P2's What's on your menu for today?

[Mindfulness]

Thought I'd pop in here for a bit and share some tips that got me through P2. I did 40 days of cooking everyday for hubby and I. I also had to pack his lunch everyday. We both lost 25 lbs.

Every week I'd buy boneless, skinless chicken breasts and portion them out into small ziploc bags so they'd be easier to thaw a little at a time. I also bought the big bag of Tilipia fillets (individually frozen and sealed) from Walmart. I'd usually pick up one bag of cooked shrimp for when I was in a hurry to pack a meal. Walmart also has great little 1 lb rolls of "diet" ground beef. Those are great for hamburgers.

The chicken I'd either cut into bite sized pieces and cook in lemon juice in my cast iron skillet with lots of seasonings or leave whole and grill outside. Tony Chachere's cajun seasoning, Adobo mexican seasoning, and Weber roasted garlic and herb, and plain old red pepper flakes were my favorite seasonings. For the lemon juice, I got a big 2 pack of bottled Real Lemon juice at Sam's. The bite sized pieces were great to throw in a ziploc bag for packed lunches. Just add sliced cucumbers or tomatoes, melba, and an apple.

Another favorite chicken recipe was the chicken tomato basil dish. I'm sure it's on here somewhere. It was great for a nice hot meal.

For the hamburgers, I'd open the 1 pd roll of meat and put it in a bowl with dehydrated onion, the Weber roasted garlic and herb, and Tony Chachere's and mix it up real good. Then just portion out 4 equal sized hamburger patties. I love to cook them in the cast iron skillet then take them out and add some lemon juice to the pan and sauté baby spinach in the juice. Yum.

The foil fish packets are what really got us by though. Tear off large squares of heavy duty foil, then lay either spinach or asparagus down, top with fish, season well, then squeeze 3 lemon slices over the top. Throw lemon slices in and close up tight, grill on a hot closed grill for 10 minutes. Heaven! If I used fresh asparagus, I'd steam it for 5 minutes or so first. We had this at least 3 nights a week.

For salad's I make a dressing with ACV, stevia, spicy mustard, seasonings, and hot sauce. It was tolerable when we wanted salad.

Every night we'd have cut up strawberries with stevia sprinkled on top.

I learned how to drink coffee black with just English Toffee stevia and it actually wasn't bad.

I was starving the first week. From 3pm-5pm every day, I thought I was going to die of starvation. Then sometime during the second week, the hunger went away and I was hardly ever very hungry. I'd just get a little hungry around meal times. I was 3 days into P3 before my hunger really came back.

This works! Just have faith and keep plugging along!

Happy releasing everyone!!

[walkingwoman]

Stacey, thanks for posting all the great tips! You guys sure rocked P2!!!

Here's my menu for today:

Cod with grilled butter lettuce and lemon vinagerette with orange slices
Corned beef and cabbage with sliced strawberries
Tons of water, probably a sf lemondrop icy

[12yrslater]

My menu: (as mentioned previous, I am BORING).


Coffee to start my day. Black but with splenda.
Another cup of joe same as above.
I just ate filet mignon (it was on the list of lower cal/fat) grilled on George Foreman (yum) and cucumbers. My new fav way to have them is stringing a whole one. Squeezing some lemon juice over it and a nudge of salt. YUMM...I love the texture better than sliced AND volume
Grissini
Will probably make strawberry smoothie thing in a minute.

Dinner will be lemon chicken and same as above for cucumbers. I need to change up my veggie but I am LOVING cucs right now
Apple with sprinkled cinnamon & 1 packet of splenda. NUKE & enjoy.
Grissini

Will be drinking water and loads of coffee throughout the day.

[Somewhat Damaged]

Originally Posted by 12yrslater

My menu: (as mentioned previous, I am BORING).


