what did you eat today??

after 3 weeks of induction on Atkins, I'm getting bored with my meals. I
like to cook, and have made some very good low carb dishes, but the menu is
the same most of the time. I'm afraid to bake at this time- leftovers are a
temptation- my biggest problem. I had a few more carbs today with an
outstanding spaghetti squash and sausage dinner that added up to 28 C for
the day- too much for this level, but I don't feel guilty since it was all
veggies today. I've been eating THEN entering my meals into a journal- that
was a mistake today proved!

So how about when you post - let us know what you had for the day It will
give us newbies some meal suggestions. Breakfast is the hardest to come up
with for new ideas for me

How about sharing your recipe for your spaghetti squash and sausage dinner?
Sounds just right with our weather getting down into the teens tonight and snow
approaching!
Think I might like it tonight and would look forward to leftovers tomorrow.
Will try and buy the squash today.
Barbara

Diane Mancino wrote:

after 3 weeks of induction on Atkins, I'm getting bored with my meals. I
like to cook, and have made some very good low carb dishes, but the menu is
the same most of the time. I'm afraid to bake at this time- leftovers are a
temptation- my biggest problem. I had a few more carbs today with an
outstanding spaghetti squash and sausage dinner that added up to 28 C for
the day- too much for this level, but I don't feel guilty since it was all
veggies today. I've been eating THEN entering my meals into a journal- that
was a mistake today proved!

So how about when you post - let us know what you had for the day It will
give us newbies some meal suggestions. Breakfast is the hardest to come up
with for new ideas for me

"Diane Mancino" wrote in message
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after 3 weeks of induction on Atkins, I'm getting bored with my meals. I
like to cook, and have made some very good low carb dishes, but the menu
is
the same most of the time. I'm afraid to bake at this time- leftovers are
a
temptation- my biggest problem. I had a few more carbs today with an
outstanding spaghetti squash and sausage dinner that added up to 28 C for
the day- too much for this level, but I don't feel guilty since it was all
veggies today. I've been eating THEN entering my meals into a journal-
that
was a mistake today proved!

So how about when you post - let us know what you had for the day It will
give us newbies some meal suggestions. Breakfast is the hardest to come up
with for new ideas for me


I'm not an Atkins expert, but after three weeks it's probably time to move
on to OWL anyhow. That will expand your food choices a bit and help stave
off the boredom.

Anyways, I love talking about cooking, so I'm happy to comply with your
suggestion. Sunday night I made turkey meatballs - one pound of ground
turkey made 16 meatballs, enough for four meals. I just mixed the meat in
with one egg and a half an onion, minced (you can leave the onion out if you
are worried about the carbs, but there's only 1/8 onion per serving), and
loads of salt and pepper. Browned in a little olive oil on all sides and
then stewed in chicken broth until a meat thermometer told me they were
cooked through. They were pretty tasty!

I served them with a tiny amount of stewed tomatoes (I added the tomatoes to
the pan after the meatballs came out, so they mixed with the drippings and
the remaining broth, yum) but again if you don't want the carbs of tomatoes
you can skip that step (again, 1/4 can of tomatoes per serving isn't so bad
for me). Eat them with brocolli or asparagus or brussels sprouts or
whatever. I don't mix cheese with poultry, but if you did I bet they would
be nice with some parmesan sprinkled over them.

I have also made turkey burgers the same way - instead of rolling the mix
into 16 meatballs, divide it into four patties and cook them up on a
griddle, a grill, or in an ordinary pan.

carla
237/221/165?

Yesterday's meals:

Breakfast: 1 cup chicken salad made with mayo and celery bits, 1 cup
coffee, 1 T. heavy cream

Lunch: 2 slices roast pork, 2 cups salad greens, 2 T. homemade blue
cheese dressing (mayo, sour cream, blue cheese), water

Dinner: 2 chicken hot wings, 3 pieces celery, 2 T. blue cheese
dressing, salad with one grilled chicken breast, 2 c. raw spinach, 6
walnuts, 2 slices crumbled bacon. Diet pepsi.

More water.

Exercise: 1/2 hour cardio.

A little high on the cheese, I know. Mondays always include a meal
outside the house, though, which can be a pitfall, but wasn't this time,
I think.

--
Nancy Howells (don't forget to switch it, and replace the to send mail).

