Cheat Meal: Chicken Stromboli

Dinner time is, Stromboli time!!

I took this recipe from here. 

 

1 cup broccoli florets

11 oz package thin-crust pizza dough

1 cup cooked chicken

1 cup cheese 

Green Pepper                                                                                              

  Tomato

 

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(I modified this recipe a bit, we also made homemade pizza dough)

Directions

1.

Heat oven to 400°F. Steam 1 cup broccoli florets until just tender. Stretch an 11 oz package of dough to form a 16" x 12" rectangle on a greased baking sheet. Sprinkle 1 cup chopped cooked chicken, broccoli, and 1 cup cheese lengthwise down center of dough. Fold dough over to cover filling. Pinch side and ends to seal. Cut 4 slashes to vent, coat with cooking spray, and bake until browned, 12 minutes. Slice in quarters and serve with marinara sauce.

Nutritional Facts per serving

CALORIES

420 CAL

FAT

15.6 G

SATURATED FAT

6.6 G

CHOLESTEROL

67.3 MG

SODIUM

1063.5 MG

CARBOHYDRATES

44.1 G

TOTAL SUGARS

8.3 G

DIETARY FIBER

2.7 G

PROTEIN

26.7 G

Today's Meal Plan

Good Morning everyone,
Today I'll be in the office, so I need to pack up of my food for the day.

I woke up at 7:00 am and its important to have breakfast within the first 1 hour of awakening (although, my trainer used to say 30 minutes, I've read an hour is okay)

Breakfast consists of 1/2 C. Oatmeal, a bit of fruit in it (blueberries for me this morning), some cinnamon and a bit of vanilla protein.   This makes the oatmeal bearable for me since I HATE IT!

In my lunch bag is the following:

11:00 Protein shake (Snack)

2:00  Chicken and Pasta Salad (see post from here)

5:00 Protein shake for on the tram (Snack)

Then I'll have dinner about 7:00 pm tonight.  I'll be honest, tonight is a bit of cheat meal with some breads.  Can't help it.  My Italian genes just won't let me give up my unhealthy carbs.

Okay, til tonight!  Ciao!

Steak Tacos and Peppers

I have the most amazing boy.  Tonight he made dinner and it was so good!!!  I absolutely love that he shares in the kitchen duties with me.  He offers and he actually seems to enjoy being a better cook than I.

The steak we got from the markets was absolutely amazing.

Here is what we had, perhaps you can enjoy them too!

Shrimp with Avocado-Mango Salsa

Last nights meal was quite interesting to say the least.  I was pretty excited to try some seafood from the markets and what better way then to eat some prawns (shrimp).

Serves 4

INGREDIENTS

• Vegetable oil cooking spray
• 8 cups baby spinach
• 1 cup couscous
• 1 lb medium shrimp, shelled and deveined
• 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro, divided
• 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
• 3/4 teaspoon salt, divided
• 1 large mango, peeled and diced
• 1 medium avocado, diced
• 1 medium tomato, diced
• 1/4 cup chopped red onion
• 1/2 jalapeño chile, seeded and finely chopped
• 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice

PREPARATION

1. Heat grill. Fold four 18-inch-long pieces of foil in half; unfold and coat inside with cooking spray. Place 2 cups spinach in center of 1 half of each piece of foil. Combine couscous with 1/4 cup water; divide evenly among packets, placing on top of spinach. Combine shrimp, 1/4 cup cilantro, oil and 1/2 tsp salt in a bowl. Divide shrimp evenly among packets, placing next to couscous. Fold foil to close and crimp edges to seal; place on grill; close lid; cook until packets are fully puffed, 10 minutes. Combine remaining 1/4 cup cilantro with remaining 1/4 tsp salt, mango, avocado, tomato, onion, jalapeño and lime juice in a bowl. Carefully cut foil to open; stir contents; garnish with salsa before serving.

The skinny

397 calories per serving, 10 g fat (1 g saturated), 52 g carbs, 8 g fiber, 25 g protein

The finished product.

We were a bit nervous about the salsa....of which I didn't eat.  Tim said it was nice and spicy and I (think??) he was pleasantly surprised to note that the salsa wasn't that shabby.   I got the recipe from pintrest via this site.  

It made four servings, so I've given the last two servings to us for lunch over a bed of lettuce.  Yay- can't wait for tonight's dinner!! Steak Tacos.