Would actually love to see what everyone is eating to get some good menu ideas - please join in!
Breakfast
muti grain cereal w/1/3 c bran buds
3/4 c lo fat milk
1 small sliced banana

Lunch:
turkey breast
salad w/oil & vinegar dressing
12 taco chips (3 points)
2 tangerines
1 banana

PM snack:
small fruit salad
1 grande decaf non fat cappucinno
1 ounce cheese (3 points)

Dinner:
shrimp
stir fried asian veggies w/1 tsp oil & teriyaki sauce
1 tsp cornstarch (??)
diet pepsi

Evening:
ginseng green tea
popcorn

Froufy

Yumm, yours looks good.

My menu is a little out of my control today. My roommate is making dinner for us today and even though it's healthy, it's probably not CORE.

Here goes:

Breakfast/Brunch:

Egg
Canadian Bacon
Coffee no sugar

Lunch:

Just snacking due to late breakfast: Clementines and an apple

Dinner:

Chicken Vegetable Alfredo
Ingredients: chicken, broccoli, carrots, onion, garlic, ff milk, ff sour cream, whole wheat pasta, and ww flour
Is this CORE if all the ingredients are?

And a piece of fresh bread 2
diet coke

Yeah! 2nd day on CORE

16/35pts

Sounds like a good Core day to me! The bread is the only thing that's not but you have your 35 WPAs to use, so use them!

Was so hungry last night - ended up eating 2 scrambled eggs and 1 slice toast!

Day 2- here goes....

Slept in:
Brunch:
3/4 c ff cottage
1/4 c ff sour cream
some chopped veggies mixed in: radishes, shallots, cucumber, tomato
1 slice toast (1)
1 pink grapefruit
tea w/milk & splenda

water

Afternoon snack:
1 dill pickle
microwave popcorn
diet pepsi

Dinner:
1 slice roast beef/top sirloin
1/4 baked squash w/cinammon & brown sugar (1/2 tsp?) = (1)
corn
brown rice
water

Decaf filtered coffee w/light cream (1)

I think I might need another snack before bed - maybe some more fruit and some milk or yogurt!

Froufy

Froufy, you're a girl after my own heart! I love my tea with milk and Splenda.

Sunday, January 9th

Breakfast: One serving oatmeal made with skim; Added 1/2 cup of homemade applesuace to oatmeal.

Lunch: Chili Relleno Casserole

Snack: In blender, one packet Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate, one whole banana, 1 cup skim milk and 2 ice cubes. Yum....tastes just like a chocolate banana milkshake (use your imagination!)

Dinner: Mix field greens salad (mushrooms and tomato) with FF Honey Dijon dressing, Balsamic Chicken with Mushrooms, Roasted New Red potatoes with olive oil and garlic, fresh green beans with Smart Balance (points)

Dessert: 1/2 cup After Dinner Mint Mousse (1 point since made with FF Cool Whip)

6-8 ounce glasses water; 24 ounces black decaf coffee; 2 Decaf Diet Pepsis and 10 ounce hot decaf tea with skim and Splenda

Hi Vickie,

Yup - strong tea - preferably English Breakfast or decaf Earl Grey - yum!
Have also started drinking some green tea as it is supposed to be good for
you.

Love that dinner you had - sounds absolutely delicious!

Monday, Jan 10:

Breakfast:
1 packet plain instant oatmeal w/1 tablespoon flax meal and some brown
sugar substitute
decaf coffee w/light cream (2)
banana

snack:
ff yogurt w/splenda

Lunch:
leftover teriyaki shrimp w/stir fried veggies
brown rice (which I now realize means I can't have any pasta/rice/potatoes
w/dinner!)
apple


Snack:
green tea
1 nutrigrain bar (3)

Dinner:
chicken breast (marinated in japanese dressing)
squash
brocolli
couscous

Have to go "watch" dd at tap class tonight - might bring a diet pepsi with me for comfort & support!

Still feeling pretty hungry tho - hope this stops soon!

Froufy

Today I had:

Breakfast
2 hardboiled eggs
diet V8 splash

Snack
carrot sticks

Lunch
salmon pouch
grapes

Dinner(taco salad)
lettuce
extra lean ground beef, browned with taco seasoning
black beans
salsa
onions
avocado
black olives
very little cheese-1pt
fat free sour cream

Snack
fat free sugar free pistachio pudding
mixed with crushed pineapple

Daisys - Welcome! Come chat with us on the Core Support board! I know you didn't ask but you didn't have any starch at all. Aren't you hungry? You need some starch for balance.

Breakfast: Farina made with skim milk

Lunch: Huge green salad (tomato, cukes, chicken breast, FF cheddar cheese, avocado) with FF Honey Dijon Dressing; fresh fruit cup; Hot decaf tea black

Snack: Banana, Splenda, Skim milk smoothie

Dinner: Chipotle Chicken with Rice (Core recipe)

Dessert: After Dinner Mint Mousse

Froufy.....looks like you're doing good. You drinking your water?

