One Meal at a Time...

I'm listening to Mahna Mahna... I love anything muppets, but this particular version is by Cake.  :)  Speaking of cake like yummies... I was bad today and had banana bread at work... too much of it too.  Fell to the temptations... but I won't let it ruin the rest of my day or the rest of the week!  This weekend, I went to the gym both days, which is very good for me, because I'm usually a weekend skipper.  Today, I did not go to the gym though because it was toooooo cold!  I did some Wii Fit instead.  Haven't taken any pictures of recipes because I really haven't made anything new.  Tonight I made Pasta Fagioli (an old recipe that I found last year on Cooking Light, it's in my prior posts from last year).  It was still amazingly good.... I should have taken a picture but completely forgot.  Yesterday we had pork roast with potatoes and carrots, Saturday we had Taco Salad that I made with cubed steak- mmmm, and Friday we had some pa...

I get so sick of plain old chicken... every time I bake it, somehow it's too bland or I cook it too long and it gets dry... it's probably because I cook it too often.   This should mean that I get better and better at it, but the problem is, I don't like just plain baked chicken breast.  Now, if it were summertime, and not a bunch of snow out on my grill... I wouldn't mind eating my husband's grilled chicken every night.  For some reason, he just has the knack for it.  Mmmm, can taste it now.  Anyhoo, I was on the Cooking Light website the other day when I was making my menu for the week... knew I had a bunch of chicken breast in the freezer, and brousing the chicken recipes when I came across this one... http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=50400000109612 It's called Chicken Cutlets with Creamy Dijon Sauce...  I love anything mustardy...  my mom taught me to add plain mustard to my p...

As promised yesterday, today I made a new recipe from the trusty cooking light website.  My cousin said last week that he was in the mood for some corn chowder.  He makes a very good corn chowder, but it's not very healthy.  So I decided to make a healthy version for him... unfortunately he wasn't here to eat any, since he is working.  Ohwell, Jarrod and I still enjoyed it very much.  However, it was not my best night of cooking.  First off, the recipe calls for frozen corn...well I failed to read that it should be "thawed" frozen corn.  When part of the recipe asked me to blend the corn with milk... I got frozen milk with corn.... I had to pull out my food processor to get through that, while adding extra milk.  Luckily the recipe asked for only half of the milk in the recipe to be blended, so I'm hoping I put the right amount at the end, because when I was trying to fix the corn milk, I didn't care how much milk was in there ;)....

After a few days of some unhealthy choices, but staying within calories (with help from exercise on Sunday), I'm back in the grind today.  I did not go to the gym Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, but did some Wii Fit on Sunday.  This morning, even though I did not sleep well at all, I got up to take Jarrod to work and took my butt to the gym.  I wasn't pleased to find out that I had left my IPod at home either, but I still had my headphones, so I put the tv on VHI, took out my book, and hit the Arc Trainer for 30 minutes.  I'm hoping that I'm tired enough to get some sleep tonight.  For supper tonight, instead of cooking some ground chicken or turkey for my taco salad, I used the leftover chili to put in my salad.  Yes, my yummy Cincinnati (Chicken this time) chili.  I put shredded iceburg lettuce, tomato, canned corn, canned black beans, avacado, shredded reduced fat mexican cheese, crushed tortilla chips, and of course the chili!...

It's 11:30 p.m.  I should be in bed.  Instead I'm on here updating my blog, on facebook updating my status, and on Myfitnesspal updating my calories.  We are so connected to the internet these days... and I'm only thinking about that after watching TheSocialNetwork this evening.  It's crazy how things change so quickly with technology.  How we spend our time changes so much with every piece of technology we receive.  For instance, my new phone, with me at all times now, why?   Because it has the internet on it.  Now did I need to get the internet and pay $30 more per month for that service?  No.  Don't I already have internet at home?  Yes.  But in today's world, it's all about being connected all the time.  Does my email ding at me in the morning before I'm ready to get up, and I check to see what the message is?  Of course.  I think we all do.  But is it good for me to be connected like this?  Th...

So tonight I head to Shaws for the last day of this week's sale.  Or so I thought.  Last Saturday I got a great deal on Jennie-O ground turkey and stocked up.  Grant it, I still have 2 in my freezer, but I knew that I was going to need a bunch for this weekend.  I'm making the Cincinnati Chili (without the spaghetti) for Sunday's Woodbury Christmas (Jarrod's mom's side of the family) and Football later that afternoon.  I get to Shaws and there's ONE package.  The deal last Saturday was buy 1 get 1 free... so if I bought this last one, I didn't have any free.  I was discouraged and left the meat aisle.  I then wandered over to the organic frozen section, and was tempted to buy some vita tops.  I haven't bought them before but Hungry Girl says they're amazing.  I pulled them out, looked at the nutrition, was about to put them in my cart, scanned back at the price, and did a "whaaaaaat"(think Dispicable Me) and put them back in th...

Today was a snow day for me.  I did not go to work because of the crazy snow in the morning. We have gotten over a foot here in Westbrook, and luckily it wasn't too heavy when I was shoveling.  I spent the entire day cleaning, shoveling, and cooking.  I ended up sitting down to relax around 7pm.  So even though it was a day off from work, it wasn't totally a day off... and I believe this has to do with the extra energy I have from the exercise I've been getting in and the healthy foods that I've been eating.  Before I would have gone right back to bed, and just watched movies, and I would have felt lousy.  The only time I felt lousy today, was when I overdid it shoveling and my heart rate was probably too high.  But I stopped, went inside and relaxed.  I did a lot of dusting/decluttering today, no real heavy, heavy cleaning. It's so nice to have a nice clean house!!!  :)   Hopefully it can stay this way!  I just need to attack ...