June 18, 2013

My boss was asking me about a salad I made a couple years ago for one of our bbq Friday’s.  She said she remembered it had a grain in it and romaine lettuce.  I couldn’t remember what the hell she was talking about, so I looked back on my blog, and sure enough, I made an Israeli couscous salad – I completely forgot about it!...

Another great weekend is in the books.  I am still waiting for my office to give me a four day weekend every weekend, but until then, today its back to the grind. I had a coupon for two free New York strip steaks at our local grocery store – so I got two steaks that would have cost $9 each free!  Because of that, I...

I was going to wait until the bottom of this post to show my WI, but I am just too excited.  May 31 I was 175.8.  Last week I was 172.  Today I am . . . -1.2, so that’’s five pounds in two weeks!!  Not too shabby! Yesterday I had a blueberry spinach smoothie – so good, I never actually took a picture of...

I just have to say thank you to everyone who’s been cheering me on with my Insanity challenge – either by comments on the blog, facebook, emails and Instagram.  You guys are one of the reasons that I keep pushing myself, and I appreciate it more than you’ll ever know. I decided to try another version of Chobani pancakes.  This time with soy vnilla milk...

Yesterday morning I decided to make another batch of my lemon poppy seed granola, this time adding not only the zest of on one lemon, but adding the juice of one lemon to the mix.  While this made it a bit more lemony, my co-worker suggested adding lemon extract, and I may give that a go. Breakfast was a Chobani yogurt with some granola on...

Yesterday I made one of my bosses favorite breakfasts – breakfast wontons.  If you make the wonton cups ahead of time, these are super easy and quick for a weekday breakfast. Bake the wonton cups in a 12 muffin tin, making sure to press down to make a flat bottom.  Heat oven to 350.  Bake for 5-7 minutes – don’t walk away because they can...

Ever since I received Habitall, a new all natural sweetener that is made from monk fruit, I wanted to make lemon poppy seed muffins.  You see, Tony can tell every time when I use artificial sweeteners in muffins.  I’ve been using Splenda for so long, I don’t really taste the difference anymore. Much like Splenda, Habitall is measured cup for cup for sugar. Lemon Poppy...

This weekend was a perfect balance of relaxing and productivity.  I have a hard time not trying to fill up every hour of every weekend doing stuff.  So when Tony suggested we go out to eat and grab a beer Saturday afternoon, I was in. We spent a couple hours hanging out, watching baseball.  I had a couple beers and some pizza bread.  This was...

My friend Helen is running a DietBet this month.  The premise is that you put in $25 dollars to the “pot” try to lose 4% of your weight in a month and if you succeed, you split the pot with everyone who made their goal. Remember how I told you I lost weight on vacation?  Um, well, it caught up with me a week later. ...

I was trying to do too much before work yesterday.  Laundry, making pancakes, pan frying chicken breasts for panini’s, blogging, etc.  I got half way to work and my phone told me I had a comment.  It was from Carrie (hi Carrie!) and her first question was: 1. Homemade Stirfry Sauce? When I got to work I realized I completely skipped over my recipe and...