Tasty Tuesday: Oopsie Bread

Hey there! Welcome to another Tasty Tuesday! Today I wanted to share a low carb alternative to bread...Oopsie bread!

I hate to call it a struggle but it is a struggle finding foods to replace conventional foods. One problem I have is breakfast. I love the convenience of a breakfast sandwich especially when I can get it at a drive thru. If I'm going to lose any weight however I have to avoid that place like the plague! Not to mention the sodium and the carbs in those sandwiches are pretty high. I came up with an alternative! An oopsie breakfast sandwich!

Here's what you need for the oopsie bread:
3 eggs
1/8 tsp of salt
1/2 cup of softened cream cheese
1 tsp of baking powder (optional) gives it more of a "bread" texture
or
1/2 tsp of cream of tartar (optional)

1. Preheat your oven to 300F.
2. Separate your egg whites from your egg yolks.
3. Add a pinch of salt and baking powder or cream of tartar to your egg whites.
4. Beat your egg whites until you get hard peaks. Set it aside.
5. In the bowl with the egg yolks add the cream cheese and beat until smooth.
6. Take half of the egg yolk mixture and fold it into the egg whites.
7. Do the same for the next half until all mixed.
8. On a parchment paper lined cookie sheet drop dollops of the mixture.
9. Bake for about 25 minutes.
10. Remove from oven and let it cool on a cooling rack.
11. Enjoy!

I add a baked egg, a slice of american cheese, and a nitrate free sausage patty between two pieces of oopsie bread and there you have an Oopsie Breakfast Sandwich!

Oopsie bread can substitute biscuits, rolls, or sandwich bread. 

Here's a funny Oopsie bread video.

Tasty Tuesday: Making a dish low carb

Living a low carb lifestyle certainly has its challenges. Especially when we live in a society that breads, pastas, and high carb foods dominate the average meal. My challenge to live a  low carb lifestyle is taking meals from my cooking repertoire and making them low carb.

For example, last week the meal plan called for a pasta dish that I typically made for the family.

Ingredients:
1 Jar of Newman's Own Sockaroni spaghetti sauce
2-3 cups of penne pasta
1 pound of bulk mild italian sausage
Low carb version; substitute pasta with same amount of broccoli

Since I'm completely eliminating the whites from my meals but not from my family's meals I cook the meal a bit differently now. I brown the sausage (draining the excess fat of course) and then add it to the sauce. In the past I mixed the pasta with the sausage and sauce and served it up. Now I pour the sauce over the pasta with a side vegetable and then serve it to the family. My portion consisted of pouring the sauce over steamed broccoli florets and then topping it with a bit of shredded mozzarella cheese. I can't begin to tell you how delicious it was.

If your meals are modified from your family's, do you find modifying your meals challenging?

{via pasta,sauce,sausage}

Diet update and my new goal

First I want to thank you for reading my rant the other day. I don't know why I let my expectations of people who let me down get the best of me. I've decided I have the best accountability buddies right under my nose and that's my blog and readers. Duh!

In the past I've been absent because I felt like I didn't live up to what I should or I thought my progress should be. I back slid and avoided the blog because I felt like I would let my readers down. Never once did I think hey maybe I should stay on the blog and blog about letting you down and not living up to my weight loss goals and how I should push through.

Things are going to change. I'm going to share with you my pitfall and my triumphs. The ins and outs of my journey so maybe you can relate and I have documentation of my journey. Without further adieu I wanted to update you on my progress.

I still listen to Paul McKenna. I would say I tune in every other week a few nights a week. I know I don't have to listen to him all the time so the occasional listen for me works.  I've started to ride my bike! I want to be a runner really I do, but new running shoes are not in the budget and my knees are not the best around so I thought the next best thing is riding my bike. My daughter and I ride together 2-3 nights a week. I've started to eat low carb again. I'm focusing on Atkin's because that plan just works for me. I see progress rather quickly which gives me the motivation I need to keep moving towards my goal.

This past month I've lost 3 inches just by eating low carb and not having any "whites" pasta, bread, or rice. I also went shopping and I bought skinny jeans one size smaller!!! Woo hoo!!!

My new weight loss goal is to be a size 10 by Thanksgiving. This fall is chock full of events for me, a baby shower for a high school friend which means mini class reunion, I host Thanksgiving every year at my house, plus Black Friday shopping that night. I have many reasons why being a size 10 is where I need to be!

My short term goal is to be a size 14 by the end of the month. I became a size 16 by the end of last month and I plan on being a size 12 by the end of October so being a size 10 by the end of November is realistic and doable. I focus on size rather than weight because my philosophy is that you can't drag a scale into the dressing room expecting to fit into that smaller size. It's not weight it's inches.

How do you gauge your progress? Do you have any specific goals for the fall? I'd love to know, post below!