I'm not sure if they have this everywhere or just CA?? But as I'm cleaning out my pantry and reading labels to see what I can use in my new 2006 SB life (and lots of stuff is going by the wayside, yikes!) I find my beloved Salsa Herdez

Ingredients: tomatillos, onions, serrano peppers, salt and cilantro

So that's OK right?? It's all veggie....

You can dump this stuff in the crockpot with some boneless chicken and in a few hours you just add a little sour cream (L/F and prob even N/F works!) and there you are, chicken verde! No tortillas though....but you could have it with some black beans and salad, it would be good!

Feliz ano nuevo a todas!

Sounds good! In P2 you can add the tortillas. I just bought some whole wheat garlic and herb tortillas last week at Krogers. Mmmmmm they were good. I like to roll up deli meat and tons of lettuce and dip it into about 1 TBSP of Newman's Own Lighten Up Ginger-Soy dressing. Yummy! It has "sugar" listed in the ingrediants but it only has 18 calories perTBSP (all I use at a time-it's strong!) So my guess is that it can't have much at all! I don't know if that's bad or not, but I have to have dressing! Hehehe

Tortillas are in my future? YAYYY! I haven't even gotten to reading beyond the infamous Phase One!

Well that's good! It's kinda sad because I decided to rearrange my my pantry so that the stuff I can use on Phase One is all on one shelf, and all those other shelves are getting awfully crowded! Buh-bye pasta, bye rice, bye mushroom soup, bye Top Ramen, bye Cheerios, bye oatmeal....etc etc and so on, is how it's going. Well maybe I can meet up with some of them on a smaller scale in future phases....

Salsa is fine as long as it's no sugar added. You may want to watch the sodium, too - a lot of canned foods are high in sodium.

In phase 2, you get to reintroduce whole grains into your diet. Heavily processed foods like white flour should be a thing of the past, however (except for the occasional thing, like a teensy piece of birthday cake or something like that). It's pretty flexible; most of the "OP foods" and rules we talk about are for on a daily basis - treats are allowed, as long as you don't go overboard, and you can always go back to phase 1 when you need to "re-de-tox" yourself.

I don't think I will miss the white carb type foods, except in 2 forms: super crusty sourdough rolls and pasta! However, seeing as they have proven to be false friends who, behind my back, have transformed my butt into a barely recognizable monster onto which one could successfully project a wide-screen movie, I'm done with the lot of them! LOL....out, out, out!

Actually, sourdough is still okay (though whole wheat sourdough is better) - it's acidic, which makes up for it being white flour. If it triggers cravings in you, though, best to avoid it!

True HKO!... and K8, you can have small portions of Whole Wheat Pasta... it's not bad at all!

Well that's good, cuz I love WW pasta and my salsa verde is looking a little lonely sitting there with only a couple of cans of beans to keep it company on m "OP" pantry shelf.

Will have to go out and buy them some little friends to play with tomorrow, LOL...

True homemade is always best, if you can find decent tomatillos in the winter -- I don't have much luck with that, usually use the Herdez off-season, but I really like it!

I've moved the Salsa Verde Recipe into its own thread in Miscellaneous Phase I in Recipes. Recipes frequently get lost if posted within a thread.

That crockpot chicken recipe sounds yummy! One of the purchases I'm making when I get home is a crockpot and a waffle iron. The waffle iron for the mock belgian waffles and the crockpot because it's time I grew up and cooked with a crockpot !! Plus there are so many cool SBD friendly recipes you can make with them.