Baked Zucchini Squash and Bell Peppers

Thursday September 8, 2016 Menu

This day was nothing really special.  I knew that most of my meals would be leftovers.  I wanted to eat a large serving of the crock pot pork ribs.  I entered the ribs, the leftover pizza from my daughter's outing and an egg for breakfast.  I had quite a few calories left so I allowed myself a couple of snacks for the day.  I found some yellow squash and zucchini on sale.  I bought a bunch of them.  I figured that would be perfect in case my 5oz of meat I budgeted wasn't enough.   A 1/2 cup of baked veggies was only around 50 calories.  I weighed my meat and realized that 5oz was plenty.  When I was through with my plate, I went back for seconds just on the veggies.  Oh how great they were.  See you dice up all your veggies as seen in the photo.  I use an olive oil seasoning that I make to lightly coat them.  I cut up around 4 zucchini's, 4 squash and 3 bell peppers.  I tossed the whole thing with about 3 tablespoons of the olive oil mix (Mix now available @  http://happyhousebunkie.blogspot.com/2017/01/olive-oil-seasoning-blend.html ).  Bake at 450 for 35-40 minutes.   When done, take out of the oven and lightly salt and pepper it.  That's it!  Yuuuuumy.    I checked my calories at the end of the day and realized I still had a few more calories I could have.  So I had a half of a half serving of the leftover turtle cake.  I finished the day with a total of 1392 calories for the day.   That is 62 calories over my goal.   Damn that turtle cake.   See if your like me, make the temptation go away!  It really does need to go away.  Its just so darn delicious.  Ugh..........   I have a girl get together Friday night.  If the cake is still there it's coming with me.  I need help eating this cake!  If you like my meal ideas just check out my diary for a list of ingredients for that meal.  And yes! I measured and weighed everything.  A crucial part of everyone's dieting is will power. The second part is portion control with good choices and third is physical activity.

It's how southern women diet!

Happy Eating
Angell

Plexus 96 Fruit Smoothie & Leftover's

Monday August 29, 2016 Menu

My day started with my daughter making a fruit smoothie and not liking it.  So of course I doctored it up, added some protein powder to it and drank it most of the morning.  This day was a leftover kind of day.  I have some leftovers at work and home to eat.  But I am not sure what I will choose.  So I entered in my calories for the smoothie.  I didn't eat a snack because I sipped on the smoothie until 10,  I decided to eat the other stuffed bell pepper I had at work.  When I entered the calories for lunch I only had only a little over 300 calories left. I tried to do without a snack but that smoothie never filled me up that morning.  So I gave in and ate a slice of cheese.  I had a very busy afternoon and only made it in time to do a little weight training.   My less than 300 calories left dictated what I would choose for supper.  I had cleaned the freezer out this past weekend and I found what looked like leftover gumbo.  I ate a chicken thigh, I found some shrimp floating in it and got 4 of them, a little sausage, a little juice, 1/4 cup of rice and called it a day.  I did good with my calories for the day.  But that smoothie was not very filling.  I finished with a total of 1288 calories for the day.   If you like my meal ideas just check out my diary for a list of ingredients for that meal.  And yes! I measured and weighed everything.  A crucial part of everyone's dieting is will power. The second part is portion control with good choices and third is physical activity.

It's how southern women diet!

Happy Eating
Angell

Beef Roast Rice & Gravy with Baked Vegetables

Sunday August 28, 2016 Menu

Well Sunday was another busy day.   Saturday night I had put a roast in the crock pot for lunch.  I also had a head of cauliflower and squash in the fridge that needed to be eaten.   I had also decided for supper I would eat my leftover deer sloppy joes.  Then while looking in the fridge I noticed my daughter did not eat the sausage I BBQ the other day and thought that would be a good choice for breakfast.   I entered in my known breakfast, lunch and supper into the My Fitness Pal. I was looking pretty good with the calories.  I also had one slice of chocolate cake I had came home with from my meeting Thursday so I entered in that too.  At that time I had only 32 calories left in my day.  Crock pot meal was easy.  I just pour all of the ingredients in the pot and turned it on low all night.  I diced up the cauliflower, squash and some bell peppers.  I lightly coated them in my olive oil mixture and baked for 20 minutes and lightly sprinkled with pepper.  You can do salt too. But I kind of forgot. I was OK with that because the roast ingredients had a lot of salt already. I didn't even salt the rice when I cooked it.  I was gone for about 8 hours doing various things around Bunkie.  Between church and youth group I was a little hungry.  I snacked on 6 Dorito chips.  The Dorito chips put me over my calories by 32 calories for a total of 1362 calories for the day.   If you like my meal ideas just check out my diary for a list of ingredients for that meal.  And yes! I measured and weighed everything.  A crucial part of everyone's dieting is will power. The second part is portion control with good choices and third is physical activity.

It's how southern women diet!

Happy Eating
Angell

Stuffed Sausage Bell Pepper & Vegetable Pizza

Friday August 26, 2016 Menu

My menu started with leftovers.  I had this awesome plate saved of the flank steak and cushaw I had made.  I didn't want it to go to waste.  So I ate that meal for my breakfast.  It was a good choice because I was not hungry for a snack.  I had purchased two sausage stuffed bell peppers from Juneau's Cajun Meats in Marksville the other day.  I cooked them in my mini oven and put them in the fridge.  Yes I did not eat them that day.  The reason is to save me some fat calories.  See when the stuffed bell peppers cooled the fat floated to the top and I was able to skim it off before I reheated it for my lunch.  It was soooooo good.  I ate one whole stuffed bell pepper.  That meal held me up too and I was not hungry for a snack in the evening either.  I did my 1 hour of exercise, which included 20 minutes of cardio and the rest of the time weight training.  Then for supper my mother had plans for personal pizza's, make yours your way.  Well I went to My Fitness Pal to see how many calories I could have for the evening.  There was only 316 calories left for the day.  I entered in all my ingredients to calculate my pizza.  The crust alone was 200 calories.  The only thing that did not make the pizza was the pepperoni and I put a little less cheese than I wanted.  I ended up with a vegetable pizza.  But, I'm fine with that.  It really turned out to be a very delicious pizza.  I am glad I didn't put a lot of cheese, it was just perfect.  I ended my day with a total of 1366 calories.  Amazingly I was only over by 36 calories.  To me that was awesome under the circumstances of eating leftovers and not knowing what I was eating for supper and making it happen.  And yes! I measured and weighed everything.  A crucial part of everyone's dieting is will power. The second part is portion control with good choices and third is physical activity.

It's how southern women diet!

Happy Eating
Angell