Sunday, June 19, 2011 - the final pregnancy days

I'll finally meet my girl at the end of this week...SO EXCITED!!  I spent Saturday cooking a few freezer meals to so we won't starve for the first week or so.  I made 2 meatloafs, spaghetti sauce 4 bags, meatballs to go with the spaghetti sauce, and a chicken dish that we'll probably eat for supper tonight.   My husband and I suck at eating leftovers so its my goal with pretty much every meal produce as little food as possible.  Sometimes I'll leave 1 or 2 portions for lunch the next day depending on the meal.  That being said when I engage in freezer cooking I bag everything into single meal (single meaning enough for both hubby and me) portions. My sister shared this web site with me and its become my new obsession.  www.onceamonthmom.com  I don't subscribe to a particular meal plan.  I basically just read all of the recipes and save/print the ones that I think hubby and I will enjoy.  Like everyone else, we have our staples that we eat every week but I like to throw in a new recipe a few times a month.  This week I cooked a recipe that was clipped from Taste of Home Magazine.  Certainly not the healthiest meal I've made but it was pretty tasty and oddly enough didn't effect my blood sugar at all.

http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/RWOP-Finalist--Joy-Bundles-and-Rice

Yesterday's calorie count:
Breakfast notes: My morning coffee (very carefully measured - 2 tbsp of half and half, 3 tsp sugar..I don't use artificial sweetners anymore watch "Sweet Misery" on hulu and you'll question it yourself).  I drink it every morning and it RARELY effects my blood sugar so I keep the carb count the way it is.
"Sweet Misery"   http://www.hulu.com/watch/162709/sweet-misery
warning its an hour and half long so be sure you have time to watch it. 

Lunch notes: Hubby cooked Ruben sandwiches Butter - eek! side note: everything my husband cooks includes butter and I just try not to look to see how much he uses.  He's 6'2" and 180 lbs soaking wet with incredible metabolism, I so hope my daughter gets this in the genetic lottery, so gargantuan amounts of butter don't concern/effect his thigh quite the way they do mine.

Dinner notes: Joy Bundles Recipe with Rice link posted above.  Livestrong.com gives you the option to key in an entire recipe and then tell the counter how much of the recipe you ate.  Its one of their best features.  :)

Random note:  My calorie count according to the diabetic counselor is supposed to around 2,000 a day.  Livestrong won't let me key this in manually so it insists that I am well over my calorie count and that's not actually the case.