Angie Rambles

I am now posting my Menu Plan Monday on my healthy weight loss journal (blog). I sure hope you'll come by and read there. I know I have not been posting a lot to this blog but I am going to ultimately have a blog on my name domain which will replace this one at some point so I'm looking forward to that. I'll be posting here off and on until I get that blog up and running. Just wanted to give you a quick update. Happy New Year!

It seems like forever since I did a Menu Plan Monday and this week we haven't even planned out a menu so it really doesn't even count. I'll most likely start doing my Menu Plan on my healthy weight loss journal (blog) but I'll post the link here so you can still see what's on our menu. This week we play it by ear: Monday-Chili Tuesday- BBQ Turkey sandwiches? Wednesday- Our 12th Anniversary, New Year's Eve is always at Beni Hana Thursday- Happy New Year Friday-? Have a great week! What yummies are on your menu?

Oh this week is exciting! We'll be in Jamaica so we'll be eating REALLY well. Monday- I'm on my own, hubs has work holiday party. I'm thinking I'll eat a sweet potato with black beans and chicken breast strips. Tuesday- No plan yet but something quick because we have to pack and get everything else done we need to get done. Plus I'm heading out to a very late lunch with a friend. I'm thinking peanut butter and jelly for dinner. Not sure how hubs will feel about that HA HA. *edited to add hubs says we are ordering in tomorrow night (Tues.) so that solves it but what to order? I dunno yet. Probably something naughty like pizza LOL Wednesday on we'll be eating yummy food in J A M A I C A as long as the weather cooperates and lets us out of town. Please pray, no snow or ice! Have a great few weeks!

Monday- Turkey Tacos Tuesday- Chicken, potato, veggie Wednesday- Turkey Chili Thursday- Spaghetti w/Hot Italian Turkey Sausage, biscuit bread Friday- Turkey burgers/hot dogs, baked beans Have a great week!

My friend Marie has a fun meme going on her blog. Won't you play along? I participated on my weight loss journal (blog) and wanted to spread the word. Let me know if you participate so I can read what you are most thankful for today.

It's a holiday week so meals are going to be pretty simple. Monday- Tuna & Soup Tuesday- Kashi Moroccan Curry (with chicken) Wednesday- Order in (my stepson is spending the night) Thursday- Happy Thanksgiving Friday- Leftovers or breakfast for dinner (with ham of course) Sat. & Sun.- As usual we play it by ear Make it a great week! Happy Thanksgiving.

Another crazy week! Have no clue really what we'll have as I'm trying to eat a lot of what is in the cupboards before going grocery shopping again. Not sure if it will work but here are some of the meal ideas we have so far. Just throwing possible ideas together of course LOL so no set menu plan this week *Tonight (Mon.), I know we'll have breakfast for dinner (waffles, bananas, etc.). *Turkey and salmon burgers with potato fries *The usual Thursday night spaghetti w/turkey sausage, homemade pasta sauce and biscuit bread *Turkey chili *Breakfast again (eggs, sausage, etc.) Hmmm guess that gets us through the week. Maybe we'll go grocery shopping this weekend or try to make it until we go shopping for Thanksgiving which by the way we are having my stepson over this year. Went to my parent's last year (and will totally miss that this year) but my stepson asked what we were planning because his mom is going out of town this year so we'll have him over to celeb...

This week is kinda crazy. Hubby has a procedure coming up on Wed. so food on Tues. and Wed. is up in the air. Here's what is on the menu as of right now. Monday- Turkey Brats, baked beans Tuesday- Omelets Wednesday- Tuna & Soup Thursday- Spaghetti, homemade sauce w/ground turkey, biscuit bread Friday- Turkey sloppy joes Have a great week!

My husband rocks for so many reasons. But this week, my hubby rocks because he is going to play chauffeur tonight for myself to get to the city of Chicago to meet some of my favorite food and weight loss/fitness bloggers. Hubby works all day and will come home tonight to just turn right around to drive down to the city which will take us over an hour. THEN on Sunday, a blogger friend of mine from out of town and I were going to take the train from the suburbs into the city until Kev had me check the schedule and train service doesn't eve start until 9 AM and we need to be down there by 9:30 AM so hubby will play chauffeur once again on Sunday morning. What a great guy! I know he doesn't really want to do this but he is anyway and THAT is why my hubby rocks. Why don't you join the blog meme fun?

It's Menu Plan Monday and Laura has a giveaway. All you have to do to enter is post your menu plan and link up on her blog. I imagine our week is going to be kind off because we won't have an oven to cook anything. Kev went to roast artichokes in the oven last night and the whole kitchen and living room was full of a terrible gas smell. He checked it out and the broiler worked but there was very little flame lighting the gas stove/oven. So needless to say, we now have to look for a new oven. UGH! Here's the tentative plan. Monday- Pasta w/leftover veggie pasta sauce, grilled artichokes and garlic bread (hmm looks like I need a protein in there, not sure what we'll do about that) Tuesday- BBQ Chicken, potato, veggie Wednesday- Tuna and Soup Thursday- Jamaican Jerk Chicken or Trader Joe's Chicken Sausages, potato, veggie (this day is up in the air) Friday- Dinner out Let's pray the microwave and grill don't go kaput this week too, knock on wood LOL Make i...

