Breakfast
Oatmeal Breakfast Square
1 Fruit
1 Cup Nonfat Milk
3/4 Cup Low-Fat Cottage Cheese
I woke up Monday morning running very late to my daily doctors appointment. I grabbed my breakfast square and ran out the door and got into the office one minute before closing. I did not have time to eat anything for breakfast other than that bar. That bar was similar to the cheese curls in the sense that the first few bites were not the best but it really grew on me. By the time I finished I was liking it. It was heavy and very oat mealy (go figure!) and filling. I liked it!
Morning Snack
Anytime Bar*
1 Fruit
*I'm going to stop typing the same thing everyday, to see reviews of this bar go back to any other day in week one! :)
I didn't eat my fruit... again.
Lunch
Scheduled:
Salad Kit
Jenny Dressing
Garden Salad
Actually ates
Cheesy Potatoes and Chicken
As I mentioned yesterday I somehow got my lunch meals mixed up for days four and five. So I ate (or rather didn't eat) my salad kit yesterday and so today I ate what I had been scheduled to eat the day before, the cheesy potato and chicken meal. This meal was awesome. It was a bowl, pot pie like, with chicken and cheese and potatoes with peas and corn. It reminded me very much of a dish my mother used to make when I was a child that I called oven salad. I has an actual name but I can't remember what it is. Its a casserole dish with meat and onions on the bottom, peas and mashed potatoes on top. This meal tasted very similar, it was comfort food and though the chicken was fried which I'm not crazy about, it tasted awesome with everything else.
Afternoon Snack
1 Fruit
2 Tbl Almonds
Totally skipped this entire snack. I need to get back on track big time.
Dinner
Thai Style Curry
Vegetables (minimum 2 cups)
1 Healthy Fat
Added:
3 Wheat Crackers
1 Laughing Cow Wedge
I saw someone post on the JC forums that this Thai Curry was the worst of the JC meals. They said it was the last thing in the world they would ever eat again! lol I happen to be a fan of curry. I used to frequent a little Indonesian restaurant in my hometown that had the most amazing curry tofu. I was introduced to it by friends and I think that it is probably an acquired taste. If you don't like curry you aren't going to like this meal at all, as it has a lot of curry flavor in it.
So let me say, for what it is, its good. It taste like your typical Thai curry meal. Not the most seasoned of all things but nothing disappointing about it.
I had this meal with three wheat crackers and a wedge of Laughing Cow Lite Garlic & Herb cheese spread.
Evening Snack
Cake
1 Cup Nonfat Milk
Added:
3 Wheat Crackers
1 Laughing Cow Wedge
I did have my little cakes for desert, the two little chocolate cakes and though they were a bit dry the chocolate taste was incredible and the icing was perfectly sweet. I was definitely happy with this desert. I was also many calories short for the day so I also had another three crackers and another wedge of Laughing Cow cheese.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Day 4: Meals
Breakfast
Cranberry Almond Cereal
1 Fruit
1 cup Nonfat Milk
1/2 Cup Low-fat Cottage Cheese
I am in general a fan of any kind of granola cereal or cereal like the Special K cereals. I was expecting to like this cereal in spite of the almonds which I'm not a fan of. I was right. The cranberries were awesome and again the small packaging was deceiving as I did get a fair amount. I didn't get my fruit or cottage cheese substitute in.
Morning Snack
Anytime Bar
1 Fruit
I was expecting to be getting sick of the chocolate and peanut butter anytime bar by this point but it still taste good and keeps me going until my next meal. Again, no fruit.
Lunch
Scheduled:
Cheesy Potatoes & Chicken
Spinach Salad
Jenny Dressing
Actually ate:
Salad Kit
I'm not quite sure how this happened, I think I was just looking at the wrong day on my menu, but I mistakenly thought that my lunch for this day was written as the Salad Kit, which for me this week was the Tuna Salad kit. Now, I do not eat mayonnaise. I do not like to look at, smell, touch or be anywhere near mayonnaise. I just find it absolutely revolting. However, this is JC tuna salad so I thought that there was a fair chance it wasn't going to have mayo in it ;) and I figured I'd try a bite.
Did not like it - at all. Too sweet and just weird and bad. This of course is not a fair judge on the salad kit because as I am, I don't like tuna salad. Therefore asking me to judge JC's tuna salad is not fair. I was just willing to take a bite and taste it. No good.
So I subbed out a regular can of lite Tuna and ate it on the provided salad kit crackers. Was very delicious. I did not have a salad with this meal. :( I'm not doing so good on my sides today huh?
