Beef Gyros

Sauce:

1 cup of fat free plain yogurt

1/4 c minced parsley

1/2 tsp minced garlic

1/2 minced cucumber

1/8 salt

Gyros:

1 tsp oregano

1 tspoon minced rosemary

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp pepper

1 pound beef top sirloin steak, cut very thinly

1 large onion, sliced

4 tsp olive oil, EVOO

4 whole gyro pitas/flat bread, warmed

Now Double it all for my family!

Combine top 5 ingredients and refrigerate until serving.

In large ziploc type bag combine oregano, rosemary, salt and pepper.  Add beef. Seal bag and toss to coat.

In a large skillet, saute onion in 2 tsp oil until golden brown.  Remove and keep warm.  Saute beef in remaining oil until no longer pink. 

Serve beef and onion on pitas with yogurt sauce.  We also like to add lettuce and sliced tomatoes.

Raspberry Chocolate (diet?) Cake

Yes, you read that right, it's a "diet" cake.  I'm sure 95% off the female population has heard of weight watchers cupcakes, made with a box of cake mix and a diet soda.  And it's worth 1 point.  Top it with fat free whipped topping and it's a perfect solution to a sweet tooth.  And the combinations are ENDLESS!

Well, my lovely daughter sees a chocolate cake (raspberry mocha chocolate cake OMG!) on tv and says, "Mommy, can you make that for me?"  Oh sure, that'll help my diet a whole bunch!  And then Jason says, "Yeah Mommy, can you make that?"

Yeah, sure, why not.  But I had a plan: Diet Cake!

Bought a box of devil's food for $.88 at Walmart and a 12 pack of raspberry Diet Rite (I love that stuff!) for $2.98, plus deposit.

Whipped it up, just one can, mind you.  Stuck it in a silicone bundt pan and threw it into the microwave for 12 minutes.  

Out came the most yummilicious looking cake that I've seen in at least a week.

Oh yea, I remember what we were watching when she saw that cake on tv:  The National Wedding Cake Decoration Contest!  WOW.  That's all I can say about that!

So, slice of yummilicious on plate with a dallop of fat free whipped topping: 2 points.  

Amazing.

Menu for 2.28 - 3.6.10

I'm going away this weekend and it's going to be L-O-V-E-L-Y!  Aren't you jealous?  A wonderful weekend at the coast with my PMS girls.  I can't wait!  So I set up easy meals for the family to enjoy while I was gone.

28 Meatloaf,  mashed taters and veggies

1 Steak Gyros  & Salad

2 Burritos

3 Creamy Potatoes with Pork Chops

4 Burgers and  potato salad

5 better cheddars and fries

6 Spaghetti

Also, that means there will be a delay in menu planning for next weekend.  Oh well!

Here is my shopping list:

	Shopping List:
	Produce $ 12		Meat  $ 27
$4 $3 $2 $3	Salad Red potatoes Shredded lettuce Apple/oranges	$6 $3 $5 $5 $.69/lb	Ground turkey x2 Ground pork Pork roast Steak Chicken (whole)
	Dairy  $ 17		Deli $  12
$6 $3 2/$4 $2 $2	Milk, 2-1% & 1-2% Creamer @eggs Cottage cheese Sour cream	$3 2/$5 $4	Shredded cheese Better cheddars Cheese sticks/string cheese
	Frozen $ 10		Bread $ 21
$3 $3 $4	Mixed veggies/ broccoli fries	$4 $3 $2 $4 $2	Flour tortilla Sandwich bread Lunch bread Burger buns (4) Hot dog buns (2)
	Canned/Staples $ 18		Other $ 6
$3 $4 $2 $1 $4 $3 $2 $1	Mayo Instant potatoes Cream of chicken (2) Cream of celery Tomato products  Spaghetti noodles @SW Ranch @Ranch	$2 $4	Lunch side @fruit snacks

Lower Fat Chicken Cordon Bleu

by DesireeD 

Low Fat Chicken Cordon Bleu

This is a lower fat version of a favorite in my house.

