Refrigerater Oatmeal!

Have you tried this??  My daughter introduced me to this.  I am going to give you the link to the sight where I got all of my recipes. Two weeks ago I made up enough for the weeks breakfasts. I made the Raspberry Vanilla and the Mandarin Orange.

This week I made a couple of Pineapple Coconut and a Blackberry. I substituted blackberries for the raspberries and omitted the vanilla in the Raspberry Vanilla recipe.

This is different, but it is good and easy and ready for you in the morning! It has a good amount of protein and fiber. If you are doing WW the points range from 6 to 8.  Not bad for breakfast and you can always add a piece of fruit.

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Healthy Shrimp Pasta Salad

This was Dinner Thursday night.  it was really good!  I got the recipe from Favorite Family Recipes.

This Shrimp Pasta Salad is only 200 cal. per cup and 4 WW points!

This bowl is holding 2 cups.  I had plenty of points left for dinner!

I had a bowl of salad and 1 cup of blackberries which are ZERO points!

Shrimp Pasta Salad
1 lemon
1/2 cup light mayonnaise
1/2 cup light sour cream
1 TBSP fresh dill
1/2 tsp salt
4 cups uncooked bow tie (farfalle) pasta
1 pound medium shrimp, shelled, deveined and cooked
1 cucumber, sliced
3 carrots, sliced
1 red pepper, chopped in thick chunks
4 green onions with tops, thinly sliced

Instructions:
For the dresing, zest the whole lemon and then juice it.  Combine the zest, lemon juice, mayonaise, sour cream, fresh dill, and salt.  Set aside.

Cook pasta, shrimp, cucumber, carrots, pepper, and green onions.

Pour dressing over salad ingredients and mix well.

Cover and chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes, but several hours or overnight is best.

Serving size: 1 cup
Calories: 200
Fat: 2(g)
Carbs. 21 (g)
Protein: 14 (g)
Fiber: 2 (g)

I added some celery and I didn't have green onions so I just chopped up some regular onion.  Easy and yummy!

I'm Back and Once A Week Cooking

I knew it had been awhile since I posted anything, but AUGUST 28th!  I was trying so hard to keep up to date and stay consistent. Well, so much for that!

I am back and I am going to try a little something different.  This has been my Stampin' Up! blog with a little family thrown in, but I am going to expand and blog about other things as well.  I have so many interests and so many things to share that I thought I would share a variety of odds and ends.  I hope this won't be confusing or turn people away, but we will see how it goes!

Join me as I start this somewhat new journey into blogging. It is hard to do wonderful things when you use a free blog service, but I will do the best I can. This blog is pretty bare bones, but then I am not very good with the computer so I guess for now, that is OK.

So I would like to show you what I did last weekend.  We have embarked on a healthier lifestyle, more about that in a minute.  I decided to make our lunches and breakfasts for the week so we could grab and go and they would be healthy.  No trying to figure it out as we go! I made 4 each leaving one day for something different.

I do have to get better at remembering to take pictures as I go, but this is the end result:

I marinated chicken, then grilled it and roasted a variety of veggies.  Each container has 1/2 cup of rice, chicken and 3 vegetables. 

 

I put out initial on the container so we would know which ones belonged to who. (Tim doesn't like cauliflower)

I also made Healthy breakfast sandwiches. Wholegrain English muffins, egg, chicken or turkey sausage and the thin slice cheese.  So this is Friday and it has been working great!  Made the week easy!

So the healthy life style...

We are doing this as a family.

My beautiful daughter Megan came up with this idea.

We have a chart we add points to each week.

5 servings or more of fruit and vegetables per day, 64 oz of water per day, no eating after 9:00pm,30 minutes of  exercise 5x per week, Staying on track with calorie count or WW points daily, limit sweets to 3 times a week, weight/inches lost at end of week.

At the end of the month the one with the most points wins.

We are picking our own prize. We decided to make it a gift of time or labor not monetary. Example: house cleaning, baby sitting, freezer meals, help painting a room, etc.

I will keep you posted as to how it is going.