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  • Banana Oatmeal… cake?

    I am in the home stretch of my current 4 week/4%  Dietbet…  so every calorie has to count this week because I don’t want to lose my money!!!  (I’m doing fine on the six month one because its percentage goals are easier)

    Breakfast this morning, I thought about another smoothie like I did yesterday:

    smoothie

    Then I thought about making the pancakes with 1 banana and 2 eggs, or banana oatmeal cookies.  Then I decided to just create.  So I threw a bunch of stuff into the blender.  It’s in the oven now.  It might be cake:

    cake

    I hope it’s good since it is breakfast / lunch.  The calories are a bit (!) higher than the smoothie but it is big enough to cut in half and eat half now and half in a couple hours.

    I am trying to make sure I eat at least a banana a day because I have been having horrible leg cramps.  Mostly in my left calf but also my toes, and then last night, after having a calf cramp, a couple hours later, a weird ankle cramp too.  So, potassium and making sure I increase my water too.

    Speaking of potassium, I saw the demo of the new food label where potassium is going to be required not optional.  I like that part of it.

  • soup warms you from the inside…

    soup

    Every so often I like to make a big pot of soup for the weekend.  It goes on the stove in the morning on Saturday, by afternoon it is ready.  Whenever I get hungry I’ll have a small bowl or a coffee mug full of soup.  Sunday morning, put it back on the stove, get hungry, eat soup.  Maybe add a different veggie into it or some rice or pasta around dinnertime to change it up a bit.  Monday, take it for lunch for work then have it for dinner.  Tuesday, dump the leftovers off the porch for any animal that wants a taste (three days is my limit for eating the same things over and over!)  Two, three months later, do it again.

    Extra awesome side effect?  Two days of rather low calorie consumption.

    My average calorie intake is about 1700 calories a day when “dieting”.  About 1400 if I’m being really strict.  So two days of mostly veggie soup dips way below that.

    The soup isn’t from a recipe per se.  Today’s version has cabbage, celery, carrots, onions, and green beans in beef broth and I am getting ready to have my first bowl!

    Nutritional breakdown, per cup.  It made about 24 cups but I rounded down to 20 just because…

    soupdetails

  • cookies again

    I call them cookies, but really, it’s like breakfast in indulgent baked form.

    This is the second one I’m getting ready to eat today:0125cookie

    Today’s recipe:

    • 1 banana
    • 4 oz applesauce
    • 1 cup quick oats
    • 2 tblsp PBSlim (vitacost’s version of PB2)
    • 2 scoops (45g) Aro Lean Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Diet Shake

    350 degrees for 12 minutes.

    Yum, yum, yum!!!    Often I put them in the mini muffin pan but today I just glopped it onto the cookie sheet so it made an odd number of 11 cookies.

    Nutritional Info (I track what I try to make sure I get enough of (or in the case of sodium what I try not to get too much of…) so no carb or fat info):

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    My husband suggested a version with pineapple instead of banana…  I may try that when these are gone (Monday?).  I don’t think I’d add the chocolate or peanut butter powders to that batch though.