Day Sixty-four

Breakfast: Maple french toast sticks (with sweet potato puree; Recipe: Sneaky Chef)

Breakfast: French toast sticks, turkey bacon, pineapple, and grapes


Dinner: Fondue night. Cheese and white wine fondue


Grilled chicken and steamed broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots


Cheddar biscuits (think Red Lobster biscuits, but these are half whole wheat and all natural; recipe: Fix, Freeze, Feast)

Dinner: Cheese fondue, grilled chicken, steamed veggies, and cheddar biscuits

Last but not least, fruit salad. My husband made this- mangos, strawberries, and blueberries

Day Sixty-three

Dinner at a friend's house. I made a strawberry sorbet, but I brought the ingredients and made it there, so I didn't have my camera to take a picture. She'll have to vouch for me that I made it. ;)

Day Sixty-two

Leftovers from the week. And clean kitchen!

Day Sixty-one

Dinner: My husband's turn to cook, which means BBQ. Cheeseburgers (mine and the kids were turkey, his beef), waffle fries, steamed broccoli, and grapes.

Day Sixty

Yogurt. I tried something new and made it in the toaster... it worked!

Dinner: Cheesy whole grain rotini (with turkey bacon and peas; recipe: Cooking Light), pretzel rolls (compliments of my friend Christie- these were so good!), salad, and grapes.

Day Fifty-nine

Granola (recipe: Fix, Freeze, Feast). The last time I made this granola, I froze a few bags for the freezer. All I had to do today was bake it for 30 mins, and voila.

Dinner: Pizza with broccoli, and salad.

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-seven

Dinner: I prepped the meal during the day so we could eat when we got home from my daughter's dance recital, but my parents preempted dinner, as they wanted to take us out for Chinese instead (and who could argue with that?) So, although I "cooked" today, it won't show up until tomorrow, as I saved it for the following night's dinner.

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 Fifty-five

Dinner: Leftovers, glorious leftovers... a buffet of bits of what we had during the week. I love no-cook Fridays!!

Day Fifty-four

Dinner: Calzones (whole wheat pizza dough made in the bread machine, light ricotta, light mozzarella, and pieces of turkey meatballs and broccoli. They came out pretty authentic, except for that one that popped open in the oven while it was baking.

Dinner: Calzones, dipping sauce (spaghetti sauce with some pureed butternut squash mixed in), and frozen blueberries.

Day Fifty-three

Preserving herbs: Basil (in olive oil). This is the last of my basil plant for the season... I'll miss fresh herbs!

Lunch: Pizza muffins (whole grain english muffins, tomato sauce with pureed butternut squash mixed in, and light mozzarella), salad, and prunes

Dinner: Chicken rice soup (crockpot; recipe: Make it Fast, Cook it Slow). This recipe didn't work out for my crockpot, which tends to cook too hot. The brown rice dissolved into a blob and it came out more like mush than soup. Thankfully, my kids liked it anyway.

Day Fifty-two

Breakfast: Whole wheat crepes (recipe: Sneaky chef) with chocolate syrup, banana slices, and a sprinkling of flax seeds; and a blueberry-strawberry yogurt smoothie.

Dinner: Turkey nacho bake (ground turkey, beans, taco seasonings, diced tomatoes, and a scoop of butternut squash puree). Usually the chips go at the bottom when I make this, but my friend Melissa brought this to a party recently with the chips on top, so I thought I'd try that to see if the chips got less soggy. It worked! Thanks, Melissa L!


Dinner: Turkey nacho bake, salad, avocado, and grapes.

Day Fifty-one

Dinner: Cream cheese chicken (crockpot; Recipe: Make it Fast, Cook it Slow), with whole wheat rotini, steamed broccoli, and frozen peaches.

Day Fifty

Breakfast: Whole wheat pumpkin pancakes. Our Halloween morning tradition is pumpkin-shaped pumpkin pancakes, but when I mentioned to my younger daughter that I was making them, she said, "No, I want a witch." So we broke out the cookie cutters...