We have just made it home from a whirlwind vacation in Florida. My favorite part of vacation is the food. I decided that it’s not worth trying to diet on vacation so I pretty much eat what I want to when we go out of town. So now, we have to get back on track. We will definitely be cutting calories this week, but not flavor. I am a firm believer that you don’t’ have to eat all salad to eat healthy.

Here’s this weeks plan.
Tonight: roasted chicken, mashed potatoes and corn on the cobb
Tuesday: steak with pasta covered in olive oil and lemon juice
Wednesday: cheesy chicken enchilada soup
Thursday: take out after practice
Friday: date night
Saturday: Jace’s award winning chili

We are starting a new week after an amazing Valentine’s weekend. My amazing husband took me to Garlic Press to eat. It was very tasty. I definitely feel loved! Here is this weeks meal plan.

Tonight: five spice beef stir fry (we didn’t get to make it last Friday)
Tuesday: probably take out. We have to run sound for a concert at the church.
Wednesday: chips with queso and ground beef
Thursday: take out or leftovers before practice
Friday: chicken fajitas with white wine butter sauce

Happy eating!

I wanted to post my meal plan a little bit early so that if anyone wants any of my recipes or tips for the Daniel fast they can get them before we start on Sunday.

Monday: teriyaki rice and veggies
Tuesday: Pasta with eggplant puree
Wednesday: veggie burritos
Thursday: salad
Friday: Whole wheat veggie pizza
Saturday: pinto beans and cornbread (cornbread for Jace)

I’ll post recipes as I cook them next week. I am very excited for this new adventure!

Happy eating!

Since there are several people in our church doing the Daniel fast next week I wanted to pull some recipes out of our archives that you can eat. We are doing this fast to deepen our relationship with God and to center ourselves around what God is going to do in the coming year in our lives and in our church. There are many variations of the fast and I don’t think there is any “right” way to do it. I will be eliminating meat, dairy, white flour and anything made with it, sugar and carbonated beverages. While this sounds terrible it isn’t all salads and fruit. Here are a couple of choices to pick from. You can also browse the vegan websites and books for some recipes also.

Here is my recipe for Guacamole. Since chips are out you can buy pita bread and cut it into chips and toast them in the oven to make them crispy. They are delicious!

Tyeriaki rice and veggies is a great choice because it taste’s so much better than just rice and veggies. Since we can’t do white rice you can either by brown rice if you have time and put the veggies in after about 40-45 minutes of cooking or you can buy minute brown rice and cook it in the microwave then saute it with your veggies.

If you are leaving dairy in your diet you can eat this zucchini carbonara recipe without the bacon.

These baked sweet potato fries would be good with a salad. Try your hardest to ignore the chicken that’s also in that post.

Can you believe this year is almost over? It seems like just yesterday we were toasting to 2009. It has been a great year and I’m excited to see what’s to come in 2010.

I think we are almost back on a normal eating schedule, finally. Here’s what I have planned for this week.
Tonight: cheese steak sandwiches
Tuesday: Sautéed chicken with pasta and marinara sauce
Wednesday: Clean out the fridge night! Eat whatever you can find that’s still good.
Thursday: Not sure yet. It depends on how long it takes us to close the books at my work.

That’s as far as I’ve got. Hope you all have a great week and be safe on New Year’s!

Happy eating!