Yummmm, spaghetti sounds good Loz, that is one of my favorites:) I Italian food! Tonight I am making chicken & dumpling pie. I make a pizza type crust using jiffy mix, spread the crust with mashed potatoes, chicken cooked & cubed, fresh veggies...I like corn, green beans, mushrooms, peas & onions. Cover that with thick chicken gravey made from the chicken stock after boiling the chicken. Then I put a crust on top & bake. Ya get your whole meal in one pan...kind of an alternative to pizza:) My kids love it, so does hubby

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z5b

Sooo tired...cooking is out of the question...

Ordered Chinese:

Crispy Szechuan Beef
Crispy Orange Chicken
BBQ Pork with Snow Peas
Fried Wonton
Crab Puffs
Fried Rice
Egg Roll
Fried Shrimp
Won Ton Soup

Ahhhh..

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Anyone here like Salmon on the grill????? Just marinate it with whatever you like and voila! Or tuna steak, or swordfish, you get the idea....yum!!!!! With some really crispy baked potatoes and a salad...what could be better???

You are all making me hungry! I've got corned beef and cabbage on the stove now and i am soooo hungry!!

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Tonight we had salmon in the oven. Actually, the hubby ate it. I was too full from our really late lunch that we had. I made chili tonight too!! It is cooking in the crock pot over night so that Stephen can take it to work with him tomorrow.

So today marked 7 days on the diet. I weighed myself.....are you ready for this???? I lost 11 pounds!!! WooHoo!! (party hat) And that was even without exercising. I think we'll start walking in the evening. I'd love to do something more cardiovascular, but my knees cannot do that right now (I need surgery on both of them). Anyways.... that was all just a side note. I'm just soo excited!

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Its not a hard one either...you eat salad with almost every lunch and dinner, but I didn't even do that (started getting a little tired of salads by Friday). You totally cut out dairy, breads, and sugar for the first week or two. That was rough because I love ice cream...but I can have sugar-free ice pops, so that curbed that craving. The guy who came up with the diet is a cardiologist and he was trying to find a way to help his pateints lower their colesterol, triglicerides, and something else. After a month of the diet, all of their levels were down to regular levels (even people who had a colesterol of almost 300!!!) and as a by prodeuct, were losing weight! You should get the book...its really good!!

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The South Beach Diet. Its not really a low-carb diet. Well, it could be, I guess. For the first week or 2 weeks you don't eat dairy, breads, or anything with sugar (no fruit, candy, anything). You basically eat salads, lean meats and most vegetables. That is done to reset your insulin. Alot of people who are overweight are insulin resistent....if they diet, it doesn't really work because their insulin has to go up and down depending what they eat. With this diet, your glucose levels pretty much stay the same instead of jumping up high when you eat a piece of bread and them plumoting down and causing you to get a craving. I wasn't hungry at all...you eat as much as you want...no measuring portions. The book is really good, like I said before. I learned alot.

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Well I am going to have to seriously check into this south beach diet...sounds easier than any other I have ever tried. But I am a notorious diet cheater...so we shall see if I can make it through this one lol:)

Tonight I was lazy in the kitchen, been spending so much time working at my mom's place I did not feel like cooking at all. We had smokey links & tater tots lol:) The kids loved it, my husband was a little bit unhappy, but I think he'll survive

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z5b

HI EVERYONE..WE JUST HAVE THE WORST TIME EVERY WEEK TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO EAT THAT WE HAVENT JUST HAD. BEEF, CHICKEN, MORE BEEF, MORE CHICKEN, PORK, SALADS, SPUDS, BUT WE REALLY NEED HELP FIGURING IT OUT WHAT TO EAT WITH OUT PULLING OUR HAIR OUT. OR GOING A LITTLE LOOPY. I KNOW IT WILL BE EASIER WHEN ALL THE VEGIES ARE READY. UNTILL THEN... SUGGESTIONS ANYONE ?? IM NOT TOO KEEN ON THE CHINESE FOOD OR OF THE SORTS. PHIL IS O.K. WITH MORE THEN I AM. HELP.. LAURA

Cindy, You know what is funny..I have a bookcase full of cookbooks and simply like to look at them. when it comes to making things we more or less have to save that for the weekends. I am a 2nd shifter so i try not to eat when i get home at night. A snack of some kind is o.k...but a full blown meal... Phil is more the cook in our house then me. We do share it on the weekends. But it the figuring out WHAT we want that is hard.. Laura.

We had Brat's on the grill tonight. Raw fries w/onion's and corn. We were working outside in the yard as much as we could after the drenching we got last night. Had the kitchen cleaned and dishes done and really didn't want to get alot dirty. Sunday skirt steak. Laura

had chicken breasts that were marinated in a mixture of soy sauce, worchestershire sauce, white wine, minced garlic, onion powder and water. I cut the breasts into stripes (the long way), stabbed them with a fork and let them sit for about an hour then threaded them onto skewers and onto the grill they went. I coasted them with olive oil and a bit of mrs. dash while they were grilling. Then I made mashed cauliflower (tastes like potatoes). That was it....was going to have salad, but didn't feel like it.

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Yummmmmm......
I figure reading about yummy food is better than eating it and gaining a hundred pounds! I am absolutely dying for some fried green tomatoes! Oooh...with mashed potatoes. And fresh green beans.....

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