My hubby rocks-he's so creative and likes to have fun. Kev manages an Allergy/Asthma practice and everyone in his office dressed up as the 7 Dwarf's today. Here is his costume that he sewed this week. From a simple Disney picture, he was able to create the most adorable costume. He was Dopey, what a cutie. Can't wait until he gets home so all the neighborhood kids can see him. He shaved off his moustache AND goatee though, boo hoo Here's his office crew Last year he was Mr. Mucus, the big green guy from Mucinex and the year before he was a milk carton (everyone in the office was an item people are allergic to). Cute stuff. Would you like to join in on this fun meme? Visit Katy Lin's blog and play along A very Happy and Safe Halloween to all. edited to add a link to Kailani's post Halloween costume contest. Be sure to head over there to enter your pictures AND check out all the cute costumes already posted. Love them all!

It's Menu Plan Monday. Here's our plan for this week. What are your menu plans? Monday- Chicken Stir Fry w/veggies & brown rice Tuesday- Turkey Chili w/biscuits Wednesday- Pork Roast w/veggies Thursday- Spaghetti w/biscuit loaf Friday- Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup Over the weekend Kev wants me to try to make pizza dough in my new Oster ExpressBake Breadmaker That will be interesting and fun. Do you have a breadmaker? If so, have you ever made pizza dough? I need to find a whole wheat dough recipe because the one in the guide is for white only. I could also do a mix, white/wheat flour.

Menu Plan Monday is here again. To be honest, we don't really have a menu plan for this week so I'm just putting down possible ideas and we'll take it from there. Monday- Turkey tacos (yummy dinner!) Tuesday- Keywest blend Chicken, potato, veggie Wednesday- Black Beans & Rice w/turkey sausage Thursday- Breakfast for dinner (don't have the makings for spaghetti unless I can get to the store) Friday- Turkey burgers/hot dogs Gosh, I am just throwing this all together and have no idea if that's what we'll have. Feel out of sorts today. What are you having for dinner this week?

I have been looking forward to posting about Kev this week. Don't forget to go over to The Great Adventure so you can participate in "My Husband Rocks" Friday's too. My hubby, Kevin rocks because he's so thoughtful . As many of you know, I had hurt my knee enough to keep me from working out for over a week now and I had to go to the doc's to get a shot (oh yeah it hurt). So not fun. Anyway, Kev went to the gym for spin class alone last weekend and came home with these beautiful flowers afterwards. What a sweetheart! PS. He makes sure to ALWAYS include purple flowers, my favorite. Thanks honey for always making me feel so special .

Time for Menu Plan Monday. Our menu is not set in stone but here is what we have. Monday- Jambalaya with scallops Tuesday- Chicken on portabella mushroom caps Wednesday- Pork Chops or maybe something from Whole Foods or The Fresh Market (I'm running errands that day, I think I just made up my mind LOL) Thursday- Spaghetti and homemade sauce w/turkey sausage Friday- Up in the air, maybe Black Beans & Rice or Tacos (we shall see) What's on your menu this week?

I found a fabulous, fun new meme to participate in every week. I love the fact that there really are women out there who love and appreciate their hubby's as much as I do. Katy Lin over at The Great Adventure started a weekly meme on Friday's called My Husband Rocks. Please check it out and participate when you get a chance. Here is my first "My Husband Rocks" post. My hubby Kevin rocks because he loves to travel (in style), he's adventurous and likes to have fun. It won't be long until we return to Jamaica (ahhhh Jamaica in December is pure heaven!) and I can't wait to make more wonderful memories there. Thanks for being the coolest hubby ev-ah. You're the best!

Another Menu Plan Monday is upon us. The food plan for this week is kind of up in the air. Don't know what we'll have with each meal yet but have the basics down. Monday- Goulash (using leftovers for the 3rd time WOW) Tuesday- Pork Chops Wednesday- Chicken (baked or grilled, not sure) Thursday- Pot Roast (I'm not sure how I feel about this since IT IS Survivor night and it's supposed to be spaghetti or pizza LOL) Friday- Tuna & Soup Head on over to Laura's Menu Plan post and wish her a Happy Canadian Thanksgiving this week! What's on your menu plan this week?

It's time for Menu Plan Monday. Kev and I were up late last night and I almost forgot to do the menu plan so we whipped it together. Not sure if we'll change anything but at least there is some type of plan. Monday- Pork chops, black eyed peas, veggies Tuesday- Tuna sandwiches, Lentil soup Wednesday- Chicken Creole Thursday- Spaghetti w/ground turkey, biscuits Friday- Mexi Turkey burgers Hope you have a great week!

I haven't done a Weekly Round Up in quite some time so I thought I would post today. List two things you are proud of yourself for this week. I am most proud that I got the home page of my healthy weight loss website, Losing It and Loving It done. The whole website needs work and I am working on it bit by bit with the help of my business mentor, Lynn Terry of Click Newz, an Internet marketing blog. She's the best! The other thing I am proud about is that I listened to my body and made some changes with my weekly exercise routine. I have been having some knee issues and needed to slow down a bit and I did that. You can follow my updates about this on my weight loss blog. Were you able to work on getting your goals accomplished? (if you met them or not) Yes Share something you learned this week. I learned that I just need to take action and that it is OK to make mistakes. That is how you learn. How was your week? Hope you have a great weekend!

It's once again time for menu plan Monday. I have the basics on the menu but we'll play the sides by ear. Laura at Organizing Junkie is having a Family Favorites menu edition this week so be sure to check it out. On to our menu: Monday- Pork Chops/Veggies Tuesday- Tuna & Soup (?) Wednesday- Chicken/Veggies Thursday- Mini tortilla pizzas w/turkey sausage and veggies (Survivor premier night) Friday- Breakfast for dinner (we'll try this again, decided to order in last Friday) Whatcha having? Make it a great week! Angie