Wednesday

Breakfast:
2 (113 g.) Whole grain buttermilk pancakes
Butter
Total calories: 380

Snack:
1 Fiber one Granola bar
Total calories: 140

Lunch:
a little bit of Pasta leftovers
Total calories: 110

Workin' on stuff:
bits and bits of Sugar cookies (dough and finished product)
Total calories: <400

Dinner:
abt. 1/3rd Ham and pepperoni stromboli
Total calories: 550?

Daily total: <1580

Clearly it is the end of the month. I am shockingly low on fresh fruits and veggies. Never a good thing.

Tuesday

Breakfast:
1 Yogurt
46 g. Granola
Total calories: 361

Working on projects:
tastes of Chocolate cupcake batter
tastes of Chocolate cupcakes
small taste of Sugar cookie dough
Total calories: 350?

Lunch:
90 g. Leftover pasta from last night
Total calories: 135

Dinner:
317 g. White chicken chili
1.2 oz. Tortilla chips
Total calories: 455

Daily total: 1301

Monday

Breakfast:
1 Yogurt
 42 g. Granola
Total calories: 344

At the park:
1 Cheesestick
half of a Granola bar
2 Grapes
handful of Pretzels
Total calories: 210

Lunch:
1 Healthy Choice Frozen Entree (Sweet and Sour Chicken, rice, broccoli, peach "crisp")
Total calories: 440

Dinner:
304 g. Angel hair pasta with ham, peas, scallions, cream, and asiago
Total calories: 458

Experiments:
3/4 Cinnamon roll
Total calories: 350?

Daily total: 1802

Last Week

Homemade strawberry pastries

Strawberry and white chocolate tartletts

Aaron's birthday - Indian with Greek Feast (couscous, curry, tzaziki, persian rice, etc)

Pizza

Chocolate

Ice cream

Some fabulously moist spice cake with whipped cream

Can we all see a theme here? Heavy cream? Uh-huh.

Saturday

Breakfast:
2 Whole-grain buttermilk pancakes
1 1/2 T. Country crock
1 C. Milk
Total calories: 440

Friday, April 16th

Breakfast:
Strawberries
Yogurt
Granola
Total calories: 392

Extras:
a few Pretzels
odds and ends
Total calories: 45

Lunch:
1 Tortilla
3 oz. Grilled marinated chicken breast
30 g. Pinto beans
39 g. Mozzarella
Salsa verde
Sour cream
Lettuce
Total calories: 540

Snack:
2 clementines
20 g. Cashews
Total calories: 180

Dinner:
1 1/3 Cream biscuit
1 1/2 C. Chicken noodle soup
Total calories: 445

Mother's Circle Group:
1 Orange and Mango sorbet (Island Way Sorbet)
Total calories: 51


Daily total: 1653

Thursday, April 15th

Breakfast:
135 g. Strawberries
1 Yogurt
46 g. Granola
Total calories: 381

Snack:
1 oz. Cashews
1/2 Cheesestick
Total calories: 200

Lunch:
Leftover Spinach and butternut lasagna
2 Clementines
Total calories: 544

Dinner:
1 large slice of Cheese pizza (Little Ceasars)
1 1/2 Breadsticks
Total calories: abt 500

YW Stake training:
2 to 3 dried blueberries
1 grape
Total calories: 15?


Daily total: 1640

Wednesday, April 14th

Breakfast:
Lefover Pico salad (219 grams)
Baked tortilla traingles (1.2 oz)
Total calories: 301

Snack:
Half of a cheesestick
1 bag Marshmallows
Total calories: 140

Lunch:
2 slices of Bread
6 slices of Turkey
1 slice Provolone
mustard
Total calories: 330

Yum:
2 Chocolate chip cookies
Total calories: 200

Oh no:
2 more cookies
Cheese quesadilla with salsa verde and sour cream
Marshmallows
Prepping "Brown Sugar Popcorn" for YW
Total calories: I don't even want to guess

Dinner:
1 C. Orange rice (rice pilaf copious amounts of carrots, garlic and butter)
Grilled barbeque chicken breast
Total calories: 420

Daily total: More than I'd like

Tuesday, April 13th

Breakfast:
1 Yogurt, raspberry whipped
55 g. Blueberry granola with flax seed
Total calories: 380

Lunch:
various tastes as I was prepping
1 fresh Green pepper
342 g. Pico salad (pico de gallo, corn, black beans, cilantro, lemon juice, dash of buttermilk)
1.6 oz. Baked corn tortilla strips
Baby carrots
Total calories: 558

Confession:
> one scoop of Cookie dough
2 Chocolate chip cookies
several handfuls of Baby carrots
Total calories: 300

Dinner was delish:
1 C. Soft polenta with asiago and garlic
87 g. Grilled pork brisket
1/2 C. Sauteed zucchini
Total calories: 450

Daily total: 1688

Monday, April 12th

I am not in the mood to write it all down today.

