My own recipes

I've been attempting to eat healthier since my pulmonary embolism. Losing weight will help me out a lot, healthwise. For the first time though, I'm going to be ttracking my calori intake. This has resulted in the creation of a lot of my own "recipes" which are really just various food combinations I've turned into meals.

I keep forgetting to write down everything I've eaten though, so I'm also hoping that it will be easier for me to remember "Pumpkin Yogurt" for breakfast (and it's accompanying calorie count) than 1 cup yogurt, some raisins, applesauce ... um ... 400 calories? etc.

And I'll be putting them on here so I can reference them.

Pumpkin Yogurt

4 cups Greek Yogurt (520 calories)
3.5 Cups pureed pumpkin (350 calories)
1 cup raisins (520 calories)
6 Tablespoons ground chia seeds (210 calories)
2 Tablespoons honey (120 calories)
2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice (cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, etc.)
1 Tablespoon vanilla
Non-calorie sweetner to taste (I used five packets sweet & low)

Mix everything together until well blended. Depending on how well the raisins stay distributed, I may add them on a daily basis instead of all at once.

Total calories: 1720
Servings: 5
Calories per serving: 344

Fruit yogurt

1 cup mixed berries (65 calories)
2 teaspoons chia seeds (85 calories)
1 cup Greek yogurt (130 calories)
1 Tablespoon wheat germ (30 calories)

Servings: 1
Calories: 310

Coffee

1 cup coffee (1 calorie)
1 tablespoon non-dairy French vanilla creamer (35 calories)

1 serving
36 calories

Apple yogurt

1 cup unsweetened applesauce (100 calories)
1 cup Greek yogurt (130 calories)
1/4 cup raisins (120 calories)

1 serving
350 calories

Tuna salad sandwich

Tuna fish salad:
1 can tuna in water, drained (40 calories)
1 Tablespoon sweet relish (20 calories)
4 Tablespoons horseradish sauce (100 calories)
2 Tablespoons light mayonaisse (70 calories)
1 celery stalk (6 calories)

Makes 2 servings
Total calories: 236
Calories per serving: 118

2 slices whole-grain bread (140 calories)

Calories per sandwich: 258

Chicken Salad Sandwich

Chicken Salad:
1 baked chicken breast (500 calories)
1 1.4 cups pico de gallo (100 calories)
1/2 cup light mayonaisse (280 calories)
4 celery stalks (24 calories)

Makes 5 servings
Total calories: 904
Calories per serving: 181

Sandwich:
2 slices whole-grain bread (140 calories)
1 serving chicken salad (181 calories)

Calories per sandwich: 321

Subsitute lettuce hfor bread:
2 cups iceberg lettuce (16 calories)
1 serving chicken salad (181 calories)

Total calories: 197

Random food

I have five servings selected from the list below of fruit and vegetables. I also have a snack of one thing from the list twice daily.

1 3oz. serving raw mushrooms (20 calories)

1 cup raw sugar snap peas (40 calories)

1 serving (6) cherry tomatoes (18 calories)

1 banana (121 calories)

1 mandarin orange (40 calories)

5 celery sticks (15 calories)

1 small apple (78 calories) (usually with peanut butter)

2 Tablespoons peanut butter (190 calories) (I could probably lower this by only eating all-natural peanut butter ... but it doesn't taste as good)

1 bottle flavored water (20 calories)

1/2 cup flan made with almond milk (46 calories)

1 ounce toasted almons (169 calories)

1 snack-size box raisins (100 calories)

1 snack-size box yogurt covered raisins (120 calories)

4 prunes (100 calories)

In other news ...

I totaled my car Tuesday afternoon. I was going through an intersection on a green light and t-boned a police SUV. He had his siren on (which I heard, but from what I thought was a different direction) and his lights (although he didn't have a light bar on top of his vehicle, just in his windows) and my view of the direction he was coming from was blocked by two lanes of heavy traffic.
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PS- What happened to LJ's spellcheck option?