A Little Garden Update

The garden is busy maturing and we are enjoying a few added goods to the family table. Peas are everywhere. 

I found a good sized cucumber and lots of baby cukes.

The green beans are ready but have to wait until later in the week for picking. We did eat green beans from the garden Frisay night, so yummy!

We have the hillbilly high tunnel, which is a greenhouse type structure except you plant directly into the ground. We have green beans, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers and I started some new lettuce in there last week as an experiment to see how long we can extend the season with our high tunnel. 

What I Ate-Friday, July 17-Friday, July 24

Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. 

Friday I drove down to youth camp to deliver pies for dessert and I got to see my kiddos, especially the one having a seventeenth birthday. 

What did I eat? 

Friday, July17

B- Fat Stripping Frappe book page 240- FP book page 

L- low carb tortilla turkey ranch wrap and celery with peanut butter -S

D- pork loin, salad and chocolate pie, yes, it was on plan - S

Saturday, July 18

B-THM pancakes book page 223 with berry sauce-E

L- Sam's pizza-off plan

D-chicken stir fry with frozen vegetables -S

Volcano mud slide with whipped cream -S

Sunday, July 19

B-THM pancakes and berry sauce and Moose sausage-E

Snack-peanuts and two slices of bacon-S

L-Bacon wrapped cream cheese stuffed chicken, saluted vegetables-S

Snack-popcorn and fat stripping frappe book page 240- E

Monday, July 20

B-three eggs, two slices bacon-S

L-three pieces celery with peanut butter, cheddar cheese-S

Snack-almonds, peanuts and a square of chocolate-S

D-moose with Gucci gravy, cauliflower mash, salad-S

Dessert- snicker doodle in a mug-S

Tuesday, July 21

B-Fat Stripping Frappe(FSF) page 240 book-FP

L-Salad bar at Fred Meyer-S

Snack- almonds and dark chocolate-S

D-Grilled salmon and salad with ranch-S

Strawberries and whipped cream

Wednesday, July 22

B-Blueberry oatmeal-E

L-Carl's Jr. low carb burger-S

D-Grilled chicken and salad-S

Chocolate chocolate chip cookie in a mug-S, we add a tablespoon of cocoa to the recipe

Thursday, July 23 

B-Fat Stripping Frappe(FSF)book page 240- FP (can you tell I love these??? I use dark chocolate cocoa powder in these)

L-Bagel, yogurt, orange, grapes and cherries-E

D-Dreamfields pasta, red sauce, ground moose and Parmesan-S

Peanut butter whip-S

Friday, July 24

B-Pumpkin Muffin in a Mug-S

L-FSF-FP

D-Pizza Casserole book page 327 and green beans(from the garden!!!)-S

Oh, and today I made it to forty-eight pounds lost, two pounds away from fifty pounds and two-thirds of my way to my goal!!!

My Life with Trim Healthy Mama--What I Ate This Week

I can no longer avoid regular blogging about my life with THM. I introduce to you the "what I ate this week" series. I am not promising a certain day of the week until I find my groove. I also know myself enough to know that I cannot do a  menu of what I will eat but since I do keep a food journal I can post what I have eaten here.

*disclaimer: I have been home with only a six year old this week so cooking has been minimal. Probably not the best week to start sharing my food journal on the blog 

Also, it has been swimming lessons the week, thus the abundant fat stripping frappes for breakfast

Here goes:

S= satisfying, higher fat and lower carb

E=energizing, higher carb lower fat

FP= fuel pull, protein source that is neither high carb or high fat

Sunday, July 12

B- sausage, low fat moose sausage, and Dannon Triple Zero yougury-E

L- turkey, mashed loaded cauliflower, sautéed squash--S

Snack- popcorn and a Fat Stripping Frappe from the book --E

No journal recorded for Monday 

Tuesday, July 14

B- Pumpkin Muffin in a Mug--S

L- Silver Hills squirrelly bread one slice, toasted with 1 tsp. peanut butter, triple zero yogurt, 1/2 banana, mandarin orange and grapes--E

D- leftover turkey with sautéed veggies--S

Wednesday, July 15

B-Fat Stripping Frappe-FP

L-toast with PB, yogurt, Apple, grapes, mandarin orange- E

D-white turkey chili from the Coers Family  Blog- E

Thursday, July 16

B-Fat Stripping Frappe-FP

L-toast w/ PB, 1/2 Apple, grapes, mandarin orange--E

D-grilled chicken thighs, salad from the garden!!! and ranch dressing--S

86% dark chocolate

Always Remember

Take a picture with your children when heading out on a road trip

Get a picture going over the bridge at the Tanana River and where the Trans-Alaska pipeline also crosses the same river, even  when you have lived in Alaska for twenty-two years

Take pictures of the beautiful Alaska scenery, every trip

Stop and take a picture of the girls in front of the Rainbow Mountans

Take more pictures of the Rainbow Mountains

When stopped at road construction is a great time to eat a lunch consisting of a low carb tortilla wrap with lettuce out of the garden

Picking up the oldest son when the river is high and his employer shuts down the fishing charter for a few days is a great way to spend the day

Having all the Blessings at home is a really good thing 

My heart is full

All is right in my world...

...when all my children are under the roof for a few days. We picked up Levi from his summer job, which has shut down for a few days right before Levi goes to camp. Bam!! We get to spend time with him!!! 

I shall sleep well tonight.

Celebrating Early

Elisabeth will turn fifteen this week, sigh, seems like it was yesterday that she was born. 

We celebrated early at home with Dad because our the girls, Benjamin and I are cooking for a crew that will be at camp for a few days. 

Happy birthday my sweet girl! 

Benjamin decorated for Elisabeth and she helped him make party hats. 

This picture is blurry but I am still posting because I would not have posted a perfectly clear photo of myself taken from this same angle last year. And I even had a bad hair. I am thrilled with the changes happening to my body as a result of eating the Trim Healthy Mama way. And, no, I did not partake of the chocolate eclair dessert that Elisabeth requested for her birthday dessert. Judith made a yummy white cake with whipped cream for us.