Tuesday, May 5, 2009

week 1, day 2

Day two went fairly well! Here is my menu for the day!

Breakfast:

2 packets Quaker Strawberries and Cream Instant Oatmeal: 5 points
1 cup 1% milk: 2 points

Breakfast total: 7 points

Morning Snack: (on the way grocery shopping)
1-100 calorie pack of Nabisco Oreo Thins: 2 points
diet Dr. Pepper: 0 points

Snack total: 2 points
Morning Activity: 45 minutes of grocery shopping (leisure walking---carrying Addie in the Bjorn, pushing the cart w/ one or two kids in it, plus groceries) 2 activity points

Lunch: (Picked up lunch for hubby and the guys at the station)
3/4 of Taco John's Taco Salad (didn't eat the shell): 9.5 points
Crystal Light Peach Tea: 0 points

Lunch total: 9.5 points

Afternoon snack: (while cooking dinner and after dinner was in oven!)
handful of red grapes (about 1/2 cup): .5 points
100 calorie pack Nabisco Chips ahoy thin crisps: 2 points
Wild Strawberry Crystal Light: 0 points
Handful of baby carrots: 0 points

Snack total: 4.5 points

Dinner:
Stuffed Green Peppers: 7 points (recipe below)
1 cup of grapes: 1 point
1 cup skim milk: 2 points

Dinner total: 10 points

Dessert:
1 Skinny Cow Skinny Dipper Caramel: 1 point

Dessert total: 1 point

Total points used for the day: 32 points
Leftover points: 4 points

Turkey and Rice Stuffed Green Peppers:
20 oz ground turkey 93/7 browned and drained
1 cup Minute rice Whole Grain Brown Rice, cooked
16 oz Tomato Sauce
1 pkg Good Seasons Italian Dressing Mix
4 good-sized green peppers

Combine, cooked turkey, rice, tomato sauce, and italian dressing mix, set aside. Cut tops off green peppers, clean out the insides, rinse, blanch green peppers by putting them in boiling water for 1-2 minutes and then into ice cold water. Put peppers in a baking dish and stuff with turkey and rice mixture. Bake for 1 hour in 350 degree oven.

1 pepper: 7 points

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