My experimental recipe last night was a reasonable success! It's definitely one to add to the list and keep in the rotation, with a few changes. I was concerned while I was making it that it was going to be a little bland, and I was right, but it was still quite edible, and bland is very easy to fix. A little more salt & pepper, a little garlic, some sage in the stew as well as in the dumplings, possibly some celery seed or a chicken bouillon cube, and it should be greatly improved. The recipe made a lot of food, too - I couldn't quite finish my portion. Full is good!
Yesterday's meals:
Breakfast: Oatmeal, banana - 10 points
Lunch: Turkey pastrami wrap - 13 points
Snack: Greek yogurt with applesauce - 3 points
Dinner: Chicken and dumplings - 22 points
Dessert: Pudding with Cool Whip - 4 points
Total: 52 points
Meal timing and the meals themselves were a little messed up yesterday as a result of needing to wait for the refrigerator repairman to get here. I didn't have the stuff to make my soup for lunch, so I missed a point there and was very hungry by snack time at 3:00. Which didn't actually happen until about 4:30 because I didn't have any yogurt until Chad got back from the grocery store. As a result, dinner didn't happen until about 7:15...more than an hour late. I'm actually rather proud of myself for sticking to the program and the meal plan even though meal timing was off and I was starving. That's frequently a combination of circumstances that ends up with me going off plan badly.
I was 3 points short of target yesterday. The original plan called for 54 points, one short of my daily allowance of 55, but not having my soup at lunch reduced it by 1, forgetting my milk at dinner reduced it by 2, and a miscommunication about the type of biscuit mix to get for the dumplings increased it by 1. All in all, considering it was a bit of a crazy day, I think I did pretty well.
I even managed to get not one but two exercise sessions in! I did my 15 minutes of Wii boxing in the morning, and tried out Wii canoeing for the first time in the afternoon. I am a miserable failure at Wii canoeing. A video of my pathetic attempts at it yesterday would quite possibly win the grand prize on America's Funniest Videos. It definitely got me tired, though! I got Chad to try to help me with it last night, and we determined that my...uhhh...errr...figure...is the issue. I'm simply not built for Wii canoeing. Things get in the way. I'm going to try something else this afternoon. Possibly with no greater success, but we'll see!
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