What I eat in a day...

Hey Nerds,
"It's been a hot minute since I posted".  Anyway...
I tend to watch a lot of fitness and health YouTubers, and one of the recurring themes is "What I Eat in a Day", so I figured I would join the party train and do a post about what I at in a day (along with Weight Watcher Smart Points).  I was a little more careful with this day's eating because I would be sharing it, but typically my day might include a handful (or two, or three) of chips, and some of the kid's Halloween chocolate bars, but I've been trying to be more careful in the last week.

Breakfast.  This is a breakfast I eat almost daily: hard boiled egg (1 to 1.5) and fruit.  Here I've got some orange slices.  I used to not like hard boiled eggs, but I found that if they're at room temperature, they're tastier; I don't like eating them cold.  Smart Points Value: 0.



Lunch.  Next up is lunch, and this is where I experiment with food more... My lunch is typically something my family would not eat, and it's also packed in with veggies.  I don't typically have salad... most often I'm making some sort of veggie based noodle, with leftover meat, and pad thai flavorings.  However, today I had a nice big salad (probably 2-3 cups, it looks smaller in this picture) consisting of romaine*, cucumber, tomato, red onion, sliced black olives, pickled jalapeno slices, and 1/2 cup of kidney beans.  I drizzled it with 1 Tbs of homemade Italian vinaigrette.  Smart Points Value: 2. (1 point for the olives, and 1 point for the dressing.)

* - This was actually from the start of the romaine lettuce recall... and I ate romaine anyway, call me crazy.

Afternoon Snack Time.  I love snacking, and I love finding a snack that is something I actually look forward too.  For this afternoon's snack I'm having 2 Tbs peanut butter powder (whaaat?), 1 tsp honey, and enough water to make a dip-able consistency.  For dipping I'm using Good Thins, The Corn One.  I'm using exactly 18 because that's how many I can have for 1 point.  Smart Points Value: 3. (1 point for PB powder, 1 point for honey, 1 point for crackers).  This tastes really good.  I will sometimes have this with apple wedges instead of crackers.

Dinner... er... pre-dinner mis-hap.  Usually on a Wednesday night, Dwayne comes home with a medium Pizza Hut Canadian pizza because there's a special on them... Dwayne and the kids eat a slice and the rest goes to the kid's lunch for the next day, and in the fridge for random snacking.  I try not to cave in and eat a slice, but the smell was too good to pass up.  The pizza person that cut the pizza though did a very un-even job in slicing the pizza; it was to my advantage because I just took one of the smaller sliced pieces.  I almost forgot to take a picture so the first couple of bites are missing.  Smart Points Value: 5.  The Weight Watchers app says 1 slice of a medium Canadian is 6 pts, but since my slice was on the small side, I'm going to go with 5 points.



Dinner.  For dinner I thinly sliced chicken cutlets, dipped them in a beaten egg, then into flour and pan fried it.  For the side, I sauteed broccoli florets,mushrooms, and red onion in some olive oil.  Meanwhile, i cooked egg noodles in another pot.  When the egg noodles were done, i drained them, and added it to the pan with broccoli and added some butter and olive oil.  It got tossed all together and heated through.  I ate one chicken cutlet, and 1.5 cups of the noodles and broccoli (more broccoli than noodles).  This was a bit harder to enter into the Weight Watchers app, but this is what I estimated: 9 Smart Points.  (1 Tbs of oil between the chicken and the noodles/veg - 4 points, 2 tsp of flour - 1 point, 3/4 cup of broad egg noodles - 4 points)

Night Time Snack.  Time for a little sweet treat... 12 semi-sweet chocolate chips and 1 Tbs raw sunflower seeds.  I know, you're thinking I'm weird for counting out 12 chocolate chips, but I always take food and figure out how many I can have for 1 point.  Well, whatever, it's a tasty little treat with some good fats and some chocolate sweetness.  To be fancy, I ate it in this tiny bowl with a tiny spoon.  I got this in a set of three from Dollarama a few years ago.  I think they're meant for serving dipping liquids.  They were so darn cute!

Well, there you have it,... probably not as exciting as you would hope it would be.

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