Weekly menus

[Deleted]

I have to get back in the habit of planning my week's worth of meals. So far I have decided on an omelet every morning for breakfast. I prep the mixings the night before and just stir it up in the morning.

I am also going to prepare a batch of cauliflower salad to help with lunches. And I have a big pot of home made turkey soup to eat up. I have some weiners and cheese for snacks.

[Malarky]

When I'm being really good, I make a batch of steel cut oats and alternate that with scrambled egg whites for breakfast. I nuke them so it only takes two or three minutes to make breakfast.
I've kind of lost track of the weekly menu thing, but I need to get back to it. It makes my life so much easier when I've planned meals around the family schedule. At this point someone needs to be somewhere five nights a week. Everyone still gets a home cooked meal every night, but some meals are better nuked than others.

[tnwalker32]

How do you make steel cut oats? I have had them before, but I have never made them.

[Deleted]

What are steel cut oats?

[Malarky]

Steel cut oats are milled differently than rolled oats. They have a lot more texture, they are "grainier" and they have a bit of a nutty flavor. I cook a 1 cup oats/4 cups water batch about every ten days or so and eat about 1/4-1/3 cup serving. I sometimes add vanilla or cinnamon. Sometimes raisins or craisins. I might add blueberries or strawbs or banana. I just nuke my serving and add my fruit and either almond milk, skim milk or yogurt. I haven't gotten bored with it because I rarely eat it the same way two days in a row.
It takes 20 minutes or so to cook them, but I usually do it when I'm in the kitchen making dinner anyway. I stick it in the fridge and scoop out a serving at a time. It comes out like a lump, but it's fine when nuked and mixed with other yummy things.
This is what I use:
Irish Oatmeal, Steel Cut
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1/4 cup dry
Servings Per Container: 20
Amount per Serving
Calories Total 150
from Fat 20
Amount per Serving % Daily Value+
Total Fat 2 g 3%
Saturated Fat 0 g 0%
Polyunsaturated fat 1 g
Monounsaturated fat 1 g
Cholesterol 0 mg 0%
Sodium 0 mg 0%
Total Carbohydrate 26 g 9%
Dietary fiber 4 g
Soluble fiber 2 g
Insoluble fiber 2 g
Sugars 0 g
Protein 4 g
% Daily Value
Vitamin A IU 0%
Vitamin C mg 0%
Calcium mg 2%
Iron mg 6%
* Daily Value not established.
+ Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
100% Wholegrain Irish Oats

Later, you might consider trying this. I can eat this in the morning and not have any other carbs all day without missing them.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

I eat the same breakfast every day, so that makes shopping and planning simple. (Fiber One, Unsweetened vanilla Almond Breeze, Flax seed toast, salmon).

My lunch is pretty much the same every day, too: spicy ranchero egg white salad on organic corn cakes, turkey and hummus and romaine on a high fiber wrap, and a salad of raw broccoli, carrot shreds, bean sprouts, and sweet red pepper, topped with salsa and some balsamic spritz.

My dinner is also formatted: 200 calories of protein, 150 calories of carb side dish, flax seed toast, and about 200 calories of veggies ~ some cooked and some raw (salad).

It's boring, but it works for me ... and helps me keep track of my calories and carbs pretty carefully. (I'm diabetic and help control my diabetes through what I eat. I aim for high fiber, veggie-laden, and low glycemic).

[Deleted]

I have a hard time with calorie counting and portion control. I really have no sense of how much an ounce of whatever is. I think that is why low carbing works best for me.

[Malarky]

Later,
I don't really track it all that carefully. If I have the oatmeal for breakfast, I just don't have bread with lunch or any starch with dinner. I only allow myself one per day. It seems to be enough to keep the crankies at bay.
Of course, all bets have been off for the last two miserable months where I ate my way through the bakery
I tried no carb as a jump start mechanism. I was downright homicidal.

[Deleted]

Malarky I seem to be an all or nothing kinda person when it comes to my vices. When I'm not eating any starches or sugars it isn't that big a deal. To stop eating them once I have started is a whole other story!

