This is what I ate/will eat today:
Breakfast: 2/3 cup cereal, 1/3 cup 1% milk, banana
Snack 1: Fage Greek yogurt
Lunch: Egg salad, spinach and mandarin orange salad
Snack 2: Seaweed (1 package from Trader Joe's) and 1 cup tomato soup
Snack 3: 1 cup carrots, 2 tablespoons hummus
Snack 4: Honeycrisp apple, 2 tablespoons chocolate peanut butter
Dinner: Turkey sandwich: 2 slices bread, 1 ounce turkey lunchmeat, 1/3 cup mashed avocado, alfalfa sprouts
Snack 5: Sugar-free Jello
WW points: 31
Today is Sunday, which means AC is at work til 11 tonight. If he's here, I cook an actual dinner- tomorrow night we're having pan-fried tilapia in white wine & caper sauce and a vegetable to be determined once I figure out what I feel like (we have a couple of options).
I'm trying to cut out processed food for the most part. My cereal is Post Great Grains with Dates and Raisins, which gets an A- according to Fooducate's iPhone application. I can deal with that, because it is seriously my most favorite cereal ever and there aren't many boxed cereals that score very high anyway. The bread issue I'm still trying to figure out how to deal with- ideally I'd make my own; store bought bread has a TON of preservatives and chemicals I can't pronounce (see Michael Pollan for more info on that) but for the time being, I need to stick with easily available nutritional facts for point counting reasons. I have given up Morningstar Farms Chick'n Nuggets for the time being, but I don't think that will be a forever habit because I like them so much. Um, we still eat Domino's because it's delicious. Like I said, for the most part, not ALL parts.
We've also been taking a month off eating out so I could get on track with eating healthy and not be tempted by things like pizza and cheeseburgers (McD'd I'm looking at you). AC is going to be very, very happy when that's over. He misses seafood subs from our favorite sub place and pizza from Modern Apizza and I miss not cooking 1 night a week. Since our 1 year engagement anniversary is on February 4th (we had a 6 month engagement) and our 6 month marriage anniversary is February 7th, we'll go out sometime that week (we always have tuna steaks on the 7th) and that will put us somewhere around exactly 1 month of not eating out! And then we'll order pizza, because it's delicious and I miss it. Homemade just is not the same!
How do you eat? Do you map out or plan what you eat or go with the flow of whatever comes your way? Do you subscribe to any particular ideology of eating (vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, omnivore)? How do you handle eating out?
4 comments:
Eating less processed food is a goal I'm working towards as well. In the past, I would rely on frozen "healthy" dinners and honestly, their never that good! I'd rather have a piece of fresh lean meat, chicken, fish, even lean beef - along with a good veggie. That's what we've been doing and it's been tough getting the hubs on board with it! Haha.
I generally go with the flow of what comes my way, in terms of eating during the day. The only thing I really don't eat is red meat, so I tend to load up on chicken and turkey, occasionally fish, in terms of protien. The fiancé and I try not to eat out that much for monetary and nutritional reasons, and I think we've been doing pretty good lately! Although I do tend to not order the healthiest thing when we do go out, heh.
ALL D eats is snacks. I'm quite sure he could go a week without having a proper full meal. When he lived on his own he had Taco Bell or some other processed food at least once a day. I don't map/plan any of our food since we both eat very differently plus I get home too late at night to cook anyway. I hate to admit that 50% of my food lately is frozen WW or Amy's foods. I just have no time to prep or cook anything much more than that.
I am a snacker too - it is a problem. I get really hangry when I dont eat often enough. I like string cheese, granola bars, a bowl of cereal, veggies and hummus or a clementine to keep me satisfied!
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