Breakfast: 2 fruit muffins and diet coke (gotta get my caffiene in).
Lunch: 3 chicken strips cooked on the foreman grill, green beans, and an apple.
Dinner: Not sure yet...any suggestions?
Edited to post dinner:
Went to Wendys, had side salad with Lite Ranch and Small Chili (counted points for chili and dressing). Baked potato, plain with some dressing in it. Also had a fresh fruit cup.
Amanda, check out our previous days menus to get some ideas for dinner. I always recommend my Smothered Barley Chicken dish to all new Core folks. Have you ever seen the www.barbosdietkitchen.com site? If you go to recipe archive and search Core you'll find hundreds of recipes. I'd make the Smothered Barley Chicken if I were you and leftovers freeze great! I was going to give you the link but couldn't pull it up. I've asked the Barbos site people to help so I'll try to get it for you if you are interested.
Breakfast: 1/2 cup oatmeal made with skim and 1/2 cup homemade applesauce cooked in.
Lunch: Sirloin burger with FF Borden American slice (points for bun), raw onion and pickle and about 2 cups fresh fruit salad.
Here's mine ... I'll be counting points/calories this week while still doing Core foods.
Breakfast: had a coke on the way to work (a whopping 6)
Snack: banana (1), Ruffles Light chips (2)
Lunch: Salad with Kraft Free 1000 Island (1), a sliced boiled egg (2), lean ham (2), FF cheese (.5), and milk (2)
Snack: FF/SF pudding (.5)
Dinner: Baked potato (2) with 1T olive oil (1), FF cheese (.5) and FF sour cream (0), grilled chicken strips (2) and milk (2)
Amanda, I couldn't find the link on Barbo's site but here is the recipe:
Smothered Chicken and Barley
1 teaspoon ground cumin
3/4 teaspoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon (I don't use this)
1/2 teaspoon dried mint flakes (I don't use this)
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder (I use more!)
1/8 teaspoon ground red pepper
6 (4-ounce) chicken thighs, skinned (You can use breasts)
1/2 teaspoon canola oil (I use more oil and no spray to get in my healthy oils)
Cooking spray
1 1/2 cups chopped onion
1 cup chopped red bell pepper
1 tablespoon low-sodium soy sauce
3 1/2 cups low-salt chicken broth
1 1/4 cups uncooked pearl barley
1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes
6 tablespoons chopped green onions
1. Combine the first 7 ingredients in a small bowl, and rub chicken with half of spice mixture.
2. Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray over medium-high heat. Add chicken; cook 1 minute on each side or until chicken is browned. Remove the chicken from the skillet.
3. Recoat skillet with cooking spray; add chopped onion, bell pepper, and soy sauce. Cook over medium-high heat 3 minutes or until vegetables are lightly browned. Add broth, barley, tomatoes, and remaining spice mixture, and stir well. Add chicken to skillet, nestling into vegetable mixture. Bring to a boil; cover, reduce heat, and simmer 55 minutes or until chicken is done. Let stand 15 minutes. Sprinkle with green onions.
Serves: 6 (serving size: 1 chicken thigh, 1 cup barley mixture, and 1 tablespoon green onions), Cal: 286, Fat: 5g (14.7% calories from fat); Protein: 25g, Carb: 43g, Fiber: 9g, Chol: 54mg, Sodium: 468mg, POINTS: 5 or CORE
B - ww toast w/pnut butter (pts.)
s - banana
L - grilled chicken salad w/ ff dressing
D - baked potato w/olive oil, green beans
s - apple or sfff choc fudge pudding
Well, I won't be starving for dinner, because I already ate my ssff pudding, plus a string cheese, plus, 1/2pt. english muffin half with 1 tsp pnut butter., I think I should be done for the day. Oh.............and when I said green beans, I meant the whole box of frozen green beans with almonds (cooked of course).
Did however walk 20 minutes on the treadmill and am planning on doing the WATP 2 mile with the weights later., I think the exercise makes me hungry.
B:2 sausage links
L- grilled chicken salad with reduced far ranch dressing
S-Sugar Free PhillySwirl
D- plan to go out to dinner and plan to have another Phillyswirl tonight
Menu for Monday 2/21/05
