January 17, 2017

This copycat Panera chicken orzo lemon soup is one of my favorite soups of all time.  Sadly the Panera lemon chicken orzo soup is discontinued. My daughter used to work at Panera and I loved Panera’s chicken orzo lemon soup and had dreams of her in the back of the house, chopping up celery, etc. and hopefully I would learn how to make that soup...

I love the Starbucks protein box - but hate spending the $$! Here is my version of the museli bread they have - so good!

Anyone who’s been a Weight Watcher for any amount of time has their “Weight Watcher Uniform.”  Basically the lightest clothes you own so that you have the most loss on the scale come weigh in day.  And you pretty much wear it every.single.weigh.in.  It makes it a bit difficult when it’s 20 degrees in Chicago!  I weighed in before work so I’d be able to...

I brought another parfait for breakfast yesterday.  I still need to make some homemade granola (made some last night!) but decided to veer into CVS from the train station to see if I could pick up a bag of granola to keep in my work desk.  I was on the Weight Watchers app and really had my heart set on picking up Honeycomb cereal –...

This is the perfect turkey burger.  Pinky swear! Do you love turkey burgers?  Specifically, turkey burgers?!  After the turkey potstickers I made the night before last, I couldn’t help but think of all the delicious things I could make with ground turkey, and last night felt like a burger night.  And for the record, that’s a salad plate.  It’s the only plate that will fit...

You can imagine after having a food blog for any amount of time, you get your share of offers.  Whether it’s people wanting to guest post on my blog and talk about something completely unrelated – like yesterday when I got an email saying that they “loved my content” and could they please write a short article about breastfeeding on my blog?!   Being diabetic I...

Guys – I had my first full weekend off this past weekend – the first time in months!  It was so nice leaving the office at 5:00 on Friday knowing I didn’t have to work until this morning.  So much time for activities! I have to share my new favorite breakfast.  I had it both Saturday and Sunday for brunch, and it’s delicious.  9 tablespoons...

I believe I left off yesterday’s post stating that I wasn’t sure how my WI would go after such a big one the week before.  But I knew I had followed the plan, stayed away from my beloved wine, etc.  So I was very happy to see a –1.4 weight loss! That brings me to –5.2 in two weeks (and a total of 8 pounds...

Um, guess what?  It’s January in Chicago. My brother Charlie sent me this hat for Christmas.  I sent him a picture of me wearing it and his reply was “sorry you have to use it!” At least it was sunny out! Breakfast was a mix of sweet and savory.  Blueberry pancake (4), hard boiled egg (2), 4 slices of 97% reduced fat ham (1), the...

You will love this one point marinara sauce!! One of the things that I love about the WW app – is that there is something called WW Connect – think of it as a mini-Facebook for WW members.  I love how it will pick out random posts of people to “trend” – let’s say that an online member reached goal, and when they entered the...