COMING SOON! ARE WE ALMOST DONE YET?

LETS DO IT ALL AGAIN!!!

So most of this will be easy for me I am pre-diabetic and high cholesterol and high blood pressure run in my family so I try really hard to eat this way anyways. A little harder living with other family members who don't want to eat that way. I can't do the whole grain for dinner because it's hubby's birthday and he wants meatloaf and roasted potatoes. So that is what we are having not the healthiest but a lot healthier than processed foods. Luckily lunch will be low in fat already and breakfast will be low in sugar and I have fruit and veggies incorporated into all meals and snacks as well. Well except for dessert at end of day. But it's a birthday so I can indulge just today.

Well I dont have internet access at home so I missed Saturday & Sunday's challenge. I could have done very well on Saturdays challenge however yesterday would have been a little more difficult. I live in Mississippi on Pearl River so my house is 8 feet off the ground, if we were to have an earthquake my house would probably be no more...today may be the real challenge...

I like this day! We generally eat whole grains (other than pasta - whole grain pastas just don't taste the same!), and my kids are already on a no-pre-packaged foods diet (due to cost mainly, health secondary).

Breakfast for me was pretty typical, bite-sized shredded wheats with a banana and walnuts, with skim milk. (Not the frosted ones.) My kids are having some leftover low-sugar whole-grain blueberry muffins I made a while ago and put into the freezer.

My lunch will be rice with chicken and green peas. The kids will take sandwiches to school with them, with carrots and apples.

For dinner, it's spaghetti and meatballs. Mmmmmm. We're having salad with the spaghetti, and if there's enough bread, whole wheat garlic toast.

This is my plan =]

Breakfast - Cheerios with skim milk, banana, tea (water)

Snack - Orange (water)

Lunch - Romaine salad with cheery tomatoes, avocado, and raspberry vinaigrette (water)

Snack - Whole wheat bread with peanut butter and apple (water)

Dinner - Baked chicken with brown rice, broccoli and sugar snap peas (water)

Mmm!

Oh this is a breezzz.......I agree,
Going out for meals is more a treat and/or we have been invited due to B'days, being on the road and such ....so very rarely
Since I love to cook and bake, no problem making it from scratch neither.....most of my meals are that way, I have a few quickie- meal(how I call them, timepressured and/or nothing defrosted)...also I'm Type2 diet control Diabetic (born to insulin-dep. parents), while being raised to being aware of you meal-what,how much, how often and such .....

thanks for doing this Challenge....

Well, this will be a great day for me. I am a Type I Diabetic, but I have gotten a little "lazy" with counting carbs and paying attention to what I eat. So, this is going to be a great day to get me going in the right direction again. Thank you for doing this one!! A lot of people don't understand how important nutrition is when you are a diabetic. Luckily for Type II Diabetics they can avoid insulin as long as they take care of themselves. However, all of us Type I diabetics will have to be on insulin ALL of our lives!

Good luck to everyone today. You always feel better when you eat healthy!!

We are all sick at my house but if we were not we would be having.

Oatmeal (steel cut) with fruit and milk
Turkey on whole wheat with apple fries with caramel and
Grilled chicken, broccoli, brown rice and fruit salad for desert we would have fruit and cheese.

I hope we will be better tomorrow talk to you all then.

Breakfast - oatmeal

Lunch - salad with meat and an apple

Snack - cucumber slices and nuts

Dinner - Shrimp pasta with a side of corn and fruit

Finally, I get to participate! I like this challenge since I already live it. There of course is always room for improvement.

breakfast-eggs, toast, small piece of bacon :)
lunch- salad
snack-piece of velvet cake (celebrating my wedding anniversary w/hubby)
dinner-veggi pizza

Breakfast - oatmeal

Lunch - Garden veggie wraps with homemade hummus

Dinner - Minestrone soup with homemade bread.

I am liking this one, however we had a very odd morning. My kids ended up having cold cereal for breakfast, but they were low sugar cereals (I dont buy much sugary cereal). I had a yoghurt.

Then for lunch I had a lunch date with family for a birthday party, but even though we went to a restaurant, I ate a salad, fruit, and a vegetarian soup. I tried to be as close to it as possible. I wanted to still stick to it.

