Mardi Gras

So yesterday I made crepes for dinner. We had pancakes for breakfast so for a little spice in life, I changed it up at dinner time and had crepes. Now of course being very conscious of feeding my kids healthy foods, I could not give them just crepes for dinner. Especially since we had pancakes for breakfast which is usually a weekend morning only breakfast. So I gave them left over chicken in a yummy sauce I made with pepper, onions, celery and various spices. I also gave them left over shrimp noodles pasta. The dinner was yummy all around and they finished most of their plates.

Since it was mardi gras I did eat the crepes (not the pancakes in the AM, I gave those to a friend who came over after we had finished eating breakfast. The pancakes were blueberry pancakes and were very yummy) and a salad. I did omit the vanilla from the recipe so that they would not be as sweet tasting since they were for dinner. I must admit that I did have berries wrapped in a crepe with maple syrup for dessert. Yummy.

Since today is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent I am giving somethings up and will be putting a huge halt to all baking for 40 days with a big sigh. Boy it is going to be a long 40 days...

So we will see how creative I get with the kids meals during Lent because all I will be eating is very basic with fruit for dessert! Is it bad if I make the kids "sacrifice" certains thing they like to eat too?

Eat yummy food!

Last night for dinner I used a recipe from Cooking Light magazine. When I looked at the recipe list I thought great I have all the ingredients. Chicken and some spices, potatoes, I did not have squash but my husband does not like that anyway so no big deal. So I take out all the stuff I will need and put it on the counter and read the recipe. The recipe calls for a whole chicken and I have chicken breasts! Oh well instead of putting the spices between the chicken and the skin, I just put it on top of the breasts with some olive oil, cut up the potatoes (for the kids, I don't eat potatoes) and put it all in the oven and dinner was done. I warmed some veggies I had made previously and put fresh apple and a little piece of bread on the kids plate. The adults had salad and the chicken and a great meal was had by all! Best part I went out after and did not have to clean up! Yeah! Eat yummy food.

Soup for dinner

My husband was away or I do not think I would have served soup for dinner. Although the soup did have carrots, potatoes and sausages. I got the recipe from Jamie Oliver in Cooking Light Magazine. I don't really like the way he cooks but I really liked this soup. Very easy to make and tasted great. I added the sausages that were already cooked. (mostly so my kids would eat it) I also made beer bread again. I love warm beer bread, the next day it is yucky which is good because then I will only eat it at one meal! And that was dinner, really easy less than an hour to make soup and bread. We had fruit for dessert as usual! A very yummy meal.

Poker Night

Yesterday was my husband's poker night. So tonight we had the leftovers. We had sausages, (Gruyere stuffed-yummy) and salad, part of my high protein and greens diet. The kids had noodles and veggies too. But for poker night I made chicken pieces coated in garlic and other spices and served the rest of the sausages and home made salsa which was spicy (jalapeno peppers!) and smooth and crunch all at the same time. My husband bought a 6 layer dip and nuts. They are guys, it was simple and they liked it! I did not make a dessert.

Tonight we had leftovers (sausages and other stuff in the fridge) and I caved and make the cookies. I used a recipe from the Costco magazine. I will use a recipe from anywhere if I have the ingredients and like what the end result will be! Oh my GOSH, they were good. I dipped the cookies in granulated sugar before I baked them. Yummy. (so much for the diet!)

I have a weakness for cookies!

Good night... and for those of you watching LOST, I hope it is worth the however many month wait it has been. I am very excited!

No flour, No sugar

So my life really does revolve around food. I am constantly thinking about it. What is for dinner? I can't wait for breakfast. What will I make for lunch? For the boys? For me?

This past summer I changed the way I eat. I was having acne issues and changed my diet. No more bread, or anything with white flour (including gravy) or white or refined sugar. I started experimenting with different kids of sugar and flours. Some good, almond flour, some not so good, garbanzo bean flour. (makes gravy and especially sweets taste weird)

But overall I did okay. Once I stopped eating sugar, the less I wanted it. Chocolate was a whole other story. I ate 75% to 86% cacao. After a while, milk chocolate just tastes gross. (too sweet) Two good things about the diet is that my acne cleared up and two, I lost 15 pounds in 3 months! And I have managed to keep it off. Around the holidays it was really hard to do and so I just gave in and ate crap (cookies and bars and yummy Christmas food) Then I had house guests and made tons of bread and sweets for them so I did eat some of that. Now I am back on the diet, my face was getting bad again. I eat lots of berries and salads and they are yummy. I have been wanting to make chocolate chip cookies but have not caved yet... I long can I go. This is now day 3 and counting...