I am kind of late posting this, but I just had to announce… WE DID IT! Our dinner challenge is complete! Remember about two and a half weeks ago when I told you B and I weren’t going to eat out for two weeks? Well we did it!
It felt great to finally take some control of our eating habits. Our wallet is bigger and our waistlines are smaller. Just by giving up take out and restaurants I lost about seven pounds. Pretty good jump start for the official diet I am now on.
You know what else I discovered? I kind of like cooking! And, I am not as bad at it as I thought. I mean, I always knew I could cook to some degree, but now I have ventured past macaroni and cheese to a whole new world. I make up recipes. I season and spice to my heart’s delight. Most of the items on my birthday list this year were kitchen supplies. (Birthday in two days… I am just saying.)
So besides the two weeks of no restaurants, B and I have developed a new nightly routine. We are still cooking dinner almost every night. Besides our celebration at the end of the two weeks (one sushi dinner and one pizza splurge), we are still eating in. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Even when I didn’t plan a menu or go to the grocery store, I still managed to pull 3 days worth of meals out of thin air. I am awesome, I know.
So here is where you come in. If you have any healthy recipes, meal ideas or favorite snacks, tell me about them! I am eventually going to run out of ideas and I need to stock pile something for a rainy day. Thanks in advance.
And one more thing… GO ME!
I for one and totally enjoying this new side of my wife =-P We had one snafu meal but we were trying something totally new and it ended up looking like an aliens insides. Go wife!
Deep-Dish Pizza Casserole
1 pound ground round
1 (15 ounce) can chunky Italian-style tomato sauce
(Cooking spray
1 (10 ounce) can refrigerated pizza crust dough
6 (1 ounce) slices part-skim mozzarella cheese, divided
Cook meat in a medium nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until browned, stirring until it crumbles. Drain, if necessary, and return to skillet. Add tomato sauce, and cook until heated.
While meat cooks, coat a 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
Unroll pizza crust dough, and press into bottom and halfway up sides of baking dish. Line bottom of pizza crust with 3 slices mozzarella cheese. Top with meat mixture. Bake, uncovered at 425 degrees F for 12 minutes.
Top with remaining 3 cheese slices, and bake 5 additional minutes or until crust is browned and cheese melts. Cool 5 minutes before serving.
Servings: 6 - 6 WW points per serving
Go you! is right. Don and I really buckled down with this starting the beginning of this year. I can’t believe how much money we were wasting.
Rebecca
I don’t know if you like salmon, but if you do this recipe is very yummy!
Baked Salmon w/ Tomatoes, Spinach and Mushrooms
Cooking time: 25 minutes.
Baking temp: 375 degrees.
4 Salmon fillets
2 cups chopped fresh spinach
1 cup sliced mushrooms
1 medium tomato, chopped
1/3 cup Kraft Sun-Dried Tomato Dressing
Place salmon fillets, skin sides down, in 13×9 pan sprayed with cooking spray.
Mix remaining ingredients until well-blended; spoon over salmon.
Easy, healthy and flavorful!
B no eat mushrooms (grunt!)
You go girl! I’m trying to loose a few myself! Isn’t it crazy how much eating out adds up? Not just in cost but calories! I just bought a weight watchers cook book from Costco. I’m not officially doing weight watchers, but they have a ton of healthy, yummy recipies! Keep it up and gooc luck!