Parfait
Cheesestick
Turkey sandwich with provolone
2 clementines
1/6 serving Spinach and butternut squash lasagna
1/2 Chocolate pop tart
Daily total: 1454

Thursday, April 8th

Breakfast:
161 g. Strawberries
49 g. Granola
1 Yogurt
taste of sons quesadilla
Total calories: 427

Don't mind if I do:
prepping some Hummus
1 Rocky Mountain Chocolate
Total calories: 140

Lunch:
Hummus with cumin, lemon, and avocado
Whole wheat pita crisps
Total calories: 262

Snacking:
bite or two of sons Cheesestick
taste of Chicken as I prepped
7 Marshmallows
handful or two of Trix cereal
Total calories: 175

Dinner:
Baked chicken thighs
Brown and wild rice pilaf
Sauteed asparagus
Total calories: 507

After-hours:
 1 mini Milky Way ice cream bar
Total calories: 80

Daily total: 1591

Wednesday

Breakfast:
258 g. Brown rice farina
1 T. Buttermilk syrup
Total calories: 261

Lunch:
2 slices of Bread
3 slices of Ham
3 slices of Turkey
1 slice of Smoked provolone
47 g. Avocado
Total calories: 404

Snacky snacky snacky poo:
random handfuls of Trix cereal
like, 20 Marshmallows (spring bunny color/sized)
a few Pretzels
Total calories: 265

Dinner:
121 g. Lettuce
13 g. Monterey Jack/Cheddar cheese
84 g. Green peppers
166 g. Ground turkey and black beans with cumin and other seasonings
40 g. Pico de gallo
13 g. Baked corn tortilla strips
3 T. House dressing (buttermilk, sour cream, cilantro, scallions, lemon, salt, etc)
Total calories: 452

YW, teaching quick breads:
Some cheddar garlic biscuits, cinnamon biscuits with syrup glaze, cream and buttermilk biscuits
Total calories: 300?

Daily total: 1682

Tuesday, April 6th

Breakfast:
1/2 Yogurt
55 g. Granola with blueberry and flax seed
Total calories: 310

Lunch:
2 slices of Bread
6 slices of Ham
mustard
Total calories: 250

Paying bills:
2 Dark chocolates with caramel
1 Milk chocolate with caramel and nuts
Total calories: 180

Un-packing/finding treasures/creating in the kitchen:
several Jelly beans
several unabashed "tastes" of Buttermilk syrup
a taste of two of Granola bar mixture (pre cooking)
post Granola bar tasting
Total calories: 320

Dinner:
130 g. Sweet potato
8 g. Butter
144 g. Buttermilk and garlic marinated grilled chicken
92 g. Steamed mixed veggies (peas, corn, carrots, green beans)
Total calories: 412


Daily total: 1472

The Gorge Fest (in list form)

• Parfait
• Salad
• Blackberries
• Sausage and roasted veggies with penne
• Little lemon cookies
• Chocolate chocolate chocolate cupcakes
• Taste of mini drumstick ice cream
• Waffles
• Butter
• Strawberries
• Leftovers
• Gourmet cupcakes (chocolate better than $#@%^ cake and caramel apple cake with cream cheese frosting)
• Buffalo chicken wrap
• Artisan bread with goat cheese and roasted red pepper
• Spicy lentil sausage soup
• Chicken spinach cannelloni
• Blue bell ice cream with caramel
• Avocados
• Chips
• Peach salsa
• Lemon pound cake (at various stages of cooling)
• Wild rice pilaf
• Peas
• Angel food cake
• Oranges
• Blackberry scones
• Hot chocolate
• Pancake with syrup
• Milk
• Bajio Veggie burrito
• Wendy's to go wrap
• Rocky Mountain Chocolates (caramel box)
• Chicken parmesan
• Gnocchi telefono
• Spinach apple walnut feta (etc, etc, etc) salad
• Spaghetti with meatballs
• Baked riggotoni with spicy sausage
• Garlic cheesy bread
• Broccoli with red pepper garlic and parmesan
• 1/3 Chocolate chip cannoli
• Easter candy
• Ham
• Scalloped potatoes
• Roasted broccoli with lemon and parmesan
• Sauteed sugar snap peas with shallots and almonds
• Chopped salad with ranch
• Homemade Lemon sherbet
• Parfait
• Grandma "Taffy" cookies
• Chicken in a biscuit crackers
• Chicken
• Rice
• Carrots
• Rolls
• Spinach strawberry salad
• Hummus with baked pita 
• Chocolate cupcakes with 7 minute frosting
• Ham and white bean soup
• Wendy's apple walnut pecan salad with pomegranate vinaigrette
• Hot apple pie from McDonalds

Whew! Four pounds later...