Afternoon Snack
Cheese Curls
Okay so, these cheese curls - really strange! I recently read someones posts on the JC forums and they had been talking about different JC meals that come with cheese on them. She referred to the cheese as "scary cheese". This term came directly to mind when taking my first taste of the JC cheese curls. They did not taste good. In fact they tasted weird and bad. But here's where it gets weird, I kept eating them because I was already doing so bad on eating my sides that I figured I needed these calories. As I ate them however, they went from tasting nasty to tasting not that bad - not good - but not that bad. I ate some more and they almost tasted kind of okay. By the time I finished the bag I wanted more! They tasted so good!
I don't know if JC is like doping the food or something lol but it was the strangest thing. There was no doubt in my mind that these cheese curls were the nastiest thing on the JC menu when I ate my first one and there was no doubt in my mind as I took my last bite that I could have eaten another three bags they were so good!
I'm really not sure what to make of this...
Dinner
Meat Loaf with BBQ Sauce
Vegetables (minimum 1 1/2 cups)
1 Healthy Fat
I fixed this meat loaf, potatoes and carrots and broccoli in the microwave and then once again popped everything into the toaster oven. I know I keep saying this same thing over and over again, but the toaster oven made all the difference! It made the meat loaf taste more home made and the potatoes crispy and the veggies tasted like they were roasted with the BBQ sauce! Amazing! Totally a different meal than the mush that came out of the microwave. Everything was Delicious! This isn't my favorite JC meal but its up there pretty high on the list. The loaf tasted home made and had a really awesome flavor to it. The potatoes as I said were nice and crispy and the veggies were almost the best thing in the dish after I popped them in the oven. The mixture of BBQ sauce and the toaster oven crisping them made them taste like home made straight from the grill veggies. You can't beat that! Once again, I didn't eat my veggies. :( I fixed them, broccoli and carrots but I just couldn't eat anymore.
Evening Snack
2 Fruits
6 oz Nonfat Yogurt
2 Tbl Almonds
Nada. I had non of it. Really slacking off here. :(
Cranberry Almond Cereal
1 Fruit
1 cup Nonfat Milk
1/2 Cup Low-fat Cottage Cheese
I am in general a fan of any kind of granola cereal or cereal like the Special K cereals. I was expecting to like this cereal in spite of the almonds which I'm not a fan of. I was right. The cranberries were awesome and again the small packaging was deceiving as I did get a fair amount. I didn't get my fruit or cottage cheese substitute in.
Morning Snack
Anytime Bar
1 Fruit
I was expecting to be getting sick of the chocolate and peanut butter anytime bar by this point but it still taste good and keeps me going until my next meal. Again, no fruit.
Lunch
Scheduled:
Cheesy Potatoes & Chicken
Spinach Salad
Jenny Dressing
Actually ate:
Salad Kit
I'm not quite sure how this happened, I think I was just looking at the wrong day on my menu, but I mistakenly thought that my lunch for this day was written as the Salad Kit, which for me this week was the Tuna Salad kit. Now, I do not eat mayonnaise. I do not like to look at, smell, touch or be anywhere near mayonnaise. I just find it absolutely revolting. However, this is JC tuna salad so I thought that there was a fair chance it wasn't going to have mayo in it ;) and I figured I'd try a bite.
Did not like it - at all. Too sweet and just weird and bad. This of course is not a fair judge on the salad kit because as I am, I don't like tuna salad. Therefore asking me to judge JC's tuna salad is not fair. I was just willing to take a bite and taste it. No good.
So I subbed out a regular can of lite Tuna and ate it on the provided salad kit crackers. Was very delicious. I did not have a salad with this meal. :( I'm not doing so good on my sides today huh?
Afternoon Snack
Cheese Curls
Okay so, these cheese curls - really strange! I recently read someones posts on the JC forums and they had been talking about different JC meals that come with cheese on them. She referred to the cheese as "scary cheese". This term came directly to mind when taking my first taste of the JC cheese curls. They did not taste good. In fact they tasted weird and bad. But here's where it gets weird, I kept eating them because I was already doing so bad on eating my sides that I figured I needed these calories. As I ate them however, they went from tasting nasty to tasting not that bad - not good - but not that bad. I ate some more and they almost tasted kind of okay. By the time I finished the bag I wanted more! They tasted so good!
I don't know if JC is like doping the food or something lol but it was the strangest thing. There was no doubt in my mind that these cheese curls were the nastiest thing on the JC menu when I ate my first one and there was no doubt in my mind as I took my last bite that I could have eaten another three bags they were so good!
