I want to touch on the Meal Ideas topic from last week's meeting
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Breakfast
-- Steel Cut Oatmeal or Bob's 5 (or 10) grain hot cereal. The read stuff really sticks to your ribs and keeps you going for a long time. Better than the instant stuff. It's maybe 3 points for a cup.
-- 1 container low/non fat yogurt and 1/3 cup Kashi Go Lean. Maybe 2.5 - 3 points for the meal. The Kashi gives it a nice crunch and the protein in both keeps you full.
-- Did you know that Center Cut bacon has the same points as Turkey Bacon?
Lunch
-- I work from home so I have my George Foreman grill available. I put turkey and low fat swiss (1 slice is 2 pts, but 2 slices is only 3
) on one of those 1 point sandwich thins and I put it into George. I get a hot panini!
-- I usually have some lower point soup or chili left over from a dinner. I'll grab a bowl of that to go with my sandwich.
-- I am trying not to eat frozen meals. I find that I stay fuller if I eat real food.
-- I keep my sandwich thins in the freezer otherwise they go stale before I can use them.
Dinner
-- We have become creatures of habit. We have Taco Tuesday (taco shells are 1 point each) and Pasta Wednesday (I use the Rozini Purple carton pastas). I will usually add whatever I used for tacos into my sauce. I buy marinara sauce because it's lower in points and my DD is a vegetarian.
What I'm going to try this week:
-- I bought some egg beaters. I mean to make a quick veggie egg scramble.
-- I want to try a new soup. Maybe a Navy Bean. Does anyone have any suggestions?
-- I cook the food of the Pit Stop country of Amazing Race every week, but the meals are often not "WW friendly", if you KWIM? I usually use all my weeklies on the weekend and then eat my dailies and any activity points the rest of the week until Friday's weigh in.