Michael Scott is in my Head

Posting a little on the late side today. Had a busy morning and the bosses took me out to lunch today. In an effort to keep the embarassment to a minimum I left the camera at home. But we enjoyed a really yummy (and probably UN healthy) lunch. I had roasted chicken with garlic and white wine sauce and a side of broccoli- that was drenched in oil. : / but it was wonderful and I sealed the deal with a capuccino… and since when does a restaurant not carry skim milk!!?!?! Guess where I will be tonight?
No, not happy hour.
The gym. Burning off that garlic sauce, broccoli oil, and WHOLE MILK capuccino!
I got a phone call about a package that was waiting for me in the lobby. Last I checked, I was single not expecting a package of any kind… and i was right. A Legal intern sent an edible arrangement to show her gratitude! How nice!
I was the first to unwrap this baby so guess what i helped myself to before the vultures arrived:

(evil grin) There is a good chance that I swiped two more of these… but no one can be sure. I also hit the pineapples and honeydew hard It wasn’t the breakfast I had in mind but it was better than what I was really in the mood foor (bagels….mmmm)

Closer to lunchtime I needed a nosh. I grabbed my Vanilla Chobani, a GLOB of PB and stirred it up.

Food-gasmic. Seriously tasted like the peanut butter soft serve i got at The Lite Choice… only not frozen. SO Yum!

Around lunch time I didnt want to be greedy so i got a sensible lunch [for a change].

side salad with unpictured and not very photogenic carrot ginger dressing.

with a salmon roll… with extra ginger petals. Perfect lunch. I didn’t have that “OMIGOD I CANT MOVE” after eating feeling. It was refreshing actually to feel satisfied and not “STUFFED”.

i had a snack before i left for work to get my sweat on. If you read my FB status updates, they read something like “G, T, No L” or “I’m bringing sweaty back”. So I fueled up with a gala apple and laughing cow… i could’ve just went with the laughing cow… mmmm cheese.

After my workout (which was so difficult with the heavy breather running beside me with ca-ca breath) I ran home for another run around the block with Mickey and then some quick nourishment.

Chick. Pea. Balls. Appetizing I know. But I am big fan of Falafel (the FRIED KIND) and saw this at the supermarket and thought it’d be nice to try it out.

I got some new hummus because the red pepper stuff was starting to make me gag… and had a lovely taste of this. Heavenly. REALLY GOOD. Like already on my 2nd container for the week good.

Smeared a bunch-load on my ezekial wrap…

placed three falafel “bites” that were sliced in half on the wrap. I tasted one for quality assurance. It passed the taste test so we can move on now…

Threw a massive pile of spring greens on top of the hummus mess and falafel balls. (i seriously cant write the b to the ALLS word any more without Michael Scott giggling in my head so they are referred to as bites or just falafel now okay… and yeah, a little Michael Scott resides in my head for all those TWSS moments)

And attempted to document my rolling process.

do i need to say more? pics speak for themselves….i hope

this part was tricky

then i dove in. It was good. It wasnt the fried stuff which i mean c’mon, is always better tasting, but was a great substitute for the healthy Diva.

Definately going to make again! It was so quick an easy to make! Even easier to eat!

Any big plans for the weekend???

C’mon kids, we’re goin’ for a WALK!

