Weekly Menu Plan oct 31, 2011 to nov 6, 2011

Weekly Menu Plan for October 31, 2011 to November 6, 2011

Monday

Zatarins dirty rice with ground turkey and fat free refried beans.  Turned that into tacos with corn tortillas and some shredded cheese, have tons of leftovers for lunch tomorrow for the both of us.

Tuesday

Did most of the cooking for the week today.  First off I froze the leftovers from yesterday, I had it for lunch, hubby took leftovers from Sundays meal for lunch, and froze the rest of the dirty rice, and mixed in the leftover beans, will be able to get 4 more individual meals out of freezing it.

I’m slow cooking a small brisket in BBQ Sauce, can serve that on a slice of toast with some mashed potatoes.  I made 2 packages of mashed potatoes, 1 package to go with the BBQ beef and the other for another meal.  I also made a boxed sweet and sour chicken stirfry, added some frozen veggies and mixed in the rice.  I cooked up 3 chicken breasts and used half for the stir fry and the other half for a casserole, I cooked up a box of stuffing and added in a can of corn and the other half of the cooked chicken and baked it in the oven and then added some cheese and let sit in the oven for a few more minutes to melt the cheese, and going to serve this with the other packet of mashed potatoes.  I ended up having that for lunch with some leftover cranberry sauce from Sundays meal. 

So for dinner tonight we’ll be having the BBQ brisket with a slice of cheddar cheese on a slice of whole wheat toast.

Wednesday

Michael is taking some of the sweet and sour chicken stirfry for lunch today. 

Going to have the stuffing casserole for dinner tonight. 

Thursday

Made enchiladas with turkey chili, chili beans, 10 corn tortillas, velveta cheese, and cheddar cheese on top.  This I had for lunch and dinner. 

Friday

Today we took Skaro to a no kill shelter, we had been trying to get him in for the past 2 months, and he got adopted within a few hours, it was so hard having to leave him, I was crying so much and just holding him and then they took him from me, and we left, and a few hours later they emailed us to let us know he got adopted already, so that made it a little easier on me that he found a home so quickly. 

We went to lunch after taking Skaro, because we were in the same town we had to pick Brandon up in, and its an hour and a half away from home so pointless to go back home, after lunch we went to see Harold and kumar in 3D, it was a really good movie, nice to see something funny after going through something sad. 

Then we picked up Brandon and let him know about Skaro, of course he understood because he already knew we were trying to find him a new home. 

So for dinner we had a smorgousboard of leftovers, put them out buffet style and we each had a little of everything. 

Saturday

We Grilled up some Turkey wieners (note: last of our wieners we had in the freezer, we’re cutting wieners out of our diet for  a while now.) and some chicken and made some ravioli pasta with some white sauce (Note: I wasn’t really a big fan of the Ravioli, and I don’t really like white sauce so I only had a single ravioli) and grilled up some small potatoes, and also grilled 2 turkey burgers, we each got half a turkey burger. We had that for lunch and dinner.

Sunday

Leftovers from Saturday for lunch and dinner.  Decided since we had so many leftovers we didn’t go out to eat after dropping off Brandon like we usually do.  And also have plenty of leftovers for both of us for lunch for Monday as well. 

End of the month goals from october and November new goal

Goal for October drink more water, and go 45 miles on the elliptical. 

End of month goals, have been drinking a ton of water, I’m sure I’m getting in my proper amount, and didn’t quite make the 45 mile goal but I think I still did good considering the beginning of the month I couldn’t even go a mile and by the end of the month I could go 3 miles.  My weekly counts start on the first of the month and end on the Saturday, with the last one ending on the last day of the month, so some of the weeks are only a day or two.

Week 1 .8 miles

Week 2 7.7 Miles

Week 3 5.4 Miles

Week 4 9.4 Miles

Week 5 7.7 Miles

Week 6 2 Miles

Total for October: 34 Miles

New Goal for November

Go 50 miles on the elliptical.

Loose at least 5 pounds, (my weight loss as been non existent the past few monthes) Would love to get down to 266 so then I can have bragging rights over loosing 100 pounds. 

Weigh in and Measurements November 1, 2011

Note: Just Copied over the same Stats as last month cause i haven't lost any weight, well like 1 pound or something, it fluctuates between 270 and 274.

