Hannah’s high school took the state championship in football today for the first time in school history! Not only that, but their girls volleyball took state two weeks ago, making it the first sport in school history to win state – two champs in two weeks! It was very exciting. While the volleyball games were not televised, the football game was – Tony has been enjoying watching the high school games today – he said one game was one of the best games he’s ever seen, even including college and NFL!
What a beautiful day we had! I have to love it when I am stringing lights on our deck in a t-shirt!
I am sure my regular readers know I gravitate towards the $1 produce rack to see what kind of deals I can get. I just found out they have a bakery sale rack too! It’s just day old bakery items for up to 75% off! I bought 5 bagels for $1.29! This mornings breakfast: 3 ounce everything bagel, 1/4 cup egg beaters, 1/2 ounce goat cheese, 1/2 ounce cheddar cheese. It was cheezy delicious!
Then Hannah and I went to Tree Classics – a giant winter wonderland! The place was huge! And although I saw many cute snowman items, I didn’t buy one – I was on a mission to buy LED lights for our deck.
We saw some of the biggest artificial trees I’ve ever seen!
So not only did I have tons of bags of garbage when I cleaned out the basement yesterday, I also had five bags of clothes to giveaway. So our next stop was Good Will! Not only did I get a tax write off, but they gave us a coupon!
I bought 6 matching wine glasses for $4, a new Sony alarm clock for $3.99, a couple shirts and some strings of lights that have garland attached for decorating inside our house. Hannah and I could literally spend hours in this place!
Nope, she didn’t buy the sunglasses! By the time we left there we were hangry, so we made a quick pick up at Taco Bell. I got the 3 crispy taco deal.
Then after folding more laundry (only one more load to do!) Hannah and I hit the gym. We always forget that they close at 5:00 on the weekends, so I squeezed in what I could:
Dinner was making something from our leftovers: Turkey Tetrazzini!
Biz’s Low Fat Turkey Tetrazzini
- 12 ounces uncooked noodles
- 6 ounces sliced mushrooms
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1.75 cups skim milk
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 12 ounces chopped cooked turkey breast
- 1 cup canned peas, drainied
- 1/3 cup Parmesan cheese
- 3 ounces swiss cheese
- 1/3 cup Panko bread crumbs
- no sherry because I think it tastes like ass
Cook pasta according to package directions. Preheat oven to 375. Cook mushrooms in Pam for about 10 minutes, set aside.
In a large saucepan, melt the butter then stir in flour and cook for about 3 minutes.
Gradually stir in the milk, broth, and simmer over medium-low heat for 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
Drain pasta, then in a large bowl (I used my big stock pot that I just had the pasta in) and mix together the pasta, sauce, mushrooms, turkey, peas, the Swiss cheese and salt and pepper.
Place in a large casserole dish. Mix together 1/3 cup Parmesan cheese with 1/3 cup Panko bread crumbs and put over the top. Bake for 30 minutes, or until it is bubbling and top is golden.
Makes 8 – one cup servings: 367 calories, 11.4 fat, 40 carbs, 1.5 fiber, 24.5 protein
While I don’t like eating mushrooms, I love the flavor, so I just picked them out and gave them to the dog! 
I had a salad on the side:
Stats for the Day:
- 1357 calories
- 47 fat
- 110 carbs
- 71 protein
- 13 fiber (I need to kick this up a notch!)
- 15 minute walk with Ed
- 35 minute, 2.5 mile run
Now I am off to make sauce – I lucked out at the $1 produce rack!
Look at how many tomatoes I got for $2!
One more day of staycation! My last project is to clean my deep freeze tomorrow and do a complete inventory of both the refrigerator and freezer – I want to use up as much stuff as I can before bringing more food in the house!
See you tomorrow!
I wished we lived closer together so we cuold thrift together! I really miss going w/ my mom, we went all the time together, too. It’s the first thing we do when I go home! When I moved in w/ J he’d never even set foot in a thrift store before!!!! Our Goodwill down here is weird.. oddly expensive and has a REALLY funky smell, I can’t stand to be in there too long.
Awesome score w/ the bakery rack too! Now your’e set for life!
hehe The salad looks good, but I’d pass on the dinner! hehehe
/way to squeeze in a workout, every bit helps!
Congrats to Hannah’s school, what an AWESOME accomplishment! And isn’t she a senior this year?? That’s so great. Oh to be in high school again..
Yep! My baby is a senior already!
Those mushrooms look so good – Ed is a lucky dog!
We just bought LED lights yesterday for our house – spendy, but supposedly we will save close to 80 bucks on our electric bill so that will just about cover them.
Ohhhh!!! I LOVE that cute little snowman thing! Is that a winter hat? Soo adorable! >.<
And congrats on the good news on Hannah's school! That is great! Do the students get any perks?
Woohoo for Hannah’s school!! That would make for a memorable senior year!
Glad you guys had fun today – I’m in love with the Christmas store
wow double state victories is cool! I bet your community is flying high!
Please come clean out MY deep freeze? It’s seriously scary.
Congrats on the victories and the sales!
Wanted you to check out this article
http://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/111609p18.shtml
It’s all about exercising when you have type II diabetes!
LOVE your blog! Thanks for posting on mine, I look forward to following you! I love the nutrient breakdown you put over the pictures — great work!
Hey Biz!
I have a question for ya!
I made your Pumpkin Pancakes this morning and they were a hit!!
I was wondering how many servings does your recipe make for the nutrition stats you posted? I think the pancakes I made were really large. LOL. TIA.
Congrats on Hannah’s school. I was a high school band director for years and years. That’s great for the school and the kids.
I want to say I got 16 pancakes out of it – glad your family liked them!
I am always humbled when I read your blog… I should eat less and move more… keep at it
Congrats! State Champs is awesome!
Since you always talk about wanting to kick up the fibre in your daily eats, why not switch to some whole wheat pasta or whole wheat bagels?
Great idea. I know Thomas’ makes an english muffin with 8 grams of fiber each and only 100 calories! Just need to buy them – thanks