Ever since February, I had a really nasty case of Bronchitis that took all my motivation away and made me so lazy. I had made very big strides to starting a new and healthy lifestyle that started to slip away along with my abilities to workout without having huge and embarassing fits of horrendous coughing. 6 weeks later I was well again… for about a week only this time I had the flu. I am happy to say that I am well again and started a whole new regimen. Its back to healthy.
I am leafing through a book that, if I like, I will be sharing little bits and pieces with you about health and fitness. Its a book on reality- none of that fad diet BS.
Anyway, I woke up with a full day of NOTHING planned. I was going to take Mickey to the park for a bit and then maybe a long walk in the park. My mother called and was on her way home from her very long weekend and sounded a little bummed that I wasnt going to her house [to freeload]. I then decided to surprise her by meeting her there by the time she was scheduled to arrive.
I had a bowl of splenda dusted strawberries. OH MY. So good! I skipped my coffee, packed my water. Looked at Mickey and said “Do you want to go for a walk?” With that she FLEW off the bed (she can fly, she has the perfect ears for flapping) and I made the decision to walk to moms.
WALK. To. Brooklyn.
FROM QUEENS.
Yes, ladies and gentleman. I am on crack.
I didn’t even GOOGLE the distance. I just figured go straight down this street and i will be there.
I gave myself an hour and a half guesstimate and figured it would be great exercise.
One hour later… Mickey and I were still walking. Mickey didnt even get tired. she was walking ahead sniffing all the new things and being a good doggie. I was surviving.
Half hour later. Really thinking it was a mistake to walk this much with a duffle bag, a dog, and a jacket with no water. Then realized i had an ipod. So that helped pass the time
I finally hit Brooklyn after two hours. It took a total of 2hours and 10 minutes to walk to moms house. My feet were starting to get sore and Mickey was starting to huff and puff. Poor baby.
I did time it perfectly as I arrived, mom and dad were unloading the car. And then their eyes fellout of their heads when i said Mickey and I had walked to their house.
When I googled it… I was quite amazed to find that i had just walked 6.58 miles. and Burned an estimated 780 calories. Mickey got a nice bowl of ice cold water and I had a cupcake.
I was famished shortly after and mom suggested pizza. I said hell yes.

There is nothing like Brooklyn Pizza. NOTHING.

I had two slices for lunch…

and another two for dinner.

Happy to say that there is no more pizza to tempt me. And there will be many egg white omlettes in my future!

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I am running out of PB

So the re-tagging process has become quite the pain in the BEHIND. I am literally going back in time, erasing mindless tags and replacing with new uniform, easy to find tabs. It amazes me how careless I was in the tagging process and how stupid blogger is for disabling so many tags when I bought my own domain. UGH! I managed to updated the tags on 75 posts last night. It sounds like alot but I have about 325 to go. (insert unenthusiastic YAY here)

I was going to make a green monster and felt my jar was a little on the light side. A peek inside confirmed 2 things:1. I think I am out of peanut butter

2. I should have Oats in a Jar for breakfast. I bought a cinnamon spice oatmeal that really sucks. But when I put peanut butter in it, it acutally tastes good- obvi, it does more for the peanut butter than the other way around. I have also come to realize that when I have oats in a jar at work people look at me funny. I can imagine what is going through their minds:

Is Mo eating PB straight from the jar???

Wouldn’t be the first time… especially if its a jar of Dark Chocolate Dreams! mmmm.

Or My favorite:

Did you just put OATMEAL in your Peanut Butter?

Duh.
And after the explanation and the much hated “GROSS” comments I press on and eat my oats in a jar and feel sorry for the souls who have never put a lil pb love in their oatmeal. I know, its not for everyone but please dont knock it till ya try it.

NOTE* For OIAJ virgins, please do not COOK your oats in a jar in a microwave! I added hot water (NOT BOILING) to my oats and let them sit for a while before i ate them. No plastic was harmed in the process*

I also got a little overzealous:

and added a spoonful of my vanilla chobani. I have seen several bloggers adding yogurt to their oats and coining the phrase Yoats… but i couldnt get into this. Yogurt and peanut butter- GOOD, Peanut Butter and oats- REALLY GOOD, Yogurt, peanut butter, and oats? Flavor overload in a bad way. I liked the creaminess the yogurt added but the tartness was just too much and overpowered the pb. I ate it anyway and boy was i stuffed! But i wont make that mistake again. Kudos to the yoat lovers out there.

