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when I put my lunch together this morning.  I had two low carb wraps (50 cal each) two fat free hot dogs (40 calories each), sauerkraut for the dogs, cucumbers, carrots, peppers and a wedge of light laughing cow cheese.  When I put it all in calorieking.com it only came out to 285 calories!  Definitely not enough, so I went to the cafe in the next building...

I hate when that happens!  Oh well, you’ll just have to wait til lunch to see what I had for breakfast – something I hardly ever eat – cereal!  I just had a taste for rice krispies this morning.  I had it with banana and raspberries and a light english muffin on the side.  Pretty low in protein so we’ll see if this sticks with...

Before I get on to dinner, I have to share my gourmet loot with you!  First of all – most everything was 50% off.  Had I paid full price for all this stuff it would have been $76 dollars (+tax) and I paid $29.50 with tax for everything!!    PLAN C DINNER My first plan was to make homemade enchiladas with homemade corn tortillas.  Um,...

The corned beef I used was Boar’s Head and 2 ounces comes in at 90 calories and its delicious!  So compared to an Arby’s corned beef sandwich, this is significantly less – theirs tops in at 590 calories, 32 grams of fat and 55 carbs! Got to run, I went to an upscale gourmet shop at lunch that is closing the retail side of their...

I got up a bit earlier today to make my food for the day.  After looking around, I decided I wanted a frittata.  The base is one cup shredded hash browns (140 calories per cup).  I started out by Pam frying the hash browns by themselves, and then they were crispy on the bottom, added 1/2 cup egg beaters, 1/2 cup egg whites, diced red...

Cooks Illustrated didn’t fail me again with this recipe.  It tasted fried!  Our only criticism is that it needed a little more spice – more black pepper and maybe soaking the chicken in a spicy buttermilk bath overnight like Martha Stewart does with her oil fried chicken. But first, I went to the doctor, and he said that he believes my bronchitis is gone, doesn’t...

Mystery solved!  I heart corned beef.  It’s probably my favorite deli meat, which makes the best sandwich ever invented – The Reuben.  I could have sworn I had sauerkraut at home to make a healthier version, but I couldn’t find it.  Instead I had corned beef with muenster cheese, stone ground mustard and spinach on a low carb wrap (with 7 grams of fiber!) My...

Wow, this weekend went by quick!   Pretty sure Hannah is going to drive somewhere today!  Well, she will drive to the park district to get her parking permit so she can drive to school.  Hannah is one of those people who would rather be 20 minutes early rather than 2o seconds late.  She’s thrilled not to have to depend on the school bus or friends!...

Wow – oranges.  There were so many different directions to go with and initially I thought of making orange chicken.   But the deadline to submit my recipe was today, and I started to think of what I had in the house and what I could make.  My decision?  Orange Sherbet! While not a huge fan, I know that Hannah and Tony are.   Although most recipes...

Yet another great recipe from Cook’s Illustrated!   Although not exact, as I left the onions out and I couldn’t find dried porchini mushrooms (I used 1 ounce of regular mushrooms) and instead of whole milk I used 2%.  It was delicious! But first since Joe came over we decided to go out to eat at our local Mexican restaurant.  Can you guess that Hannah drove?!...