“It’s easier to get up the will-power to turn down a 900 calorie double-burger with cheese and sauce and opt for a 400 calorie chicken sandwich or salad when you know your entire daily needs are about 1600 calories.”

– Joan Carter, a CNRC registered dietitian and instructor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Looking for another calorie-needs estimator? Try this one from the Baylor College of Medicine.

The time for New Year’s resolutions is upon us. What will yours be?

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This was the Sunday Dinner I prepared for the wife and I tonight. So good.

No need to add a bunch of crap to veggies to “make them taste good.” That’s weak. All I did was add spinach to a bowl. Then I added cherry tomatoes (sliced in half), steamed broccoli and sauteed zucchini (sauteed in a bit of olive oil with a touch of pepper and salt).

Also had oven-baked, spice-rubbed pork to go along with it.

Now that was a good dinner.

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Pretty interesting chart.  Thought it was worth sharing.

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Had this last night w/ grilled chicken.  Few cloves of finely chopped garlic sauteed in olive oil.  Add chopped zucchini and mushrooms.  Let it all cook together for a bit.  Add some feta cheese and then add some chopped spinach.  It was really good on top of the chicken.

I think I’ve posted this before but this time I added spinach. 

Happy eating.

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Choripan.  So good.  : )

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This is what I made for our Cinco de Mayo feast yesterday.  Oven-baked chicken chimichangas.  Topped with sour cream, fresh avocado and tomatoes.  Also, I used pinto beans and corn inside this time, in addition to the chicken, cheese, and salsa.

Had to have the chips, salsa, and guac to go with it! 

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We can all find the time to eat healthier.  Sometimes all it takes is better planning. 

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It’s pretty interesting to see the food that the schools serve and to see the comments this teacher makes.  She is experiencing what the kids eat everyday during school lunch. 

I don’t know much about elementary schools and their policies, but from what I’ve read and heard, recess is becoming a thing of the past.  I bring this up because it was mentioned in the above FAQs.  At this particular school, the kids have 20 mins for lunch and no recess. 

When I was in elementary school (I’m 27, to give you a reference point) we had 3 recesses each day: a 15 min recess in the morning, a 40-50 min lunch/recess in the middle of the day, and a 15 min recess in the afternoon.  That was awesome.  I remember playing soccer, basketball, and even jumping rope sometimes.  What is happening in today’s world? 

I know it’s a complicated issue that I don’t really understand, but really?  No recess for kids at school?  That’s a shame. 

Sorry about that tangent, but check out Fed Up with Lunch: The School Lunch Project.  It’s pretty interesting. 

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Made turkey burgers for dinner the other night.  Oven-roasted red potatoes along with them.  Delicious and easy to make. 

Here’s what you’ll need:

1-1.5 lbs Ground Turkey

1 Zucchini

1 egg

Worchestershire Sauce

Garlic Powder

Onion Powder

Salt

Peppper

Whole wheat buns

Whatever toppings you want.

What I did:

Put ground turkey into a large bowl.  Shred up zucchini into turkey.  Add the egg, and everything else.  Mix together with hands.  Gets gooey.  Sorry about the measurments on the spices and stuff.  Just add it until it smells good (how amateur is that!).  Doesn’t need very much.  Just a bit of everything listed.

Broil in the oven until cooked (just a few mins).  Top with whatever you want (we had spinach and tomatoes), put it on your bun and enjoy it.  

If you have questions (because my recipe writing is terrible) holler at me. 

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And by helper, I mean she found a drawer she liked and took everything out and left it on the floor.  Oh well.

Anyway, I chopped up some chicken breast, then grilled it.  Added frozen spinach and other frozen vegetables (bag of mixed veggies).  Let it all cook together.  Put the veggie/chicken mixture in a bowl and added a little bit of cream cheese and feta cheese, salt, pepper, and thyme.  Then, I put that into a tortilla and folded it like a burrito and baked it in the oven for about 10-15 mins.  Here’s what it looked like:

My own version of a “hot pocket” I guess.  It was pretty good.  My wife always gets a little nervous when I start creating something, but this was a good one .  : ) 

Look, I’m clearly no expert chef, but I do like to get in the kitchen and create.  Give it a try, you never know what you might create (good or bad!). 

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