(Don't you love my post title? I couldn't think of anything witty, smart or even post related for the title. So this is what my frazzled, 6 AM, essay writing brain came up with)
Is there any meal that you could eat 3x a day every day?
For me that meal is breakfast. (The picture gave it away didn't it?) I love it. I love all breakfast foods (except grits...YUCK!) Okay, I can't lie, I love 95.7% of all breakfast foods. I know that there are probably other ones that are gross that I can't think of at the moment. I could honestly eat breakfast foods 5 day a week, 3 meals a day. I'm quirky though. I don't like a big breakfast in the morning. All I want at breakfast time is something simple like oatmeal, or cereal and fruit.
The girls and I eat BFD (Breakfast For Dinner) at least a few times a month. There's actually part of me that is considering doing a Christmas BFD. But the family's a bit traditional when it comes to holiday dinners so that idea is going to be saved for a different day.
I actually broke out the waffle iron last nite. I VERY VERY rarely use it. It cost me $7 at Target. I put in a good word with Kay that if she wants waffles more often a new waffle iron would be a good thing for me to find under the Christmas tree.
I made pumpkin waffles (which were a HUGE hit), blueberry waffles and chocolate chip waffles. Because of my scatterbrainedness I completely forgot to get pictures. Heck, if I wasn't so passionate about breakfast this post possibly wouldn't have happened (and I'm avoiding writing a paper.)
Here's the pumpkin waffle recipe:Organic Gardening
And the blueberry: 8th Continent Blueberry Waffle Recipe
[Note: I actually used this recipe for both the blueberry and the chocolate chip ones. Before I added the blueberries I split the batter in half and added blueberries in one and chocolate chips in the other.]
Try them and tell me what you think! Tomorrow I'll bring you a photo collage on what I eat at Mongolian Barbecue restaurants.
One of the reasons I started this blog is because of the fact that I wanted to hold myself accountable for my weight. And I figure by posting it for all the world to see then I have to own up to what I have done right and/or wrong every week. I figure Thursdays are a good day for my weigh ins. Last week I was 113. Today when I woke up I was 118. I’ve had a very bad week. I’ve bounce around from 114 to 118 and back to 115 then back up. Ugh. I’m very not happy about it but, I figure what’s really important is the inches. Today I woke up with a waist measurement of 27.5. I want to be at 26.5. I’ll post my monthly goals tomorrow. On to a more interesting topic.
When I got back from the trip and unpacked the food bags I noticed that all of the muffins I had packed for myself were smashed. Complete 100% crumbs. I didn’t want to toss them so I started thinking about what I can do with them so they wouldn’t goto waste. Mr. Amazing suggested that I make a cheesecake and use them as the crust. I have no clue why I didn’t think up that idea (I adore cheesecake and have been only able to make crustless cheesecakes).
Here’s the recipe:
1 can of blueberry pie filling
16 oz fat free cream cheese, softened
8 oz fat free Cool Whip, thawed
1) In a spring form pan press the muffin crumbs on the bottom to make a crust
2) Mix the pie filling and cream cheese together with a hand mixer
3) Fold in Cool Whip
4) Pour into the crust
5) Refrigerate for 2-3 hours
It came out really well. It wasn’t as “cheesy” as I like my cheesecakes. If I was going to make it over again I’d make a few small changes. I’d put the crust in the oven for a few minutes to hopefully bind it together (it was very crumbly.) Secondly I’d probably leave out the Cool Whip all together. It mellowed out the cheese flavor and I think that it would be interesting to try.
I think that next I’m going to try using my fat free banana muffin mix to make a crust for a banana cream pie. But first the family is going go sugar free for almost 2 weeks. I’ve been really bad about allowing them to have too many sweets (something I never used to do.) So I figure I’ll cut it out completely for a while and get them used to not eating it again.