Ingredients

• 7 medium chicken breast
• 7 servings laughing cow
• 7 servings 97% fat free cooked ham
• 1/2 cup bread crumbs
• 1 Tbsp italian seasoning

Directions

1. "Beat" chicken breast out thin using a meat mallet or whatever you'd like.
2. Place a slice of ham on chicken breast and a wedge of laughing cow light swiss on the ham slice. Roll up and hold together with a toothpick, if needed.
3. Sprinkle with bread crumbs, and then Italian seasoning. Bake at 375 for 35-40 minutes.
4. I like to serve with asparagus.

I just copied and pasted this from my fatsecret.com cookbook.  I've got them everywhere!

2.21.10 - 2.27.10 Menu

21 Shepherds pie

22 Chicken Cordon Bleu

23 Mexican Chicken and Rice

24 Chicken Stroganoff w/Rice

25 Burgers and  French Fries

26 Shrimp and broccoli Stirfry

27Creamy Chicken Penne

Lots of chicken this week.  I guess I was in a chicken mood when I made this up!
And here is my grocery shopping list!

	Shopping List:
7.60	Produce $	31.00	Meat  $
2.60 2.00 3.00	Asparagus ($1.28lb) apples Red potatoes	10.00 12.00 4.00 5.00	Ground turkey x2 Chicken x2 Shrimp Burgers
9.00	Dairy  $	12.00	Deli $
6.00 2.00 1.00	Milk 2-1% 1-2% Creamer Sour cream	3.00 5.00 4.00	Swiss cheese @Ham x2 @Cheddar (2lb brick)
3.00	Frozen $	9.00	Bread $
3.00	Broccoli	4.00 2.00 1.50 1.50	Sandwich bread x4 Lunch bread Hamburger buns Thin buns
29.00	Canned/Staples $	14.00	Other $
1.00 1.00 4/2.00 5.00 2.00 2.50 2.50 3.00 5.00 5.00	Diced tomatoes with chiles Olives Green beans x4 @FM juice 3/$5 Cream of mushroom x4 Angel hair pasta x2 Penne noodles x2 Honey Coffee Splenda sub (walmart)	3.00 $6.00 3/5.00	Check out ($?) peanuts in bulk for PB @deodorant Breakfast Mix @Gallon ziplocs

Chicken and Tortellini Soup

Yum in a bowl.  And healthy too!  This is a BIG stock pot of soup and will feed us for days.  As it should!

Ingredients:
6 carrots, diced
5 celery stocks, diced
1 large onion, diced
20 cups of water


4 Tbsp Better Than Bullion paste
3 cups of chicken, shredded or diced (I cooked a whole chicken in the crock pot and then picked it apart)
3 cups tortellini, either dehydrated or refrigerated

Instructions:
Coat bottom of stockpot with 2-3 Tbsp of EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil) and place cut up veggies in pot.  Cook over medium/high heat until just soft.
Add water, Better Than Bullion and chicken.
Bring water to simmer and add tortellini.  Cook about 12-15 minutes until pasta is done.
Tada!  Dinner is served!

  Done!  

I'm in Love

With Hungry Girl  dot  com
Seriously, she rocks major booty.  She has all these amazing swap recipes, where she takes something that tastes amazing and swaps the ingredients and cooking methods with something that doesn't clog-your-arteries-simply-by-reading-it.  And then to make it an even more amazing experience she puts the WW point value.
Now I'm not doing WW currently/anymore but it's a comfortable idea for me to watch points.  I know where I'm supposed to be point wise and the site I'm using to monitor my weight loss/exercise  figures in WW points as well as calories, so it's a win-win for me.
I get the daily HG (m-f) emails with little snip-its and then Jaqui mentioned she had her cookbook so I looked up some recipes on recipezaar.com and fell in deeper-mad-love with the amazing woman that Hungry Girl is.

Here is one of the greatest swap recipes.

Make it, love it, thank me later.