Good Morning! Did you switch your clocks an hour ahead last night before you went to bed? Daylight Savings is tough when you lose an hour and even harder when you’ve not slept well. 🙁

But the day must go on whether I’m ready for it or not. Maybe I’ll be able to sneak in a little nap this afternoon.  Here’s to making the best of the day on little sleep!

The week ahead is looking pretty easy this week, not a lot of extra activity besides the usual kid stuff we do. I hope you enjoy your Sunday and get to relax and even take a nap if you want to. Lucky for me today I don’t have to do any cooking. My boys helped at a scout function last night and took home lots of yummy stuff. Sauce, meatballs, etc so they can munch on that and I will nap. 🙂

Happy Day to you!

Breakfasts

• Chocolate Zucchini Bread
• Quinoa sesame bars-recipe coming soon
• Pumpkin Vanilla Millet Porridge
• cereal, fruit-2x
• Egg Bacon Spinach Quiche cups-2x

Dinners

• Chicken Patty Melts-new recipe
• Meatball Kabobs & grilled veggies, Italian Potato Salad
• Crock Pot Chicken Taco Chili
• left overs
• Fish Piccata (same recipe as chicken piccata but with fish), spinach risotto
• Marinated London Broil, baked potatoes, Blue Cheese Fennel Salad

Tomorrow I will be turning in pics and stats to begin on Tuesday with the March FitFluuential DietBet. I’ve been struggling with 5 pounds for a lonnnnnnggg time and think this will be great motivation to really be disciplined to get it off. 4 weeks to lose 4% body weight is very realistic and the fact the money pot is almost $5000 is not too shabby! You still have time to join in if you’d like some motivation as well and the group support that goes with it! You can read more about it here, Join SFM in the March DietBet!

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Good Sunday Morning to you! This is the first menu plan of the New Year 2013! I took a break during the holidays to provide you recipes instead before Christmas and New Years, but honestly I didn’t like not having a menu plan truth be told. I was always like, “What am I making today for dinner?” I ‘d rather have a plan even if I can’t stick with it some days.

If your new around here you will see I don’t usually put a day of the week next to the meals, I can’t be that rigid.  I’d rather just know the ingredients I have ready to make these dishes whichever day I want to make it. If I need to change it around on a certain day I can easily switch. Works for me!

Many of you also said you’d love to know if and what I eat for breakfast and lunch since it may be different than the family. I can say that on the weekends the breakfasts are the same and dinners, but come Monday I buckle down and eat even leaner and lighter. So if my breakfasts are different I will share it in parenthesis. Honestly I try to make all my recipes healthy, lighter versions of what they love to eat  so I CAN ENJOY what everyone is eating and not have to make separate meals.

For lunches for myself this week I am planning on making up Vegetable Quinoa Salad and Cilantro Chicken Salad. Even though I homeschool, my children have music classes on Tuesday and Friday we are involved in an all day co-op so these two meals are perfect to pack into a lunchbox. They provide a few servings so I should be all set for the week.

Here’s a packed lunch box of my Chicken Salad Wrap Meal -To-Go:

This whole container for the entire meal is only 317 calories and 7 weight watchers points plus.  Check out more of my Meal-To-Go lunch recipes! All under 500 calories with snacks!

Breakfast

• Crock Pot Overnight GF Baked French Toast (new recipe)
• cereal & fruit-2x (My breakfast: No Bake Overnight Mango Oats)
• hard boiled eggs, toast, turkey bacon
• Blueberry Pancakes-2x

Dinners

• Slow Cooker Four Bean Chili, salad
• Roast Chicken, roasted carrots & parsnips, broccoli
• Crock Pot Turkey & Rice Stew (new recipe)
• left overs
• Baked Stuffed Chicken & Spinach, oven fried zucchini, brown rice pasta
• Out to Eat for our 16th Anniversary (Kiddies with grandparents)
• Marinated London Broil, spiced cabbage & onions, raw cucumbers, sweet potato fries

Hope you all have a fabulous week ahead!

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Happy Sunday!!

Even though Fall hasn’t officially started I am ready for it!!! Always feels like it to me once Labor day hits and the crazy New England weather! Some days its hot again like summer and some days it’s much cooler. I still love it! I especially  LOVE  all the yummy recipes that only remind of this awesome season.

So PUMPKIN is on my mind. I’m currently baking Mini Chocolate Pumpkin Breads in the oven and hope to share the recipe this coming week! But until then enjoy some of these yummy recipes for the week. The hubby will be out of town from Monday through Wednesday (boo) so it’s just me and the kiddies!

Here’s what’s on our menu!

Breakfasts

• Mini Chocolate Pumpkin Breads -recipe coming soon!
• Egg McMuffins (2x)- recipe from Balancing Beauty and Bedlam
• Pumpkin Spice Muffins(2x)
• Blueberry Oat Pancakes: Family Style
• Scrambled eggs, bagels, turkey bacon, fruit

Dinners

• Baby Christening party of my new little niece!
• Oven Fried Fish Nuggets with sauteed spinach/cheese, Baked Potato “chips“
• Healthier Taco Salad
• Spinach Mozzarella Flat Out Pizza’s, raw carrots/cucumbers with ranch
• Baked Stuffed Chicken & Spinach, brown rice pasta, salad
• Healthier Salisbury Steak[freeze any left overs], baked potatoes, Roasted Asparagus
• Healthy Chicken Enchilada Bake [freeze left overs], salad

Hope you have a fabulous day with your family!

HUGS,

Brenda

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Happy Sunday!!

Start your week with a healthy menu and you will increase your chances of having a less stressful week and you will most likely stay on target with your healthy weight loss or maintaining goals!

My menu never has the days of the week on it because I like to be a bit more flexible. These are the recipes I know I can make with the food I have in my fridge and pantry. If one day is more hectic or changes in plans occur, I can pick something else from the choices that might be less work to prepare. I always have a cooked meatloaf in the freezer ready to defrost if or when needed. 🙂

Breakfasts

• Parmesan Spinach Egg Bake-recipe coming
• Personal Sized Baked Oatmeal with Individual Toppings– 2x
• Healthy Blueberry Oat Pancakes
• cereal & yogurt, fruit- 2x
• Overnight Banana Steel Cut Oats

Dinners

• Ricotta Stuffed Chicken Breasts, steamed broccoli, boiled red potatoes
• Mediterranean Tuna Stuffed Pepper/ Kiddies Tuna Melts, raw cucumber/carrots
• Low Fat Crock Pot White Chicken Chili (My kids LOVE this!), fruit cup
• Healthier Potato Spinach Cheesy Frittata, salad, Mini Zucchini Cheese Bites
• Pork Piccata with Kale & Lemon Sauce over pasta ( changing kale to spinach)
• Kiddies at a Party, Hubby & I on a dinner date
• New Recipe

And now for some PINTEREST LOVE!!

Have a menu to share? Post your link.

Have any recipes that could use a healthy make-over?

Tell me what’s cooking in your house today?

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