I've come to believe that different diets work for different people in a physical way. I think I'm one of those people that can do fats but not sugar and starch. I have friends that are the exact opposite. They cut out the meats and fats and they can do what they want with breads and pastas and potatoes.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

I know that my body (blood sugars) does much better on certain starches/carbs, and doesn't do welll (blood sugar spikes) with others. Pasta, rice (brown or white), fruits, white flour, white bread, potatoes ... all really spike my blood sugars so much that I pretty much avoid them, except for 8 ounces of Yukon Gold or red potatoes no more than once a week. I seem to do better with corn, which is why I eat 4 corn cakes (22 calories each) as part of my lunch. And pretty much the only "breads" that work for me would be FlatOut Light High Fiber Flatbreads (90 calories/9 carbs) and 2 slices of sprouted organic flax seed bread (100 calories/12 carbs).

[Deleted]

Ok, so this week it is omelets for breakfast, turkey soup for lunch, and roast pork and cauliflower salad for supper. Cheese, celery with salmon dip, weiners and pickles for snacks.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

Do you add any veggies to your omelets? Mushrooms and zucchini are nice, and fairly low carb.
What kind of weiners do you like? I like the Oscar Mayer fat free turkey ones ... which (weirdly enough) I like to eat frozen. I call them Weinersicles

(Yes, I'm a weirdo)

[Deleted]

I add green onion, bacon bits and cheese to my omelet, I cut it up the night before. Weiners I just get what's on sale. I have shneider's right now I think. Nuked weiners and mustard is one of my weird food things. Ya have to nuke them until they get wrinkly and are starting to dry out.

[Apple]

Jan 2, 2011 23:40:52 GMT -5 @justaposter said:

Ya have to nuke them until they get wrinkly and are starting to dry out.

I used to split the ends with a knife before nuking to help "boost" the result.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

Do you make hot dog octopuses?

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[marvholly]

I, too, need to get my eating habits & weight back under control. Ideal menu plan goes something like this:
Breakfast is eggs 2x/week, cereal 3x/week, plain yougurt 2x/week+fruit daily
Lunch is cottage cheese, 3x/week, pizza 1x/week, leftovers 2x/week+ veggies
Dinner is chicken 2x/week, red meat 1x/week, veggie 1x/week, fish or shellfish 2x/week + salad and veg

i also 'try' to restrict starchy, plain white carbs to 1x/day.

[Miss Tequila]

malarky, I'm going to get some steel oats next time I am at the store.

I am attempting to do a healthy low carb diet. Low carbing works well for me (the weight just melts off) but I have absolutely no energy and am a step away from homicidal. Since I also want to resume my running program, I can't go super low carb or I won't have the energy for it.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

misstequila ... you might also consider South Beach. It's low carb, but not as low carb as Atkins.

[Deleted]

I have been having 1 egg, 1 egg white, 1 slice whole wheat toast, and 1 banana or 1 orange for breakfast.

For lunch I have been having a tuna fish sandwich with low fat mayo, a sprinkle of cumin on whole wheat.

For dinner I grilled 2 chicken tenders and roasted 6 spears of asparagus. The asparagus I drizzle olive oil on it and sprinkle sea salt then broil it for a few minutes. I also ate 1 banana for dessert.

For a mid day snack I had a piece of muenster cheese.

I still have to figure out my meal plan for the rest of the week. I have a huge weakness for butter and heavy cream...

[The J]

To be honest, I don't meal plan. I've pretty much just stopped eating meat and dairy until dinner time (once dinner hits, I can eat whatever I want, though I try to keep it healthy). It seems to work for me.

[Deleted]

If I don't meal plan, then I end up eating out someplace.

[The J]

I try to make something in bulk like pasta or rice and beans on the weekend and take that for lunch during the week. If I run out (or more accurately, when my roommate has finished devouring everything in sight), then I'll bring some bread and veggies and I keep a container of hummus at the office.

[dividend]

My menu for this week :

BF : I have a few days worth of yogurt + pumpkin puree left, then bagel halves with cream cheese or peanut butter + jam

LUNCHES : homemade beef / bean burrito, homemade mexican rice, salsa, lettuce, tomato

SNACKS :
- sliced clementine + 1 oz Spanish almonds
- 4 triscuits + babybel cheese

DINNERS :
- steak fajitas
- asian braised round steak over rice + sliced cucumbers (2 meals)
- red curry with chicken (2 meals) <-- that's the only thing DBF knows how to cook.

