Picnic in the Park II

Another beautiful picnic in the park with my husband! He packed a wonderful array of things today:

• Tuna salad with celery, peppers, jalopenos, tomatoes and spices (and smidge of mayo and walnut oil)
• Fresh bananas, apples, and peach
• Cherry tomatoes with basil leaves and hummus
• Yogurt for me; cottage cheese for him
• Millet chips (more info below!)

Tuna salad with pita chip:

Yogurt:

1 cup apples, peaches, banana:

Tomatoes and basil with hummus glue (I had about 4 of these)

Bad habit:

These chips are amazing. Sami’s Bakery Millet and Flax chips. Only 66 calories for 1 oz (about half the amount of other chips/crackers). They’re made with millet and brown rice flour. And 8 grams of fiber per oz! I had 2 oz, so that’s a LOT of fiber! I found the at Earth Fare and Talley’s, so I bet any healthy grocery store would have them.

Lunch: ~ 450 calories.

I ignored my 10:30 hunger with a piece of gum until 11:15. Then I had 3 almonds and a dried apricot. Too small to bother photographing, but I’m blogging for the record 🙂

Snack: ~ 35 calories : )

Tonight the first of two college frat brothers is arriving to spend a few days with us before homecoming this weekend. Husband is home preparing roasted chicken pieces with potatoes, parsnips, carrots, zucchini and squash. And making homemade biscuits! I think we’re having wine with dinner too. Biscuits should be about 150 calories, chicken I’ll stick to white breast meat, and veggies – I will eat abundantly (although I’m not sure about the chicken fat that will drip on them and how that will affect their caloric amounts). I”ll also have a glass of wine 🙂 Should be around 500-600 calories total, I’m hoping.

Until then!