Sophia's Dinner and a Movie

DINNER AND A MOVIE!!! I rented Twilight tonight and enjoyed my salad while watching it!

I was inspired to have a salad because I didn't really want anything heavy tonight and after looking at Fitness Magazines "Best Salads" I was eager to create my own.

Unfortunately I'm using Iceberg Salad, not my favorite, I normally like eating the dark and leafy greens but this will have to do.

In my salad!!!

• avocado (1/2 of one)
• chicken-less stuffed cutlet (stuffed with black bean and corn in a smoky tomato sauce)
• walnuts (glazed)
• light reduced fat balsamic vinaigrette dressing (1 package)
  
  
  

~Sophia's No Hassle and Natural Dinner~

Eating Animals is WRONG!!!!

TOFU

Tonight I made teriyaki tofu, steamed veggies (carrots, broccoli and cauliflower) and brown rice.

Step by Step Guide...

- Steam Brown Rice

- Drain Tofu, cut into squares and sprinkle with seasonings (added a bit of low sodium teriyaki sauce.)

- Sliced onions and put them in a separate mixing bowl with a little teriyaki sauce

- Combined Tofu and Sauteed onions in skillet

- Steamed my veggies

- Mix Rice with Tofu and Veggies

Sophia's Veggie Packed Salad and Cheese Pizza

PIZZA

Now Pizza is my guilty pleasure- I seriously believe I could enter a pizza contest and come pretty close to first place if not first, lol. I've been wanting to make a pizza from scratch for the longest time and unfortunately this is still now my own creation. Just a four cheese pizza you pop in the oven. But it was delicious!!

Veggie Packed SALAD STEP I

I started with a simple salad, added Tomatoes and Avocados. YUM



Yet I was craving a lot of veggies today so I steamed some mixed vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower and carrots) and threw them on top of the salad.

Veggie Packed Salad STEP II

I love vegetables on a salad. Once you start adding exciting things to a salad you never want to eat a plain one again!!

Sophia's HEALHY TAKE OUT!!!

One word...

PF CHANG'S!!! (ok two words) .
I love PF Chang's because their Chinese food is a little bit healthier than the average Chinese food restaurant.


Tonight I had my favorite meal from PF's... MA PO TOFU with BROWN RICE and SICHUAN STYLE ASPARAGUS!!


What I also like about PF Chang's is you can go on their website and look at the nutritional facts.

I split everything with my mom, but here are the nutrition facts from the website.


Brown Rice- 1/2 cup = 109 calories
Ma Po Tofu (with Broccoli) - 8oz (2.5 servings) 391 calories
Sichuan Style Asparagus (spicy) - 107 calories.

Sophia's trying to be healthy and eat.

Finally finishing the dinner I had when I went out on Saturday night. It was a shrimp pasta but there are no more shrimp. Pictured is just Pasta, Tomatoes, Asparagus and I put 2 Soy Sausages in there for the protein.

Morning Star Soy Links
Per 2 Links
Calories- 70
Protein- 9g
What is healthy about this meal

Tomato health benefits

- Calories- 37

- lycopene (antioxidant and cancer-preventing

properties)

- fights prostate cancer

- potassium (lower high blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart disease)

Asparagus health benefits

- Calories- 43
- a good source of potassium
- great for your heart
- helps treat depression


So, as stated in my last post I just haven't had an appetite. I know I need to eat but when I do I get queasy. So the reason for this (sorry of no relation to the blog) I have a boyfriend now and the butterflies and happiness just makes me forget about food and not crave it. Tonight I "made" myself eat a little dinner but became a little queasy again afterwards. I promise I will be back to normal soon. Sorry Everyone.

Sophia's- Out to Eat Healthy- but where's my Appetite :(

So tonight I went out to dinner with my aunt, uncle and mom to this great restaurant in Chicago called "McCormick and Schmick's Seafood"- but honestly I haven't had an appetite all day- Really I haven't. But here is what I ordered, and seriously couldn't finish even half of each dish.

Sorry the pictures are backwards, the cake is last and the appetizer is first.


A CHOCOLATE MOOUSE CAKE with Vanilla Ice Cream- it was twice this size, so I shared it with my mom , and then only ate half of this portion.
Main Dish- SHRIMP BELLA (shrimp, roma tomatoes, penne pasta and goat cheese, asparagus)
I chose this dish because #1 i love shrimp, #2 I didnt want anything with a heavy sauce, and #3 all the veggies in it, well the tomatoes and asparagus, lol.) I ate like 1/4 of this, if even that much.

The Before Dinner Salad!!!- i just got the house salad- it was between the cesar and the house, and because I was having pasta I didn't want heavy cesar- the House Salad had a delicious light vinaigrette dressing, with onions, goat cheese, walnuts and spinach leaves.

The Appetizer- ok, this is weird, but cool. At dinner we kind of got VIP service b/c my uncle was really nice over the phone when making the reservations and my aunt knew a woman who worked at the restaurant in Pittsburgh. So this was a special and new appetizer.

- Shrimp, Oyster, and i have no idea what the other two items were. But YUM :)

Sophia's Mean Green Salmon Machine

THIS PICTURE IS FOR AFAM!!! well, I realized it still looks kind of boring, but I'll jazz it up better next time. I made a little face on my salmon though.

I didn't have much time to make anything new, I had a pretty stressful day so I'm just having left over salmon, brown rice and I made some green beans. Everything in this meal is healthy and delicious!!! The green beans are from Trader Joe's - French Green Beans (product of France :) only 30 cals per 1/2 cup!! Not Bad.

PS- I did have a fruit bowl (strawberries, cantelope, honeydew melon) and a banana today for a snack- h0w refreshing it was to have fresh fruit and today my batteries died so I couldn't post breakfast or lunch. Tomorrow I will.

Im getting ready to try and relax while I watch 90210- they seriously take forever to have new episodes, but its finally here!!!!

PEACE

Sophia's day of Energy...Energy, Exercise, Eat!!!

Ok, truth be told I was running around so much today that to keep myself going I had a Red Bull and some Coffee (and a bit of the left over pizza, I had no time to sit down). I really need to get off the caffeine. I work at Starbucks and have become addicted to coffee, but I have no excuse for my Red Bull habit.

When I got home I did a 45 min jog/walk. I had to cut my time short because I wanted to quickly get in to finish homework and beat the sun going down. It was cold outside but my music and energy drinks helped me stick it out. lol

DINNER TIME!!!! For dinner I'm having short grain Brown Rice, Trader Joe's Salmon, and Vegetables (broccoli, carrots, sugar snap peas and water chestnuts.) I use brown rice because it is much healthier than white and to give it flavor I add Bragg Liquid Aminos- its an all natural seasoning from soy protein!!

- Sorry the picture is dark.

Ok, im off to finish alot of homework, have a Blessed and Happy night :)