I'm really not sure what to make of this...
Dinner
Meat Loaf with BBQ Sauce
Vegetables (minimum 1 1/2 cups)
1 Healthy Fat
I fixed this meat loaf, potatoes and carrots and broccoli in the microwave and then once again popped everything into the toaster oven. I know I keep saying this same thing over and over again, but the toaster oven made all the difference! It made the meat loaf taste more home made and the potatoes crispy and the veggies tasted like they were roasted with the BBQ sauce! Amazing! Totally a different meal than the mush that came out of the microwave. Everything was Delicious! This isn't my favorite JC meal but its up there pretty high on the list. The loaf tasted home made and had a really awesome flavor to it. The potatoes as I said were nice and crispy and the veggies were almost the best thing in the dish after I popped them in the oven. The mixture of BBQ sauce and the toaster oven crisping them made them taste like home made straight from the grill veggies. You can't beat that! Once again, I didn't eat my veggies. :( I fixed them, broccoli and carrots but I just couldn't eat anymore.
Evening Snack
2 Fruits
6 oz Nonfat Yogurt
2 Tbl Almonds
Nada. I had non of it. Really slacking off here. :(
Day 3: Meals
Breakfast
Cheddar Cheese Omelet
1 Fruit
1 Cup Nonfat Milk
Okay, so I'm in the fifth grade and sleeping over at my best friends house. Come morning, her mother makes for us sausage, pancakes and omelets. I am not a big egg eater but more than that I am an overly polite child so I eat the omelet. Flash forward a few hours and we are shopping in Fells Point, a harbor side neighborhood full of kitschy little stores, and I get the most intense food poisoning ever. In general, food poisoning is not fun. Add into that you're in the middle of Fells Point which does have public bathrooms, but they are often accompanied by the homeless, vomit, an occasional syringe and half drank liquor bottles. Not fun. Don't get me wrong, Fells is a very clean and very family friendly area. Its just that its in Baltimore City and there are some things in Baltimore City that you just cannot avoid.
So, I don't eat the omelet for breakfast. I don't cook it, I don't try a bite, nothing. Instead I have a small bowl of Special K Red Berry cereal (my all time favorite cereal - I will eat this over golden grahams!) with fat free milk. The cereal itself comes with freeze dried strawberries so I counted this as my fruit and milk servings.
Morning Snack
Anytime Bar
1 Fruit
My family decided to go on an outing so I did eat my anytime bar in the car but didn't have a fruit. :(
Lunch
Rotini with Meatballs
Garden Salad
Jenny's Dressing
I had a bit of a non scale victory here, we were in the car and I had brought my Jenny Meal with me, though I had no idea where or how I was going to cook it. It was a room temp meal but I didn't want to eat it uncooked, because to me, it was just that - uncooked. My family was going to stop somewhere (unhealthy) to eat and I had the option of joining them or it was looking like, just not eat. Instead I found a gas station and used their microwave! It was tidbit embarrassing, well lets be honest here, it would have been embarrassing,except I stayed in the car with my daughter and my mother went inside and cooked it for me. Let me just tell you here, there is not a person in this world who has a mother greater than mine. I'm not even sure there's a mother out there equal to mine! And obviously not just because she cooked my lunch for me. ;)
So I ate the pasta in the car as we drove and it was okay. It wasn't as amazing as some of the meals I've had but it was good. The chunks of meat were frequent and the pasta tasted as any pasta should. More than mediocre but not quite as impressive as some of the others.
Afternoon Snack
2 Fruits
1/2 cup low-fat Cottage Cheese
2 Tbl Almonds
We had the most ri - freaking - diculous afternoon ever! You'll have to read on to hear about it but I wasn't able to get this snack in perfect. I did stop in a CVS and get a small package of fruit - but I didn't end up eating it. :( I would try to get it in later.
Dinner
Fish & Chips
Vegetables (minimum two cups)
1 Healthy Fat
Once again, I was thanking the appliance God's for my toaster oven! I cooked the Fish and chips in the microwave as instructed and then popped the potatoes and fish into the oven. They came out crispy and delicious whereas when I'd taken them out of the microwave they were mushy and soggy looking! The fish and chips were good. Didn't taste like fresh Talapia by any means obviously, tasted similar to fish sticks but it was good. The meal came with a package of vinegar which I typically put on Boardwalk french fries but I didn't use the package for this meal. I also boiled two cups of carrots and threw in a handful of sugar snap peas. Overall the meal was satisfying for what it was. By that I mean if you sit down to this meal expecting Talapia and fresh red skin sauteed potatoes with onion bits and butter - you're going to be disappointed. If you sit down to this meal expecting some potato and fish stick like fish - you'll be pleasantly satisfied with the taste and quantity.
