Low fat, high protein muffins

Here is a versatile recipe concocted by John. These make big jumbo muffins, like the size you get at Dunkin Donuts! Only a lot less calories!


3/4 c. white flour
1/2 c. whole wheat flour
1/4 c. oat fiber (or replace this with more wheat flour)
2 scoops designer whey protein powder (natural)
3/4 c. sugar
1 T. baking powder
1/2 t. salt
optional: 1/2 t. cinnamon and 1/2 t. nutmeg

1 c. milk
1/2 c. unsweetened applesauce
1/2 c. liquid egg whites (or 3 real egg whites)

Add in Options
1 c. blueberries, chocolate chips, or whatever your heart desires

Mix dry ingredients in large bowl, and mix liquid ingredients in a separate bowl. Pour liquids into dry and gently fold together until mostly mixed. Then fold in blueberries (or substitute). Spoon into 12 standard muffin cups or 6 jumbo muffin cups. Bake at 400 for 20 mins (std.) or 28 mins (jumbo) or until golden brown.

Nutritional info of basic muffin:

Cal: 260
Fat: 1 gram
Carbs: 37 grams
Fiber: 7 grams
Protein: 14 grams

Calculate for any Optional items. Adding the blueberries adds only about 20 calories per muffin! Compared to Dunkin Donuts reduced fat blueberry muffin at 400 calories!

* Note, the oat fiber only adds about 5 calories, so if you sub with wheat flour, adjust your calorie count for it.

Wheat berry success!

I found some wheat berries to try with breakfast. I just cooked them on the stove like brown rice yesterday, and have them stored in the fridge. Here they are sprinkled on top of my pumpkin oats:

The wheat berries are kind of like steel cut oats, but they have a shell to them almost. Kind of like the pop when you bite into a pomegranate seed, and the chew of steel cut oats. I like them.

John had some french toast made with my home made wheat bread, which is almost gone! Topped with unsweetened coconut and maple syrup:


Lunch was a tuna salad with lemon pepper wrap on a multigrain flatout. With a small banana spread with 2 tsp of natural peanut butter. Yum!

Lentils, fun shopping and pie!

I was on the hunt for wheat berries, so we decided to have breakfast in Saratoga Springs at a local coffee shop, where I had an oat bran bagel and some lovely Peruvian coffee.

After that we hit up a natural food store where I found some wheatberries, spelt berries, unsweetened coconut and brown rice protein powder! Yippee!
Lunch at home included tuna salad on my home made wheat bread, plus a delicious anjou pear.

Afternoon snack was the usual latte and clementines!


Dinner was a quick throw together of lentils with sauteed spices and pureed onions, served over cooked brown rice. Quite tasty! Roasted winter mix seasoned with curry seasonings on the side.


John made a lemon meringue pie, which I had a taste of. Tart and delicious!

Tea for 2 and fritatta

Started off the day with yummy pumpkin oats.
1/2 cup oats cooked with 1 tsp brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice.
After cooking I stirred in 1/2 cup pumpkin, protein powder and topped with toasted pecans. The pecans were a little over toasted, but I kind of like them that way.


Mid morning I had tea. I quite like this kind. You can see my hubby's legs in the back ground. As I was taking the picture he decided to come in and mess with my shots.



Dinner was going to be brown rice and lentils, but after watching a Netflix movie, it was already past dinner, so I just decided on an easy fritatta. I had a cooked potato which I chopped and pan fried a bit. Then added the eggs and cooked for a couple minutes to set the bottom. Slid under the broiler and topped with cheese (everything's better with cheese!!). Side of steamed broccoli. Dinner in 10 minutes!

Latte Dah

My favorite afternoon snack! Lattes!!

While it isn't the dream espresso machine I would like to have at home, this little one does a great job at foaming milk.

Lori's Miel Latte: espresso, steamed milk, a spiral of honey and dusted with cinnamon.

Remoulade's in New Orleans

All of my rechargeable batteries need charging, so no pics today of my food! However, I still have some more New Orleans meals LOL.

This was at Remoulade on Bourbon St. It's the less expensive, casual version of Arnauds.
This was probably my least favorite meal for a couple reasons.

I had a sampler of
file gumbo, crawfish pie, and jambalaya.


The soup was good standard gumbo, and the crawfish pie was quite good. The jambalaya was uninspired and tasted very bland. It was almost like spanish rice, not a good tasty jambalaya.

My sister had a sampler which had turtle soup:

Followed by a natchatosis meat pie and crawfish etouffe


She like the soup and the etouffe, but the meat pie was way too salty.

This meal was okay, but as we got up to leave, I caught movement out of the corner of my eye against the wall, and saw a roach! Yuck.

Pumpkin Cream of Wheat - Giant Breakfast!

Today's breakfast ended up way bigger than I thought it would be! I decided on Cream of Wheat for a change. So, I took a cue from Monday's nutty nugget oatmeal and combined:

1/4 cup Nutty Nuggets (store brand GrapeNuts)
3 tablespoons slow cook Cream of Wheat
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp brown sugar
1 1/2 cups water

After cooking, I stirred in
13 grams of Designer Whey unflavored protein powder
1/2 cup canned pumpkin

Topped with:
9 grams of toasted pecans
dollop of homemade cranberry sauce.

The bowl was huge and incredibly filling. Served with my usual cafe au lait and brekkie weighed in at a little over 500 calories, which is a bit more than usual. Normally I do around 400-430.
Definitely was an interesting twist, as the cream of wheat is much creamier (duh) than the oatmeal. And I am liking the wheaty taste of the Nutty Nuggets.