I was so looking forward to dinner tonight – all this week really. I am planning them all ahead and have known for days what I was getting for dinner tonight. I know a lot of people don’t like planning their meals ahead, they think it’s boring, but I figured it was the best way to make sure I don’t go over my points this week, shrug.
Dinner tonight was whole wheat pasta with Ragu light tomato and basil sauce suplemented with sauteed carrot and 1/4 cup of extra lean ground beef – sounds yum right? Well, I thought it did…
I am not sure if I did something wrong or just haven’t learned how to cook a meal without a recipe…or ideas from my mother. lol.
It was really bland, no real flavour. I thought the sauce was supposed to taste like, well, like something, it barely tasted like tomato! Maybe this is cause it’s the light version? I am not sure cause I haven’t bought it before…and never will again! blah. I s’pose once I realized how bland it was (which was when the food was on my plate and I was eating, lol) I could have tried adding some spices but I had no idea what to add or how much of it and to properly mix it I’d have to dump it all back in the pot – it just seemed like too much effort, lol. So, I ate a bland dinner. sigh.
I don’t know if they are related but I am also still quite hungry – I can’t decide if I am hungry cause I am hungry or cause my taste buds weren’t satisfied by my dinner and for pure taste pleasure my body wants more food…oh how to tell? lol.
I had my evening snack early – a thinsation Ritz package – and am forcing myself to not eat for a while in the hopes my stomach/brain figure out I am full…I hope my stomach/brain figure it out soon!
My food for today:
1 apple = 1 point
1 apple pear = 1 point
1 banana = 1 point
2 cups V8 Carrot soup = 4 points
1 piece toast = 1 point
1 orange = 1 point
1/2 cup Ragu light tomato and basil sauce = 1 point
1/4 cup extra lean ground beef = 2 points
85 grams whole wheat pasta = 5 point
1 pckg thinsations Ritz = 2 points
Total points eaten = 19 🙂
So, I still have 1 point left for the day and luckily I still have some 1 point mini chocolate bars that I got sent from England which means once I cave and decide I am actually hungry and not just feeling deprived I will be eating one of those. 🙂 lol
I wish I could eat a Jolly Time popcorn package but sadly, I have run out of them…I’ll hafta make sure to buy some more this weekend when I go grocery shopping. They are getting harder to find, which is sad, there used to be a whole bunch of flavours on the shelf in my grocery store, now there is only one flavour (the regular butter flavour) and even that isn’t in stock very often. I thought they were always sold out but there are never any empty spots on the shelves so I think it’s just that stores don’t carry them…which I will repeat, is sad.
I’m gonna hafta find a new 1 point snack that is large-ish so I actually feel fuller after eating it instead of unchanged…hmm…this is gonna be hard…
The Amazing Shrinking Woman 
When you heat the sauce, try adding chopped onion, mushrooms, oregano, and more basil – maybe a little minced garlic too. Mrs Dash REgular blend will increase the flavour too, and make it a little spicier. I throw left over veggies into spag. sauce, to increase my veggie intake. Did you like the apple pear? I’ve never tried them.
wow, that’s a lot to add, lol, why can’t things be more simple? sigh. I’m such a lazy cook! lol. I’ll try to remember all that next time I brown some ground beef. 🙂
the apple pear was…meh. I wouldn’t go out of my way to get one. It’s a very liquid infused fruit so good on a hot day or if you’re exercising etc as it has a lot of natural liquid in it – so that is great, but no real flavour. I’ve never known a fruit to not have at least some flavour – kinda odd. I talked with friends who have also eaten them and they agree they don’t have flavour so at least I know it’s the norm and I didn’t buy some defective fruit. 😉