Not sure about dinner... we will find out a little later. It might be soup of some sort. And we will add in homemade bread for a side.

I have health problems, so we are really careful with what we eat. We dont eat out much, and I really try to keep healthy things around the home. I will let you know what happens! ;)

This is a good one today. After having a baby I want to get back into shape and the eating health will help to get me into a good routine.
We made a fruit smoothie for breakfast and turkey sandwich for lunch. Not sure for dinner.

This was a very normal day for us, fresh nectarine with oatmeal for breakfast, lunch was a chef salad, i try to have hardboiled eggs on hand for these and i did, dinner is in the crockpot bean and vegetable stew, with a few pieces of stew meat in there.

Agree, this one is easy for us as we already eat this way! Breakfast was homemade wholegrain waffles with blueberries on top & orange juice to drink. Lunch, was egg salad sandwiches on whole grain bread, grapes and carrots (water to drink) and dinner I'm thinking will be baked lemon pepper chicken, broccoli, whole wheat italian bread and milk to drink. Pretty much like any other day.

Well, I'm trying to cook from scratch more, and plan healthier meals, I don't do very good sometimes. We love fruits and vegetables, and I'm going to add some dehdrated and freeze dried to my storage

My kids liked this day the best. They want to do a repeat of it. It is a good thing that I make things from scratch for them on a regular basis. We just are not that ready for natural disasters. Now we know what we need to work on. Thanks again for doing these challenges. They have helped a bunch.

I made a yummy pasts dish. I dont think that is low cholesterol though.....hmmm. anyways, it was good! Wish I ae better every day! I need more fruits and veggies in my diet!

Well, today started out good: Oatmeal wiith blueberries for breakfast. Lunch was a green salad with grilled chicken but then I did some stress eating and ended up having a chocolate candy bar and a diet soda this afternoon. I have a very challenge-ing niece living with my family and today she decided to step outside the rules yet again. I have to find a better way to deal with my emotions but today the chocolate calmed me down so I could discipline appropriately. My own children have never given me the same fits my niece does :(. Dinner was chili, whole wheat dinner rolls, a salad and apricots for dessert(previously canned). I have loved these challenges and look forward to becoming even more prepared.

Wooo this was easy for me! We already eat pretty healthy because my hubby and kids have food sensitivities. Not much processed for us (in fact our 72 hour kits have been about as processed as we get!)

Breakfast: Oatmeal with butter and cream and frozen strawberries (from our CSA share)

Lunch: Black bean soup. Hubby and I had steamed broccoli and the kids had steamed snap peas (didn't have enough broccoli to go around)

Supper: Tacos made with ground beef and beef heart. I make my own taco seasoning mix in big batches. We also make a fermented salsa that is to die for. Fixin's were sour cream, salsa, avocado slices (didn't feel motivated to make guacamole though I usually do, with fresh lemon juice and a little salt), diced tomato (garden fresh!), and olives. No cheese on there though, because we're out. They were still really tasty.

Snacks were watermelon for the morning and peanut butter w/ veggies for afternoon.

We use the dietary guidelines from the Weston A. Price Foundation (http://www.westonaprice.org/) and Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation (http://www.ppnf.org/)

I am feeling really good about the challenge. I'll admit I'm counting down til Wednesday when I can go to the co-op and get milk and cheese though!! My to-do list from the challenge is growing lol.

We ended up having Chili for dinner, with 100% whole wheat bread, and tangerines for dessert after FHE.

We ended up talking about things that we have learned, and some new routes and safe places in case of different disasters. We agreed on who to call, and talked about how we can be better in the future.

Today was not a good day for the challenge, but that is because I had so many things going on and not much of a chance to really do the challenge 100% today. It made me sad, actually. But, as I mentioned before, I tried to stick as close to it as possible, and the kids had already eaten breakfast before I saw the challenge... oh well! ;) I am putting some wheat into the crockpot tonight in order to have it tomorrow morning for breakfast to make up. If we cant use it for the challenge, then I will save it... it is always nice to have wheat to add into soups and such. ;) And, you can freeze it once you have cooked it, so... We will see, I guess!

