Back on track with drinking water regularly and eating better.
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I get a free loaner bike on Friday, pretty excited to start using that thing.
On the menu for the week:
- Power O's cereal, my favorite way to start the morning lately.
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It has all the benefits of eating beans without the GI distress of eating them in a meal
- Wild rice mix with seaweed seasoning
- Chocolate hazelnut milk
- Power greens and broccoli slaw salad with yogurt ranch dressing
- Ginger lime coleslaw with wasabi-soy almonds
- Watermelon basil smoothies
- Flattened oven-fried panko chicken breasts with spicy homemade marinara via fire-roasted tomatoes
Anyone have favorite "healthy swap" stuff? Mine are:
- Vegetable ketchup via Krazy Ketchup. 20 calories per Tbsp, 0 fat, and tastes pretty damn good as far as vegetable swaps go.
- Flourless brownies. I love this site, but these particularly tasted quite amazing with some dark chocolate chips:
Amazing Flour-less Brownies | Skinnytaste The secret ingredient is black beans and while I wouldn't say they're the same as regular brownies.. for 144 calories and a bit of wholesome fiber you can't beat it.
- Cauliflower. It's great ground up in a food processor and takes the shape of rice.. or potatoes in healthier potato salad.
- Sour cream instead of mayo on sandwiches and in potato salads and coleslaw
- Yogurt dressings. I'll never go back to regular dressing again!
- Powdered milk. It tends to have a ton more calcium for some reason, so I tend to use it in my cereal in the mornings.. and when I'm too lazy to heat up milk because I can dissolve it in already-hot water for hot chocolate. I keep it on hand when I run out of milk and I'm too lazy, but when I have a kitchen of my own I'll actually buy it in bulk because it tastes just as good if you get a high quality.