For lunch, i decided to eat half an avocado and needed a muse.
This ezekial wrap reminded me of my favorite “single girl living alone breakfast lunch and dinner” option. Quesadilla. with Eggs.

I cant take credit for this one. I stole this idea from the Lovely and Annoying at the same time, Rachael Ray. It was when I subscribed to her magazine and acutally used the weekly menus. She had a Bacon egg and cheese quesadilla in the menu and i made it once. After that lovely foodgasm and CHEAP dinner, I started to make different versions. I got sick of it eventually and stopped making it…

but they are making a comeback!

I fried to eggs over medium.

and managed to cause very Little damage! Yolks still intact! SUCCESS!

SLATHERED the bottom half of the Ezekial wrap with one laughing cow swiss cheese wedge. This was used as “glue”. so the eggs had somewhere to stick.

Placed the eggs on the wrap. I keep the yokes towards the middle… you will see why if you make your own.

Added a deliciously ripe avocado sprinkled with coarse sea salt. Added shredded mozzarella on top as “glue” for the other side. Folded the wrap in half to create the ‘dilla. Normally, I would have placed the ‘dilla in my skillet for a quick cook on each side but i was using a small skillet and didnt want to dirty yet another dish. I placed it in my toaster oven…which could use a good cleaning too…

Please note the gooeyness on the left. one of my eggs couldnt take the pressure. Let the ‘dilla sit in the “broiler” for 5 mins or until the edges of the ‘dilla brown.

I wanted a side dish so i made some fries out of a Zucchini and stir-fried them in spray oil, salt and pepper until they were crisp-tender. Peep the foodie goodness.

All together now! This was awesome. It was just as good as I remembered it. Not pictured is the salsa i dunked this baby in. I was in piggy heaven. And with all the fiber, protein and monounsaturated fatty acids going on in this photo, by the time dinner rolled around I wasnt really starving..

I was dreaming of the Wisconsin block of cheddar that I bought…

And had a straight up wine and cheese plate for dinner. Turkey pepperoni is my new bitch by the way! Along with some sugary-sweet strawberries and a glass of pinot grigio. My belly was sooo happy… and i was a little buzzed too.

Have you ever gotten TIRED of anything? So much so that the mere suggestion of it makes you gag?

CHOBANI: A Product Review – RAVES!

The wonderful Tiffany over at Chobani sent me some Chobani to try. I have always been a big of Fage 0% fan but when i heard about Chobani I thought i would give it a whirl. 5 spoons is the best!

I give the Vanilla Chobani 4 enthusiastic spoons. It was thick, Creamy, and not overly sweet. I had uploaded pics days ago and they are mia of a dessert I thought up.
RECIPE ALERT:With a 6 oz Vanilla Chobani, 1 baked apple, a few crumbled teddy grahams and a dollop of whipped cream I made a faux apple pie a la mode. It was delicious! The only thing missing was the ice cream consistency – but the flavors were there!

Strawberry Chobani got 4 spoons. The fruit was on the bottom and when I stirred it, it was a delightful strawberry yogurt. I think i love the texture most about this yogurt. There were small bits of strawberry in it – the chunks in other yogurts make me gag. I enjoyed this yogurt with some dark chocolate mini chips sprinkled on top.

The Original Plain is probably my favorite because of its versatility. it got a perfect score! 5 spoons baby! I added some splenda to mine along with some crunchy cereal (like Total or special K Chocolate Delight) and practically licked the bowl – dont act like you never did it.

Peach Chobani – 5 spoons! I gave this one a perfect score. I really loved the peachy-ness in this one. I didnt need to add anything to it but off the top of my head, some sprinkled coconut and walnuts would taste great on this! If i am running out and about and need a yogurt to go I would probably take this one because its perfect on its own.

Blueberry Chobani got 3 spoons. I enjoyed this one but Blueberry is not really a “go to ” fruit for me. I enjoy them when and only when they are in season. But this yogurt was a little on the sweet side. It wasnt terrible and I would still eat it without a problem but maybe with some granola or crushed cereal bits.

there are still more flavors out there to try! I hear the Honey one is really really good… MMMM imagine that one with granola and a banana!