Evening Snack
Scheduled:
Cookie
1 Cup Non-fat Milk
Actually ate:
Chocolate Cheesecake
2 Fruits
Now I know that I'm not supposed to swap foods with other days of the week - at least I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to - but after the day that I had I thought I deserved a piece of chocolate cheesecake! So I popped it onto a small plate, busted out that fruit container from earlier in the day I hadn't opened yet and sat down with the family in the den. Now, do I really need to even say that the chocolate cheesecake was banging?! It was amazing and just when I thought it couldn't possibly have been any better, I took each bite with a strawberry. Ohhhh maaannnn!!!! I almost melted into the couch! It was in freaking credible! Ten stars on a scale of one to five!
Friday, August 10, 2012
Day 2: Meals
All Jenny pre packaged meals are in italics.
Breakfast
Mixed Berry Bar
1 Fruit
1 Cup Nonfat Milk
1/2 cup cottage cheese
First thing in the morning I woke up to my daughters father popping in to drop off breakfast for the baby. He had just left the doctors right around the corner and stop at McDonalds and got her a pancake breakfast with hashbrowns. This was very sweet and saved me having to make her breakfast - not that its any trouble. When the baby woke up she started to pick at this meal in bed and I remembered from the night before that I was having the mixed berry bar for breakfast, so I unwrapped it and ate it in bed with the baby. Because of this, I had only the bar and non of the other requirements for breakfast.
The bar was awesome. I really did like it! I am however not a big breakfast eater and before I realized it I had set the bar down on my night table and gotten my daughter and myself up and ready to head up to the doctors for my daily visit. I meant to grab the bar and take it with me to finish in the car but I forgot. :(
Morning Snack
Anytime Bar
1 Fruit
Again I had tossed this bar into my bag and ate it in the car after leaving the doctors office. I didn't even look at my menu as the bar is the morning snack for my entire week, so I didn't realize I had to eat a fruit serving to. Though the fruit serving is listed with every morning snack, because I didn't have any fruit during my Day 1 snack, I had completley forgotten that it comes with every morning snack. Oops.
Lunch
Turkey Burger
Spinach Salad
I fixed the turkey burger in the microwave as it requires, but after I took it out of the microwave the bun was mushy as to be expected. I thought to pop the bun and the burger into the toaster oven for a few minutes and boy was this a great idea! It made all the difference and made the burger that much better. I know I'm starting to sound really redundant here but the burger was awesome! It is of course smaller than I'm used to, I could have eaten two or three happily, but it was so good! I'm really starting to be surprised at how good all the food on the menu has been thus far! Can it last? Seems too good too be true...
Anyway, I fixed the burger with the Barbeque sauce it came with and put some lettuce and tomatoe on it and served it with raw carrots and sugar snap peas. I'm lucky to love veggies as much as I do. This meal was awesome and I can definitley imagine its going to be one of my favorites of the week. It was also very sense and very filling in spite of being on the smaller size. In fact the last two bites filled me up.
Mid Day Snack
Snack Bar
I was under the impression that all the foods on the menu that are Jenny foods came with the first weeks purchase of food, however I was wrong as I would learn later in the day. The snack bar was one of these missing foods. I skipped this snack.
Dinner
Chicken Fettuccine
+ Soupitizer Soup
Vegtables (minimum 2 cups)
1 Healthy Fat
2 Tlbs Parmesean cheese
It was while I was boiling the water to fix 1 1/2 cups of raw carrots (I mistakenly thought of day 1's dinner veggie requirements while cooking dinner) that I learned I hadn't misplaced the snack bar and Soupitizer's. While scanning the Jenny Community boards on my phone I learned what I had begun to think, these were extras you had to purchase. I also learned that when I didn't eat the Soupitizer with my first days dinner meal, I had to replace its 2 limited free foods. This is where I learned that I had to eat three servings of these free foods!
Come to find out as nice as the woman who I met with at the Centre was, she really did not explain things to me very well - or at all!
It ended up working out for the best because I learned that I could have some margarine on my carrots. I also used my healthy fat as margarine as well because I couldn't imagine anything else fitting in with my meals. I put the Parmesan cheese on the fettuccine and once again was incredibly pleased with the meal. It tasted as good as any pasta I would order from any restaurant. Again, shocked and pleased!
