Showing posts with label meal planner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meal planner. Show all posts

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Big Box

Today my box of Shelf Stable foods got here. I filmed an unboxing but it is really not the best but it is my first time. I had a friend help out, and I also got a few text messages while we were doing it. In short, don't judge me :3 But it is also an honest look at me, as I am, before I start.

First off, the Order comes with another Fast 5, and I had said I would do that again in 3 weeks. I will not be doing that. I decided to go ahead and open it, and just add the 7 days of meals to the meals I have I will not have the 7 snacks, but I get 7 of each of the shakes, so that is a pay off in my book. I didn't record the unboxing of that because I though it would just be more of the same. But the foods Were diffident. I do have pics of the foods and where they are set up for you. In the end, I have 25 each of Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinners that are Shelf Stable. Plus 18 Snacks, and 7 of each shake. Frozen Food Still to come.




So the F5 actually had 3 Muffins! It also had more bars, so I now have a total of 13 meal bars for breakfast. Of 25, 13 are bars. Even if I like then, that is a lot of meal bars. So I will change that up. I'm adding donuts and muffins and yummy things to the Next month.




yep, 10 meal bars there. I'm stuck on them because there are so many. that too will change next month. But there are a few things I know I like, and a few that I feel may be not to my liking. I am giving them a go no mater what. Online there is a score I can give each food, 1 to 5 stars. I will be keeping track. 




Ok, so dinners are looking good. the Joke here is I worked at a Domino's before this, and now Pizza is not a treat at all. and I have 5 so far. But I also have a lot of good looking things to try for the first time. Its a good round selection too. So far I'm feeling good about this. 





The only thins missing is the popcorn, it was off to the side and I didn't see it until I was putting it all away. But its a good mix of sweet and salty. There were none in the F5, so the numbers will not match, That just means I will skip a nigh snack from time to time. no big deal,




The shakes are the same ones as in the F5 I did before. I looked them up and they are not cheap, so I count this as a bonus. At first I didn't like the ZING shake, but after a few days it was good.



This is how I am going to store and organize my dry goods. The breakfast and snacks stack right now, and if next month that changes I can change how I do it. With less bars I may need both shelves for stored food and move the weeks planned meals into the kitchen.


Right now the plan is to bind the 3 mean meals for each day and store them in the 3 clear bins, and I can choose the snack that fits my mood. 

So I Start first thing in the Morning. I will update in weight (I know it went up... ) and I am planning on filming the first taste of each food. I have a plan in mind as to how to do that. Until tomorrow!

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Day 1 breakfast

I wanted to start showing you what I'm eating. this is my first full day on a meal plan. this plan is meant to be a breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack. but with my hypoglycemia I know I need to have smaller meals and more snacks. so I am freaking breakfast in to 2 things, and lunch in to 2 things.

todays breakfast was 1 piece of 100% whole wheat toast, with half a tablespoon of peanut butter and a teaspoon of sugar free jam. a 4oz glass of calcium fortified orange juice, and a tall glass of ice water. small meals and snacks should take 10 minutes to eat. larger meal should take 20 minutes to eat. I managed to stretch this out to 5 minutes. so I will need to work on that still. but I have created a place to eat all the meals and snacks.

this means today will be made up of lots of small blogs with pictures. let me know what you think of this and a rather or not you would like it. I am thinking about taking a picture of each new meal I make.

I also found out I can blog with my phone, and it will let me talk to it and it will record what I say for me. so that will save on some time, and maybe give me a little more freedom about how I say things. I think it will be more true to how I actually talk. I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing. :) you can let me know in the comments.