Bar food is hard...

...to diet out on.

But tasty.  So I don't know whether to feel bad that I used, like, half of my flex points for the week last night, or to be glad that I only used half.  Hah.

Here, let me tempt your taste buds:

- Steamed Little Neck Clams in white wine & garlic with a crusty baguette

- Panini Cuban with smoked pork, swiss cheese and pickles.

Sigh.

Gearing up

For a darn healthy weekend.  Please note my positive outlook and general excitement.  

I have no idea what I'm going to do to make this weekend so fabulous, but I'm going to do it.  I've got a weekend of sorting and sewing ahead of me, so I plan to stay in and eat well.  I've got some chicken thawing in the fridge, so things with that.  

Probably stir fry one day, baked one day (with my redskin potatoes!) and grilled one day with a yummy marinade.  I need to get to the grocery store to make this happen, so give me some good ideas!  Please!

All I need...

Is to make it to the freakin' grocery store! I can't cook without food in the house... Erk. And, well, it really hasn't helped that I've had a house guest for over a week. He leaves today though so Tiste and I will be home more starting Sunday. I just can't manage to be home to cook with all we have going on. It does make me the sad. I'm just watching what I order as best as possible.

Bleh.

You know you want it

Chocolate Fig Ice Cream.

That is all.

(I exercised restraint, I promise.)

maybe not

OK, well maybe I only drank 1 glass of water last night. But it was still better than nothing! :P
Trying to do better today. and not failing. completely.

blame

man, am I retaining water like freaking crazy!! Hoping to blame my hippopotamus shape on my monthly courses. Bleh.I vow to drink a gallon of water tonight and eat vegetables the rest of the week. OK, maybe only 1/2 gallon tonight. I do want to sleep tonight instead of spending a few hours peeing in the bathroom.I'll check in to tell you how my cleansing regimine is going.

Fruity cereal craving

Do you have those times when you know when you just have to have something so over the top sweet that you think only children's breakfast cereal will suffice?

Found a great replacement.
1/2 c Almond Special K
1 6oz container of your favorite low fat or fat free fruit yogurt
1 c or 1 item of your fav soft fruit

I used raspberry yogurt and a fresh peach.

Fantabulous! It was all the fresh and sweet and crunchy I could crave without all the corn syrup ickiness that I hate.

Possible future combinations to include.
Fruit Yogurt
Banana Cherry
Pear Lemon
Cherry Chocolate or coffee
Kiwi Peach

Maybe something with steamed pumpkin and vanilla yogurt?

We shall see.

Sushi nummy treat

Tonight, after reorganizing most of the house this past week and mainly this weekend, we treated our selves to home grown sushi. And it only took 3 trips to the store of "Crap we're out of...XX".

I made a build your own sushi tray of the following ingredients.

Salmon fillet seared in a mix of 1tsp plum sauce, 1tsp Chinese hot mustard and 1 tbsp soy.
Chicken bits in 1tbsp soy, 1tbsp sesame oil and 1 tsp cane sugar.
Zucchini in lime and garlic. (spritz of lime and a dash of garlic - like I measure anything)
Steamed carrots and green beans - plain
Smoked salmon
Cream cheese (we used neufchatel instead)
Crab sticks
Avocado

I think that is it aside from wasabi, ginger and soy.

It was loverly!! And we watched Iron Monkey while we ate. Great movie, but stay away from subtitled flicks when you have to look at your plate a lot. Glad I've already seen it a brazillion times.

heeheehee.... brazillion.

So tired

So after another great weekend of fun visitors I'm completely wiped out. Tired and not entirely sure how well I did on my diet.

Great news though, made sushi again last night (I'm getting some sort of reputation) and it was great! Kelly and Laura convinced me to try new things. We had real raw tuna and flying fish roe on the rolls. Wow!

And don't tell the girls who had to miss it, but the Greek chocolate and fig ice cream was really great!! I only had a half of a serving though. Trying to be good.