Coffee to start my day. Black but with splenda.
Another cup of joe same as above.
I just ate filet mignon (it was on the list of lower cal/fat) grilled on George Foreman (yum) and cucumbers. My new fav way to have them is stringing a whole one. Squeezing some lemon juice over it and a nudge of salt. YUMM...I love the texture better than sliced AND volume
Grissini
Will probably make strawberry smoothie thing in a minute.

Dinner will be lemon chicken and same as above for cucumbers. I need to change up my veggie but I am LOVING cucs right now
Apple with sprinkled cinnamon & 1 packet of splenda. NUKE & enjoy.
Grissini

Will be drinking water and loads of coffee throughout the day.

How do you do this?

[12yrslater]

Originally Posted by Somewhat Damaged

How do you do this?

I come from an Atkins background and always loved to do "zoodles" (zuchinni noodles). I would use a julienne peeler but it was a pain (to me anyway). I was at an Asian market a few months ago and came accross this nifty lil' gadget that was inexpensive (3 bucks). It's peels like a julienne peeler but in multiples. I love that thing

[Lorrie200]

B-Water
L- tilapia, aparagus, green apple w/cinn/stivia in Mircowave
D- chicken breast, Radishes, orange slices

I have had radishes in the fridge for 5 days and just kept looking past them cause I dont really like them much..then I decided to make the move and boiled them up..and..OMG..I LOVE THEM! A bit of salt n pepper and I devoured them. The light seasoning was good but I cant wait to eat them on P3 with sourcream and baconbits with my steak.

Wonder what they would be like mashed up like mashed potatoes. Hmmm..Just a thought.

[KOO]

B-Water
L-chicken, sauteed onions
D-p2 chili, melba, apple w/ WF choc
S-Strawberries w/ WF choc

[sassy_red]

Stacey those are awesome tips, thanks so much for sharing!!

Dinner was sauted (in water) shrimp, celery and tomato; I ddnt season anything much as the shrimp was precooked and filled with salt but I added a bit of Tony Chachere's Creole seasonings (just a dash) to add some kick. Turned out good; the tomatoes I didn't leave in long at all and they were still firm but warm. I'll have to do that one again, maybe add some garlic or lemon juice to spice things up a tad!! It's funny, last time I didn't have any celery and this round I'm loving the stuff!

[catzrule]

Karen, look at M go! Is she psyched?

[Mindfulness]

Originally Posted by sassy_red

Stacey those are awesome tips, thanks so much for sharing!!

Dinner was sauted (in water) shrimp, celery and tomato; I ddnt season anything much as the shrimp was precooked and filled with salt but I added a bit of Tony Chachere's Creole seasonings (just a dash) to add some kick. Turned out good; the tomatoes I didn't leave in long at all and they were still firm but warm. I'll have to do that one again, maybe add some garlic or lemon juice to spice things up a tad!! It's funny, last time I didn't have any celery and this round I'm loving the stuff!

Lemon juice and Tony Chachere's makes everything better!

I forgot about celery! We discovered that almost at the end of P2 that chopped up celery, sauted in chicken broth and braggs is very yummy!

[walkingwoman]

Funny you guys are mentioning celery! I'm using it today too for the first time (I think?)

Here's my menu:
Strawberry shake with berries that I overnighted in Cascade Ice cosmo flavored beverage (super duper yummy!) cottage cheese and cucumber.

I'm going to steam some shrimp, then chill, then shread and mix with some finely diced celery for bulk, mustard, lemon juice, white pepper, garlic and a dash of hot sauce and use celery for scoops and serve it with an orange icy drink made with fresh orange, a sf orange drink (not sure which one yet, hitting the market for my walk and coffee!) and ice.

Plenty of water! and 3 cups of the weightless tea Dawn uses. I finally found it yesterday but forgot to try it Pricey stuff! Hope it is magical for the price

[KOO]

Originally Posted by catzrule

Karen, look at M go! Is she psyched?

