I am starting to run out of the Healthy Choice entrees that we bought on sale. I am out of the french bread pizzas. I need to go back and get more using the rain check.
Today I had the Healthy Choice Four Cheese Manicotti (ricotta, mozzarella, parmesan, & romano cheese filled pasta in marinara sauce) comes with broccoli for the vegetable. It has 270 calories, with 4.5 grams of fat, and 450mg of sodium. Almost 17% of the calories come from fat. It counts for 5 Weight Watchers points.
It took 5 minutes of microwave time, and had to be stirred once in the middle. The box says let stand for 2 minutes, but you probably want to let it sit for a little longer as the cheese in these things gets really hot!
The four cheese manacotti’s are very good, and the marinara sauce is pretty good too. The broccoli is well…broccoli. If you like steamed broccoli, it’s okay. I generally with sprinkle a little Molly McButter on the Healthy Choice vegetables.
The Healthy Choice Four Cheese Manicotti is one of my favorites of theirs. Would I wna to eat if all of the time? No. But I enjoy it every once in a while.
Last night I was participating in a karate demo, and was going to do a 5 board power break. I mentioned to my teacher about how I lost weight, and it will be important get my for right as I wouldn’t have as much weight behind it. She paused and looked at me seriously seriously, and said she had been wanting to talk to me about that. She told me she didn’t want me losing anymore weight. I think it was kind of funny. Actually my weight is down from mid 180’s to mid to low 170’s. So it’s not like I have actually lost ahug amount of weight. But what I have lost has been largely fat. So I am much thinner. I went from a 34 inch waist to a 32 inch waist, and maybe just a little less than that. I am much leaner. I am getting to the point that if I went on a cruise, I might actually not be afraid to wear speedos! 
I would love to keep myweight where it is, or even gain a little weight, but still be leaner than what I am. I think by eating low fat healthy food, and getting aerobic fat-burning exercise I will get to where I want to be.
I went to the library today for lunch, and as alwasy I scanned the used book sale for books I might be interested in. These days I usually go to the cookbook shelf first to scan for low fat cook boks, or diet type cookbooks. I had just been theere on Friday, and bought a few of them. I wasn’t expecting any new ones to be there. But I lucked out and found a cool looking cook book titled Cooking Light-5 Ingredient 15 Minute Cookbook! It only cost me $2.
The cookbook has great color pictures showing many of the dishes. And the recipes use a lot of common ingredients. Hopefully the stuff tastes good. It’s broken down into categories of Fish & Shellfish, Meatless Main Dishes, Meats, Poultry, Sandwiches, Slow Cooker Suppers, and Mix & Match Recipes.
According to the introduction all the recipes take 15 minutes or less of active work. And the recipes only require 5-10 ingredients, not counting things like salt, pepper, water, and cooking spray.
It will be fun to try a few of these recipes.