beans beans beans

Last night we got an impromtu invite to my Sister and Brother in law's house for dinner. I love not having to worry about dinner...but this week I was really planning on utilizing my leftovers for my lunches. So, on my way home last night...I was trying to think of what I had in the pantry to turn into a nutritious lunch..... I came up with two things....Tuna and a can of Navy Beans.
Well...I had tuna on Monday. So beans it was. I know that Kath has made a sandwich spread in the past...I searched her website...but my bloodsugar was getting low..and all of her good food was making it worse. :)
So I just bit the bullet and googled "Navy Bean Dip." I found a recipe that I figured I could modify with all of the ingredients in my pantry, and to be honest..I don't even remember what website it was.

So, It was 1 can of beans (rinsed and drained). Tossed into the food processor with:
Dried Parsley flakes
Dried Rosemary
a big spoonful of minced garlic
some lemon juice
and olive oil. ( the recipe called for 1/4 of a cup!-for two cans of beans....I think I probably did more like 2 tbsps).
I've only used my food processor like 3 times...I'm a little bit intimdated by it....but after this...I'm sold. Cilantro Pesto is next!
I blended and decided it was little bland for the "meat" of a lunch. I spooned in some jalapeno slices from a jar for kick.
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Wooowee and it has a kick, and it's delicious. I didn't measure anything either....just tossed it all in.
I ate it today for lunch with cut up veggies and a whole wheat tortilla. I probably ate 1/2 the recipe for lunch today, and I'm going to use the rest up tomorrow (we are going to dinner at friends house again tonight.)


Also look at my poppies! The previous owner must have really liked gardening...we have some great flowers!

yippee!!

My camera comes today! I'm so super super super excited!!! I've been stalking it on UPS.com watching it come closer and closer. Its "out for delivery" in the town I live in now! Woot. my only drawback to not working where I live, is that there is NO way I can be home for the delivery. I really really really hope that they will just leave it on the step, even though it is kind of expensive. :S.

So hopefully, pictures of dinner tonight. (which I am ashamed to say, will be a Kashi frozen pizza with veggies) we have NO food, and we promised our selves we would go grocery shopping tonight after dinner. Ok we have food, but nothing to make a complete meal, and some heinous things like Rice-a-roni. Ick.

Last night we had a DELICOUS dinner. We copied Kath and her husband (www.katheats.com) and had black beans over sweet pototoes last night. Seriously...good. I did the sweet potatoes in the microwave, while those were cooking I dumped a can of black beans in a pot, with some chopped garlic, onions, nutmeg, tabasco, chili powder, a dash of salt. SOO GOOD. we also had brown rice on the side. We didn't have any butter, so I tried a little splash of olive oil with a pinch of salt...SO GOOD. Ok, enough about how great my dinner was.
But..it was.

And this morning, my oats have really held me. it's 11:05 and I haven't even felt like I needed a snack! I am having hot tea now (with a little skim milk). I think I might eat my veggies around 11:40, and then head to the pharm and the store..before coming back for leftovers for lunch.

Tomorrow is weigh in day....I'm pretty sure I'll see a loss. Slowly and surely the weight is coming off as I really focus on being healthy.