I plan a lot of menus using the cookbook and also Cooking Light (
www.cookinglight.com). That way I can plan out the rest of my week. Last week I had a veggie burger with cheese and cole slaw for lunch, which was good. This week I'm working on the remains of cheese and broccoli soup from Saturday night. It is
heavenly and in the Misc. Phase 2 recipes in this forum.