I have been trying to come up with some ways to eat canned tuna, keep it low fat, and make it palatable. The tuna & cottage cheese sandwich kind of sucked! The tuna and salsa was edible, but not much more.
Tonight I came up with an idea that was pretty good. I had the idea of making a pulled pork barbque sandwich but with tuna instead of pork.
We have a local BBQ place called Dinosaur Bar-B-Que. And they make these awesome pulled pork BBQ sandwiches. So I bought a bottle of their barbeque sauce of the grocery store. I have a Dinosaur Bar-B-Que restaurant cook book, so I looked to see how they were prepared. I was mosly interested in at what point they add the sauce. They add it after the prok is cooked.
So what I did was spray a non-stick skillet with cooking spray, then heated the drained tuna over medium heat. When the tuna was warm, I put the tuna into a bowl. I added three tablespoons of Dinosaur BBQ sauce, and stirred it in. Then I ate it on sandwich bread. It was actually pretty good. I made a second sandwich, and added a little more BBQ sauce over the top, and it was also pretty good. I will probably make this again.
The tuna only has a tiny bit of fat. About 1.5 grams per can. But tuna also has about 32 grams of protein! The Dinosaur BBQ sauce has no fat. It is all carbs. But the 3 tablespoons of BBQ sauce is only about 37 calories.
Try this low fat pulled tuna barbecue sandwich after your next workout!
With all the Healthy Choice dinners I bought, I am working my way through the different flavors.
For breakfast I had the Beef Tips Portobello (with gravy). It also comes with mashed potatoes, vegetable medley (carrots & broccoli), and for dessert caramel apple crisp. It had 300 calories, 8 grams of fat, and 600mg of sodium. The 80 calories worth of fat make up almost 27% of the total calories…ouch! Weight Watchers counts this as 6 points. It took 5 1/2 minutes of microwave time. The beef tips and mushrooms were pretty good, as were the mashed potatoes. The vegetables were bland, and got the usual sprinkling of Molly McButter. The caramel apple crisp was very good.
While I really liked the beef tips, I will probably pass on it in the future. The fat calorie percentage of 26.6% is just too high. There are plenty of other Healthy Choices with lower amounts of fat. I will stick with those.
I went to my doctor’s appointment today. It was my semi annual checkup for my slightly high blood pressure. The appointment was at 4pm, so due to the weather I left work early. I was most of the way there, and was thinking about how I was going to be very early. Then traffic came to a halt. Now I was in stop and go traffic for 25 minutes. That sucked! I called my wife, and she called the doctor to let them know I was on my way, and was stuck in traffic.
I got to the doctor’s office about 10 late. I was kind of stressed at this point. After waiting for a bit, I was called back. They weighed me, and she said I have lost weight. It turned out I had lost about 20 pounds since my last visit. Way cool! The nurse took my blood pressure. After a bit the doctor came in. He told me how skinny I looked. He took my blood pressure. Then after a bit he took it again. It was still high at around 138/83 I think. Grumble. I didn’t expect different. I have been taking my blood pressure at home, and at the drug store, and I knew it was still up there. So the good new is that I lost weight. The bad news is that it didn’t affect my blood pressure a damn bit. He said that even athletic people had high blood pressure. At least I lost weight!
I have a doctor’s appointment this afternoon. This is a semi annual check up for my elevated blood pressure. Even though I have been in pretty good shape, he has been bugging me to lose weight. I weighed in this morning at about 175. This is probably about 10 pounds less than what I weighed on my last visit. So I am interested to see what he says. I just did a search, and it looks like my BMI is in the normal range. It is toward the high end of the normal range. But the BMI doesn’t take into account muscle mass versus fat. Or maybe it doesn’t matter? My weight was down to 171 a week ago. That would have been cool to show up to the doctor’s with. I am planning on eating light today. I had a Healthy Choice meal fro breakfast (300 calories), and am planning on having one for lunch too. Oh, and I ate a couple bananas.
Anyway, I am looking forward to my doctor’s appointment. I am considering inquiring about a stress-test to figure out my VO2 max, and stuff like that. I am guessing insuarance wont cover it, but who knows. It can’t hurt to ask.
I have been testing my blood pressure on my own, and it doesn’t appear like it has dropped much with my weight loss, and massive amounts of aerobic conditioning.