Go out and buy some Chobani! its creamy delicious and good for you!

The New Alarm Clock is the Smoke Detector

After a disagreement with Henry, I went to bed at 10pm last night. I figured I might as well get a good nights sleep since neither of us are speaking (Don’t worry- We are OK now) and was startled at 2 am when I remembered that I had my bread machine working on some Italian Herb Bread that was scheduled to be done at Midnight. So I hopped out of bed, plopped the loaf into a container and shut the appliance off. Then at 430 I was startled out of bed when my smoke detector (which sounds a lot like a nuclear strike warning) went off and was BLARING! There were NO signs of smoke anywhere and I couldn’t figure out how to disarm it. Im sure it woke the neighbors. Roomie woke up and helped disarm it. This has happened before so I warned Peter that it might go off again for no reason whatsoever. He took my warning and threw the damn thing in the kitchen drawer. 20 minutes later it went off again. I got up, disarmed it and went back to bed. ANOTHER 20 mins later, it went off… This time Peter ran out of his room and stole the batteries to it. It beeps no more. By this time it was 5 am. I couldnt sleep… so why did i MAKE myself? Only to wake up 2 hrs later. Worst sleep ever! I was exhausted. I should have stood up and did some Yoga or something… jeez.
For brekkie today I brought some Vanilla Chobani and a Banana. I only ate the banana. So the yogurt waits for me till tomorrow.

I ran out of Shampoo so at the suggestion of my coworker, i went to LotLess. Its a closeout store of sorts downtown Manhattan and they sell so many things for practically nothing. I went for shampoo and came out with Office Loot! I got Cocoa Via Bars (2 boxes) for $.99! I got the Trident splash for $1.99, Milky Way 100 cal bars for $.99 and the shampoo for $1.99…not pictured: Halls Raspberry Cough drops $.99.

I tasted the Milkway and its mega yum! its a nice size and will go GREAT in my dessert later! (ice cream – duh!) MMM. Milky Ways in Vanilla Ice Cream!

Then i had a square of the 100 Calorie Cocoa Via Bar. It has Blueberries and Almonds in dark chocolate. Its good but I cant have too much of this…its too sweet. But I think it will taste good chopped up in my yogurt or oats. And when I got back I ate my lunch! Turkey and American Cheese, mayo, spicy mustard, and Lettuce. Accompanied by some red seedless grapes and a sliced pear.

And later today, when I have a snack attack I will be reaching for the BBQ PopChips. Nom! Im in the mood for some of that chicken I made over the weekend!

My fruits in my lovely Fit n Fresh pack. I hate my fruit when its too cold. Its not warm but its slightly chilled in the pack. YUM!

The Sandwich. I really like the way the density of the Trader Joe’s White Wheat Bread. Its a thick slice of bread that holds up well when its chilled. Most white breads get thin and soggy, this is chewy and fluffy at the same time.
Last night, pre disagreement, the boy came over for dinner. I had tofu on the brain and this was the easiest thing I could make…

I used soy sauce, chicken bouillon, onion, garlic, broccoli, 2 eggs, and whole wheat capellini. Seasoned with Hot pepper flakes. It was really good.

I overestimated how much we were going to eat. I have leftovers and I might have them for dinner tonight or tomorrow. I have some ideas brewing for dinner…. I have some polenta that i want to cook… I have feta cheese I dont want to forget about….and I have an eggplant that I bought because it was $1. what should i do?

Monday, Monday

Happy Monday! Its freezing! I spent the morning FIGHTING to get out of bed because it was warm under the covers and my floors were ICE Cold! Once I got out of the shower though, I felt better. Nothing like a scalding hot shower to wake you up!
Breakfast today is a plain Chobani with a handful of some Total Cranberry Crunch.