I ended up glad that I didn't fix two cups of carrots because even with sharing with my daughter I couldn't finish this entire dinner.
Also with dinner I had black iced coffee and used my milk serving from breakfast as creamer, 8 oz nonfat milk that is, with a few splenda. I was surprised at how good I actually found it. I couldn't believe while thinking of how I was going to have to force down milk, as I can't stand the stuff, I didn't realize I could use it as creamer and not have to give up my iced coffee! Duh! Now I just need to find some sugar free caramel flavoring or syrup!
Late Night Snack
2 Fruits
6 oz Nonfat Yogurt
1 Tbl Almonds
I have not even eaten this yet and too be honest I'm not sure I'm going to be able to. I might be able to force down a serving of milk instead of the yogurt which I still don't have and I can probably eat some apple slices if I try really hard but the almond serving is just going to have to take one for the team. I'll edit this later when I know whats happened.
Breakfast
Mixed Berry Bar
1 Fruit
1 Cup Nonfat Milk
1/2 cup cottage cheese
First thing in the morning I woke up to my daughters father popping in to drop off breakfast for the baby. He had just left the doctors right around the corner and stop at McDonalds and got her a pancake breakfast with hashbrowns. This was very sweet and saved me having to make her breakfast - not that its any trouble. When the baby woke up she started to pick at this meal in bed and I remembered from the night before that I was having the mixed berry bar for breakfast, so I unwrapped it and ate it in bed with the baby. Because of this, I had only the bar and non of the other requirements for breakfast.
The bar was awesome. I really did like it! I am however not a big breakfast eater and before I realized it I had set the bar down on my night table and gotten my daughter and myself up and ready to head up to the doctors for my daily visit. I meant to grab the bar and take it with me to finish in the car but I forgot. :(
Morning Snack
Anytime Bar
1 Fruit
Again I had tossed this bar into my bag and ate it in the car after leaving the doctors office. I didn't even look at my menu as the bar is the morning snack for my entire week, so I didn't realize I had to eat a fruit serving to. Though the fruit serving is listed with every morning snack, because I didn't have any fruit during my Day 1 snack, I had completley forgotten that it comes with every morning snack. Oops.
Lunch
Turkey Burger
Spinach Salad
I fixed the turkey burger in the microwave as it requires, but after I took it out of the microwave the bun was mushy as to be expected. I thought to pop the bun and the burger into the toaster oven for a few minutes and boy was this a great idea! It made all the difference and made the burger that much better. I know I'm starting to sound really redundant here but the burger was awesome! It is of course smaller than I'm used to, I could have eaten two or three happily, but it was so good! I'm really starting to be surprised at how good all the food on the menu has been thus far! Can it last? Seems too good too be true...
Anyway, I fixed the burger with the Barbeque sauce it came with and put some lettuce and tomatoe on it and served it with raw carrots and sugar snap peas. I'm lucky to love veggies as much as I do. This meal was awesome and I can definitley imagine its going to be one of my favorites of the week. It was also very sense and very filling in spite of being on the smaller size. In fact the last two bites filled me up.
Mid Day Snack
Snack Bar
I was under the impression that all the foods on the menu that are Jenny foods came with the first weeks purchase of food, however I was wrong as I would learn later in the day. The snack bar was one of these missing foods. I skipped this snack.
Dinner
Chicken Fettuccine
+ Soupitizer Soup
Vegtables (minimum 2 cups)
1 Healthy Fat
2 Tlbs Parmesean cheese
It was while I was boiling the water to fix 1 1/2 cups of raw carrots (I mistakenly thought of day 1's dinner veggie requirements while cooking dinner) that I learned I hadn't misplaced the snack bar and Soupitizer's. While scanning the Jenny Community boards on my phone I learned what I had begun to think, these were extras you had to purchase. I also learned that when I didn't eat the Soupitizer with my first days dinner meal, I had to replace its 2 limited free foods. This is where I learned that I had to eat three servings of these free foods!
Come to find out as nice as the woman who I met with at the Centre was, she really did not explain things to me very well - or at all!
It ended up working out for the best because I learned that I could have some margarine on my carrots. I also used my healthy fat as margarine as well because I couldn't imagine anything else fitting in with my meals. I put the Parmesan cheese on the fettuccine and once again was incredibly pleased with the meal. It tasted as good as any pasta I would order from any restaurant. Again, shocked and pleased!
