March 7, 2010

Well, I officially cheated this week. Twice. Not just a bite of something, and nothing horribly but I cheated none the less. The first time was Tuesday. My sister and I took my mom to Lexington to UK to try to find out the cause of her persistant hoarseness for the last few months. I had it in my mind that I was not going to cheat, so before her appointment we went to Denny's. I just had eggs and sausage, but they had some whole wheat pancakes and sugar free syrup. So I had half. Mom had to see a speech therapist first for a voice test which took a video of her vocal cords. Then she had to see an ENT specialist. They agreed that her problems are from thinning vocal cords from aging, and can be helped with a minor surgical procedure. She will have it this next Thursday, but getting everything arranged, seeing the anesthesiologist, getting preop bloodwork done, we didn't get out of UK till around 6. We were all tired & just wanted to get something to eat & get home, so we ended up going to taco bell where I got a chicken soft taco and a meximelt. I also drank a "real" coke.

Saturday, Whitney & I went back to Lexington to shop some. Again I was going to do good. For lunch we went to Golden Corral. I had roasted chicken, roast, cabbage, green beans, brussle sprouts. But after a long day of shopping, and ready to head back home, hunger hit. We went to subway and split a footlong subway melt. I did pretty well, after a bite or two, I took the bread off and just ate the meat & veggies. But where I messed up was cheetos. I love cheetos. And ate most of the small bag. I'm not going to beat myself up, I'm going to hope that the veer off program will help break my stall.

So, today was much better. I had 2 scrambled eggs and 2 slices of bacon for breakfast. For lunch, I just had half of an atkins bar, since I ate breakfast so late. Went to the grocery but it was kind of hard because Whitney is on Spring break from college this week & I needed to get some stuff for her to eat while I'm having to work at Middle School. I love having her home, even though I really don't get to see her too much. One good thing she loves when I experiment with my low carb recipes.

I only cooked 2 things today. I had one for dinner and the other I'm going to have for lunch tomorrow. Both came from one of my favorite youtubers wannabeloser. She also has a website wannabeloser.com. The spaghetti squash alfredo is exactly how she did it. The Enchilada is based on hers but I made it with hamburger instead of chicken.

First the Spaghetti Squash & chicken alfredo. I poked about 5 good sized vent holes in the squash and cooked it in the microwave for about 13 minutes. When it was done, I cut it in half lengthwise and set it aside to cool a little so it would be easier to handle.

While it was cooling, I heated a pan, melted 3 tbs of butter, then added 3 tbs of heavy cream, 1/4 cup of parmesean cheese and a little bit of garlic powder. (I didn't have any real garlic on hand). Combined it all to make a sauce. I then added a little bit of cut up chicken. By now the squash was a little cooler, so I removed the seeds and used a fork to scrape the flesh out, it comes out looking like spaghetti. I put the squash in the pan and coated it with the sauce. Just like the cauliflower potatoes it's not exact but when you realize you can't have "real" pasta, this is a pretty good substitute. The carb counts are 5.6 with 1.1 fiber so a net of 4.5. The picture doesn't do this justice.

The enchiladas. I browned 1 lb of hamburger & drained off the fat. I added 2 tbs of ole elpaso enchilada sauce and a little bit of colby & monterey jack cheese. I then took the 4 sheets of Joseph's flax lavish (I wrote about it last week and have a picture) and halved them and halved them again making 16 pieces. But I only used 6 of them. In a glass baking dish, I put about 2 or 3 tbs of the enchilada sauce in the bottom. I put a good amount of the hamburger mixture on the piece of lavish and roled it up and placed it seam side down in the baking dish. I made 6 of these in the dish. I then poured about 1/4 cup of the enchilada sause over the top and topped that with the shredded colby & monterey jack cheese. I put in the oven at 375 for about 10 minutes or so. The net carbs are about 3.1g. (Like I said last week, I hope the Joseph's lavish bread is legal.) Oh! Also, I didn't use all the hamburger mixture. I still had enough left so that I can have a chipless taco salad one day this week.

Have a good week everyone! I'll post more later.