I got a sample of this cereal and knew that this sample size was not enough to enjoy as a bowl of cereal. Its less than 1/4 of a cup! But it made a great addition to my yogurt.

I added a packet of splenda for more sweetness. I would have loved some strawberries but havent seen any worth buying.
Random snacks throughtout the day include a sliced pear and a Fiber One Bar. I usually eat the Fiber One Bar on the way home so I’m not starving after my 1 hr commute.

Lunch is inspired by Missy, who seems to be influencing my grocery list every day with her food pics. I am eating a sandwich for lunch *gasp*.

I started with some of Trader Joes White Wheat Bread and added a tsp of mayo and 2 tsp of the garlic aioli sauce. I topped it with some Romaine Lettuce for crunch.

Then I added two thin slices of deli cheese.

And two slices of deli oven roasted turkey breast.

Put it in a sandwich baggie….

And packed some sea salt and vinager pop chips.

A long time ago, I was a sandwich junkie and bought this uber cool lunch pack from Bed Bath and Beyond. Its a compartment that holds a 3 course lunch. A sandwich, an ice pack, and two small containers for sides like fruit and veggies.

My two compartments have sliced apples and pop chips in them.

The ice pack ensures my sammie stays fresh. (i wrapped the sammie so it doesnt get soggy from the moisture of the ice pack)

And there my sammie sits, in perfect shape. Unsquished and at a safe temperature. To get your cool sandwich keeper click here.

I have quite a few choices for dinner but think I will be having either grilled tofu or grilled pork chops with grilled eggplant and salad. pics to follow of course!

And i’m already thinking about an ice cream sundae for dessert…if i have heat in the apt!

brekkie for dinner

Has anyone kept up their new years resolutions? Now is around the time that they all kind of die. But its a good thing I resolved to not make one in 2009. I mean seriously, if I dont set myself up to fail, I cant fail right? ah, whatevs. I am always making an effort to lose weight- now that I have a boyfriend I find it harder to do. So I got to make important changes where ever i can. One thing I would like to start doing is having heavy lunches and small dinners. I have sort of been doing this but only because im too hungry to make an extravagant dinner… lets see how long this one lasts…

For Breakfast today I had a lovely Fiber one Bar. Anyone ever try these? They are insanely delicious! Lots of Fiber so it keeps you full and chocolately goodness makes it taste like its bad for you. With some coffee! YUM.

Lunch, Whole wheat capellini with Seared Salmon and steamed broccoli. I added some stir fry sauce to the capellini. Big Lunch! I was so full!

3 pm snack attack- good old asian pear. I am getting sick of these. I need something sweet or not sweet. But this is a combo of both. It looks like an apple, tastes like a pear that hasnt graduated sweet school yet.
When I got home I was thinking eggs and toast. Then i saw all the broccoli i had in the fridge and thought *sigh* frittata.

Found some turkey sausage. Sliced it up while it was still frozen and grilled them up.

can you see the sizzle? While the last side was browning, I preheated the oven to 400* and chopped some broccoli for my eggs. I used 2 eggs with a splash of fat free milk to make them fluffy.

Whisk away! add salt pepper and whatever else you add to your eggs. I add parm cheese – just a sprinklin.

Pour it all into a pan and let the bottom cook a little. Move everyone around in the pan to make sure that everyone is mingling. The Broccoli often likes to hang out together but spread it all over the joint.

bake for 10 minutes or until the egg solidifies. I removed mine when the edges get brown.

I sliced it in half and took a pic so you can see there is something in every bite!

Serve with toast. And eat it.
Its really good. I love breakfast for dinner!

Re-Vamped those Leftovers!

When I got home last night I wanted something quick and yummy. I am getting bored with my leftovers (who wouldn’t) and really wanted eggs…but I didnt want to waste my leftover beef and potatoes… and It hit me.

FRITTATA!