I ended up glad that I didn't fix two cups of carrots because even with sharing with my daughter I couldn't finish this entire dinner.
Also with dinner I had black iced coffee and used my milk serving from breakfast as creamer, 8 oz nonfat milk that is, with a few splenda. I was surprised at how good I actually found it. I couldn't believe while thinking of how I was going to have to force down milk, as I can't stand the stuff, I didn't realize I could use it as creamer and not have to give up my iced coffee! Duh! Now I just need to find some sugar free caramel flavoring or syrup!
Late Night Snack
2 Fruits
6 oz Nonfat Yogurt
1 Tbl Almonds
I have not even eaten this yet and too be honest I'm not sure I'm going to be able to. I might be able to force down a serving of milk instead of the yogurt which I still don't have and I can probably eat some apple slices if I try really hard but the almond serving is just going to have to take one for the team. I'll edit this later when I know whats happened.
Day 1: Meals
And so it begins!!!
So lets begin at the beginning - Breakfast!
(All Jenny pre-packaged meals are in italics)
1700 - 2300 Calories Menu Day 1
Breakfast:
Blueberry Pancakes and Veggie Sausage
w/ Lite Table Syrup
1 Fruit
1 Cup Non Fat Milk
Okay, so this breakfast is pretty basic and sounds pretty good. I set my daughter up with some toys in the living room while I stepped into the attached kitchen and began making each of our breakfast meals. Being as my daughter has to eat whatever it is Mommas eating, I also made her silver dollar pancakes, just without the sausage. At first glance I could see the pancakes were a bit darker than the normal, assuming this is from some sort of wheat or fiber in them that isn't in your typical batter, and the veggie sausage looked like any piece of sausage. However, while cooking in the microwave I was hit with the most awful smell! It was the turkey sausage and it absolutely turned my stomach! However, I was willing to try pretty much everything on my Jenny pre-planned menu.
Once the meal was ready I transferred it onto a regular glass plate, albeit a small one and fixed my daughter her favorite Princess plate and set the table for us. I do have to say here however that I hadn't yet been to the grocer so I didn't have any fruit or non fat milk to have with my meal. I only had the Jenny meal to eat.
My review of this meal? It taste much better than it smelled! The pancakes with the pre package bit of syrup taste just like any other blueberry pancakes I had ever had and even the syrup didn't have that fake sweet taste, it tasted just like regular out of the bottle syrup! My first bite of the turkey sausage was a bit hesistant after being hit with such a scent while cooking but I was very pleasantly surprised to learn it tasted nothing like it smelled, in fact it tasted quite good!
Overall the meal was fine, obviously the portions are something I have to try to adjust to a bit but the meal was very good. Of course having a sixteen month old daughter I did have to share a bit with her and she loved the turkey sausage!
Morning Snack
Anytime Bar - Chocolate and Peanut Butter
1 Fruit
I tossed this bar in the purse and ate it after leaving my doctors office in the morning and on the way to the grocery store so I had no fruit to eat with it. This was definitely a highlight to the meals. Not going to lie it tasted nothing like a Reeses Cup by any means - not that I had been told it would or expected it to but I don't want to peanut butter and chocolate to be misleading to anyone. It was sweet and almost tasted like a candy bar but of course not quite. It was good, small, but very good.
Lunch**
Asian Style Orange Chicken
Garden Salad w/ Jenny Dressing
With the Asian Style Orange Chicken I fixed a large baby spinach and herb lettuce salad with sugar snap peas, carrots, tomatoes and I searched and searched for that Jenny Dressing but I seemed to have lost it! I put some Parmesan cheese on the salad, swapped out for the cottage cheese I would not be eating as my after dinner snack (or any other time in my life for that matter!) and used my fat serving to have an oil and vinegar dressing.
The salad was good, the Jenny meal was better! In fact it was amazing! Absolutely five stars. There's nothing more I can say other than that. It was superb. The orange flavor was strong, the rice and peppers rich, everything about this meal was incredible. Very, very good!
**(Okay, though I did make it to the grocery store, my daughter hadn't slept well the night before and threw quite a few tempter tantrum in the store which is incredibly unlike her. So unlike her that I grabbed a few items and got out of the store as soon as possible. My daughter is incredibly well behaved so this concerned me. I brought her home and tried to get her to lay down for a nap but by the time she fell asleep and got a bit of a nap in, it was time to take her to her doctors appointment. There we learned she is teething and weening herself off of her two naps a day so we are to expect her to be fussier than usual. She also had to get three shots at the end of this appointment. After getting these shots, the last of which we were told burned pretty badly, she was hysterical in my arms clinging to me and she began to say, "Sorry Momma Sorry!"
