Cracker Barrel Restaurant

 November 3, 2016 MENU

 Keeping up with this food diary on blogger is appearing to be a daunting task.  I will be posting some shorter blogs to explain what may be wrong or right in my diet.  Which brings me to this visit to Cracker Barrel Restaurant with my mother.  I choose what I thought was the best option for me.  They brought you cornbread and biscuits.  Well I pick cornbread.  Wrong pick, it had 110 more calories than the biscuit and wow it was 300 calories with the butter. UGH.........  For the meal I picked a sweet potato, hamburger steak plain and fried apples to eat as desert.  The sweet potato came with brown sugar and cinnamon. Not to mention I needed butter on that.  So I put the potato in a to go box.  I ate just the hamburger steak and fried apples.  I still ended up eating 800 calories! OMG seriously.  So what I thought was not that fattening, was.  I should have skipped on the cornbread.  But I can't take it back.  We all just need to stay away from the restaurants.  But I know sometimes it hard to do.  My next post will also explain what has been happening with my diet.  Stay tuned!

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

Southern Boudin and Deer Meat Sloppy Joe's

Wednesday August 24, 2016 Menu

I spent time Tuesday evening trying to figure out what I was going to eat.  With a busy work week I have left my mother up to the cooking.  I also had seen that there was one more donut left that needed to be eaten.   I knew I wanted either a hamburger or a link of boudin.  I entered in My Fitness Pal all my meals.  I was almost 300 calories over my budget with no snacks on the burger and I was under on the boudin.  I decided to keep my menu as is with the exception that if I did eat that burger I would place half my plate in a to go box, which would put me under by 100 calories.  I wasn't sure how to enter in the burger and fries in the app.  I picked items that were verified and had similar calories among that group.   At lunch time I was very hungry and the thought of only eating half my burger and fries did not appeal to me.  SO, I stopped at Juneau's Cajun Meats and got me a link of boudin.   They weigh your boudin which makes it easier for calculating my calories.  I did my 1 hour of exercise, which included 20 minutes of cardio and the rest of the time weight training.  For supper I had the sloppy joes my mom made.  I put the sandwich in half, open faced style and placed some meat on each bun.  This gave my mind the appearance that I was eating more than I was.  I was able to add more filling to my meal because she used ground deer meat instead of ground meat.  I say I had a great southern lunch and my deer sloppy joes were just delish also for a total of 1169 calories for the day.  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

Southern Fried Catfish and Fried Pickles

Friday August 19, 2016

 

When I made my meal plan for the week I forgot that it was payday.  That means we go out to eat something special.  This type of eating out can go 2 ways.  1. eat what you want most of the day without going to crazy, as a cheat day or 2.  do some serious work on your meal plan to get it right.  I choose option 2 because I think Saturday or Sunday might be my cheat day.  In the My Fitness Pal I entered in what I normally order to eat from the Katfish Kitchen restaurant in Eola, Louisiana.  Which is a 3 piece catfish with either a baked potato or French fries and fried pickles for an appetizer.  I checked the calories for the fries and potato.  The potato won to reduce the fat intake.   My portion size will be only 1/2 of the potato.   Now to work hard on what to eat for breakfast and lunch.  I only have 501 calories for breakfast, lunch and snacks.  I picked oatmeal for breakfast.  I usually do 2 servings but will have to settle for 1.  I will graze on apples at both of my snack times.  Then I only had 200 calories approximately left for lunch.  I picked a protein meal bar.  Well things changed again. I purchased a Sam's Club

rotisserie chicken for my mom at 7am.  Well that was pure torture, it was hot, smelled amazing and was staring me in the face.  So I opted to eat a chicken leg and a little of the thigh for 3oz of chicken.  I weighed the chicken without the skin and bone.  Then I moved my oatmeal breakfast to lunch and decided not to eat the protein bar.  See I was only eating the protein bar because I needed more protein in my diet for the day.  Well I got my protein eating the chicken for breakfast.  I wasn't really hungry for a snack, but this one chocolate chip cookie I haven't eaten yet said "Eat me before I go bad." I gave in and skipped the apple grazing.  That chicken and oatmeal did a good job at satisfying my hunger.  I didn't have an afternoon snack either.  We went eat at 5:30, better to eat that fattening meal early.  I ate exactly what I budgeted and took the leftovers home.  Another day of great meals for a total of 1361 calories for the day.  Not bad for a meal eating out, only 31 calories over my budget.  I know, I know,  I could have been under 17 calories if I would have eaten the apple instead.  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