Veggie Cuisine Indian Style Masala Review

I didn't get a lot accomplished today, but I do feel more rested this evening. I still felt sort of tired when I got up, but not that bad. I really just felt sort of lazy, like my get up and go, got up and went, not like I needed to go back to bed. I went straight for the cereal bowl instead of the coffee maker. I had a bowl of cinnamon roll mini wheats, which I nearly forgot I had. 

I did not skip coffee, but I did take my time making it. I did make half caf. intending to get a few things done, but I just vegged out today, doing as little as possible. Hopefully I'll get some things done tomorrow.

I had a oven roasted tofurky sandwich for lunch with spinach, white American cheese, spicy ranch dip, and a jalapeno pickle on the side. I also thought about having green pepper and onion on my sandwich, but I just skipped that part. It would have probably been better that way, but lazy won out.

I did toast my bread lightly, but I couldn't let it brown. Store bought bread has gotten so thin, that if you let it brown, it turns into a cracker. Is it just me or have you noticed this too?

I made dessert for later and just had an orange for snack. DH picked up a bag at the grocery store for me, said they were navel oranges, but they weren't. These have seeds and no navel, but they were sweet & juicy.

I had a LC Veggie Cuisine frozen dinner. I tried their Indian Style Masala with Gardein Chick'n Strips in a creamy tomato curry sauce.

I've never had curry sauce or anything that I knew had curry in it, but I didn't taste anything I hadn't tasted before. It does have cauliflower in it, which, I don't care for, but only 4 small pieces. There was also peas & carrots with brown rice. The sauce really just tasted like tomato sauce to me. It was pretty good. I chopped the cauliflower up and mixed it in, hoping it wouldn't be noticeable since it doesn't have a lot of flavor on it's own, but the texture was noticeable. It was a little al dente, which is how I like most vegetables, but not the ones I'm trying to hide. This is how it looked straight out of the microwave. I'm barely giving this 4 stars, because of the whole cauliflower thing, other wise it would get an easy 4 stars.

For dessert I made Chocolate Peanut Butter Pudding Cups. I love these. They are quick and easy to make, not to mention delicious. It is hard to eat just one, but I did it.

I'm going to work on getting better sleep and try snacking less, eating healthier than I have been lately. I've been doing a lot of late night off camera raisin munching. I know raisins are not bad, it's the late night eating that is. It's more like continuous grazing. It may mean fewer posts, until I can find a routine that works. Now I'm off to bed. Have a great night/day!!!

Kraft Creamy Poppyseed Dressing Review

Since I didn't get Sunday's post up last night and I didn't have a chance to work on it today, I'm just now getting to it. Yesterday's breakfast was half a pumpernickel bagel with cream cheese and a big cup of mostly decaf. Sleep was not great, but more than I've had lately, so I was feeling fairly refreshed.

We had dinner at Mom's. I manage to miss a few photos as usual. This time it was the barbecued chicken and the crab cakes. I did get a photo of the baked chicken.

There was also beef brisket.

Broccoli Casserole

Mashed Potatoes

Corn on the Cob

A mini salad bar, lol, with Romaine, Onion, Mandarin oranges, strawberries, mini sweet pepper slices, cucumber, radishes, sunflower seeds, chopped pecans, and Kraft Creamy Poppyseed Dressing. It wasn't all meant to go together and I'm pretty sure there were some other dressings involved. The poppyseed dressing was actually suppose to go with the fruit, nuts, and Romaine. It was inspired by a recipe I saw online, but not exactly the same. I hope to actually try the recipe eventually.

The Kraft Creamy Poppyseed dressing was pretty good. It has sour cream in it, but reminds me more of mayo. It also has a hint of mustard. It is a sort of sweet dressing. I really didn't notice the flavor of the poppyseeds so much. It was not bad with the fruit. I would be interested in making the dressing from the recipe to compare, but I would eat this again. I'm going to give it 4 stars.

We also had rolls, which I totally forgot and didn't get the any of them. I brought a few home, but they quickly disappeared before I could get one.

Here on my plate there was the salad without the dressing, because I almost forgot about it until I sat down to eat. I used the Romaine, onions, strawberries, oranges, peppers, and pecans in mine. I also had a huge corn on the cob, a couple of the crab cakes, which I didn't get a picture of before hand, and some of the broccoli casserole.

Lynda made a delicious peanut butter cake, which reminded me of the cake my Grandma brought home from the school where she worked, when I was little. I had looked for a recipe many times to duplicate it, but had never tried to make it. It may not have been the same exactly, but it was close enough to bring back good memories.

I had my slice with a big cup of decaf coffee. This was really good.

I Pinned the recipe on Pinterest.

