Happy Friday all! Thanks for sharing all your camping must have’s on yesterdays post. It totally helped give me a few more ideas on things we needed to bring. I am pretty sure I want to go camping with all of you now though ~ the foods you all make – YUM!
We are all packed up and ready to head out for our first camping trip ever with my Sis and her family. I actually grew up part of a camping family since my parents were part of the Jeep Club. We literally went camping practically every weekend in the summer and all throughout the year. “Hard Core” camping that wasn’t at a camp ground~ the kind you probably don’t mind as a kid where they do not have showers or bathrooms, but, as an adult, I am not so sure I could hang with it.
When The Husband and I were chatting about this last night, I didn’t realize that I have not been camping as an adult. We are going to a super cool camp ground where we will be whipping up a whole lot of delicious Simply Filling Food and have biking/hiking trips planned to celebrate my nephews birthday.
My Sis gave him a choice of having a party for his 5h birthday or going camping ~ he picked camping and bike riding with his Aunt & Uncle ~ so away we go! So cute!
Since I knew we were heading out to camp, our fridge had slim pickin’s. We did not have any eggs left so I made a hardboiled EggWich.
Topped with a Morning Star Maple Veggie Sausage. I have been missing these all month long.
Sprayed with a little ICBINB Spray, sea salt & black pepper ~ definitely not the same as having a fried egg, but, not bad. (SF) – 7 points+
Lunch revolved around these Don Lee Farms Vegan Veggie Patties. I buy them occasionally at Costco and I absolutely love them. They taste just like a delicious Egg Roll – I know it sounds funny but they really do.
All the ingredients are Simply Filling with the exception of the Brown Rice Flour and Rice Starch. It is interesting to me to see which Veggie Burgers fall into Simply Filling and which do not. I do not think there is enough of the flour/starch to add too many points+/WPA for these.
4 points+ per burger!
I started off with my Salad Mix Blend….
Then topped it with a Veggie Burger, 1 Tbsp Sunflower Seeds and 2 Tbsp Trader Joe’s Low-Fat Spicy Peanut Vinaigrette. (SF+3 WPA) – 7 points+
This salad was so good, I was sad when it was gone 
I really pondered participating in our Ice Cream Social this week or sticking with my afternoon snack. After checking out the Sundae Bar, I decided I could totally do it.
In my cup ~ 1 banana plus 1/2 cup fresh pineapple, topped with about 1/4 cup vanilla/strawberry ice cream 1 Tbsp Whipped Cream, sprinkle of toasted coconut and marshmallows.
Fruit + ice cream + coconut in every single bite! (SF+3 WPA) – 3 points+
We spent last night running around getting all our last minute camping items together, whipping up Pasta Salad and green salads. To save on time and dishes to wash, we headed over to Panera for dinner.
1/2 BBQ Chicken Salad
Chicken, romaine lettuce, roasted corn, black beans, tortilla strips & BBQ sauce for my dressing.
French Onion Soup
Plus an apple as my side…..over chips or BREAD!
The REALLY cool thing about Panera aside from being absolutely delicious, fresh and good for you….you can plug in your meal in their online nutritional calculator to determine the nutrition to calc the points+. My entire meal was Simply Filling (SF + 3 WPA) – 8 points+.
STATS:
- 3,053 calories burned
- 10,053 steps taken
- 9 WPA used, 24 WPA remaining (25 daily points+)
I am not sure if I’ll be back tomorrow since we will be out in the “wild” ~ if not, then, a full recap of all our camping fun will be coming up on Sunday.
Have a fantastic weekend all!
Have fun!!! 🙂
I’ll start off by saying that I love your posts and all your gorgeous pics. But, I have a question about how your calculating your WPs for Simply Filling. In the Panera pic, what are you counting as points? How about the veggie burger? Did you count that as SF because other veggie burgers are? The reason I’m asking is this…I lost 115 lbs on WW, but I’ve only done Simply Filling a few weeks out of the whole time I’ve been doing WW. I always feel very restricted by the “rules”. I think you said that you count low fat cheese as SF. Is there anything else that’s technically not SF that you are ok with counting as SF?
I’m on maintenance now, but I’ve gained about 8 lbs over the course of about 18 months. I’d like to lose them doing SF and I also am trying very hard to eat “real” food. Right now, I’m bending the SF rules by not counting whole wheat bread that I made myself, since I believe it’s healthier than the reduced calorie breads that would be SF. I do watch the portion sizes on things like that. It also really bums me out that avocado and olives aren’t considered Simply Filling like they used to be on Core.
I’d love to hear your ideas about what might be grey areas for you with SF. Thanks!
HI Carol,
First ~ Congrats on the loss!!! That is amazing and you will get that remaining 8 off in no time at all.
I have tried to find a way to show how I am following Simply Filling by showing SF + whatever WPA I use along with the total points+ for those who are counting. It is pretty challenging to show it.
To answer your questions:
1. I counted the salad dressing and the sunflower seeds points+ towards my WPA as they are not Simply Filling Foods.
2. You are correct on the veggie burger ~ majority are Simply Filling and for ones that are not, I assess the ingredient list to determine is it really not Simply Filling or close. I read somewhere if it has more than 3 ingredients, then, count the points+ for the entire item/recipe. I try to follow that.
3. At Panera, I counted the croutons/cheese and the BBQ sauce I used as dressing towards my WPA for that same reason.
I have a few general rules that I follow whenever I make “tweaks” to Simply Filling.
1. The food items needs to be similar – just like I do with the fat free versus low-fat cheese. The lowfat cheese I use has 2 g of fat and I am more likely to pick that as a snack versus a fat free cheese slice. Plus, like your bread, I can recognize the ingredients on low fat over fat free cheese. I also will use a Simply Filling item when it works the same – like I don’t mind cooking with fat free cheeses. Soy Cheese is Simply Filling so food for thought on this one.
2. I will ALWAYS substitute something that is more nutritionally sound if I can keep my portions in check. Like you, I am not a fan at all of the light breads. The Sara Lee Honey Wheat Thin Bun is the only one I’ve found that is not “diety” and tastes like real bread. My focus is always on clean eating and foods I can recognize the ingredients on – limiting artificial things.
3. I have to be real with myself – am I losing weight with the tweaks I am making and/or am I making too many? If I find I am making too many tweaks or not losing weight, then, I count the points+ against my WPA or find a Simply Filling Substitute.
I agree – i totally miss avocado and olives – i pondered tweaking them too 🙂
Does that help a bit?
Danica
Danica-Which day of the week do you start with? I’m trying to gauge my WPAs by yours but don’t know when to start—thanks.
J.
SO Sorry, please excuse the “repeat” on the question–your response had gotten hung up in my Junk Mail Filter…I got it, your week starts with Sunday. Have a wonderful camping trip and we’re all waiting for pictures!
Jamie