November 1, 2011

Weight:  273

Measurements

Waist: 52

Hips: 57

Breasts: 50

Ankle: 10

Wrist: 7 1/2

Thigh: 29

Neck: 16

Upper Arms: 19

Clothing Sizes

Dress: 2X-3X

Pant: 2X-3X Jeans 26

Skirt: 2X-3X

Shirt: 2X-3X 18-24

Note: I have been on a major stall for the past few monthes, my weight fluctuates a few pounds up or down, but its basically staying around 273 for now, I really need to get my butt into gear and shape up, I’ve been working out almost every day at least for 30 minutes or sometimes more, they said at the support group meeting that we need to work out 60 to 90 minutes at least for weight loss, so that pretty much sucks, my body doesn’t want to work out that long right now, I can probably manage an hour but I spread it throughout the day, I do intervals of working out 10-15 minutes at a time several times a day, either doing my elliptical which I try to do at least 3 miles a day on or do other exercises off exercise videos from hulu.  My eating habits aren’t that great though, I haven’t managed to get down to the 3 meals a day the surgeon wants me to be on.  Plus I still indulge in things I really shouldn’t be indulging in.  I’m trying to do better, I’ve been drinking a lot more water then I was, I don’t think I was getting enough liquids in, and all I was drinking was wylers light its like crystal light but cheaper and tastes a little better….but I quit that stuff and now just drinking water with the occational cup of coolaide made with splenda, trying to take out other artificial sweeteners and just using splenda.  I have a ton more energy, I can actually run some, not very far but still its an awesome feeling to be able to run, I can walk around our park without being out of breath or in severe pain, I tried it back when I was 366 and oh my god I could barely make it around the thing and my back was killing me, now I can run around a portion and walk and switch back and forth between walking and running and feel fine, no pains at all, and not out of breath, its so nice.  

Weekly Menu Plan for Oct 24, 2011 to Oct 30, 2011

Weekly Meal Plan For October 24, 2011 to October 30, 2011

Monday

Made Some Turkey Chili.  Cooked up a package of ground turkey, sautéed some onions and green pepper and garlic, and added some cumin and salt and pepper, and threw in a can of diced tomatoes, can of ranch style beans, a can of Hormel turkey chili with beans, a can of Hormel turkey chili without beans, and a can of wolf brand turkey chili no beans.  This made a ton of leftovers, so we’ll both have it for lunch tomorrow and possibly freeze some or just keep it in the fridge for my hubby to take to lunch for a few days.

Tuesday

Cornbread Surprise.  Note: take cornbread surprise out of the freezer Monday so its defrosted for today. 

Wednesday

Salsa Chicken with Mexican rice (already cooked and in the freezer) and Pinto Beans (already cooked and in the freezer need to season for flavor.) Pull out everything from the freezer Tuesday so its defrosted for today.  I’m going to boil the chicken on the stove and then when its about done I’m going to bake it in the oven with some Salsa spooned over it, and serve it with my Mexican rice and pinto beans. 

Thursday

Chicken and shrimp and Veggie Teriaki Stirfry with rice.

Friday

Pizza.  I’ll use up some of the sandwhich rounds (45 cal each half) (Note: I was only able to eat one of the mini pizzas with a little of the sides.) I have leftover and add some pizza/spaghetti sauce I already have made up in the freezer and add some mozzarella cheese also already in the freezer all in serving sizes.  Served with leftover Potato that I had for lunch it was a big potato so plenty for the 3 of us plus still had leftovers, and some leftover macaroni, Kraft had this new kind of macaroni that says it has a full serving of veggies, it’s got cauliflour powder or something, I could actually taste the cauliflour, I don’t have macaroni often once every few monthes or so, so I thought I’d give this a try, it was pretty good, but a bit expensive, twice the price of the regular box of kraft macaroni and 1 less serving, but we still managed to make a 2 person box feed three people plus I had some for lunch before I used the rest up for dinner, so that’s 4 servings we got out of a 2 serving box, so that’s not bad at all.  Oh and I had bought 2 cooked chicken breasts at the grocery store I had some of one of them for lunch and the rest is what I used to top the pizzas, there ended up being more chicken left but its been in the fridge a few days so I’ll be throwing out the rest of it.  I really need to remember to freeze extras of stuff right away…..

Saturday

Grill Hotdogs and Corn on the Cob, and BBQ Beans, with whatever chips we already have on hand.  Note: only thing I’ll have to buy is the corn on the cob, and we’ll use regular bread that’s already in the freezer instead of high calorie buns, I use a 45 cal bread.  I am using regular wieners though because I had them in my freezer and I want to get them used up, instead of wasting them and throwing them away, but from now on I’m only going to buy the lower calorie wieners, but I’m thinking about cutting wieners out of our diet all together so I’ll just be using what we already stocked up on in our freezer and when we run out of them then no more wieners for a while, I’m not a big fan of them anyways, my stepson and my hubby are the hot dog fans.  We ended up going car shopping today so we didn’t get to have the hotdogs for lunch, instead we ate at burger king, not my favorite place, I actually hate fast food restaurants….i shared a chicken sandwhich with my hubby and we all three shared an order of fries.  We ended up stopping by my inlaws after car shopping and invited them over for dinner….we had to take both cars home so my hubby drove home and me and my stepson went to walmart to pick up a couple last minute things for the bbq dinner, and then I got a call from my hubby while we were shopping and he ended up locking his keys in the car, and well I didn’t have a set of keys to the house cause I was driving the new car.  Luckily we had invited his parents over and they have a set of our house keys, but unfortionately they were already halfway to our house when he called to tell them he locked himself out and they didn’t have our key with them….So me and Brandon walked around walmart to kill time for a while cause it was going to be about another 45 minutes….and we didn’t want to sit outside with groceries melting…So they went back and got the spare key, and then my hubby had to call a guy to get into his car, cause well those were his only set of keys to that car……Well after all that we still managed to have a nice dinner….I ended up getting steaks when we were at walmart so my hubby grilled those up too, first they were still running blood and so he put them back on and they um well got a little extra well done, they were still edible though, so that’s good. 