This shattered me! My mother had joined us at the doctors much to her pleasure as she hadn't made it to one yet in the baby's 16 months of life. She and I looked at each other as soon as the words left my daughters mouth and I could see my surprise and heartache reflected in her eyes. We were heartbroken and shocked! We didn't know she even knew the word sorry let alone would associate it with getting hurt! Where had she learned that? More importantly what had happened to her that she was taught to associate saying sorry with getting hurt?! I was distressed by this, more so than I'm going to talk about here but the moment was heartbreaking. My mother, being a first time grandmother, decided than and there that we were going to Wal-Mart and getting her a present!
On the way to Wal-Mart we did stop at McDonalds to get the baby an ice cream and I am proud to say that I came very close to ordering an ice cream cone. I stopped not only because I'm on this diet but because I never would have ordered an ice cream cone from McDonalds any other day I wasn't going to order now just because I couldn't have it!
By the time we left Wal-Mart and got home it was six o'clock. So I did have my lunch, but I had it at six in the evening.)
Mid-Day Snack
2 Fruits
6 oz Nonfat Yogurt
1 Tbl Almonds
I ate this snack immedieatly after I hate my lunch at six or seven in the evening because I did plan on eating my dinner as I don't usually get into bed before 1 or 2 in the morning anyway. So I went ahead and had this snack so that I could get that last meal in. I had two servings of apple slices. I had already used my almond serving during my lunch, putting oil on my salad and I hadn't been able to buy any yogurt at the store yet. Apples alone it was.
Dinner
Salisburty Steak
+ Soupitizer Soup
Vegtables (at least 1 1/2 cuips)
1 Healthy Fat
I hate to say it but I never did get this meal in, I ended up falling asleep on the couch right after my seven o'clock lunch and just couldn't (and wouldn't) force in another meal. I failed at this one! :(
Evening Snack
Bruschetta Veggie Chips***
(Honesy Mustard covered Pretzels)
1/2 cup Low fat Cottage Cheese
As I mentioned earlier, I used my cottage cheese serving to have parmesean cheese on my salad with my lunch. ***I did have a bit of a munchies moment after that late lunch but wasn't in the mood for veggie chips so I did swap them out for the Honey Mustard Covered pretzels - so let me review them now instead. They were awesome! Tasted like any bag you would have bought from the store and in fact I had a hard time sharing the, even with my daughter needing to have a few. She also fed me a few which was quite cute!
And so that was Day 1!
For the sake of tagging I am going to stick to 'reviews' here and talk about the day in my next post.
So lets begin at the beginning - Breakfast!
(All Jenny pre-packaged meals are in italics)
1700 - 2300 Calories Menu Day 1
Breakfast:
Blueberry Pancakes and Veggie Sausage
w/ Lite Table Syrup
1 Fruit
1 Cup Non Fat Milk
Okay, so this breakfast is pretty basic and sounds pretty good. I set my daughter up with some toys in the living room while I stepped into the attached kitchen and began making each of our breakfast meals. Being as my daughter has to eat whatever it is Mommas eating, I also made her silver dollar pancakes, just without the sausage. At first glance I could see the pancakes were a bit darker than the normal, assuming this is from some sort of wheat or fiber in them that isn't in your typical batter, and the veggie sausage looked like any piece of sausage. However, while cooking in the microwave I was hit with the most awful smell! It was the turkey sausage and it absolutely turned my stomach! However, I was willing to try pretty much everything on my Jenny pre-planned menu.
Once the meal was ready I transferred it onto a regular glass plate, albeit a small one and fixed my daughter her favorite Princess plate and set the table for us. I do have to say here however that I hadn't yet been to the grocer so I didn't have any fruit or non fat milk to have with my meal. I only had the Jenny meal to eat.
My review of this meal? It taste much better than it smelled! The pancakes with the pre package bit of syrup taste just like any other blueberry pancakes I had ever had and even the syrup didn't have that fake sweet taste, it tasted just like regular out of the bottle syrup! My first bite of the turkey sausage was a bit hesistant after being hit with such a scent while cooking but I was very pleasantly surprised to learn it tasted nothing like it smelled, in fact it tasted quite good!
Overall the meal was fine, obviously the portions are something I have to try to adjust to a bit but the meal was very good. Of course having a sixteen month old daughter I did have to share a bit with her and she loved the turkey sausage!
