Oil Of Joy: February 2016

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Sunday, February 28, 2016

My Weekly Meal Plan!

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There are times when I find myself so far from where I started I need to take a walk back in time, revisit the place where I started. So, I am shaking things up!! I am returning to some simplicity in the plan. I easily get caught up in all the fun and specialty things, that I forget the delicious simplicity of some of the basics of the plan.

This week is weigh in week as well for the Accountability Group - so I am also giving myself a little boost with some of the foods that originally helped me reach my goal weight!

As always, my meal plan is egg, almond, peanut, sunflower seed and wheat free. I truly hope you find this helpful to your journey!

Breakfasts:

Chicken breakfast sausage scramble with non starchy veggies, with Trimmy (3 times)
Oat Pancakes, slim belly jelly, FP Trimmy (2 times)
FSF or Big Boy Smoothie (2 times)

Lunches:

Large green salad with tuna (or other meat) EVOO/ACV dressing, skinny chocolate (3 times)
Loaded Fotato Soup with smoked salmon (twice)
Brown Rice cakes with lean deli meat, pickles, mustard, baby frap (twice)

Dinners:

Chicken Pizza with side salad, EVOO/ACV dressing
Taco Salad
Chicken in crockpot with broccoli and cauliflower
Salmon over a bed of greens
Cowboy Grub with peas & carrots on the side
Chicken Fajitas bowl over spanish cauli rice
Chana Dahl soup in the crockpot and side salads

Desserts:

I am trying to go a little lighter here, I enjoy those lovely fats, but trying to boost things a little with lighter foods closer to bedtime

Cookie Bowl Oatmeal with berries (twice)
Skinny Chocolate (twice)
Hot Cocoa trimmy with cinnamon "toast" (twice)
I have one night undecided.....

What do you all use for salad dressings? I almost never buy a premade dressing, between food sensitivities and on plan ingredients, I find myself struggling. I think this looks like a great gadget to help me make more dressings! Do you have anything like this? Do you like it?

                                                             

I hope you all have a wonderful week!!

With Joy ~ Tina :)




Tuesday, February 23, 2016

GIVEAWAY WINNER IS........



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With Joy ~ Tina :)

Sunday, February 21, 2016

My Weekly Meal Plan!!



Here's my plan for the upcoming week! I am hoping to get to the grocery store tomorrow as we are running low on supplies!

I feel so good and enjoy being on plan so much more when I am prepared!

Here we go!

Breakfasts:
Chicken breakfast sausage, green and yellow zucchini saute - trimmaccino rich mmmm....(twice)
Fat Stripping Frappa (twice)
Chia Tapioca Pudding with strawberries
Pancakes with berries (twice) (make triple batch for future use)

Lunches:
Deep S salad with tuna
Pancakes with berries
Loaded Fotato Soup and a baby frap
Chicken tenderloin with salad and trimmaccino light
Lettuce wrap deli meat sandwiches with baby frap
Just Like Campbells Tomato Soup with Just Like Grandmas Rolls
Leftovers

Dinners:
Chicken Breast Pizzas
Taco Salad
Burrito Bowls
Whole chicken in the crockpot and veggies
Deep S salad with Salmon
Cowboy Grub
Fish and roasted broccoli and cauliflower drizzled in EVOO

Snacks:
Skinny Chocolate (twice)
Hummus and veggies
Fruit and tea with collagen
Chia tapioca pudding
Trimmaccino rich
Baby Frap

Desserts:
Gluccie Chocolate Pudding (twice)
I am going to try tummy tucking ice cream.....
Brainy blueberry muffin with trimmy light
Skinny chocolate (twice) with hot cocoa trimmy
Baby Frap

What's on your menu plan this week? How are you planning for a successful THM week?

With Joy ~
Tina

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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

***GIVEAWAY!!!*** THM Plan Book & Cook Book!!!



LADIES! I am so excited to have the opportunity to offer this amazing giveaway! This plan has literally changed my life and I am so blessed to be able to share it with others through my blog, through local meetings and now one lady who has not been able to purchase the books yet will have the opportunity to win the set and learn all about this amazing plan!

This may be a bit backwards, but I want to start my thoughts about this set with the cookbook!! This book is AMAZING!! It has many wonderful allergy friendly recipes as well! For the recipes that contain egg, I am slowly working through and trying my best to recreate them for all of us egg free families. You can find that post HERE.  There are wonderful dairy subs in here as well! Collagen berry whip, hello cheese and laughing mama to name a few of the new dairy free options! The dinner recipes have been wonderful and my family is LOVING them!

One of my favorite sections is the drinks! There is chocolate milk, strawberry milk as well as many others! All wonderful and help curb my sweet tooth and keep me focused, satisfied and successful!

They have categorized the recipes for fuel types, allergens and even those that require no special ingredients! This book has been an amazing resource!

The plan book is a must have, I will be honest though, I LOVE the casual, fun style of the first book. However, I know for many it was too much, I truly believe for those of you this will be a much better option. It's concise and gets you to the heart of the plan much quicker. Truly, it's wonderful. The sisters have done an amazing job working to adapt to the requests of their customers. How amazing is that? How often have you heard of authors that listen so closely that they work this hard to bring out what their customers want? I am just so blessed to be affiliated with THM, in my blog and my store. Truly a gift.

