Cooking ahead for the week?

[hhhmom74]

Is anyone cooking ahead for the week? If so, what are you fixing? I am fixin
*taco meat
*carbquik flax zucchini bread
*chicken salad
*chili
*cocoa/flax cookies w/cream cheese icing
*tortilla rollups
*sloppy joe meat
*spaghetti meat/sauce (to use with dreamfields pasta)

[Maggy]

I will be cooking ahead also. I try to do that on Sundays to help make my week easier. Today I am cooking:
Chicken Breasts (for salads and Chicken Divan)
Trying a new L/C coffee cake...for quick breakfasts
Bacon
Spaghetti sauce(for Chicken Parm w/ a little side of Dreamfields)
Hamburg for Taco salad
Meatballs w/ the sauce (like having the meatballs for a snack)

I love Sundays!

[hhhmom74]

Can you share your LC coffee cake recipe? That would be a great thing for me to fix for breakfast during the week.

[Maggy]

Actually Rachel, I just got it off Linda Sue's site...Robin's Coffee Cake. Thought I would give it a try....has 5 net carbs per serving. Sorry, I stink at copying, paste, etc....But you can go to Linda's site and find it. It's a crumb cake... thought might be nice to have ready and sliced to go..

[hhhmom74]

thanks Maggy!

[Irishnonee]

could you share the cocoa/flax cookies? please.

[ahamiam1]

I am cooking ahead today, too. On my way to grocery store soon. I am cooking...

Chicken stew,
pork stir fry
shanny cake muffins

One night this week I will have salmon, but don't cook that ahead of time. I eat 5 meals a day and will rotate the chicken stew and pork stir fry, but also eat cottage cheese, lots of salad, V8 juice, and hummus. The shanny cake muffins I eat a serving of them every morning for meal #2 b/c they are easily portable and I can eat them while sitting in traffic on my way to class. For breakfast at 6 am I eat 1 packet of cream of wheat, 1/2 small carton egg beaters plus 1 egg and 1/2-1 cup of 1% cottage cheese.

I like to keep it simple so I plan my meals for the week and eat the same thing all week.

[Irishnonee]

could you post the shanny muffins? please

[hhhmom74]

*This is JadedOne's recipe!

Cocoa Flax Cookies

Cookie ingredients:
2 eggs, beaten
1 Tbsp vanilla
1/3 C chocolate or vanilla SF DaVinci
1/4 C cooking oil
1 C ground flaxseed
1/2 tsp both baking powder and soda
3 heaping Tbsp baking cocoa

Frosting ingredients:
1/2 pkg cream cheese, melted
1 Tbsp cinnamon
3 packets or 1/3 C pourable Splenda

NOTE: MIX BY HAND; DO NOT USE BLENDER.

Directions:
Mix eggs, vanilla, DaVinci, and oil by hand. In a separate bowl, blend the flaxseed with the baking powder/soda. Combine dry ingredients with wet, mixing by hand. Fold in 2 heaping Tbsp cocoa to mixture and mix well. Once mixed, add the final heaping Tbsp cocoa to mixture, should be thick like cookie dough.

Drop by spoonful onto greased cookie sheet (I used parchment paper). Place into preheated oven (350) and bake 9-12 minutes (mine were done after 9 minutes). (Makes 12 - 15 cookies)

When cooled, add frosting (cream cheese mixed with the cinnamon and Splenda) ... or if you can't wait til they're cooled, like me, put a cookie in a bowl and get a little forkful of the frosting and eat it all together with a fork.

[Irishnonee]

thanks. sounds awesome

[Loretta V]

Rachael what are tortilla wrap ups? Sound intriguing to me.

It's nice to be retired so I don't have to cook up ahead, but this woe sure has me spending lots of time in the kitchen.

[hhhmom74]

I combine low fat cream cheese, low fat sour cream, salsa and shredded taco cheese. I then spread this on low carb tortillas. I wrap in saran wrap then put in the frig for a couple hours. I then slice these into about an inch pieces.

