Day 7 Monday

Again, thought I would wake up hungry but not so much. I wasn't excited about this breakfast, it was a Cranberry Granola bar. I don't usually do granola bars for breakfast unless I am leaving the house early. I'll usually throw a 90 calorie Fiber One bar or a 90 calorie Special K Bliss Bar just in case. I had a yogurt and a half a Fuji apple first. Good thing because one bite of that bar and I was done. It was super dry and meh. I'm sure there's someone out there who might like this but I much prefer a chewier granola bar. Actually DH ate it. He thought it was just ok. But he agreed there was a funky taste that had a little hang time.


Lunch: Cheese Tortellini. This was something I was excited about. As I said before I love cheesey pasta. While there wasn't a whole lot of cheese in these, the sauce was nice and flavorful, the pasta tender and the serving somewhat decent given the tiny container. My protein was a slice of turkey wrapped in my veggie-a pickle slice. Weird, kinda, tasty-yes.




I got wrapped up in what I was doing so I incorporated half my snack into dinner and missed the fruit serving.

Dinner: Southwest Style Chicken Wrap. Another meal I was excited about. Mexican/Tex-Mex is right up there with cheesey Italian food. I had already been introduced to the tortilla when I had the Buffalo Chicken Wrap on the first day and I knew it was less than stellar. I had forgotten (I literally just remembered this) that since I didn't like the wrap that I would wrap the contents in a lettuce leaf. Oops. I'll remember to do that for the next Buffalo Chicken Wrap. While it didn't look like the package-hello puny pieces of chicken-it did taste good. And, unlike the Sweet and Sour Chicken I could distinguish the chicken. The sauce was flavorful, and there were beans, corn, black olives and a little rice. There was a decent amount of the filling. It was yummy. I wish I had some avocado, it could have been my fat serving. I had my little salad as usual only since I hadn't had my afternoon snack I added a 1 oz serving of fat free cheese to the salad.
Another little futzing with the plan: since the only fat on the list I eat is the 6 almonds and I don't exactly need them at dinner, nor do they go with dinner I just eat them later in the evening, just like the fruit serving for dinner. I now have a kick ass dessert.

Dessert: Honey Mustard Pretzels. Had to break up all the sweet with some savory treats. These were really good. The only problem with them is why there is no picture-they were mostly broken. They honey mustard flavor was spot on and I liked that they didn't have an overly salty taste to them either. I love that dessert has been 100% epic success with this plan.

And this concludes week one. I survived 1/5 of the plan (I paid for 4 weeks and got one free). I'm still debating whether or not to go ahead with a second month. I still have some foods that I haven't tried yet, so there may still be hope. There has to be a way to rectify breakfast though. Maybe if some of those cereals are better, and there is a chewy chocolate chip granola bar floating around. And there might be a lot of eating of the same few things. We'll see. Two-three months was going to be my max. I do have a vacation coming up in June where I won't be able to follow the program at all. I'd have to do my best in another country. But it's vacation! And, it leaves me with almost 2 weeks of extra food. (I thought I had taken a picture of the whole shipment but I never did.) There's still more pondering and still more taste testing ahead so I've got time.