Slim Sandwiches and Fluffy Salads

I’m really into sandwich “thins” lately. They’re just so ideal to hold a full-size sandwich for so few calories. I was excited to find Harvest Pride Slim Buns at Shop Rite the other day: they’re just 80 calories and 120mg sodium each! Of course they’re very thin, but they do the job and they aren’t mini sodium bombs like others tend to be. I still love big, fluffy bread, but it’s hard to keep my sodium under 1500mg/day and make a sandwich when the bread accounts for 300-400mg sodium. So sometimes I compromise fluffiness for the sake of saving sodium. But as far as I’m concerned, all sandwiches are the bee’s knees! hehe

Slim salmon burger + fluffy side salad

• Tossed salad: bed of mixed spring greens (I LOVE frisee! why can’t I find it sold solo??), plum tomato, red onion, cucumber, Lindsay low sodium black olives, cold pressed extra virgin olive oil, red wine vinegar, black pepper, AlsoSalt
• ~3oz salmon fillet drizzled with liquid smoke and a little EVOO grilled on George Foreman grill on a Harvest Pride Slim Bun (80 cal) with no salt added mustard (5 cal)

Calories: 370-400 calories

Fruity Tooty Udi’s Breakfast

I just had to try an Udi’s gluten free double chocolate muffin that I bought at Mother Earth’s a few weeks ago. And just like their blueberry muffin, it did not disappoint in the least. It was incredible! I defrosted one the night before and had it with a bowl of yogurt + fresh fruit and some raw slivered almonds…

Gorgeous fresh strawberries

Perfect texture, perfect flavor. Better than gluten muffins? Big maybe! You can’t even tell that they’re gluten-free, so I’d say that they’re definitely on the same level as a very delicious, moist gluten muffin. Yum!!

• 1/2 cup Chobani 0% plain Greek strained yogurt with 1 medium banana (110 cal), 4 large strawberries (25 cal), ~TBSP raw slivered almonds (45 cal)
• 1 Udi’s gluten free double chocolate muffin (270 cal, has chocolate chips in them!!)

Calories: 520

Udi’s has raised the bar on gluten-free baked goods. So far everything I have tried is amazing. I’m hoping in the future they’ll come out with hot dog and hamburger buns and lower sodium options. I’ll keep my fingers crossed!

Back problems

I haven’t been able to workout due to excruciating back pain. I think my walk on the rough terrain triggered a bout of sciatica or I might have a disk problem. Back problems run rampant on both sides of my family, in fact, I think almost everyone in my family has or has had major back problems. My father, mother, both grandmothers, aunts — geez, everyone! I have the worst pain in my lower back on the right side. Sometimes it subsides, but if I move the wrong way the pain takes my breath away. It’s gotten better in the past 24 hours, to a certain degree. When I lie down in bed, it flares up, but then I wake up feeling better. It really sucks that trying to make myself healthier resulted in even more discomfort. If the pain persists I’m going to try to get an MRI or something, but my MD is on vacation until next week, so we’ll see. I’m going to take it easy and try to keep movement to a minimum. Blah, always something, lol.

Tummy is rumbling, time to eat!!

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Tagged as: Chobani 0% Greek strained plain yogurt, Harvest Pride slim buns, Lindsay low sodium black olives, no salt added mustard, salad, salmon burger, Udi's gluten free double chocolate muffins