We sat after we ate and watched (the 4th) Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol, starring Tom Cruise. It is definitely action packed, so we really had to keep an eye on the screen, no cruising the internet while watching this one. I really liked it, probably as well as the others I've seen. It's been a while, but I do remember that I liked them a lot. The movie is also getting 4 stars.

I won't be staying up late enough to get today's photos posted, but I will try to get them out tomorrow, earlier, so that I can post tomorrow's as well. Have a great night/day!!!

A Cold Coming On

This morning has gotten off to a bad start, awake a couple of hours before my alarm went off. It seems that DH has manage to pass on his cold germs to me. I had started to feel it yesterday, but was hoping it was just allergies, but this morning it seems to be more like a cold, with sinus pressure, scratchy throat, and a headache.

I didn't feel great yesterday, but luckily, I didn't feel too bad either. I started off the day yesterday with another of my banana pudding smoothies with peanut butter and cinnamon. I really enjoyed this yesterday, but thoughts of it today do not seem as pleasant. All I can manage to do this morning is sneeze.

Yesterday I had one of Amy's bowls for lunch, the tortilla casserole with black beans. I was also drinking quite a bit of water yesterday due to my scratchy throat. I always drink water, but I think I drank more than usual yesterday.

 

 

This is my favorite of Amy's bowls. Have you tried it?

 

Another piece of strawberry birthday cake; a big strawberry with this one.

Before going to Zumba class, I had a tuna salad sandwich. The tuna salad was made with mayo, mustard and dill pickles. The bun was huge, so I didn't have anything else with it. 

 

Dale & Lucas bought the buns at the Walmart deli. They were impressed with them, raving about how good they were. I just love Walmart's breads, usually, but I was not as impressed with it as they were. It had a sort of sweet taste to it, which I didn't particularly care for. I will be leaving these buns for the guys.

Sweet is fine when it comes to candy, but I opt out for it when it comes to bread.

I had this sweet snack before Zumba as well.

We had a great night at Zumba. I was hoping that we'd be a bit cooler, since the outside temps have been more mild, but we still managed to work up a sweat. I had considered increasing my weights that we use during some of our songs, but decide that since I didn't do much exercise last week, I would stay with the same 3lb. weights I've been using. It was a wise decision. My arms were really feeling it during the workout. I'm so glad I was not feeling too bad to go to Zumba. I really missed going last week. 

After Zumba I had one of Millville's Get Balance granola bars with a few pecans.

After a shower and a little reading, it was off to bed, just a little after eleven. Score! I'd really expected to have another late night, but managed to do quite well. Go me!! Have you had a "Go Me" moment lately? Tell me about it. Happy Wednesday!!

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Zumba And Peanut Butter Kickin' My Butt

The temperature this morning says it's cooler, but it feels warmer in the house. The sun is out and it looks like it's gonna be another hot one. My cool smoothie helps.

I had a Banana pudding smoothie with peanut butter yesterday. I should just do a page for the Peanut Butter & Banana Smoothie, as often as I make them I suppose. The peanut butter wasn't agreeing with me yesterday for some reason. I've noticed lately that I keep tasting peanut butter hours after eating it. I love peanut butter, but that part is turning me off.

 

I had Amy's Enchilada Verde for lunch. I suppose this is why I'm not able to enjoy Great Value frozen dinners. I've been spoiled by Amy's. None are as good as fresh made food, but as frozen dinners go, Amy's is hard to beat, but they are also more expensive, so they are a treat to get. I saved the best for last or it really would have been disappointing to eat the GV dinners.

 

I think I would like to try making some of these. The beans and rice would be simple enough. I would use brown rice, maybe with corn & peppers instead. The enchilada would be the hardest part, but I think it's would be possible. If I could ever get my freezer empty enough. I would consider making my own frozen dinners. It seems like things multiply in there. Almost everything I eat is frozen and it's still full. Speaking of full the Amy's dinner was also more filling, but it wasn't a light or lean type dinner either.

 

I snacked on a few Snapeas. I like these a lot. It wasn't quite time for a Zumba snack so I just had a few of these.

 

This was my pre-Zumba snack. I had a piece of apple cake with melted peanut butter drizzled over it. This was really good, but it's also the reason I noticed that the peanut butter doesn't really agree with me. At first I thought it was because of the peanut butter mixed with the milk in the smoothie, but no milk here and I had the same experience. A couple of hours later and I was still eating peanut butter.

 

It was good though.

Still filling the effects of the PB, I just had a salad for dinner. I cut up some iceberg lettuce, cucumber, orange bell pepper, and tomatoes (2 little Romas from the garden).

I did add a little cheese and imitation bacon bits.