Now on to the GIVEAWAY!

The technical stuff:

*NO purchase necessary to enter!
*This giveaway is open to US residents only
*Contest runs from 2/17/16-2/23/16
*Prize will consist of THM Plan & Cookbooks
*These will be mailed to winner via USPS - Oil of Joy is not responsible for items lost by USPS
*Oil of Joy will be using Rafflecopter to randomly choose winner for entrants
*Oil of Joy is not held responsible for content in book/coookbook


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Sunday, February 7, 2016

My Weekly Meal Plan!


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I have not been nearly as consistent in sharing my weekly meal plans as I would like to be. Even when I do not share it, I ALWAYS right one up! I may not follow it perfectly, but even with that, it is a huge stress reliever for me. When I am tired or feeling uninspired, I can just look at my list! I always grocery shop from that list as well so I always have everything on hand!

Breakfasts:
Chicken breakfast sausage and Just like Grandmas Rolls (twice)
Creamy Key Lime Shake page 408 (once)
Healthy Cherry Milkshake (once, I will sub in sprouted tofu for the yogurt in this and use Super Sweet blend, I may throw in a handful of oats as well since this will be an E shake, I think my daughter will like this!)
Pancake with strawberries (once)

Lunches:
Sandwiches on Just Like Grandmas Rolls with Earth Milk (three times)
Super Salmon Patties page 176 with broccoli and death free cheese
Fat Stripping Frappa - because we should all enjoy a chocolate shake for lunch :)  (once)
Leftovers (twice)

Dinners:
Taco Salad (one of my favorites!!)
Cilantro Lime Burst Thighs with cauliflower page 54
Sloppy Joes on Sweet potatoes with salad
Cowboy Grub and salad page 59
Golden Chana Dahl Soup page page 99
Spaghetti over spaghetti squash with ground beef
Pasta Fagioli (a family recipe that I tweak to be on plan, this will be for erev shabbat, our Friday night dinner with dessert)

Desserts! My favorite!!

Bust a myth cake (twice)
Cookie Bowl Oatmeal with strawberrie on top (I make a double batch, so twice!)
Meadows Lemon Coconut Truffles page 336 (I will use goat cheese to replace the cream cheese, Once)
Berry Crunch Bars page 392 (this will be our erev shabbat dessert!)

If I am able to, I want to try to play with that Payoff day candy too.....

Have a great week!
With Joy ~ Tina


Friday, February 5, 2016

Enchilasagna Casserole with Spanish Cauli Rice - Delicioso! S meal

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Oh, this was REALLY good. Mexican food is a favorite around my home, we could eat tacos every day I think. We also love enchiladas and this little idea has been rolling around my brain for some time now. I decided tonight was the nigh to try it out and this dish received rave reviews from the family! This is an S meal on the Trim Healthy Mama plan, it is also a very low carb meal for those following a low carb diet. 
Here's my little trick, to keep this dish low in carbs and stay in S territory, I used thicker sliced deli meat in place of my tortillas. I chose a simple chicken breast variety and asked the lady at the counter to cut it about the thickness of a tortilla. :) 
 

I took a little shot of my daughters piece, she cannot have much dairy, so this is one piece that I only used a sprinkle of cheese on...it still looks yummy, even if you have to have this dairy free!


The completed Enchilasagna!! 


If this were an action shot, you would see the sauce bubbling in the dish...the fragrance was fantastic!


Because I MUST have spanish rice - AKA Mexican rice. I adapted a favorite recipe and it worked out amazingly well!!



Enchilasagna:

You will need one batch of my enchilada sauce found here in my Chicken Enchilada Casserole. I subbed 1/2-1 teaspoon of gluccie for the brown rice flour to keep this in S territory.

Ingredients:
1 pound sliced lean deli meat of choice (about the thickness of tortillas)
1+ pounds of ground beef cooked with 1/2 cup of chopped onions
1 small can black olives
2 cups shredded cheese of choice - or leave off for dairy free

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Assemble your enchilasagna!

In a 9x13 baking dish layer in 4 slices of your deli meat so it covers the bottom like pictured above. Spread some of the enchilada sauce over the meat.
Layer in half of the ground beef and olives.
Layer on 4 slices of lean deli meat and cover with enchilada sauce.
Layer in the other half of the ground beef and olives.
Top with 4 more slices of lean deli meat.
Cover with the remaining enchilada sauce.
Sprinkle cheese over the top of everything.

Bake for 20 minutes or until cheese is melted and bubbly.

Spanish Cauli Rice:

Ingredients:
1 - 12 oz bag of cauli rice (or approx 3 cups of riced cauliflower)
1/2 cup chicken broth
1/2 cup of diced onions
2 chopped garlic cloves
salt and pepper to taste
refined coconut oil for sauteeing

Saute onion and garlic for a couple of minutes over medium. Add in the cauli and chicken broth. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Cook until cauli is done and the liquid has evaporated. Done!



Be sure to check out the Trim Healthy Mama store for all your THM needs!
With Joy ~ Tina