Hi everyone! I still want to get to personals but was so busy yesterday. I still gt kids to kick out this a.m. too.
So hopefully soon. Well yesterday I finished up my walking for the month. 2465 minutes! Whoooohoooo!!! That is an 82 minute a day average! Okay so the past two days I have done fairly well with getting my cals back on track again.
Yeah! I was rewarded with the first loss of the week this a.m.(my main weighin day here is sunday) .50 a pound. Hooray!
SO these are the stats for November, I lost a total of 7 pounds but had gained one back during turkey week. So 6 gone forever though AND I enjoyed the holiday! Yeah!! Not bad!
Ladies we have 3.5 weeks left til x~mas so get your butts moving!
Okay I did want to adress the people on a limited income!!!!!! I am as well. We have 5 kids at home. haha Thank God 4 of them get free breakfast and lunch at school. BUT they have 3 weeks coming upo so I am going to need to get pretty creative! haha My limited budget is why I have not been able to switch to organic fruit yet like I would really like to!
As far as boneless skinless chicken breast goes, I know sometimes it is $4.00 a pound I NEVER buy it for that! It usually goes on sale like twice a month for about $1.87 a pound so that is when I stock up. (I generally try to do my big shopping at the beg. of the month) I also have a big deep freezer so that helps alot!
Another recommendation. The chicken breast halves usually go on sale for like .99 cents a pound. So if that is more feasible for you, get those and rip the skin off! I get those once in a while but that is when I want to do shake in bake and be a little bad and have the skin as a treat!
I have no clue how much the bone adds to the weight of the item so I always figure at $1.87 a pound the others are just as cheap!
Here is another option, if you HAVE to get the thighs cause they are on sale or what have you, do so. But rip the skin off! The thighs are fattier but it is better for you than red meat. There is alot of fat in the skin though.
Turkey ~ We are going to try to be incorporation more turkey in our eating. It is healthy for you, not red meat and it has been listed as one of the "super foods". Cook one on a sunday and carve up and freeze leftovers! Especially now since they are on sale. We still have two in our freezer! I think some of the sales were as low as .39 cents a pound!
Brown rice ~ find a store that sells that in bulk! rice is cheap!! It is also listed as a super food!
Pinto beans ~ They are also cheap!!! And very healthy for you!!! They are also listed as a super food!! I just got done yeterday making a huge crockpot full of chili beans yesterday and oh my gosh it was awesome! And cheap to make too. DH and I talked and this winter for sure we are going to be making a pot every week! This will give us some variety to our bnormal fare, he loves chile, I really like it to, and it is full of healthy/filling ingredients! (All I had on hand this time was one 2 pound package of 4% fat ground beef, I used 1 pound) I know the 4% gets expenisve but the 22 grams of fat per normal is rediculous! We rarely have gr. beef anyhow. Next month I am looking for the ground turkey!
2 pounds of pinto beans ~ cheap *also superfood
1 pound of gr. beef 4% ~ 3.00(substitute turkey/ *also superfood
cummin ~ .99 cents
pepper
chili powder ~ .99 cents
1 onion ~ cheap(next time I am adding 2!) *also superfood
garlic ~ cheap *also superfood
salt ~ cheap
chili flakes ~ .99 cents * also superfood
3 tomatoes ~ ( they can get pricey, but I had some left over and did not want to waste them, they can be ommitted)
Anyhow most the spices you should already have on hand and you only use a tiny bit so its not like a dollar for each spice every time you make it! That recipe actually made about 16 cups!!! So yeah we have leftovers and that was for a family of 7 last nite!
Add some cheap jiffy mix corn bread for .29 cents and you got a healthy meal! (of course we could argue the healthyness about the muffins!
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Anyhow the point is you can do it. Buy frozen veggies as oppposed to fresh. Like blueberries fresh in my store is like $5.00 for 6 oz!!!! Rediculous! I found them in the freezer, a pound for like $3.00. Still a lil pricey to do every day but I try to get a few packs a month! Watch the fruit for what is on sale at the store that week. My staple fruit is usually gala apples. At Ralphs they are 2.00 for 3 pounds. SO like .66 cents a pound. But if you try to buy them not in a bag, they can run as much as 1.89 a pound out here! SO watch for bag specials! Veggies, buy frozen too!
Total is a great cereal to get. A little pricey sometimes but you can catch a sale about once a month. BUT it has 100% of 14 different vitamins and minerals such as calcium!
Yogurt ~ get a big tub
peanut butter ~ get the biggest tub
bread ~ the ezekiel is not any more expensive than the other quality breads, 2.59 for 24 oz. Now some store white bread is "cheap" but it is also nutritionally "cheap" and if you wind up having two sandwiches or being hungry and reaching for something else or an unhealthy snack cause it spiked your appetite, how "cheap" is that?
I am the same way as some of you. I find it appaling that it is cheaper for a bag of chips than a bag of fruit. Twinkies were on sale for .99 cents! But let us remember our health! How cheap is it going to be if someone gets diabetes from eating all that crap? Or heart disease? Etc. It is not cheap in the long run! You can't buy good health. But you can buy healthy food!!
I think I also heard that Trader Joes has some good prices. We dont have one near so I dont know. Anyhow good luck to every one! Start eating healthy and your body will thank you!!
Martini glad to hear you are doing shakes too! Are you doing the low carb one?
I wanted to warn ya about slimfast though, check your can! I have seen 3 diufferent varietys myself! The old one had 33 grams of sugar per serving!!! The newer optima one had less, 13, not bad, but I seen the low carb one and it is a bit more expensive but I chose that one cause it only has 1 gram of sugar! It taste fine to me. I know you are not doing low carb per say, neither am I. But I would rather save the carbs for something else like healthy carbs, fruit and veggies. It also(low carb one) says it has 6 carbs but I guess when there is fiber added in there they can subtract it, so 4 grams of fiber = only 2 carbs that affect blood sugar. That is what my can says anyways!
Leygh: There is a video called WALK AWAY THE POUNDS. You do it in your own home.
Anyway 4 straight days of being incredibly good. 
I know I live in Michigan, but that first dumping always depresses me. 
But that's me. I sit at work wrapped in a blanket and everyone laughs at me. 
I'm not sure I'm strong enough, but we will see.
HI everyone 