On The Lighter Side

While on Christmas vacation we got off track on our diet. Sooo back to reality starting this week. No food resolution just a continuation of our Weight Watcher Diet. It's not a diet, per say, its a healthy way of eating.

Hubby will be working early mornings starting in Jan 2015, leaving at 5:45 am getting home at 6 pm, so we will be eating breakfast on the road like My McMuffins or My Breakfast Burritos. Its all a matter of planning. Yep, four 10 hour shifts compared to my 8 hour shift. We commute together so I will bring a book or my knitting to kill 2 hours before I go to work. Fortunately, we work real close to each other.

To Do:

Get coffee pot ready for morning, just push the button in the AM.

Assemble on the road breakfasts and coffee thermos. 

Lunches already made and in frig and lunch boxes ready. (lots of good carbs/protein)

This means intense menu planning including snacks, breakfast, and dinner also everything done the night before.

The key is prep work on the weekend after buying groceries. There are a lot of pre-made healthy foods you just need to read the labels. Of course Trader Joe's is a big help with dinners.

So today was my cooking day. Here is what I did to prepare for the new long week.

1. Tuna salad ( will have this with a low-fat piece of bread or 5 saltines).
2. I hard boiled 6 eggs. Easy for the road and add to a muffin.
3. Batch of muffins (blueberry with home made applesauce instead of oil)
4. Cooked up the ground beef and a few Itallian sausages for chili Monday). Froze the other Itallian sausages.
5. Made salsa for tonight's tacos with black beans.
6. Cooked taco meat with onions for tacos tonight also.
7. Batch of salmon patties for lunches (3 cans of NO PINK COLOR added salmon from Costco).

We purchased three bean salad and pickled beets from Costco to add to our lunches. We also take fresh cut up apples and carrots for lunch and snack.

Yep, preparation and shopping off a MENU is important for these long weeks.