Jenn's Menu & Lifestyle Blog

I don’t know what happened yesterday, but we ate one meal and then I completely zonked out all day and through the night! Maybe all the activity from the day before caught up with me? I dunno, but I was exhausted, so I caved into the sandman. Maybe scrambled egg wraps are the new Thanksgiving dinner? That’s what we had, which was supposed to be my pre-workout mini meal, but it ended up being my bedtime snack. ha!

The wrap was super yummy and easy to make because I did it all in the microwave! 1 large egg (75 cal) with bell peppers, onions, 1 Applegate Farms chicken sausage (45 cal), and 14g Cabot 50% reduced fat shredded cheddar cheese (35 cal) with a wedge of seedless watermelon on the side:

Microwave steps

1.) I zapped Birds Eye bell pepper and onion stir fry strips in the microwave, then warmed the sausage link
2.) I scrambled an egg, then poured it over the peppers and sauce, then microwaved it for 1 minute 30 seconds
3.) When the eggs were fluffy, I wrapped the mixture in 1/2 of a Joseph’s 100% whole wheat lavash wrap (110 cal), sprinkled the cheese over it and rolled it up

1 serving, 290 calories

Yummy! I ate it really fast though, so it wasn’t very filling but satisfying. I was excited to try my new Vitaminwater 10 calorie flavor; grape raspberry. Meh. It tastes like all raspberry and it’s sort of bitter. Not sure if I like it or not. Lemonade and orange are still my favs.

Wednesday ~~~

I was pretty hungry when I woke up today, so I made my pre-workout meal pretty hefty. We’re trying to use up things in our fridge, freezer(s) and pantry being we’re starting to move next week! We had a bunch of hard boiled eggs in the fridge, so I made a quick egg salad with 1 large hard boiled egg (75 cal), 1 large hard boiled egg white (20 cal) and 1 TBSP Hellmann’s olive oil mayo (50 cal) = 1 serving, 145 calories and I didn’t miss the other yolk at all!

I ate it on 1 Martin’s 100% whole wheat potato roll (80 cal) with 1 sliced plum tomato and topped it with 1 gerkin dill pickle

I had one Living Right cheese pizza (240 cal) hanging out in the freezer, so I made pita pizzas for the family and popped this in the oven for me. It came soft on the bottom because I didn’t want to burn the cheese. It was still yummy though! I like pizza soft, crispy — whatever, I’ll eat it. haha

I couldn’t even really taste the pickle. Weird. I’m not sure what possessed me to put it on, either. I think I wanted something crunchy.

Pizza + open-faced egg salad sandwich = ~490 calories and soooooo gooooood! Kept me going through 60 minutes of my obstacle course, round one. Then I came upstairs to do some work and putz around. Before I went back downstairs to finish my workout, I had maybe 1/4 oz of peanuts. I brought a formula 50 Vitaminwater with me to sip on. It really helps, but it goes sooo fast! I try to pace myself so I don’t drink it all within the first 20 minutes lol.

Altogether, I did 2 hours of my obstacle course, 20 minutes of elliptical on various inclines and about 20-25 minutes of upper body strength training. My arms are SO sore! It was a good workout, but I still feel puffy. Probably because my sodium intake has been high, on top of drinking a lot of liquid due to exercise thirst. It will balance out though. I’m sure of that.

I was STARVING when I got done, so I quickly made a bowl of cereal with a banana:

1 PITIFUL serving (49g) of Cracklin’ Oat Bran (200 cal) that barely covered the bottom of my TINY bowl with 1 medium banana (110 cal) and 1 cup of Stonyfield Farm organic skim milk (90 cal) that drowned the itty bitty cereal and banana lol. Tasty, but hardly worth the 400 calories! Ah well, I needed some potassium. Have to balance my electrolytes, yo!

Speaking of high sodium… turkey dogs anyone? Yes, please! x 2

After my 3 bites of calorific cereal I preheated the oven to make baked beans! I totally cheated on this but it turned out excellent, even by picky hubby standards. WOO HOO!

2 cans Eden Organic no salt added pinto beans
6 slices Butterball thin & crispy turkey bacon
1 medium red onion, chopped
90g (6 TBSP) Fifty50 fructose maple syrup
1 TBSP brown sugar

1. Dice onion and chop up turkey bacon
2. Drain cans of beans
3. Add all of it to an oven safe dish and mix with syrup and brown sugar
4. Bake in preheated 425F oven for 35-60 minutes depending on how dry you want them. I baked mine for about 45 minutes, then let them sit in the oven after I shut it off for another 15-20 mins.

The result: A fantastic side dish for 2 turkey hot dogs (120 cal, 60 cal each, 260mg sodium each) on 2 slices Alvarado Street Bakery No Salt! bread (180 cal) with mustard and no salt added ketchup and a side of blanched fresh broccoli

I love these cute little cafeteria-style trays!! <3 Sooo cute and they worked perfectly for this meal!

~1/2 cup of the baked beans, I don’t know the exact calories or the exact measurement I used being the measuring cup was overflowing

I had seconds after this helping, too! They were AWEsome! Dustin said they were “10 out of 10 nom noms” LOL.

I opted for salt free bread to save some sodium and some calories. Hubby had THREE Martin’s hot dog buns, which are 130 calories and 200mg sodium each. So I saved 80 calories and 400mg sodium. Not bad! I estimate the turkey dogs, beans and broccoli to be around 550 calories, give or take, not including my bean refill.