Planning ahead, I tell ya.. that is the KEY! PLAN AHEAD! Yesterday at class someone volunteered to bring Einstein bagels to class today. I had overnight to think about how I was going to handle it. Now, if I was really good I would just pass on the bagels and eat celery sticks (ya right!), but I felt good about what I did decide to do.

I looked up Einsteins nutrition info online and found out how many points it would cost me - about 8 for a bagel with cream cheese.  So I decided that would be my breakfast, then I packed a 4 point lunch, 2 point snack and planned a 7 point dinner.  I tried something new for dinner. I love Twice Baked potatoes that my MIL makes, but she uses like a whole tub of sour cream and a cube of butter in hers. This is my lo-fat version…maybe not quite as creamy and cheesy, but still good. I counted 4pts for mine because I actually had to use some low-fat, rather than fat-free ingredients, because that’s all I had.  Soo . . . Woo-hoo for planning ahead! I actually did end up with another 1/4th of a bagel for a few more points and then a few bites of toffee at our Youth activity at the church tonight, but overall not a bad day.  Tomorrow is my WI.

Just a quick menu from Monday. I am at another all day class every day this week for my M.Ed program. At least my drive is only 1/2hr for this one instead of 1hr 1/2. We ate out for lunch today, but the rest of the week everyone is brown bagging it, but bringing “snacks” to share. We’ll see how this goes…