 

I topped it all off with some light ranch dressing.

 

Yesterday I noticed that my left calf was sore, like I'd gotten a severe cramp in it or something, but I hadn't. I'm not sure what caused it, but then I went to Zumba. I love Zumba, but yesterday it really kicked my butt. I was so tired, I really didn't even want to eat when I got home, but I finally had the salad. My legs were so tired, the left is still sore. I hope it's straightened out by Thursday. I also had a hard time concentrating yesterday during Zumba. I was so ready for bed last night. I slept alright, it could have been better and when the alarm went off this morning, I was wide awake, so no problem getting up even though I still didn't want to, lol. Today will be good. I have proclaimed it. So have a good one on me!

Cake And Ice Cream

It's dark inside this morning, no sun out to brighten up my living room. Looks like were in for some rain today. I usually don't have to turn on any lights until evening, except in my windowless bathrooms and kitchen. One day I will have windows in every room. I count on the light for taking decent photos. I hate using a flash. Yesterday was a pretty good photo day as far as light goes.

I had a banana pudding smoothie minus the wafers. I added a spoonful of FitNutz peanut butter mix to it. It's peanut powder you mix with water, but I just added it to my smoothie. It tasted different from my normal peanut butter, but not bad different. It just doesn't have all the fat or as much sugar as regular peanut butter. It's also gluten free & low in sodium. I like using it in my smoothie. I can save my regular peanut butter for spreading.

 

 

Lunch was quick yesterday. We'd decided to go to the grocery store and I didn't want to go hungry, so I fix a Veggie Patch veggie dog with vegetarian chili, mustard, & onion. It needed slaw and I had planned to make some, but never got around to it and didn't really have time right then.

 

I got ice cream while we were out, to go with the birthday cake. I tried Aldi's French Vanilla. Let me just say, it's not Breyers, of course I didn't expect it to be. Normally I buy Breyers Vanilla. It's my favorite, but I only buy it when it's on sale. There are a few off brands that come close, but Aldi's is not one of them.

It served the purpose though. The cake needed some moisture. I think cake should always be moist. My favorite cakes are ones that are really moist, like apple cake, tres leches cake, cake with pudding or jello, etc. What's your favorite cake?

 

I was feeling lazy as usual, so for dinner I just heated the rest of my pizza. I haven't really been in the mood lately to fix salad. I'm always in the mood to eat it, but fixing it is a different story, even with the bags of lettuce, you have to cut up carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. The bags with other veggies in them usually only have cabbage & carrots with iceberg lettuce, which is my least favorite lettuce. Maybe I will start cutting up veggies ahead of time, so that all I have to do is mix them together. I will just have to be sure and eat them quickly because, precut veggies don't last as long.

I will see if I can't put today a big salad today. It's Zumba day and I think if I'm going to exercise I should try to eat better. I have too many leftovers and after today they're outa here. Speaking of outa here, that's me as soon as I post this. Happy Thursday!

Making Better Food Choices

I'm chilly this morning. I turned the a/c down last night, so that I could sleep better. I did, but I still didn't want to get up. I'm just not a morning person, no matter what I try. I also went to bed an hour earlier.

I finally had my banana pudding smoothie yesterday, well almost. I forgot the vanilla wafers and I added a spoonful of peanut butter. I didn't miss the wafers until I was thinking about it later. Even without them it's still my favorite smoothie.

 

I had an Amy's Bean & Rice Non-Dairy Burrito with marinated cucumbers and onions for lunch. These are my white cucumbers, out of the garden. I put them in a little vinegar/water mixture with a dab of salt, sugar & celery seed. I also have bush pickling cucumbers that I waiting to pick, but they aren't looking like a regular picking cucumber. They are longer. I plan to go down today an have a look.

The Amy's burrito hit the spot. Amy's makes the best frozen burritos. I love the whole wheat tortillas.

 

I was craving something cool & creamy, ice cream actually, which I didn't have, but I did have some Chobani lemon in the fridge, which subbed quite nicely.

 

I do love my lemon Chobani.

 

Dinner was soup & cheese sticks a sandwich. I had the rest of my Panera Tomato bisque and a grilled cheese, I made using shredded mozzarella, garlic, & oregano. I used my pizza cutter to cut the sandwich into strips for dipping. It a great way to eat a grilled cheese sandwich with soup. 

 

 

Ahhh, dessert, a Fuji apple.

After dinner we watched a movie, True Grit, with Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, & Matt Damon. It was pretty good, but I still prefer the original.

You just can't beat John Wayne & Glen Campbell. If you haven't seen the original you should.

Well that was my day. I think I did better yesterday, at least it didn't feel like I ate junk food all day. How did you do? Hope you have a good one!