[Cookies Galore]

We do our food shopping on Mondays and I plan the menu for the week before we head to the store.
I try to make enough dinner so there are leftovers, but I also keep stock of Amy's soups (low sodium!) and some of the frozen meals. Lazy, yes, but I don't give myself much time in the morning to prepare lunch.
Breakfast is a glass of orange juice and either a bowl of Special K or half a bagel.
Around 10 I have a yogurt, usually Greek
I eat lunch around 12:30 and eat an apple or whatever fruit I have around 2.
I keep whole wheat matzoh and peanut butter at my desk if I need a quick something.
Friday is Burrito Friday at work.
Dinners this week:
Tonight - tacos. We have corn tortillas in the freezer. BF will have his with ground beef, mine will be red pepper, mushroom, and onion.
Tomorrow - spicy tuna with snow peas and red skin potatoes
Thursday - Fettucine with rose sauce and broccoli (not healthy, I know, but at least I use fat free milk)
Friday - I don't know, I do have some calamari in the freezer so I can figure something with that. Or chickpea curry.
Saturday - we're going out for Thai!

[dianartemis]

I make a week day and a weekend menu. I'm usually sick to death of what I'm eating by the end of the work week! Weekdays for breakfast I'll have my yogurt mix w/ all-bran & raisins, plus sausage. On the weekends I'll have scrambled eggs and toast or poached eggs on toast with some cheese and fruit. If I'm feeling really ambitious I'll mix up some veggies in w/ the eggs. But I'm less than coordinated in the afternoon...I'm afraid of what would happen if I tried chopping veggies in the morning.

[Deleted]

Okay, I've stuck to it for a day and a half! Where's my gold star! Have I lost 10 lbs yet?

[Deleted]

Jan 4, 2011 12:27:46 GMT -5 @justaposter said:

Okay, I've stuck to it for a day and a half! Where's my gold star! Have I lost 10 lbs yet?

;D

My scale is still sitting in the corner in time out for lying to me! I have been good for the last couple of days...I just know I must be skinnier no matter what that lying beyotch of a scale says.

[thyme4change]

My meal plan is a little old school. Granted, nobody in my family is trying to lose weight, but what we do is controlled enough that it keeps us from ballooning up.

We have cereal in the house for breakfast. It is my favorite thing to eat, and comes in a variety of flavors. Plus, the kids can get it for themselves and it doesn't leave a pan.

For lunches, the kids are stuck on PB&J, plus a cheese stick and a piece of fruit or veges. Seems to work for them. My husband tries to pack himself a sandwich with lunch meat. He might pack 2 - I never really watch him. I eat the Lean Cuisine lunches - which are packed with sodium, but since I rarely eat out, I think I'm okay. I also eat an apple.

Dinner, I still use a lot of the same recipes I was raised on. None of them are diet food, but we are able to maintain on them. This week we are having:

1) A boneless turkey leg and thigh, pounded fairly thin and grilled. I marinated it in orange marmalade. I made a cranberry-apple stuffing, and some mixed veges.

2) Meatball stroganoff - heavy on the mushrooms and onions, light on the meatballs and cream.

3) Apple sausage, baked with apples, potatoes, and brussel sprouts. It is a turkey sausage, and they are pretty small.

4) Soup night - this is the night that we have a bunch of activities and no one eats at the same time. I always serve it with raw veges. I call it crudite, to make it sound fancy, but really it is just some carrots, pea pods, celery and cucumbers on a plate.

5) Tuna sliders - can of tuna mixed with a bunch of stuff - this will be the inaugural attempt at this recipe. It is Paula Deen's burger, but we are doing it small on slider buns. It comes with an avocado dressing, and I will probably put some cheese on it, so it is more like a tuna melt. I'll roast some broccoli to go with this.

6) Our weekend meal was shrimp and mahi mahi with spaghetti squash, asparagus and tomatoes. We made a basil lemon butter sauce for the protein and tossed the squash and veges with a little olive oil, lemon juice and basil. It was awesome!

[thyme4change]

Tonight - tacos. We have corn tortillas in the freezer. BF will have his with ground beef, mine will be red pepper, mushroom, and onion.

My favorite vege tacos are zucchini, onions, corn, black beans and taco seasoning. You can use the packet or just a mixture of chili powder, cumin, salt, pepper, onion powder, etc. You could easily throw peppers in with it also - but it is very hearty and gives you fiber and protein.

[dianartemis]

Here ya go Later.