I would love some new ideas for heathy meals and snacks. Would anyone else be interested in posting their food journals? Then we could ask for recipes and get ideas for a low pt breakfast.

I'm gonna start with my entry. If anyone else is interested in public exposure , please join in...

yesterday 6/24 (28.5 pts)
Breakfast: chicken salad sandwich on bun & apple juice (6)
Snack: 1/2 cookie (1)
Lunch: Gumbo w/ rice, salad (7)
Snack: ff pudding pack (2)
Dinner: Baked chicken, brown rice, zuchini & cherry tomatoes (8)
Snack: 4 rf oreos in milk (4.5)

today
Breakfast: lean pockets (6)
Lunch: maybe sandwich & chips
Snack: wheat thins
Dinner: German Restaurant (HELP!)

Have a great OP day!
Melanie
230.5/219.8/150ish

Hi Melanie:

I think that is a great idea. I would love to hear (or read) what other fellow Weight Watchers are eating. Fortunately for me, I love to cook, so I am always experimenting with new Weight Watcher recipes or recipes from Cooking Light, Light & Tasty or any other recipes which display the nutritional information. Unfortunately, down here in S. Fla., it is so stinking hot, I don't feel much like turning on the oven...so, gearing up for lots of easy cool dishes.

I'm on 28 points per day

Today (Sunday)

Breakfast: 2 poached eggs on 2 halves of a 1 point english muffin (5)
2 slices of canadian bacon (1)
my own version of iced cappuccino (2)
(1 cup skim milk. heat 1/2 cup in microwave and dissolve 1 heaping teaspoon Taster's Choice French Vanilla instant coffee & 2 Sweet N Low in steamed milk. Stir hot milk mixture into cold milk. Add ice.)

Lunch: 1 - 97% Fat Free Hebrew National all beef hot dog (1)
1 - Nature's Own Healthline Wheat n Fiber hot dog bun (1)
15 Fat Free Sour Cream & Onion Pringles (1)
1 c. watermelon (1)

Snack: Fruit 2 0 Ice (0)

Dinner: 1 Boca Burger (1)
1 - Nature's Own Healthline Wheat N Fiber hamburger bun (1)
(w/ Walden's sugar free, calorie free ketchup, lots of Romaine lettuce & a thick slice of tomato and 1 Tbsp. of Vidalia relish (0))
1/2 c. broccoli slaw (2.5) [finely chopped broccoli slaw, raisins & lite Marzetti's slaw dressing]
1 c. watermelon (1)
13 low fat oven fries (2)

(I'm stuffed!!!!)

Total so far........................... 19.5 Points

Regular evening snacks: 1 bag Healthy Choice popcorn (1)
1 Round Weight Watcher Ice Cream S/w (2)

Total Points for day............... 22.5 Points

I'm less than 8 lbs. away from dropping to 26 points. I'm finding that I am having a hard time using all 28 points as I get closer. I'm trying to train myself not to eat just because I can, because I have the points, but because I'm hungry. So, if I don't make it to 28 points, so what. Nobody says I have to use them!

Oh! My husband eats what I do...the Boca Burgers are really very good!

Hope my journal here helps someone else. If anybody else is willing to share their food journals, I think it would give lots of ideas to get out of the rutt.

Enjoy!

Angela

started 01/19/04 @ 271
as of 6/26/04: 236 (35 lbs. off)
Short term goals: (baby steps)
reached 30 lbs. off by my 30th birthday on 5/1/04
40 lbs off by 4th of July.
50 lbs off by Labor Day
60 lbs. off by November 1
70 lbs. off by Christmas
105 lbs. off by next Summer (my high end goal weight)
125 - 135 lbs. off by Christmas 2005

Hello! It's good to be back. It has been a crazy, travel-filled weekend. I have hardly been home, so it has been a lot of eating out for me and lots of flex-points.

