Pork Roast

Pork Roast

This meal is super duper easy to prepare.  Take a pork roast around 5 to 7 pound range.  The one in the picture is an extra large double one from Sam's.  This makes a great crock pot, pressure cooker and if your home bake it in the oven type of meal.  Simply rub the entire contents of the Happy House special rub (available at  http://happyhousebunkie.blogspot.com/2017/01/pulled-pork-spice-rub.html )  onto a 5 to 7 pound pork roast.  Wrap the roast tightly in saran wrap and marinate overnight.  This meal does not require browning.  If you cook your roast in the oven bake at 250 for 8 hours.  If you are cooking in the crock pot, cook on low for 8 hours.  If you have a pressure cooker follow the directions for the cooking time for your unit.  This meal consists of 2 separate uses in one.  When we first cook this dish, we eat as a roast with some healthy sides.  This is only 210 calories for 4oz of meat.  Then we take the leftovers with the juices and shred into pulled pork.  Add your favorite BBQ sauce to it and serve over a bun.  In my case a tablespoon of Sweet Baby Ray's and a Great Value hamburger bun weighs in at 365 calories.  Sorry you don't get anything else to eat with the sandwich.  But, you could do celery or something like that.  It is so delicious.  A crucial part of everyone's diet is will power.  Second is portion control with good choices.  Third is physical exercise.

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