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Lunching

June 6, 2010 No Comments

I always find it hard to stick to a good eating schedule on the weekends. There always seems to be a ton going on and a ton of good eats tempting you at every corner!

I woke up at about 7 this morning, downed a small bowl of cereal and went back to bed shortly after. That’s pretty unlike me on the weekends (the back to bed part, not the cereal obviously), but today it’s pretty gloomy outside and it doesn’t look like I’ll be making a big dent in the yard work today. Instead I’ll be working on cleaning up my pigsty of a house before heading to Cleveland for a slumber party with friends.

For lunch today I made a turkey/ham wrap using a lite Italian Flat-Out wrap.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA — my favorite fixin's

I still got my mad burrito lady skills! Only thing that could make this wrap taste better is a little grillin’

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Shrimp, and sex, and the city ;)

June 3, 2010 No Comments

Tonight I am craving SHRIMP. Last weekend, I ordered the Applebees low cal Shrimp and Island Rice and it was DIVINE. I felt like I was indulging! (Side note – I also tried the skinny marg, which was nothing to write home about… though apparently it was worthy enough to blog about… haha)

Since then, I’ve been craving some shrimpies so that’s what is on the agenda this evening.

I found a new blog that I’m really enjoying that is all about healthy recipes called Skinny Taste

On the blog, I saw a delicious recipe for shrimp quesadillas. I don’t have time to run to the store to buy all the ingredients before sex and the city 😀 😀 😀 — so I’m mixing it up a little bit based on what I have on hand.

9 Large Shrimp
1/2 tsp minced garlic, cayenne pepper, paprika, black pepper, lemon juice, water
1/4 tsp salt

1 Joseph’s Low Carb pita with Flax
1/4 bag Calabacita blend veggies (leftovers from last night)
1 slice pepper jack cheese goodness
Tomato, onion, banana peppers
1 dollop of daisy fat free breakstones 😉

Stats: 320 calories, 29g carbs, 9g fat, 27g protein, 6g fiber

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Goulash oopsie!

June 3, 2010 4 Comments

Tonight I had a happy accident for dinner (which happens to be the best kind of accident 🙂

I stumbled upon a dish very similar to one my mom used to make: goulash! I had planned on pasta with some steamed zucchini, but turns out the veggies I pulled out of the freezer had zucchini, corn, squash, onion, green pepper, and red pepper. So I decided to throw the veggies in the red sauce and add some ground turkey. The turkey and sauce were leftovers that I cooked up and froze sometime last week, so that made this dinner especially quick. Threw it all on top of some carba nada.

That’s a TON of food! Here’s the stats: 392 Calories, 50g Carbs, 7g fat, 34g protein, 8g Fiber.

Also decided to make a healthified hummus using my favorite new toy! Here’s what I threw in the hummus:

1 can garbanzo beans (drained and rinsed, bean juice reserved)
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp red pepper flakes
1 tsp olive oil
2 cloves garlic
About ½ cup of the reserved bean juice

Really happy with how this turned out! Next time I may replace some of the bean juice with water since it was a little on the salty side.

Here’s an idea for a quick/healthy dessert. Pop a couple frozen strawberries in your food processor and pulse until fruit breaks down. Result: Sorbet! Can’t wait to try this with banana!