Sunday

We had leftovers from yesterday, cause of course I always cook for an army so I usually either freeze the extra or we eat off it for a few meals.  We had the leftovers for breakfast and lunch and then me and my hubby went to dinner at boston market after dropping off Brandon with his mom. 

Weekly Menu Plan Oct 17 to Oct 23

Weekly Menu Plan for October 17-October 23

Monday

Cornbread Surprise, made a big batch of this stuff, going to be freezing 4 of them and keep 2 in the fridge one for dinner tonight and the other for lunch tomorrow.  I made them in small throwaway pans, so perfect amount for 2 people with not a huge amount of leftovers. 

Recipe for Cornbread Surprise (note this recipe is for freezer batch cooking, you can lessen the ingredient if you want a single meal.)

Ingredients:

1 Cup Onion and Pepper Mix (I used a frozen bag)

2 Packages Ground Turkey (usually a little more then a pound per package)

2 TBSP Vegtable oil

1 Can Rotel

1 TBSP minced Garlic

Salt

Pepper

Cumin

Onion Powder

1 Can Diced Tomatoes

1 Can Cream Corn

2 Cans Whole Kernel Corn

2 Cans Ranch Style Beans

1 8 oz Package of Fat Free Cream Cheese

1 Can Chicken Broth

3 Packages Cornbread mix (prepare as directed on box)

3 Cups Shredded Cheese (I used cheddar and a Colby mix)

1 Pack of Taco Seasoning

1.   Saute Onions and peppers with the oil.  Add in garlic.  Add in Ground Turkey and cook till no longer pink.  Then add in the taco seasoning. 

2.   Now throw in all the canned goods and the cream cheese, heat to boiling and then simmer for about 15 minutes. 

3.   Prepare the Cornbread mix.  Preheat oven to temp on cornbread box. 

4.   Add meat mixture to your baking pan and then top with shredded cheese and then top with the prepared cornbread mix, and bake in the oven for the time on the cornbread box.

Tuesday

Leftovers, we have some leftover chicken I will take off the bone from Sunday, and some leftover macaroni salad, some shredded cheese, some leftover tamales from Saturday, and some flatbread, and I’m sure we’ll also have some leftover cornbread surprise, so we can use up all those leftovers today so they don’t go to waste, I’m sure it’ll be plenty for lunch for tomorrow too.

Wednesday

Homemade freezer lasagna.  Taken out of the freezer Monday to defrost. 

Thursday

Leftover Lasagna.

Friday

Today is my hubbys birthday, promised him I’d make him a strawberry cake, but I’m going to only keep out a small amount the rest is getting baked into cupcakes and frozen right away otherwise it’ll get eaten right away.  Note: we were suppose to have bean burgers tonight for his birthday, but him and Brandon got home early and I had just finished putting on my makeup so I ran to the bedroom and told them not to come in and I got all dressed up nice, and told them since ya’ll are here early we’re going out somewhere nice instead of eating bean burgers.  So we went to a nice Japanese restaurant in mesquite, we shared a couple of sushi rolls and chicken and beef teriyaki.  Then we went to BJ’s and shared an alcoholic drink and a dessert.

Saturday

Today we have a couple of events to go to, Brandon has a running school thing we have to go alllll the way to plano for, which is a 3 hour commute to and from our house, and then after that we have a meeting with these people we won a vegas trip with at the fair, and its in the same area as brandons school thing, but we’ll be gone pretty much most of the day so I’m sure we’ll eat out for at least lunch today.  Note: My hubby got a couple of gift cards from work for Macaroni grill, that could be worth 5 dollars up to 500 dollars, we ended up having 5 on one and 50 on the other, so we splurged and had a really nice lunch, and none of us had eaten at a macaroni grill before, it was really good.  Then for dinner we drove past this little pizza place on the way to the vacation thing so we decided to go back there after for dinner.  We got a thin crust full of meat.

Sunday

Going to celebrate Michaels birthday today at his parents’ house, so we’ll be eating lunch there.  We had taco’s, tostadas, and cheesecake.  For dinner we came home and had the bean burgers we were suppose to have had on Friday.