Day Three hundred and sixteen

Lunch: Leftover brown rice, mixed with diced tomatoes, red beans, garnished with sour cream and cheddar cheese.

Dinner: Lazy chicken over brown rice fusilli (crockpot; Make it Fast Cook it Slow), steamed broccoli, fresh strawberries.

Day One hundred and ninety-four

Picnic lunch at the park: French bread, sliced chicken, fresh mozzarella, cheddar cheese, strawberries, steamed carrots, sliced apple, and (missing from the picture) yesterday's whole wheat oatmeal raisin cookies.

Dinner: Turkey cheese burgers on whole grain sandwich thins, bruscetta, green beans, and cantaloupe.

Day Seventy-one

Dinner: Turkey and black bean tacos (with butternut squash puree), served with baby spinach, cheddar, sour cream, and salsa. Mangoes, blueberries, and sliced apples followed dinner. To be fair, I should mention that my husband made the turkey and assembled everything (except this taco).

Day Fifty-eight

Dinner: Broccoli and cheddar quiche in a whole wheat pastry flour crust, fudge scones (with whole wheat flour, wheat germ, oats, and white bean puree- but I SWEAR you'd never know; recipe: Sneaky Chef), fresh pineapple, and a strawberry-blueberry yogurt smoothie.

Day Fifty-six

Lunch: Chicken Enchillada Soup (recipe: Rachel Ray Mag). Whole wheat tortilla chips, sour cream, and shredded cheddar garnishing a soup of chicken breast, chicken broth, salsa, and some seasonings. I love a chilly weekend day when the fam is home, it was a great excuse to make soup...

And cookies! This recipe caught our eye, so the girls wanted to bake together. Peanut butter chocolate chip cookies with pretzels (recipe: Rachey Ray Mag). We made them with whole wheat pastry flour, but you can't tell the difference. Half of the dough and some of the cookies are in the freezer, so it worked out well.

Day Forty-four

Dinner: White wine and cheese bread (recipe: Cooking Light). This bread smelled SO good while I was photographing it that I almost bit it. Technically the recipe calls for beer, which is how I usually make it, but someone (ahem, husband) drank the last beer the last time he BBQed, and I did not know this.

Dinner: Salsa chicken and black bean soup garnished with avocado, sour cream, and shredded cheddar (recipe: Make it Fast, Cook it Slow), grapes, and steamed carrots. This soup was incredible. Highly recommend it!

Vanilla yogurt

Day Four

A ridiculously simple day-- we were out at a birthday party at lunchtime, and had last night's leftovers for dinner, so there was virtually no cooking. For once, my kitchen stayed clean! Love that.

Breakfast: A massive fruit salad, which I made into kabobs for the girls.

Breakfast: Egg McMuffin. Whole grain English muffin, low-fat cheddar, and scrambled egg. Giving credit where credit is due, this was made by my husband. In our house, he is the Eggman. That, and BBQ, are his two cooking domains.