I chopped up the leftover potatoes and beef that I made the night before and added 3 broccoli florets and chopped them up too.

I beat two eggs and combined them with a little bit of skim milk. I added salt and pepper and lightly cooked the eggs before adding the “junk”. I placed the entire pan in the oven at 425* and cooked for 8-9 minutes. I meant to take more pics but Henry called and needed recipe 911. Once I was off the phone and his Chicken LoMein was on the mend, my dinner was done.

I sprinkled some Parmesean Cheese on it and sliced it into 4 pieces. I served myself two slices (or half of this concoction) and a slice of toast.

YUMMY! With a slice of toast sprayed with butter.

It was quite pleasant. It was like a steak and egg omelet with home fries…diner food! Sweet! And healthy too!

Happy to report the above photo is the last of the beef. I had that for lunch today – I am officially sick of it!
Around snack time I wanted a snackeroo, so i opened my Laughing Cow Cheese and veggie Crackers and had at it.


So good! I highly recommend the Laughing Cow Spreadable Cheese! It goes great in sandwiches or on crackers – even on toast. Its creamy and flavorful and SUPER low in calories!

Last week, I went to Moms house ( gotta love that mom!) and came back with groceries (Oh Mom!). She gave me some instant oatmeal that Poppa-Dukes wasn’t eating (‘sup Dad?). Oh, yeah, they read this blog. Say hey to the folks readers! lol.
I am getting bored with plain oatmeal so i grabbed a mystery packet today and make it for breakfast at work. It was a Maple and Brown Sugar with Crunchy Granola Topping!

I really enjoyed the texture of this oatmeal and the sweetness! The granola did, however, get soggy after a few minutes but still totally enjoyable!
For some strange reason, at 12 i was starving… so I ate one of these mama-jamas. The verdict: pretty good. It was a little warm- would probably be AMAZING with ripened Strawberries. And Im currently noshing on these as I type this lovely entry.

For dinner tonight, I have some Tofu that needs my attention, so i might make a stir fry. Stay tuned for pics!

Pre-dinner Nosh! Chinese Pear.

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‘Scuse me.

Morning! Went out for Korean last night. LOOOOVE me some Korean food! Ate till it hurt. And went home to watch Private Practice. Woke up today (with lots of hot water!) and realized i did not have breakfast prepared. So, loving the breakfast i made yesterday, I microwaved some apples with cinnamon and brown sugar.

and drizzled Mesquite Honey on it! (stop drooling!)

Then made some oatmeal!

used the baked apples as a topping. Packed it up and took it to work.

When I got to work the oatmeal needed something. So I crumbled 1/4 of a Chocolate Fiber One Bar! Its a JUNK oatmeal. I seem to be on a junk theme this week. Oh wellz.

Last night, I was dreaming of Breakfast for dinner or a piece of grilled salmon when Henry called and said “Yo, me you and peter are going to dinner”. I learned not to argue with the man when he says we are going out. So I called Peter and told him we were having Korean. He dropped the take out menu and got dressed.

We got there, FREEZING, and had a big cup of Hot Green Tea. I love the green tea they serve! So i guzzled it and let it warm me from the inside. *swoon* and gave Henry full reign on ordering. I always let him order for me at the Korean place. His ex is Korean so he has pretty much tried EVERYTHING and will never steer me wrong.
Henry and I opted for the Spicy Pork Stir-fry and it came with so much stuff. I had to take two pics of the table and still left some dishes out.

The red stuff was SOOOO good. Dont ask me what anything on this pic is. All I know is that they were all good… Oh wait, the lonely piece of fish with a tartar sauce – so good. The Kimchee, seaweed salad, and brown stuff got cut out and I couldnt reach it.

Then there is the delicious and massive plate of spicy stir fried pork! YUM YUM YUM. Cabbage with red pepper paste, baked tofu with yummy sauce, and something with beef and potatoes that tasted like spanish food, miso soup and rice.