[ahamiam1]

Posted by inatic 8/20/2003 at 12:11 pm:

Originally Posted by kinook180 on 08-19-2003 09:16 AM:

Shannycakes -This batter makes one meal on Body For Life for a woman.
4 egg whites
1/4 C cottage cheese
1/2 C oats
four packets of Splenda
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla

Blend in a blender until cottage cheese is smooth. Cook on a Pam-sprayed skillet like pancakes and enjoy! You can also make these into muffins by pouring batter halfway into cups of a muffin tin and baking at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.

Variations:
Banana Shannycakes: Add a 1/2 banana and cut the oatmeal to 1/3 C.
Chocolate Almond Shannycakes: Omit cinnamon and add 2 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa, two extra packets of Splenda, and 1 tsp almond extract. Increase vanilla by 1/2 tsp.
Apple Pie Shannycakes: Cut oats to 1/3 C, add 1/2 jar of pureed apples (baby food) and add 1/4 tsp of nutmeg
Pumpkin Shannycakes: Add 1/4 C canned pumpkin, 1/2 tsp nutmeg, 1/8 tsp of ginger and 1/8 tsp of cloves.
Lemon Poppyseed Shannycakes: Add 1 tsp lemon extract and 1 1/2 tsp of poppyseeds. Decrease cinnamon to a dash.
Strawberry Shannycakes: Add 3 Tbsp of nonfat sugar free strawberry jam to batter.
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Ileens notes: GREAT as muffins. I used 2 tsp of Davinci's SF vanilla syrup in place of the splenda and vanilla.

1tsp of baking powder to make them rise nice and high

I also used paper muffin cups. I SUGGEST you spray them as well because mine stuck to the papper. The recipe makes 6 muffins. IF you ONLY make the 1 serving then be sure to fill the EMPTY muffin tins 1/2 each with water. It aids in the baking of the others.

[Irishnonee]

thanks for the shanny cake recipe.

[carbkinky]

Hard boiled eggs, double crustless quiche in a 12x9 pan, chili, LB of bacon.

[Loretta V]

Thanks for the tortilla wrap recipe. will give that a try.

Thanks too Ange for the Shanny Cake recipe. Look at all of those variations. Will give that a try too. I am looking for something different for breakfast.

[ahamiam1]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the pumpkin shanny cake muffins! I only cook mine for about 20 minutes so that they are still very moist, then I put them in the fridge...they are very good cold the next day. It is like eating a treat, but they are so healthy

I also add 2 tbsp of flax plus or ground flax seed to the recipe fo rsome extra fiber. Good stuff

you can also add a scoop of protein powder!

[Loretta V]

When you say that you "cook" them. Does that mean in the oven or on a griddle?? I use my Hamilton Beach electric grill to make ricotta cheese pancakes so that I don't have to turn them over. Pre heat and cook for about 5 min. they look sort of funny though.

[ahamiam1]

for pancakes you cook them on the griddle, I love mine, but mainly i make muffins so that they are ready to go the next day.

[Loretta V]

I will make the muffins, maybe the Apple pie ones.

[Irishnonee]

i made the cocoa flax cookies they are excellent.

[Loretta V]

Ange I made the shanny banana muffins this morning. I had some old bananas here so thought I would use them

I was very skeptical because the batter was so runny, but I followed the directions to a tee. I baked them in my muffin top pan after I sprayed it with some Bakers Joy. I got 6 out of the batch. Taste test was great.
Now, how many should I eat?

Thanks

[ahamiam1]

I eat the whole thing as a meal. 1 batch makes six average size muffins and it is a perfect post-workout meal w/ a bit of skim milk w/ protein powder mixed in.

I only eat them in the morning. I do not eat my carbs (except lots of veggies) after 2 pm.

Here are the specs for the banana ones...
cals 291, protein 26, carbs 34, fat 5, fiber 6
if you add 2 tbsp of flax plus it changes the specs to...
361/29/39/10/10

Remember, I am doing BFFM so I eat between 100-120 carbs per day. I do not count net carbs, I count full carbs.

Enjoy your muffins!