What's for dinner - Thursday!!!!!!!!!

The good news: I grew a pair, dumped the sucky cable company (after just 20-some miserable days) and went back to DirecTV! YAY!

The bad news: I still frickin own that house. That's all I am saying about that right now. Ugh.

Dinner. I want sausage and peppers. The children eat sausage. They do not eat peppers. I am not willing to cook two separate meals. So I don't think we're having sausage & peppers. Boo.

Here's what else I had today though:

1. 1/2 c. cottage cheese
2. Click Frapp
3. Mandarin chicken salad (salad greens, cukes, tomatoes, carrots, red onions, grilled chicken, mandarin oranges and Asian dressing)
4. I sorta cracked out on slices of German bologna and a few (four) crackers. Meh. 

So what's on YOUR plate today?

Breakfast - Quest bar
Snack - caramel apple flavored peanuts (get them at Walgreens - 170 calories, 4 net carbs, 14g fat per 1/4 cup)
Lunch - frozen FF/NSA yogurt
Snack - zone bar
Dinner - 1/2 cup whole wheat pasta with the top of a pepperoni pizza over the noodles... nuke till melty and then pour pasta sauce over it.
Snack - protein shake (peanut butter/banana)

PS - I spi****er on my monitor laughing when I read this:

4. I sorta cracked out on slices of German bologna and a few (four) crackers. Meh.

Today is my first day of soft foods *yay*...

1.  2 oz tuna fish light with 1 tbsp miracle whip light
2.  6 oz skim milk
3.  1/2 cup Cottage Cheese Bake (eggface's ricotta bake, but cc)

DH is cooking up some ground sirloin for me to try for dinner.
Wish me luck.  I hope it goes ok.  He's adding taco seasoning and
then I'll top 1/4 cup of the meat with lowfat cheese, taco sauce
and maybe light sour cream.

Snack tonight:  sf popsicle
                      6 oz skim milk

 Funny you should mention the kids.  I baked their chicken with ranch - but I put italian seasoning, tomatoes and onion on mine and wrapped it in foil.   Didn't take long to get both pans in the oven and I got something healthier.  I don't know if that would work with sausage and peppers though...

Ihad an early dr apt today so i forgot breakfast.  Had a cappichino, sf hot chocolate then chinese for lunch, then the rest of the beef and broccoli for a snack.  I'll have a protein shake before bed because I didn't get much protein today.

B: protein shake S : EAS protien shake S: 2 babybel cheese 1/8 cup of pistachios nuts L: skillet crisp talaipia fish by gortons D: stuff bellpepper S: 1/4 cup of pistachios nuts

wellll.... the "plan" was for shrimp and veggies. But I am hungry. And I want something more "oomph" than shrimp. so maybe I will have scrambled egg and shrimp? Don't have any peppers... which makes me sad. No P28. Sad again. No Quest. Things just look more and more bleak.

On the bright side... I think..... I just registered for a Triathlon training group that meets here locally on the Gulf of Mexico!! (I think it was temporary insanity caused by all of my food sadness)

B - mint cookie protein made w/ water
L - tilapia w/ cheese and onions; steamed cabbage, steamed squash
S - right after Spin class - PB on WW foldit
- Quest (last one *sigh* )
D - maybe shrimp and eggs
S - cottage cheese and SF jello w/ fruit

bad eating day.  in the car all morning.

woke up hungry.  Never happened yet since surgery.  Had an egg. 
THen had my Celebrate Shake in the car. 

Had a 1/2 Quest cashew/coconut bar

had the cheese slices in a lunchable.  Couldn't stomach the "turkey".  and  1 cracker.  

drank 1 skinny water.

handful of peanuts

1/2 of the Quest bar

Dinner:  roasted chicken, mashed cauliflower, string beans, tomato salad.  Much better.  Can't wait to sit down and eat.  ( i was sitting and eating all day I guess, but not really concentrating or enjoying.)

Hate days like this.

Also have a sugar free cheesecake in the oven for the hubby. 

B - Coffee with a splash of milk
L - Watermelon and fresh Blueberries
D- 1/2 cup of the meat filling from a homemade stuffed green pepper
     Tabouli
Evening Snack - Fruit Salad

I am going to do better tomorrow, but at this point (5 weeks post-op) I am still feeling nauseated by protein shakes, drinks and powders. I gag when I think of eating "processed foods" I always have, even before surgery. So, today I decided to go to the store and buy everything fresh and prepare a nice meal for my DH and myself...success! No gagging and I am satisfied!

Protein shake when I got up.
boiled egg for breakfast
handful of edamamame *sp* for AM snack
budget gormet frozen entree for lunch
nature valley protein bar afternoon snack.
grilled tilapia & spinich for dinner

Dinner is going to be greek yogurt with flax and blueberries. I need something clean and fresh. I nuked some mac and cheese for lunch, before realizing two things:

1) I no longer like mac and cheese (wow, never saw that coming!) and
2) That is a really dumb idea. Carb crash city.

So dinner is gonna be light and clean.

I finished my cake! My Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cake! Whew! It always feels so good to complete a project and feel really pleased with it. I'd post pics, but I moved the cake down to my workshop, and the lighting sucks, and the harsh flash make it look really yucky and washed out. So I'll wait and take better pics in the daylight tomorrow.