Sundried tomato pizza

Tonight's dinner was sundried tomato pizza with spinach and olives. The hubby asked if I wanted Uncle Tony's pizza (local pizza parlor) and boy would I have loved it. But the 4 wines from last night kept nagging me in the back of my mind. So I offered to make this quick and easy pizza. Quick, because it is made with Bobolli crust and Trader Joes sundried tomato bruchetta. Just take out the pizza crust, slather the sundried bruchetta, add kalamata olives and sauteed spinach and red onions. Top with low fat pizza cheese and you are good to go. Cook in an oven that is 450 degrees for 9 minutes. I liked the pizza, but the hubby said it did not hit the spot. I think he was craving pepperoni. Although this pizza was probably better than Uncle Tony's pizza calorie wise, it was probably not the best dinner for calorie savings.

Calories for the day: 1,386 carbs: 146, fat: 44 protein: 35

Okay, poor eating habits continue on the weekend. I need to fix this, but get so lazy about my regiment on the weekends. Got to check the websites to find out how to stop this! I see a green drinkk for my breakfast tomorrow morning so I can detox and "right the ship". :)

Lynda

Open Faced Eggplant and Tomato Melt

Tonight's dinner is Open Faced Eggplant and Tomato Melt, with corn on the cob

Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz. pine nuts (handful)
3 tbsp. olive oil (or as Rachel says, "EVOO")
1 small eggplant, peeled and diced
Coarse salt and black pepper, to taste
1/2 tsp. ground cumin (a few good pinches)
12 sm. grape tomatoes, diced
6 oz. feta cheese
10 fresh basil leaves
1 Joseph's Pita (oat and flax) - I used this, not recommended
1/2 loaf crusty baquette, split lenghtwise (this is what I should have used)

So, let me explain. I know the only person who does not care for crusty bread. My hubby only likes pocket bread, so that is what I used. Don't do it. The oil made the pita come apart. Although, the calorie count is greatly reduced by using this bread, I highly recommend using the baguette. That is what I usually use, but I thought I would try it in the pita. Live and learn.

You have to toast the pine nuts first, then put them aside to cool. Next, add the eggplant to a frying pan with the oil and let it cook, covered, for six minutes. Shut off the heat and add the cumin, salt & pepper. Move to a bowl. Combine the diced tomatoes, feta cheese and basil, (roll up basil to a log and cut into confetti).

To assemble, toast your baguette in the used frying pan (there should still be a little olive oil in it0; add the eggplant mixture, then the cheese-tomato mixture, top with pine nuts. Very tasty. I added an ear of my Trader Joes, two buck shuck, that I microwaved. I picked it up at the store today. It is so good, it doesn't need butter. Yummmmmm!

Now, for the calorie count:

Total calories: 357, fat 27, carbs 26, protein 9

The recipe above makes 3 servings. I refrigerated my last serving. Also, since I went to TJ's, I purchased an impulse item of peanut butter filled pretzels. I had one serving of that (I was hungry....it is cold and raining here again today--Ugh!)

So, I went over my daily total a little. But I did work out today, hard. I did yoga for 30 minutes this am and then took Linda's Circuit training class today for 75 minutes. She had us doing all sorts of crazy things on the exercise ball today. Wall sits, lunges, squats, you name it. and with added dumbells for 20 minutes Plus we jumped around doing old school Hi Lo for 35 minutes straight. But it was fun. She had us do 20 minutes of continuous abs. My abs are going to be killer abs, once the fat is gone.

Total count for the day:

Calories: 1528
Carbs: 192
Protein: 70
Fat: 64 (bad)
(over by 8 grams) Probably over by the pretzels I should not have eaten-not on my planned schedule


:)

Portabello Mushroom Sandwich Recipe

Here is my recipe for tonight's dinner:






Portabello Mushroom Sandwich:

1 large organic mushroom top, sliced lenghthwise
1/2 c. sliced onion
5 sprays of Pam Olive Oil spray
a couple of shakes of McCormick's hamburger seasoning
1 oz. feta cheese
1/2 Joseph's pita (oat and flax, low carb)
1 tbsp of mayo


Put first 4 ingredients into a frying pan. Lightly fry on medium heat till browned; Melt the one ounce of feta cheese ontop (shut off heat from stovetop). Slice Pita in half, put tbsp of mayo inside and add ingredients from frying pan.

Add to this some TJ sweet potato fries, to which I lightly dusted with chili powder (yummy) and dipped into Jack Daniel's barbeque sauce.

Very good, lowfat dinner!

Lunch and Dinner for Damage Control Week

Sorry for missing the lunchtime post. My lunch was quite dull anyway. I love avocados and I purchased a bag of them from my favorite store, Trader Joe's. So lunch on the fly today was one avocado with pepper. And one hard boiled egg. See, I told you it was boring, but I had a lot of work to catch up on since I goofed off all weekend and Friday in Vermont. Love avocados, but I hate what they do to my fat totals. I don't think the fat should count like, say, butter fat. But the numbers are the numbers.

My snack today was 1/2 cup of 2% Fage with honey. Very smooth and creamy and yummy. Again, fat here today is a little high (which is why I saved the other half).

For Dinner, Portabella mushroom sandwiches in Pita bread with onions and goat cheese, Special K protein water (2 servings), and TJ's sweet potato fries. My husband "borrowed" my AA batteries from my camera, so I am photographing food with my pc. Not too easy to do. I'll post dinner pictures later.

Totals for today DID NOT KEEP WITHIN MY GUIDELINES. Not a good way to start damage control week. :(

Total calories: 1250 (good) Total fat 64 (Ugh! 9 grams over my max allowed) Total protein 60 (okay, but not great) Total carbs: 136 (which is a little low)

Activities for Damage Control Week:

Running: Ran 5 miles at a 10 min. pace, including warm up and cool down
Weight lifting: Bally's Powerflex (Linda, once again, kicked my butt!)

So, I probably used up approximately 1000 calories on exercise. Hopefully that makes up for some of my bad weekend.