Friday

Breakfast:

2 slices of 12 grain toast with light peanut butter

glass of milk (1% - just can't do skim)

1/2 banana

Break snack:

melba rounds and light veggie cream cheese

coffee

Lunch:

Spinach salad, with yellow, red, orange, and green peppers, mushroom, carrot, cucumber, boiled egg, havarti and almonds

flatbread crackers & hummus

a few grapes

Afternoon snack:

grapes

Supper:
mashed potatoes
corn
shrimp
spinach salad with peppers & cucumbers

Thursday

Breakfast:
yogourt & granola
small glass of fruit/veggie juice

Mid-morning snack:
melba rounds and light veggie cream cheese (helllooo! Just like chips 'n dip!)

Lunch:
shish taouk from Mosaic; just the wrap, no side
1 "Nib" licorice (I looove me some Nibs, and it's been a while, and there's 0 fat - ok, ok yeah, I had a weak moment. Thanks Craig!)

Supper:
baked salmon
mashed potatoes
corn
spinach salad with peppers, mushrooms, & cucumber ~ And it all was SO good!

Wednesday

Breakfast:
granola, yogourt, 1/2 banana
small glass of fruit/veggie juice
coffee

Morning snack:
grapes
coffee

Lunch:
spinach salad, with green, orange, red, & yellow peppers, mushrooms, cucumber, carrot, and a boiled egg
hummus and a pita
1/2 banana

Afternoon snack (different intervals):
Trail Mix granola bar
....
1 "Light" Babybel cheese

Supper:
Parmesan Lime Shrimp Skewers and garden greens from Boston Pizza*
peppermint tea & a trail mix cookie for dessert

*I watched Mom eat a delicious helping of baked shrimp/feta penne, and it didn't kill me too much. I left the restaurant hungry though :S.

Research...

So Mom and I are going out tonight after I'm finished work. She has a few things to pick up, and as is customary when Mummy and I go out together, she's treating me to supper. More often than not, we land at Boston Pizza, and we always have the same meal - both of us - the baked shrimp and feta penne. To be proactive, I thought I'd bring up the BP menu to try to find a 'healthier' alternative. So I looked up the nutritional value of the coveted dish - 1150 calories, and 55 grams of fat! No wonder it's so g.d. delicious... So off I go to examine some other choices. I first check the salads. The first I look at is the specs on the crispy chicken and pecan salad (which I've had before, and is really good). It's a rainbow of lettuce, boiled egg, chicken, carrot, cheese. Sounds pretty healthy, right?...1140 calories, and a whopping 93g of fat! Yes, that would be 38 grams more fat in the salad than a heavy, cheesy pasta dish. And these calculations of content do not include the piece of garlic bread that would also be in my belly by the end of the meal.

Awesome.

Healthy eating sucks.

It's yet to be determined what meal I'll be consuming...but I can tell you one thing, it will not be the crispy chicken and pecan salad. If I'm going to indulge in that many calories, I'll have my pasta.

*sigh*

Stormy Tuesday

Breakfast:
bowl of granola, yogourt 1/2 banana
small glass of fruit/veggie juice

Morning snack:
grapes

Lunch:
spinach salad & spaghetti (yay for leftovers!)

Afternoon snack:
I worked through my afternoon break so I didn't eat a snack. Lunch was fairly big so I really wasn't hungry. I was starving when I got home, so thankfully there were yet more leftovers for supper so it was a quick supper prep.

Supper:
more leftovers....spinach salad, and spaghetti

Evening snack:
hummus with flatbread crackers & carrots

Monday

Breakfast:

yogourt, granola & 1/2 banana

small glass of fruit/veggie juice

coffee

Morning snack:

coffee

grapes

3 itty bitty pieces of havarti cheese

Lunch*:

enchilada

salad (lettuce, red, yellow & green peppers, red onion, and feta)

Afternoon snack:
Snackwell crackers and havarti cheese

Supper:
spinach salad
spaghetti - we made whole wheat pasta, and I used the one plate for both the salad and spaghetti, thus a smaller serving of pasta. It was tough for me, as spaghetti is my favourite meal. I likely had more than a traditional 'serving', but I had about half of a normal "Amber spaghetti serving". Lots of leftovers :)

Night 'snack':
peppermint tea

*Courtesy of the lovely April. Thank you so much for treating me to lunch. It was DELICOUS :)

Sunday

Brunch:
2 slices of 12 grain toast
2 eggs
2 slices of facon (chicken bacon)
coffee

Supper:
shrimp
mashed potatoes
peas
spinach salad (baby spinach, red onion, egg)