Monthly Archives: April 2011

Recipe Review: Meatloaf!

It’s no surprise that I love Hungry Girl. I have all of her cookbooks, subscribe to her emails, and follow her on Twitter. All her recipes have the Weight Watcher PointsPlus figured out too, which is awesome. I will admit that not all of her recipes are a win, but there have been many which are. Including this one!

B-Fry mentioned one week while I was menu planning that he would really like some meatloaf. I haven’t had meatloaf in AGES, so it sounded pretty good to me too. I automatically headed to my cookbooks to find a recipe and stumbled upon Hungry Girl’s Turkey and Veggie Meatloaf Minis. I thought it looked tasty and easy to make, so I decided to add it to the menu.

It’s super easy to make and crazy delicious! It now makes the list at least once a month. Ready to see how it’s done?

Turkey and Veggie Meatloaf

Not Pictured: Ketchup

Ingredients:

1 small onion
1/4 cup plus 3 tbsp. ketchup, divided
1 1/4 lbs. raw lean ground turkey
3 cups bagged dry broccoli cole slaw
1/2 cup fat-free liquid egg substitute
1/2 cup quick-cooking oats
2 tsp. garlic powder
1 tsp. salt

Directions: 

*Preheat oven to 350 degrees

*Chop up the onion and broccoli slaw

*Put all ingredients into a mixing bowl

*Dig in and combine all the ingredients. I suggest using your hands! :)

 *Put the mixture into a 9×9 pan that has been sprayed with a non-stick spray. Top with a little more ketchup and cook in the oven for 45 minutes. (Hungry Girl’s recipe calls for you to cook them in 9 muffin cups, but I don’t have a muffin tin, so I do it this way)


*Serve it up with your favorite sides, I suggest mashed potatoes for sure! And dig in! :)

Here are the stats:

Serves 9

1 Serving:

142 calories
5.25g fat
494mg sodium
9g carbs
1.5g fiber
4g sugars
14g protein

If you try the recipe, let me know what you think! And after reading my first review, would you like more? Let me know in the comments!

Wordless Wednesday: Blackhawks Edition


Even though the Blackhawks lost, we look mighty cute in our shirts. :) Love this guy, love this sport, and really love that I get to enjoy it with B-Fry!

Weekly Weigh In: Stupid Scale Edition

Starting Weight: 327.6
Current Weight: 206.6
Last Week: 204.0
Loss/Gain: +2.6
Total Loss: 121.0

Really…REALLY??!!?!?! 

A 2.6 gain?!!??!?!!?!!?!?!

Lesson learned today: The scale never does what you expect it to.

Usually I can tell you why I gained, usually it’s because I drank too much beer, I didn’t work out, and I didn’t track. Not this week though. I didn’t have any beer, I worked out Monday-Thursday, and I tracked every single thing that entered my mouth.

Maybe my gain is due to the couple of days of strength training, maybe it’s that awesome guy named TOM, or maybe it was that cookie I had last night. I do know that it isn’t because I didn’t do the things I need to do to lose weight.

I was quite upset about it this morning, even cried. There’s nothing I can do about it though. I’m just going to keep on doing what I’ve been doing and hope to get to onederland soon. Sigh. That’s all I really want, I just want that number to begin with a one.

My mom and sister on the other hand had awesome losses this week! So yay for them!! :-)

Mama B:
Starting Weight: 217
Week 2: 215.2
Percentage Lost: .82%

Lil B:
Starting Weight: 134
Week 2: 130.8
Percentage Lost: 2.38%

Brookie B
Starting Weight: 207
Week 2: 206.6
Percentage Lost: .19%

Lil B is still in the lead. We still have two weeks to go and I still plan on winning. I need some new threads for Fitbloggin! Which is less than a month away! Eek!!

Oh, I also will be going a recipe review soon. And one of my favorite cookie companies sent me a sampler pack, so I’ll be doing a review and giveaway of those soon too! A lot of exciting things are happening around here! :-)

Hope the Easter bunny is kind and you have a wonderful Easter!

How are you going to rock it out this week?