Back on Track... Hopefully for Good

Breakfast - apple
Lunch - chicken breast in usual salad; Ghirardelli square
Supper - Rice Dream/cream sauce (seasoned w/garlic powder, parsley, salt) w/brown rice pasta; roasted butternut squash
Dessert - pie crust wedge w/homemade chocolate sauce and Reddi-Wip

Catching Up

Saturday and Sunday we were out of town. Went to a funeral Saturday, stayed the night at a hotel, then visited my dad on the way back home and ended up staying for the Super Bowl :)

Saturday I had raisins during the drive there. Coffee w/usual. Lunch and supper were food people brought for the family.

Sunday morning I ate a waffle w/butter at the hotel. Coffee w/sugar and 1/2 and 1/2. I could tell I ate white flour for breakfast. I had the munchies all day! Super Bowl snacks - raw veggies w/ranch; apples w/homemade caramel dip; cheese w/Ritz; Ghirardelli square. Sausage gumbo w/white rice for supper. Coffee w/sugar and whole milk before driving home.

Monday - no breakfast, just coffee w/usual. Lunch was chicken breast in usual salad; Ghirardelli square. Before supper - small fast food fries. Mom's Night Out for supper - Mexican - chile relleno; shrimp chimichanga; chicken burrito (ate most of it); little bit of rice and beans; queso. Frozen coffee drink (w/chocolate) and whipped cream after.

Tuesday (today) - no breakfast (slept in!). Lunch - tuna salad salad; Ghirardelli square. Supper - IHOP - egg (over easy); hash browns; pancakes w/butter pecan syrup and butter-like substance.

Was hoping to run today but it didn't happen :(

Need to get back on track with eating...

Friday

Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - chicken breast in usual salad; Ghirardelli square
Supper - roasted butternut squash; canned biscuits w/butter; few bites chocolate ganache

Chicken Stew

CHICKEN STEW

Not so much a recipe, but how I did it this time...

The last 3 times we've had rotisserie chicken, we've eaten the breast/wishbone, thighs, and legs. I've put the rest in a freezer bag and frozen it. So today I had 3 rotisserie carcasses. Added 2 double-sized organic veggie bouillon cubes, 1 lb carrots, 2 onions, and parsley. Would have liked celery in it too but didn't have any. Covered everything with (filtered) water in a stock pot, brought to a boil, and simmered for a couple hours. I added salt and pepper to taste to our bowls.

Even Ethan, who is on a vegetarian kick, ate it!

EXHAUSTED

I've gotten so little sleep this week and it caught up to me today! Even a cup of coffee couldn't wake me up much :( I managed to cook lunch but by this afternoon I could barely stand up, was tripping over nothing, etc. So no way I could cook :( I know (and Jesse knows) what happens when I try to cook when I'm like this. It's a toss-up whether the food or me ends up burned - or both!

Breakfast - coffee w/usual
Lunch - chicken stew; Ghirardelli square
Later - chocolate peppermint Ghirardelli square
Supper - pizza - small slice w/everything, mostly ate one w/shrooms, bell pepper, onions, olives; garlic cheese bread; cheesecake

It's COLD!!!

We were supposed to make it up to 40 today. When it got close to 40, I was going to run. Well... We only made it up to 33/34, and the wind chill stayed in the 20s all day! So no run :( It will be like this the next few days. I guess I'll try to get a full week of workouts in next week finally. Sigh...

I brought my mom to the doctor this morning (temp in the 20s, wind chill in the teens!) and grabbed enough groceries etc to last us the rest of the week. By the time I headed home, it was time for lunch! Jesse had had the boys all morning so I just picked up lunch. Besides, it was our birthdays ;)

Breakfast - raisins
Lunch - plate lunch - seafood-stuffed chicken breast; green beans (seasoned w/bacon); bread pudding
Later - 1/2 cup coffee w/demarara and cream
Before supper - plain piece of french bread (Gabriel took a late nap on me and I was getting weak!)
Supper - leftovers - carrots w/butter; roasted butternut; Chili's fries w/mayo and ketchup; Ghirardelli square

(Early) Birthday Dinner

Jesse and I decided to eat out for our birthdays tonight instead of tomorrow for various reasons, partly because of the weather. There's a good seafood buffet not far from us, and you eat 1/2 price the day before, after, or of your birthday. And since Jesse and I have the same birthday (2 years apart), we like treating ourselves to the buffet while it's basically B1G1F ;)

Breakfast - apple
Lunch - tuna salad salad; Ghirardelli square
Supper - seafood buffet; cheesecake