Peter was boring. He got a bowl of junk. He ate it though, he seemed to like it. But I think deep down he wanted the take out menu. Peter eats well but he’s not into the “foodie” stuff as he says.

I might go to lunch with my girlies Rojas and Cifuentes. Girls, if you are reading this, send me a pic so I can link it and the world can see how gorgeous you are!

Special French Toast

I woke up rather abruptly this morning. I was under the covers, surrounded by pillows and a fluffy pooh bear but it was particularly icy in my bedroom. I remember before going to bed last night that I was blogging with a hoodie and some glovens on because we still had No HEAT and I washed dishes with COLD water. Brr. Yeah sometime in the middle of the night the heat stopped. So I decided instead of being lazy, I would get up and do my Leslie Sansone’s Walk Away The Pounds DVD to warm my body up. It worked. And I really. Needed. A. Shower. So I walk over to the bathroom and turned on the shower. The water was BROWN last night so I skipped last nights shower hoping this mornings would be good to go. It wasn’t brown but there was no sign of FIRE in the water. It was ICY! I just worked out! I needed a shower! I took deep breaths and took a “Bird Bath”; essentially i just washed certain parts of my body and prayed not to get frost bite in my special places… I didn’t even attempt to wash my hair fearing frozen locks of hair two days in a row! So I put it in a sorry ass pony tail and went to work. My coworkers saw the hair and threw their travel sized toiletries my way and I washed my hair in the sink at work. At least one part of me is really clean.

Onto todays Business.

I prep better for the next day after I have eaten dinner, however, last nights errands kept me out till 8. I was starving when I got home so I helped myself to some cereal and prepped while I ate.

Special K with Chocolate Flakes is my WEAKNESS. When mom goes to Delaware she buys me about 5 or 6 boxes at a time (because its like $2.50 a box!)
I used my big bowl (that’s often found in the ROOMMATES room – Yes Peter, YOUR Room with MY bowl! j k)

Someone gave this to me with the hope I would drink COFFEE out of it… Yah Right, this sucka holds 5 cups of liquid. Are you friggin kiddin me?

While Munching away I started breakfast. While at work I was killing time and read Missy’s blog from Day 1 of her entries. I got some ideas and even re-vamped my shopping list for this week!
I decided that I was going to make French Toast and use Baked Apples as my topping.

How to: Core and Peel and Apple (i left the skin on mine) and slice into small pieces. Sprinkle with cinnamon, brown sugar (i used splenda brown sugar) and some spray butter. I microwaved it for 3 minutes and 30 seconds. This gave the apartment an Apple Pie smell!!!

French Toast time!
I wanted French toast but I wanted to fancy it up a bit. So instead of milk and an egg I used Fat Free French Vanilla Coffee Creamer and an egg white.

I dredged 3 slices of bread in the egg white creamer mix
and placed the slices on a nonstick pan over medium.

Then I sprinkled one side of the bread with Pumpkin Pie Spice.
Give ‘em a flip.

One spritz of this butter is 5 calories. I gave it a spritz and needed to test out my new recipe.
Success!!! It went REALLY well with the baked apples! Missy thanks for the inspiration!
Lunch was inspired by Kathy from KathEats. She always makes the most amazing meals and sometimes they are from the simplest of ingredients. Reading her blog keeps me focused on the notion that as long as you eat right, you will eat well!

I took some of the crumbles from the Meatloaf project yeseterday and topped them onto some leafy romaine lettuce. I added a dollop of Roasted Red Pepper Hummus, a few carrot sticks and some italian green beans. Its kind of a Junk Salad. And for dressing.. oh, you’re gonna love this… SALSA! with a sprinkling of pepper jack cheese. (i considered the Salsa con Queso leftover from Superbowl Sunday but the fat content is super high! and whats the point of salad if its LOADED with Fat?)
Mexican Meatloaf became Mexican Junk Salad LOL.

No Idea what Im having for dinner. None what so ever!