Morning Snack
Anytime Bar - Chocolate and Peanut Butter
1 Fruit
I tossed this bar in the purse and ate it after leaving my doctors office in the morning and on the way to the grocery store so I had no fruit to eat with it. This was definitely a highlight to the meals. Not going to lie it tasted nothing like a Reeses Cup by any means - not that I had been told it would or expected it to but I don't want to peanut butter and chocolate to be misleading to anyone. It was sweet and almost tasted like a candy bar but of course not quite. It was good, small, but very good.
Lunch**
Asian Style Orange Chicken
Garden Salad w/ Jenny Dressing
With the Asian Style Orange Chicken I fixed a large baby spinach and herb lettuce salad with sugar snap peas, carrots, tomatoes and I searched and searched for that Jenny Dressing but I seemed to have lost it! I put some Parmesan cheese on the salad, swapped out for the cottage cheese I would not be eating as my after dinner snack (or any other time in my life for that matter!) and used my fat serving to have an oil and vinegar dressing.
The salad was good, the Jenny meal was better! In fact it was amazing! Absolutely five stars. There's nothing more I can say other than that. It was superb. The orange flavor was strong, the rice and peppers rich, everything about this meal was incredible. Very, very good!
**(Okay, though I did make it to the grocery store, my daughter hadn't slept well the night before and threw quite a few tempter tantrum in the store which is incredibly unlike her. So unlike her that I grabbed a few items and got out of the store as soon as possible. My daughter is incredibly well behaved so this concerned me. I brought her home and tried to get her to lay down for a nap but by the time she fell asleep and got a bit of a nap in, it was time to take her to her doctors appointment. There we learned she is teething and weening herself off of her two naps a day so we are to expect her to be fussier than usual. She also had to get three shots at the end of this appointment. After getting these shots, the last of which we were told burned pretty badly, she was hysterical in my arms clinging to me and she began to say, "Sorry Momma Sorry!"
This shattered me! My mother had joined us at the doctors much to her pleasure as she hadn't made it to one yet in the baby's 16 months of life. She and I looked at each other as soon as the words left my daughters mouth and I could see my surprise and heartache reflected in her eyes. We were heartbroken and shocked! We didn't know she even knew the word sorry let alone would associate it with getting hurt! Where had she learned that? More importantly what had happened to her that she was taught to associate saying sorry with getting hurt?! I was distressed by this, more so than I'm going to talk about here but the moment was heartbreaking. My mother, being a first time grandmother, decided than and there that we were going to Wal-Mart and getting her a present!
On the way to Wal-Mart we did stop at McDonalds to get the baby an ice cream and I am proud to say that I came very close to ordering an ice cream cone. I stopped not only because I'm on this diet but because I never would have ordered an ice cream cone from McDonalds any other day I wasn't going to order now just because I couldn't have it!
By the time we left Wal-Mart and got home it was six o'clock. So I did have my lunch, but I had it at six in the evening.)
Mid-Day Snack
2 Fruits
6 oz Nonfat Yogurt
1 Tbl Almonds
I ate this snack immedieatly after I hate my lunch at six or seven in the evening because I did plan on eating my dinner as I don't usually get into bed before 1 or 2 in the morning anyway. So I went ahead and had this snack so that I could get that last meal in. I had two servings of apple slices. I had already used my almond serving during my lunch, putting oil on my salad and I hadn't been able to buy any yogurt at the store yet. Apples alone it was.
Dinner
Salisburty Steak
+ Soupitizer Soup
Vegtables (at least 1 1/2 cuips)
1 Healthy Fat
I hate to say it but I never did get this meal in, I ended up falling asleep on the couch right after my seven o'clock lunch and just couldn't (and wouldn't) force in another meal. I failed at this one! :(
Evening Snack
Bruschetta Veggie Chips***
(Honesy Mustard covered Pretzels)
1/2 cup Low fat Cottage Cheese
As I mentioned earlier, I used my cottage cheese serving to have parmesean cheese on my salad with my lunch. ***I did have a bit of a munchies moment after that late lunch but wasn't in the mood for veggie chips so I did swap them out for the Honey Mustard Covered pretzels - so let me review them now instead. They were awesome! Tasted like any bag you would have bought from the store and in fact I had a hard time sharing the, even with my daughter needing to have a few. She also fed me a few which was quite cute!
And so that was Day 1!
For the sake of tagging I am going to stick to 'reviews' here and talk about the day in my next post.
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