I'm on day 12, almost out of phase I. This was yesterday's full menu:

Breakfast:
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2 quiche cups (spinach, egg, chopped canadian bacon, diced onion, diced green bell pepper, sprinkle of parm cheese on top).

Snack:
Almonds (Trader Joe's pre-rationed package.. I haven't counted them, but they look to be about 1/4 cup).
Cucumber slices (I put them in a sandwich bag and eat them like chips).

Lunch:
Salad (Spinach, tomato, low fat feta cheese, cucumber, 2 grilled chicken tenders) w/lite Italian dressing

snack:
Cracker Barrell Cheese Stick (2% milk) extra sharp chedder
SF jello cup

Dinner:
leftovers from a taco salad I had before..
Lean hamburger cooked with taco seasoning, baby bella slices & onion. Salad mix in the fridge was looking kinda bleh, so tossed that..but the meat, onions, and mushrooms filled me up anyways.

Snack:
Cucumber slices, some tomato slices (while preparing lunch for the next day)

Oooo, I love your menu, think Ill steal some of your meal ideas. LOL

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Lynne's right, your menu looks really good. Keep up the good work.

Are you looking forward to phase two?

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Thank you Actually I was a little reluctant to consider Phase II at first. I refused to look at the new "Foods to enjoy" list until recently.. I didn't want to be dwelling on them, and wishing that I had them already. I'm especially looking forward to having some more breakfast options. I'm about quiche cup'd out :jester: While I was at Trader Joe's (love that place) the other day.. I did stock up on a couple phase II items. I got a box of Uncle Sam cereal (never had it before, but the ratings have sounded promising!) and some whole wheat english muffins. I froze the english muffins to keep them fresh. If I have an english muffin.. I know I'll want more than half of one! So easing into Phase II I want to do things right.

Last night I had my parents over for dinner, so I tried some new things. During the work day.. I'm repeating the same things over & over, but.. I don't really mind doing that either. Convience is important, and at work I only have a toaster oven.

Breakfast: 2 quiche cups (spinach, green pepper, eggs, canadian bacon, little sprinkle of parm cheese on top).

Snack: Low fat cottage cheese cup, and some almonds

Lunch: Salad w/spinach, tomatoes, cucumber, ff feta cheese, 2 hard boiled eggs. Lite italian dressing (actually finding that I'm using the "serving size" or less these days rather than drowning my salads.

Snack: Cucumber slices & grape tomatoes

Dinner: Gingered chicken (from the SB book, marinated in lemon juice, garlic, black pepper and fresh ginger). Steamed Broccoli (I love those steam bags for the frozen veggies!). Asparagus with cashews (in a wok pan I cooked the asparagus in some olive and sesame oil, then a little dash of soy sauce at the end and some chopped up cashews). The asparagus was especially good. It was 1/2 cup of chopped nuts between 5 of us, but I think cutting the nut count down a bit wouldn't have hurt it either.
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Dessert: Hm.. not sure what the name for it is.. but with sugar free jello.. you disolve the jello in 1 cup of hot water as normal, then put that in a blender with 1 cup of part skim ricotta and blend until frothy. Chill to set, and it's texture reminds me of cheesecake kinda. I made up 2 of them since we had company, lime & lemon. That was my first time trying it with the lemon, before I had favored lime, but the lemon had an extra lightness to it.

:wave: I noticed you also eat the Cracker Barrel 2% cheddar cheese sticks. I love those things! Know what else is convenient about them? I will use one cheese stick and grate it up over food if I want melted cheese and that way I know I'm not overeating!! And the amount that grates up seems to be enough to be satisfying!!

I had that for dinner last night. I love 96/4 lean beef with some taco seasoning and salsa, for my veges I had zuchini, tomato, mushrooms stir fryed in olive oil, it was delicious!!

Thursday:

Breakfast - 2 Quiche Cups (I can't wait for Saturday... glad that I had a "to go" option... but 2 weeks worth was a bit much!)

Snack - grape tomatoes, cottage cheese

Lunch - Spinach Salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, low fat mozz, 2 hard boiled eggs w/Lite Italian dressing

Snack - Cucumber slices
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Dinner - 2 chicken sausages (they were actually good!) with mushrooms and onions.

Dessert - SF jello w/the ricotta.. was bad.. I think I went a little overboard with the whipped cream & nuts.

It's getting to the point where I can't stand the quiche cups anymore heh Thankfully Saturday is phase II time! I'll need to figure out how I'm going to work breakfast to go still. I need to figure out a good way to transport the milk for the Uncle Sam cereal. The chicken sausages were a good surprise. They had peppers stuffed in them, and were pretty reasonable (about $3.60 for 5 of them). It was kinda funny having sausages on the grill pan.. and hearing no sizzle. These were pre-cooked, but I had to brown up the outside a bit (just to fool myself).

I just love Uncle Sam's cereal. It's really filling too. I like it with one Splenda packet mixed in. Otherwise it's not sweet at all.

Good luck starting Phase 2! And happy eating!!