Alright, I'm joining in to post my food for the day, per plan.

Tuesday, January 11th

Breakfast: 2 Cranberry-Orange Oatmeal Muffins
French Vanilla Tea

Lunch: Mediterranean Chicken Salad (chopped chicken breast, sundried tomatoes, celery, onion, ff sour cream, ff feta, black olives, dijon mustard, lemon juice & balsamic vinegar) on a bed of greens

Snack: Grapefruit or Apple (was supposed to have both; one as mid-morning snack and other as afternoon, but time got away from me)

Dinner: Country Omelet (4 egg whites, 1 yolk w/2% cheese, extra lean ham, ff sour cream and "hash browns" - potato cooked in microwave until crisp) - 1 point
Sauteed Mushrooms

Dessert: FF/SF Chocolate Pudding w/FF Whipped topping.

I am trying to have a different menu every week, with the same thing every day Monday through Friday afternoon, Friday evening through Sunday may vary.


Torrey

Hey Vickie - thanks - yes trying to do the water thing - I am slowly ramping up the ounces - yesterday about 40 oz of water along with other "liquids"....today about 50 ounces??

Tuesday:

Breakfast:
ff sf yogurt
decaf w/light cream
1 packet instant plain oatmeal w/1tbsp flaxmeal and some brown sugar twin

Lunch:
chicken breast
brocolli
kasha w/sauteed onions & mushrooms
apple

Later:
decaf non fat cappucino
1 tsp peanut butter (1)

Dinner
Bagel (5)
egg salad (2 hb eggs, ff mayo, 1 green onion)
big handful of grape tomatoes!
cucumber slices
2 dill pickles
diet pepsi

Had a "ladies meeting" to go to which usually has BIG DESSERTS/FOOD all over the place.

What I had: 3 pecans, 1 fig, about 6 red grapes and a cup of green tea

What I did not have: the cookies, the big honking CHOCOLATE DANISH RING with chocolate oozing out covered in white icing sugar, and sprinkled w/almonds, the dried fruit, the jelly beans.

But to be quite honest while driving home I realized I just ate the stuff "cuz it was there"...was not supremely hungry at the time - just saw everyone else eating and so I joined in - need to RETRAIN THE BRAIN not to eat unless I require nourishment.

All in all, not a bad day!

Froufy

P.S. Don't worry - I have counted it all using those FABULOUS extra points we get every week!!!

Okay Wednesday's wickedways:

Breakfast:
the usual: plain oatmeal/yogurt/decaf w/light cream (2)

Lunch:
leftover roast beef
peas
corn
another yogurt

PM snacks (very hungry and guzzling lots of water)
1 apple
small bag popcorn
veggies (grape tomatoes, celery, baby carrots, cucumber) w/lf ranch dip (2)

Planned dinner:
broiled rainbow trout
boiled potatoes
brocolli

pm snacks??
maybe cereal and milk if I'm really hungry!

So what is everyone else munching??

Froufie

Hi there, thought I would post before I forget what I had

B: 2 egg muffins, filled with red pepper, onion, ff cheese
S: Protein Bar, 3 points (had to try it to see what it was like, it was ok)
L: Fibre One cereal with ff millk, with a banana
S: 1.5 cups popcorn
Supper: a huge salad filled with, sun dried tomato/basil tuna, celery, red/green peppers, maybe some carrots, no dressing, the tuna does it.......would love a boiled egg on it too but I am at my quota on that one then I will top this off with an orange/blueberry/grape bowl

Snack: Skinny Cow treat

To drink I have had coffee, water water water, just finished a cup of tea-plain

B: Cranberry Orange Oatmeal Muffin
Skim Milk
S: Cranberry Orange Oatmeal Muffin
L: Mediterranean Chicken Salad on bed of lettuce w/1tsp. of olive oil
Bag of Pretzels (3)
D: Country Omelet (see Tuesday, January 11th)
Salad w/olive oil (1 tsp.) and FF feta
S: SF/FF Chocolate Pudding w/ FF Whipped topping.

Yesterday, instead of mushrooms I had a salad with my omelet for dinner. For snack, I had Craisins.

Hey glad I found you guys!!
Here is my day I talked of our Core Support....
B-oatmeal, unsweetened applesauce
Snack - 1 Cup of Grapes....yes fruit!!!!!
L-chicken breast, mixed vegetables
afterwork-my core soup, barley, ff chicken broth and mixed vegs
D-turkey burger, 1/2 baked potato
8pm snack-didn't have the smoothie, didn't feel like messing the blender :-)
instead I had 3/4 cup of cous cous....
so what do you think of my first total core day....not too bad, huh....
I drank all my water....I don't have a problem with that, thank goodness. I just gobble it down while working.....2 liter and then one when I get in and flavored water at work with Lunch.
and I had my coffee with my skim plus during the day.
You all are giving me great idea....I still have to do those egg quiches' sounds sooo good.