A small bowl of oatmeal with Laura Scudder's peanut butter and half a
pink grapefruit (I'm on maintenance)

Chicken, avocado & cheese sandwich on Oroweat carb cutter bread

Dinner last night: cold chicken with brussels sprouts (steamed in the
microwave for 2 min, then sauteed with olive oil, garlic and smart
balance and topped with fresh parmesan cheese..... yum!)

I get my chicken already BBQ'd from safeway... it's easy and they go a
long way.


BJPruett wrote in message ...
How about sharing your recipe for your spaghetti squash and sausage dinner?
Sounds just right with our weather getting down into the teens tonight and snow
approaching!
Think I might like it tonight and would look forward to leftovers tomorrow.
Will try and buy the squash today.
Barbara

Diane Mancino wrote:

after 3 weeks of induction on Atkins, I'm getting bored with my meals. I
like to cook, and have made some very good low carb dishes, but the menu is
the same most of the time. I'm afraid to bake at this time- leftovers are a
temptation- my biggest problem. I had a few more carbs today with an
outstanding spaghetti squash and sausage dinner that added up to 28 C for
the day- too much for this level, but I don't feel guilty since it was all
veggies today. I've been eating THEN entering my meals into a journal- that
was a mistake today proved!

So how about when you post - let us know what you had for the day It will
give us newbies some meal suggestions. Breakfast is the hardest to come up
with for new ideas for me

Breakfast sandwich made with two slices of 3-carb bread, two eggs over easy,
fried ham and toppedwith a slice of American cheese. The over-easy yolks make
for a messy sandwich, but delicious! Coffee with cream and Splenda.
Snack was a Kavli crisp with a bit of natural peanut butter, a few pecans and a
wedge of cantaloupe. Chef's salad for lunch, with a lot of romaine and blue
cheese dressing. Dinner will be pork chops and aspargus, with Father Sarducci
cheesecake and coffee for dessert (recipe from Fran McCullough's low carb
cookbook--the best LC cheesecake I ever ate.) Midnight snack will probably will
be a half cup of All Bran (7 net carbs) with low carb milk and maybe a
sprinkling of blueberries.

Diane Mancino wrote:

So how about when you post - let us know what you had for the day It will
give us newbies some meal suggestions. Breakfast is the hardest to come up
with for new ideas for me



When I'm feeling bored, I have a bowl of the Hi-Lo cereal with frozen
berries, a half of a banana and Rice Dream (you can have low-carb milk
if you want). Usually though, I have scrambled eggs with a handful of
cheese thrown in because that's the meal that makes me feel the best and
lose weight the fastest.

For dinner last night, we had pork chops, Dana Carpender's Sweet and
Sour Cabbage recipe, and some apples that were peeled and sliced and
sauteed in butter and splenda and cinnamon.

I was really feeling like I needed help with the boredom yesterday, so I
took out my 5 or so low carb cookbooks and made a list of about 25
recipes that I know I like, or that I've been meaning to try. I will
fit those into our next few weeks.

Tonight I'm planning on a recipe for Steak Diane that a friend of mine
gave me recently. It has to do with pounding slices of beef tenderloin
and then sauteeing quickly and making a bit of a sauce with some
shallots. I have the green beans already cleaned and ready to cook, but
haven't yet decided how to do it. Probably something simple.

Rebecca

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 02:00:58 GMT, "Diane Mancino"
announced in front of God and everybody:

So how about when you post - let us know what you had for the day It will
give us newbies some meal suggestions. Breakfast is the hardest to come up
with for new ideas for me

I'm pretty boring when it comes to breakfast -- I have four or five
things that I like and eat regularly, depending on mood and
convenience.

This morning I had hot flax cereal (flax meal and chopped almonds with
hot water, cinnamon, SF vanilla syrup, half banana and a splash of
cream) and a cup of tea. Usually I have a couple of cups of coffee
instead of tea; my other usual breakfasts are an LC tortilla spread
with peanut butter and SF jam or bacon and eggs or a protein shake or
microwaved custard-ish eggs with SF jam.

Lunch, in about a half hour, will be either buffalo wings w/blue
cheese dressing and some nuked broccoli or a bowl of leftover,
homemade chili.

Dinner will be some sort of meat and a salad. Probably pork chops -- I
have a lot of those in the freezer because we bought a pile of 'em on
sale.

Dawn

On 6 Jan 2004 15:48:54 GMT, Ignoramus15252
wrote:

I ate bread with cheee and sausage, and two bananas, so far.


Bananas and bread are NOT low carb.

Why are you here and for that matter why do you keep changing your
email addy and nickname every single day?

It may rise when you yeast expect it.