A ton of homemade seaweed salad. Baked tofu, left over sushi rice, and a kabocha broccoli stir fry=608

I notice my eating preferences go in waves, lately I've been eating big lunches and smaller diners and breakfasts. I remember last year going through a similar phase. Interesting since a couple months ago I was more into big breakfasts.

Friday Nov 7
Lunch
2 slices homemade whole wheat bread toasted, 1 tablespoon Light spread
1 cup vegetable and bean soup.

2(!) bowls of buffalo chicken soup

So much of my cooking is from scratch and I sometimes am too busy or, ehemmm Lazy to figure out the calories. I try and keep the aount of food with a certain portion size and lower fat, low to no sodium, ...
Anyway, I chffanade and cook 1/2 of a small baseball cabbage in a teaspoon of olive oil, added a cup of cooked Israeli couscous about 170 calories for 1/3 cup dry which cooks up to around 1 cup full. I love any couscous but am fondest of the pititim,
added a tablespoon or slightly less of my tahini
and about 1 oz of lowsodium white chedder cheese 90 cals

mixed together and sprinkle no salt lemon pepper on top with a dash of Spanish smoked paprika.

there was like 2.5 cups of food. . I thought I could only eat half of it, but it was so freaking good I finished it!
a very light colored meal though,, pale cabbage, pale couscous, tahini has little color and white chedder!! I will have to eat some colorful foods for dinner!

^CatNa, that is exactly why I gave up on calorie counting for the most part. It just got to be burdensome! I do count calories maybe once every few months for a week to see how I'm doing and have entered a few of my recipes into MyFitnessPal. Just glad to have found 5:2 so I don't have to count...

Your meal sounds different, but has many of my favorite things in it. Israeli couscous is an absolutely favor of mine, but I have to be careful with it or I will eat like 4 cups in one sitting...cabbage on the other hand, I have got to start eating cabbage again! I love it roasted.

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I had a bowl of buffalo chicken soup again for lunch yesterday, AND today.

Today I also had a small piece of chocolate cake that a coworker brought in. It looked too good to pass up, and well, it was.

No lunch tomorrow!

Last week's lunch theme was Japanese, this week its mediterranean

-4 falafels
-lettuce
-5 kalamata olives
-tomato slices w/balsamic
-1 oz pepper jack goat cheese
-tahini dressing(tahini, almond milk, lemon juice, salt, pepper)
=753

Added a bit too much tahini for the dressing. Adjusted the recipe for the rest of my lunches this week to be lower calorie.

-3 falafels
-lettuce
-2 dolmas
-tomato slices w/balsamic
-1 oz pepper jack goat cheese
-tahini dressing(tahini, almond milk, lemon juice, salt, pepper)
=512

Much better lunch calorie wise then yesterday Also yesterday I only ate about 1/2 the dressing I made, really didn't need the rest.

-3 falafels
-lettuce
-2 dolmas
-cucumber slices
-1 oz pepper jack goat cheese
-tahini dressing(tahini, water, lime juice, salt, pepper, garlic)
=567

2 slices of thin crust veggie pizza, a small salad with lite ranch dressing, and about 2 inches of a cheesesteak.

noname-mmmm pizza...

Didn't have time to make a lunch last night so going to get my tofu salad from the thai place I like. I figure the salad is between 400-500 calories.

Thurday NOV 13

1 cup of chicken stew
2 slices of cornbread, with light marg. ( corn bread full of fat sugar and indescribably delicious. ) ekks
2 table spoons of peanut butter. (I seem to have a craving for peanut butter lately)
A rum toddy. uummm
and a full Sugar Coke! WHAT??? I NEVER DRink Coke!!!

Give me strength to have some willpower for dinner! Yikes

Yesterday was so busy that I missed lunch, so I have my cup of curry lentil soup that I brought yesterday still in my work fridge.

Back to the Japanese Bentos. I wasn't as into my mediterranean meals, I mean they were good, but I really prefer japanese. Next week I might make my lunches Thai theme. I could do peanut tofu satay, spring rolls, and a side salad....hmmm

-tamagoyaki
-sushi salad without rice
-homemade asian dressing
=503

Lunch Nov 14
we were out shopping and my huband wanted a hamburger.
I had a plain small hanburger nothing in but some really sweet onions. a few of his no salt fries and come home and had 2 cups of popcorn.

Dottington. I love seaweed salad when I go to the Japanese place, but I never thought of making it. Have a recipe to share? What kind of seaweed is it?

I had a piece of coconut when I got home from the grocery store as I am quite hungry. Now I will put my potato in the oven and start with a salad.