Friday Night: we went to Mexican-American restaurant. I got the seafood enchilada and tried to stay away from the chips.
Saturday: I had a bagel instead of the offered sweet rolls. At lunch, I had roasted chicken and baked potato (good) potato pancake appetizer (naughty). Then for dinner DH and I ended up at our favorite restaurant and I had the chicken enchilada and taco combo with rice.
Sunday: I had fruit smoothie & half a bagel; for lunch, the family surprised me and went to Arby's. I ended up with a 12 point Santa Fe salad; Dinner was actually the high point at my mother's - mostly from her garden.
Today: Off to a bad start. I didn't have time to fix breakfast, so I ended up with a pack of mini doughnuts from the vending machine. I tossed the last one, but it was still 7 points of junk food. For lunch I will probably have a turkey hot dog or sandwich. Dinner will be strange. I am going to a Pampered Chef party and will be trying the samples. If I am still hungry when I get home, I may fix a salad or some veggies.

I love the iced capp. you described. I will have to try it soon!

Melanie

Breakfast:
coffee w/half and half and non fat milk 1
egg beaters 1
two chicken sausages 2
2T shredded cheese 1/5

snack:
3 thin mint cookies (last of the year) 2.5/7.5
water

lunch:
tabbouli with extra cucumber 4
three small mozz. balls for protein 1
small apricot .5
2T baba ganoush 1
1.5 normal sized carrots 0/13.5
cherry diet coke (bad lala)

dinner:
roasted chicken/veggie wraps in lettuce leaf 3
blueberry/banana/milk and vanilla smoothie 3/19.5

snack:
unknown

exercise: 45 min hill climb on treadmill/3.7 to 4 mph - 3 AP
weeding/dog puttering/abs
water: trying this week

Huh? I've never heard of tabbouli. What is it?

tabbouli --
cracked wheat (bulgur), cucumbers, parsely, tomatoes, mint, olive oil and lemon juice and salt

pretty good little salad.

recipe from cooks.com


TABBOULI

1 lb. 1 1/2 oz. burghul
10 oz. green onions, finely chopped
6 oz. white onions, finely chopped
6 1/2 oz. olive oil
3 1/2 oz. lemon juice
2 1/2 tbsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper
5 bunches parsley
2 bunches of mint
2 lbs. 6 1/2 oz. tomatoes
Lettuce or cabbage
Wash burghul half an hour before preparing the tabbouli. Cut into small pieces the tomatoes and onions. Chop parsley and mint very fine. Rub white onion with a little salt and pepper. Mix all the ingredients well, adding oil and lemon juice gradually. Serve on a platter and serve with it lettuce or cabbage.

I didn't have any green onions.

lala

Thanks. I think I will try it tonight. I have some fresh tomato & cucumber from my mother's garden.

I dropped from 28 to 22 points so I'm really looking for some good and filling low points recipes. Thanks.

Yikes! Overslept! Woke up with 15 minutes to get to the office! I was only 5 minutes late, but no time for healthy breakfast. I am going to have to get somethings that don't require cooking or can be prepared the night before. I didn't even have time for a toaster waffle. Therefore, it is another vending machine breakfast morning. It is 10 points for a pack of mini doughnuts. There are 6 doughnuts per pack. So, I am going to have 4 of them for (8.5) points. Hardly worth that many points, but what's a girl to do?

Lunch: I will have a turkey hotdog and salad. (4)

Dinner: Baked Ziti Southwest with shrimp (5) & salad with extra fixin's (1)

That leaves me 7 points for snacks or maybe some garlic bread tonight.

Happy Eating!

Melanie

breakfast:
chicken sausage/egg beaters/egg
part of luna bar

lunch:
half a turkey sammich with veggies
baked lays
diet coke

dinner:
curried zuchinni soup

snack:
smoothie

activity: gym -- 45 min walk/weights
dog putters

Breakfast: Egg McMuffin & Juice (8)
Lunch: Couscous w/ tomato, cucumber, celery, & onion (6)
Snack: 4 small nachos & a few peanuts (2)
Dinner: Ziti Bake Santa Fe & Salad that I had planned last night until DH's parents invited us to dinner. (6)

4 more points to use. Probably a dessert smoothie or some popcorn.