Day 4: Nutrition

Breakfast: Peanut butter & Nutella oatmeal - decided to make the big kids some oatmeal for breakfast. Accidentally reversed the amounts of oats to water (math first thing in the morning may not have been a good idea), so by the time I had that straightened out, the pot was nearly overflowing. Being the lazy hater of waste that I am, guess what I had for breakfast! I stirred some greek yogurt into the finished product for the kids, but wasn't brave enough to try it myself. Specs, the picky one, scarfed it down. But Curly took one bite and was over it....so Tiny ended up eating some too. I expected it to be pretty bitter, but it was actually really smooth and pleasant tasting (shhhh...don't let it get out...it would ruin my reputation with the sweet snacks) - 220 calories

Recipe: per serving - 

1 cup water

1/2 cup oatmeal

1 teaspoon peanut butter

1 teaspoon Nutella

Snack: 2 colby-jack cheese sticks - I'd planned on skipping the morning snack today, but in the middle of my first set of the day my stomach started to growl - 160 calories

Lunch: 1/2 of a home-made pizza. 2 ingredient crust is YUM! Think I should have added more cheese though... - 500 calories

Recipe: per 12 inch pizza crust - 

1 cup greek yogurt

1 1/2 cups self rising flour

Directions: Kneed for 5-8 minutes then shape into crust on a well-oiled stone or upside-down cookie sheet.

Snack 2: Once again decided to skip the snack....until I went grocery shopping and picked the cookie aisle to walk down on the way to milk. Yipee, cookies for sale! Since all the glasses were in the dishwasher, and hubby drove off with the newly purchased bottled water in the car (yeah, I know, plastic waste...baby steps! And I do recycle) I had a can of soda with my cookies. Looking back on it, that's one nasty snack - 400 calories.


Supper: Perfectly grilled turkey burger with sauteed onions and Worcestershire sauce (thank you wonder-hubby) - so let me get this straight....2 days of tracking food choices and I've had a taco, hot dog, pizza, hamburger, cookies, soda, etc. and these are my 'eating better choices'?! Talk about living in denial. - 400 calories


Snack 3 (mama's alone time):pack of cookies and half bottle of water. - 230 calories

Total Calories: 1910
Total Liquid: 52oz