She is......but I don't think she is looking to do it a second round. It is getting easier with adding the WF's in but right now she is just looking to get it over with and move on to P3 and then P4. I think once she can actually see some loss, that might change.

[sassy_red]

Breakfast this morning was a tomato and spinach omelet with just a bit of Creole seasoning and salt; the tomatoes made a very good flavor all by themselves. For lunch I decided to try radishes for the first time since I was a child, and proceeded to boil the snot out of them.

Wow. People who say they can be substituted for potatoes are right!! Next time I'll add more salt but anyone have a good way to fix theirs? I'm not a fan at all of them raw but cooked, yum!

I also had a burger patty, and apple slices again cooked in water and 2 capfulls of Torani's caramel syrup. Still loving that dessert!!

[walkingwoman]

Karen, your daughter is doing fabulous! If she continues to do this well next week, I bet she'll be completely amazed at the changes in her physique and it really does get easier over time. You guys are still feeling your way on which foods make her fuller, which ones hit the spot, finding some great sauce combos, etc.

Speaking of sauce combos...omg. I decided to do the shrimp for lunch and use my strawberries/cosmo combo to make a granita. Omg. Fabulous! Instead of steaming shrimp I already had, I bought salad size at the market, added 100 gms of super diced celery and mixed it with mustard, lemon juice, ground dill, seasalt, a splash of ACV and a dash of hot sauce. FABULOUS and filling. Served it with celery sticks and the dessert really is wonderful too! wow! Definitely going to make this one again! Now I'm not sure about dinner. Might skip the shake and go with something else. Hmmm...

[mybigbutt]

Originally Posted by sassy_red

Breakfast this morning was a tomato and spinach omelet with just a bit of Creole seasoning and salt; the tomatoes made a very good flavor all by themselves. For lunch I decided to try radishes for the first time since I was a child, and proceeded to boil the snot out of them.

Wow. People who say they can be substituted for potatoes are right!! Next time I'll add more salt but anyone have a good way to fix theirs? I'm not a fan at all of them raw but cooked, yum!

I also had a burger patty, and apple slices again cooked in water and 2 capfulls of Torani's caramel syrup. Still loving that dessert!!

I bought some radishes to try boiled tonight, too! Gonna boil them in chicken stock and see how that goes.

I do like them raw, but I can't imagine eating that many of them at once.

[walkingwoman]

Originally Posted by Lorrie200

B-Water
L- tilapia, aparagus, green apple w/cinn/stivia in Mircowave
D- chicken breast, Radishes, orange slices

I have had radishes in the fridge for 5 days and just kept looking past them cause I dont really like them much..then I decided to make the move and boiled them up..and..OMG..I LOVE THEM! A bit of salt n pepper and I devoured them. The light seasoning was good but I cant wait to eat them on P3 with sourcream and baconbits with my steak.

Wonder what they would be like mashed up like mashed potatoes. Hmmm..Just a thought.

Originally Posted by sassy_red

Breakfast this morning was a tomato and spinach omelet with just a bit of Creole seasoning and salt; the tomatoes made a very good flavor all by themselves. For lunch I decided to try radishes for the first time since I was a child, and proceeded to boil the snot out of them.

Wow. People who say they can be substituted for potatoes are right!! Next time I'll add more salt but anyone have a good way to fix theirs? I'm not a fan at all of them raw but cooked, yum!

I also had a burger patty, and apple slices again cooked in water and 2 capfulls of Torani's caramel syrup. Still loving that dessert!!

I'm sure they'd be yummy mashed or as the veggie (maybe first boiled, then sliced and fried up? with eggs

Sassy, I made a batch a few weeks? ago in my crockpot. I just added broth and seasonings. I made them once with a beef roast as well and whole garlic cloves. Delicious!