Glad that's over. Back to the grindstone.

Thursday

At the grocery store without having eaten breakfast:
4 1/3 "Peeps"
Total calories: 130

Hungry:
2 slices bread
11 g. Cream cheese with onions and chives
71 g. Smoked turkey
Total calories: 290

More bad choices at the grocery store:
2/3 Rice Krispie Treat bar
Total calories: 210

Snack, the calm before the storm:
1 cheesestick
Total calories: 80

3:00 p.m. losing-control-of-the-day blues:
Another sandwich with cream cheese and turkey
More blasted peeps...
Total calories: 400

Un-dinner Dinner:
1 1/2 C. Milk
5 Whole grain buttermilk pancakes
Syrup and Butter
Total calories: 850


Daily total: 1960

Wednesday

Breakfast:
1 Yogurt, raspberry
55 g. Granola
Total calories: 380

Starving:
1 Spicy McChicken sandwich from McDonalds (wiped off the mayo into a napkin)
Total calories: 330

Experimenting:
Cookie dough, less than a scoop total
3 cookies
Total calories: >500

Dinner:
220 g. Grilled curry chicken
2/3 C. 7 grain pilaf with basmati
2/3 C. Steamed mixed veggies
1 more cookie
Total calories: 645

Daily total: 1855

Tuesday

Pre-breakfast:
1.1 oz. Homemade artisan bread, leftover
Total calories: 105

The Usual:
1 Yogurt
55g. Granola
Total calories: 380

Lunch:
336 g. Chinese chicken coleslaw (Eliz's recipe)
Total calories: 619 yikes!

Making food for compassionate service:
Tastes of penne alfredo
Total calories: >300

RS function:
1/3 of flat biscotti-type "cookie"
Total calories: 15?

Midnight raid:
3 mini snickers ice cream bars
Total calories: 270


Daily total: 1689

Monday, March 22nd

Breakfast:
117 g. Peaches
47 g. Granola
1 Yogurt
Total calories: 411

Snack:
1 oz. Almonds
1 Cheesestick
Total calories: 250

Lunchy thing:
1 slice Bread
11 g. Onion and chive cream cheese
Total calories: 130

Munching:
Couple of handfuls of kix cereal
small handful of butterscotch chips
Total calories: 110

Dinner:
1 1/3 C. Spicy ham and lentil soup with rosemary and parmesan
2 good hunks of homemade artisan "chewy" bread
Total calories: 610

Daily total: 1511

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday

My parents came to town for the weekend and I did not count calories. It's a good thing, too, because I would have been counting for awhile...

We ate at some "buffet style" restaurants which do offer salad fixins', but, instead this weekend I chose to eat the following:

• mashed potatoes
• [strangely colored bright yellow] gravy
• scone
• honey butter
• cornbread
• taste of apple crisp and peach cobbler (not good, by the way)
• turkey
• bite of brownie
• some water-logged veggies
• breakfast yogurt parfait (as usual)
• puffed corn
• individual pineapple pizza
• side salad
• farfalle with half alfredo, half marinara sauce
• meatball
• garlic bread
• rootbeer
• soda pop candy
• several bites of chocolate mousse pie
• crispy chicken sandwich
• apple, chicken, pecan, blue cheese salad
• chicken rice soup
• 3 biscuits and honey
• 1 snickers mini ice cream bar
• popcorn
• cheese stick
• 1 andes mint
• Healthy choice frozen meal (gross)

Now. Isn't that sad?

Thursday

Breakfast:
1 Yogurt
150 g. Peaches
47 g. Granola
Total calories: 454

Lunch:
1/2 C. (generous) Brown rice (with carrots and garlic)
89 g. Chicken
1 T. Teriyaki sauce
Total calories: 340

Snacky-poo:
1 mini Twix ice cream bar
Total calories: 90

Dinner:
415 g. Stir fried soy beef with noodles, broccoli, cabbage, and carrots
Total calories: 564

After-hours romp:
1/2 mini Snickers ice cream bar
Total calories: 45

Daily total: 1493