Food Diary Week 2: Low Carb Menu Plan Week 2

Menu Plan:

--Slow cooker pulled pork (cooked in salsa, cumin, chili powder) 'tacos' with lettuce, homemade guacamole, fresh salsa, and cheese. I have small corn tortillas that are supposedly (per product label) 9 grams of carbs and may have 1--otherwise I'll eat this as a salad.

--Slow cooker corned beef and sauerkraut with caraway seeds. Served topped with melted Swiss cheese and  Thousand Island dressing on the side. Basically a breadless reuben.

--Bunless burgers with roasted brussel sprouts (roasted in basalmic vinegar, shallots and olive oil--may add some bacon)

--Jamaican jerk pork served with salad and roasted Kale (shallots, vinegar, olive oil, some sea salt).

--Take out--leaning toward Longhorn all meat chili and side salad or maybe steak and salad

Breakfasts
--Spincah Frittata with feta cheese. I'm trying to use up some bulk feta cheese before it goes bad.

Lunches
--Taco salad with ground turkey, salsa, light sprinkling of cheese, and almonds.
--Leftover pulled pork and corned beef

Improvement Goals Over Previous Week
--Eat less cheese, even though the menu may not seem like it's less, I will be cutting back on amounts.
--No more kefir for now--too many carbs in my opinion and I don't like it plain
--Reduce consumption of Wasa crackers
--Eat more calories for breakfast

So that's the plan...here's what actually happened.

Monday
Breakfast: 2 eggs scrambled, sprinkled with 1 tbs cheese, served with fresh salsa

Lunch: Taco salad with 2 cups romaine and green leaf lettuce, some cucumber, 1/3 cup fresh salsa, 1 tbs shredded cheese, 3/4 cup ground turkey, 8 almonds. 1/2 cup sliced strawberries and 1 prune.

Dinner: Breadless reuben

Exercise: 30 min walking

Tuesday
Breakfast: 2oz cheese and then 1 egg scrambled with salsa

Lunch: Taco salad, 1/2 cup strawberries

Dinner: 2 Jamaican jerk pork chops

Exercise: 30 min elliptical

Wednesday:

Breakfast: 2 spinach egg muffins

Lunch: Breadless reuben

Dinner: Pulled pork taco salad

Exercise: 40 min walked the dog

Thursday:
Breakfast: 1 pint brussel sprouts roasted with bacon, shallots and a splash of balsamic vinegar.

Lunch: Nothing. Wasn't hungry.

Dinner: Houlihan's 6 chicken wings, salad with chicken

Exercise: Didn't have time.

Friday:
Breakfast:1.5 egg with 2 tbsp spinach and 2 tbsp cheese

Lunch: I really need to cook--there's nothing to eat! 2 wasa crackers with laughing cow light cheese

Snack: 2 wasa crackers with 2 tbsp natural peanut butter and 2tbsp red. sugar jam, 12 carbs worth of dark chocolate
 
Dinner: Frozen meatballs. Package says they have 5 carbs per serving.

Exercise: 30 min elliptical, 40 min carrying boxes up and down stairs

Saturday:
Breakfast: 1 egg with spinach and cheese

Lunch: Roasted chicken breast

Dinner: Panera salad with chicken and tomato soup

Exercise: No time. I would have walked the dogs if it hadn't been raining. We had a full day and I got to go out to a movie with my hubby for the first time since December.