[mybigbutt]

Originally Posted by walkingwoman

I'm sure they'd be yummy mashed or as the veggie (maybe first boiled, then sliced and fried up? with eggs

Sassy, I made a batch a few weeks? ago in my crockpot. I just added broth and seasonings. I made them once with a beef roast as well and whole garlic cloves. Delicious!

Oooh, garlic cloves. Good idea (as usual WW!). Can you post a thread of just your recipes? /only half kidding...

[KOO]

Originally Posted by mybigbutt

Oooh, garlic cloves. Good idea (as usual WW!). Can you post a thread of just your recipes? /only half kidding...

I second that! I read about what WW is preparing for her daughter for the week and was thinking I really need the recipes.

[mybigbutt]

No pressure WW.

[walkingwoman]

Better yet. After the crockpot you could mash the garlic cloves with the Radatos and have garlic mashed! Maybe add some parsley and seasalt with that. YUMMMMMM> If you're a xantham user you could easily make a gravy with the broth too. lol. hahahah. No reason to be bored on this plan! Just have to put forth a little effort and have no life

[walkingwoman]

Koo, the recipes are super easy. I just really like cooking A LOT. In my ideal world I would have a whole bunch of people to cook for but in real life, I don't In my old life with my dh, we entertained all the time and I miss it so much but am not ready to do it alone. I do occasionally but not like I used to and it's an odd feeling in our house to be having parties without him and it kind of makes not only me, but my guests uncomfortable. So many memories and happy times but it chokes a lot of his friends up to be here with me alone and its even weirder being here with my bf and entertaining. Some people question our relationship so we generally spend our time alone for everyones benefit (particularly our own)

[walkingwoman]

Koo, this weeks steaks are marinated in this. I double it to have plenty for my dd and me.

Here's the marinade recipe:

1/4 cup lemon juice
1/3 cup water
4 cloves garlic, crushed or minced
2 tsp. Braggs amino acids
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. liquid smoke
1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper
1/2 tsp. black pepper

I buy cooked corned beef at my Fry's (it comes in 15 oz. packages) and just steam the cabbage in some water and fresh garlic with the lid on the skillet. Fast and easy.

For the chicken, just grill them on the bbq, I use this recipe:
The original calls for real syrup and some oil, but I don't miss either. This makes a bunch but I just put it in a container and store it since it keeps fine
1 cup sf maple syrup
3 Tbls. mesquite seasoning mix (check for sugars)
2 Tbls. lemon juice

Mix together, grill some chicken/shrimp and brush the mixture on top. Serve a side bowl for dipping if you wish.

The Mustard tarragon sauce is just mustard, a little acv, a little lemon juice and tarragon whisked together and drizzled over the top.

For the shrimp, I just grilled them, then add whatever seasoning that sounds interesting and fits the plan requirements. Could be mexican, cuban, italian, etc. Whatever you have on hand and you can squirt some lemon juice on there too for extra flavor.

For P2 chili I use a whole can of fireroasted tomatoes (read labels, some brands have less cals than others, etc. the brand I buy (Safeway) only has 70 cals for the whole can) with lean ground beef and I use a sf chorizo seasoning and I sometimes add a splash of chipotle sauce on there too. I love the 99 cents store because I get so many cheap, fun sauces there that are P2 friendly!

I use plenty of frozen asparagus, frozen spinach and slice up strawberries and apples to freeze too. I just ventured into the granita thing and that is going to be a staple. I am using my food processor to blend them easier than the blender

Also, I found these small wooden kebab skewers at the 99 cents store and since they are smaller, I just put 2 shrimp on each, so 3 nice skewers and somehow it looks like there is more food there I'm all about looking like I have a nice, full plate

[walkingwoman]

For the granita, marinate overnight or for a while your fruit or cucumber covered generously with a coordinating liquid. I'm using the Cascade Ice sf cocktail mixers and they are fabulous! I would think you could use sf Davincis or Torani but not sure if they would be too strong or not? flavored waters, sodas would work too I suppose. Ok, so after they have marinated, put the fruit and liquid in a food processor or blender and pulse so you still have some texture. Pour the mixture into a shallow container, freeze for awhile (an hour?) then take a fork and grate the mixture and freeze longer if the consistancy is not hard enough to your liking. Then, enjoy

I'm sure you could use this recipe to just make popsicles too.