I am not good at cooking low-fat or whole grain meals. I just cook whatever I can think of and that is as good as it gets. Most days my kids (age 3 and 6) won't eat what I make so I end up catering to them and eating poorly. This is a good wake-up call. I needed this challenge to see where I can improve. One thing I think is great is how my 3-year-old son loves quiche. He is always requesting it- for every meal- and I always prepare it the same way: with red and yellow peppers, onion and spinach. At least he gets his vegetables that way. My daughter is another story. I once tried sneaking a very thin layer of pureed cauliflower in a quesadilla (one of her favorite meals) and then she wouldn't eat quesadillas for a few months.

This was a good challenge day. I already torture my kids by not eating out or using lots of premade/prepackaged foods LOL.

Breakfast: oatmeal with some homemade jam for me; toast for the kids
Lunch: kids take their lunch to school: sandwiches, fruit, string cheese and 2 cookies (they were store bought). Me: salad with some homemade chicken salad
Supper: red beans and rice except for 2 kids who won't touch beans with a 10 foot pole. They ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. DH ended up making store bought pizza to eat during the football game.
Dessert: made sour cream apple crisp

Yet another Fail. I had already had a bowl of Frosted Mini-Wheats before i read the challenge. Then i had no time for lunch at work due to rush assignments, so ate a muffin and banana. I was going to fix a nice dinner but got asked to take someone somewhere just as i was getting ready to cook.. But at least i stayed out of the candy dish at work today, and no dessert tonight.

This was a good day. For breakfast we had oatmeal. That is what we have every Monday. On Tuesdays we have whole wheat waffles. Wednesday is eggs and toast. Thursday is another hot cereal (rice, cracked wheat, or cream of wheat) and Fridays is homemade muffins and yogurt. And we always have fruit with every breakfast. This schedule make my life so much easier and it cuts down on the complaining. My kids just know what is for breakfast and they don't complain.
Lunch was cheese sticks, apples, and a muffin for my little ones and the school age kids ate the hot lunch at school. I had leftovers from the fridge...a bean and corn salad and homemade bread.
For dinner we had an egg casserole and homemade zuchinni bread. We were having the missionaries over for dinner and they tell me that they always enjoy having breakfast foods for dinner so I try to do that.

How is everyone doing w/o spending money? I am doing pretty well, but I have had to spend it on a few things. I had to gas our car up last week because we got home from a trip and I didn't gas it up before the challenge started. I bought a present for a friend's b-day party that my daughter went to. I also had to buy dog food. I didn't realize we were out until my son brought up the empty bag. That taught me a good lesson in having a few extra bags of dog food in the storage room.
But, I have had enough baby food and diapers. We are on our last gallon of milk, but I have powdered milk in the fridge ready to use. I am out of butter and eggs, but as long as I don't have to do much cooking tomorrow we should be okay. This has been such a good experience.

Today was pretty easy for us, as we usually eat healthy. Oatmeal for breakfast, with raisens for sweetness. Lunch was tuna sandwhiches with home grown tomatoes and sprouts, and zucchini relish, yummy. For dinner we participate in a dinner group where you take turns cooking, it was a neighbors night. She brought us ham, whole wheat rolls, and we threw in some green beans, and pinapple. Then for dessert we had peach crisp, I tried to make it a little healthier by using a little less sugar and butter, and the flour was whole wheat. Still pretty fatening but at least it helped us get in our fruits for the day. Looking forward to tomorrow and even more to Wednesday, our poor dog is also out of food (we borrowed some from the neighbor), it will be nice to go back to real life:)

I loved reading what healthy things everyone made today. Thanks! One of our favorite snacks for breakfasts is a green smoothie. One of my kids doesn't love them but everyone else does. I put something like kale, spinach or romaine in the blender with water, then add fresh or frozen fruit, a few raw nuts, some flaxseed oil and I usually add a few drops of stevia to help sweeten and viola! a super healthy, 100% raw meal or snack. I recently heard the adage "Eat dead food for lunch, feel dead all day." We try to incorporate live foods at every meal.

I really wish I had a garden right now!

I made a 13 bean soup for dinner that I have been watning to try for a while and it turned out really good. my dd that will not eat beans actually ate it:)