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February 21, 2005
meal planning
last week i decided to start planning dinner a week in advance. here is what i discovered:
- i don't feel like doing my advance cooking on sunday night, but that's ok because...
- oddly, i don't mind doing it monday when i get home from work. when my airport express arrives, that's going to be even better.
- one large dish will pretty much last me all week.
last week, i made something that i thought was going to be a side-dish, but which wound up being a main course. it's a variation on something they make at the company cafe, called "snappy spinach". it's basically a spinach casserole made with pepper jack cheese. my variation is to add a package of cooked, crumbled country sausage.
it was insanely delicious and satisfying. however, i could just feel my arteries clogging as i ate it, so the next time i make it, i'll definitely opt for a much leaner meat, and add seasonings to it to make it more flavorful.
tonight, i'm making chicken parmesan. i made my own italian breadcrumbs by putting two slices of low-carb bread in the food processor with some dried parsley, basil, and some garlic powder. i dried them on a baking sheet in the oven while the oven pre-heated. it really wasn't that difficult to make. it should carry me through all the dinners i'll have at home this week.
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i've been thinking a lot about how to make this diet liveable over a long term. not just a few months, but as long as it takes to get down to my goal weight. the weekly meal planning is obviously going to help, both because it makes dinner more manageable after work, and because it's forcing me to expand my repertoire of recpies.
i'm trying to modify my attitude toward "cheating". i think it helps a lot to realize that straying from the diet just means it will take a little longer to reach my goal-- not that i have completely lost control and might as well give up. sticking with my rule of returning to a strict interpretation of the diet immediately after straying (i've decided that the word cheating implies a good/bad dichotomy that is not helpful) has helped a lot... it's not that difficult of a rule to follow, and it makes me feel like i'm staying in charge of things.
Posted by lisa at February 21, 2005 07:42 PM | TrackBack
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