[12yrslater]

Dumb question.... The radishes are left unpeeled to boil? How long do you boil them for? Once boiled just eat as is?

[walkingwoman]

Originally Posted by 12yrslater

Dumb question.... The radishes are left unpeeled to boil? How long dontou boil them for? Once boiled just eat as is?

I left mine unpeeled. I didn't boil. Hopefully someone else will respond to your question.

[julieboolie]

I am boiling some radishes right now. Skin on. I'm gonna' try them tonight along side my burger. I also saw a recipe that called for making "faux fried rice" using raw radishes and sauteeing them in a pan. We'll give that a go and see how it tastes. I'm thinking amino acids, garlic, and some ginger. Hoping it tastes good.

I'm hoping they don't stall me or anything. Anyone have any challenges with radishes? I'm so narrow minded about my normal veggies, I'm afraid to venture out. I'll let you know how it goes!

[walkingwoman]

In P3 I think Kandi fried radishes with bacon and cheese? Yummmmmm.

[12yrslater]

Originally Posted by julieboolie

I am boiling some radishes right now. Skin on. I'm gonna' try them tonight along side my burger. I also saw a recipe that called for making "faux fried rice" using raw radishes and sauteeing them in a pan. We'll give that a go and see how it tastes. I'm thinking amino acids, garlic, and some ginger. Hoping it tastes good.

I'm hoping they don't stall me or anything. Anyone have any challenges with radishes? I'm so narrow minded about my normal veggies, I'm afraid to venture out. I'll let you know how it goes!

Can't wait to hear how you like and I pray they don't stall you ! I have a bag waiting for me in the fridge

[KOO]

Originally Posted by walkingwoman

Koo, the recipes are super easy. I just really like cooking A LOT. In my ideal world I would have a whole bunch of people to cook for but in real life, I don't In my old life with my dh, we entertained all the time and I miss it so much but am not ready to do it alone. I do occasionally but not like I used to and it's an odd feeling in our house to be having parties without him and it kind of makes not only me, but my guests uncomfortable. So many memories and happy times but it chokes a lot of his friends up to be here with me alone and its even weirder being here with my bf and entertaining. Some people question our relationship so we generally spend our time alone for everyones benefit (particularly our own)

Thank you for those recipes, I did a copy and paste so that I can print them out.

Originally Posted by 12yrslater

Dumb question.... The radishes are left unpeeled to boil? How long do you boil them for? Once boiled just eat as is?

I was wondering that too. I have six cooking just so we taste them.

Originally Posted by julieboolie

I am boiling some radishes right now. Skin on. I'm gonna' try them tonight along side my burger. I also saw a recipe that called for making "faux fried rice" using raw radishes and sauteeing them in a pan. We'll give that a go and see how it tastes. I'm thinking amino acids, garlic, and some ginger. Hoping it tastes good.

I'm hoping they don't stall me or anything. Anyone have any challenges with radishes? I'm so narrow minded about my normal veggies, I'm afraid to venture out. I'll let you know how it goes!

Radishes must be the thing today!

[Lorrie200]

Originally Posted by 12yrslater

Dumb question.... The radishes are left unpeeled to boil? How long do you boil them for? Once boiled just eat as is?

I boiled mine unpealed..(about 45 min..?)the red boils away..cut them into half's and put a bit of salt n pep on them. I Dont Like radishes At All..but boiled they are Wonderful.

I think I will try them fried with eggs n bacon once on P3. That way I can have my eggs over medium and pretend I have potatoes. The idea of garlic mashed radishes sounds like a good idea too.

Guess this is RADISH week.