Grilled Turkey and Swiss sandwich

****NOT A DIET RECIPE*****

Since it is the holidays, and everyone needs a good cheat meal, I thought I would post this delicious sandwich that I came up with a few Thanksgivings ago:

Needs:
Left-over Turkey
Left-over Stuffing
Left-over gravy
Swiss Cheese (2 slices)
Bread (2 slices)
pepper

Start off by putting some turkey and stuffing in your pan with a little bit of gravy, and of course pepper. Heat that deliciousness, set the heated 'goods' to the side. Butter one side of one slice of bread, place buttered side down in pan, and smother just a little bit of gravy on bread. Then place one slice of swiss cheese down. Place 'goods' on top of swiss, then place the second slice of swiss on the sandwich. Add just another little bit of gravy then the last piece of bread buttered side up. Grill and flip until golden brown, or desired crispness.

Like I said, this is not a diet meal, but it is a good meal!

Enjoy

Confessions

So for the past three weeks or so, I haven't done a real workout... I was travelling to NY and TX and wasn't able to eat the way that I wanted to or workout the way I wanted to. And for the past week, I have been on vacation and celebrated Thanksgiving twice and Christmas once. Before this week of vacation, it looked like I only gained a few pounds. However, I feel like my stomach is bigger, which means that I have lost some muscle. I think it will take about a week of hard core working out and dieting to get back to where I was and back in the routine.

Turkey Stir-Fry

This was my first attempt at making Stir-Fry.  I was unable to find a no-sodium soy sauce, but I was only able to find a low-sodium soy sauce

***Disclaimer: This recipe has more sodium than every other recipe on here!***

This is the meal with rice

This is the meal without rice

Needs: Ground Turkey (could also be made with chicken breast)

Peppers (I used a frozen pepper medley)

Onion

Brown Rice

Minced Garlic

Low-Sodium Soy Sauce

Butter spray

Chop all of your peppers and onions to be roughly the same size.  I sprayed my pan with butter and dropped in the turkey.  As the turkey was cooking I added about 2 teaspoons of soy sauce.  When the turkey was finished cooking, I placed it on a paper towel on a plate.  I then added a few more sprays of butter to the pan with about a teaspoon of garlic and the onions and peppers, while this was cooking I added about 2 more teaspoons of soy sauce.  When the peppers and onions were done cooking I added the turkey to the pan with the peppers and onions, I then added less than a dash of the soy sauce.  I cooked and mixed the peppers and onion with the turkey.  I then portioned out three serving of the stir-fry.  Then I added the cooked brown rice to what was left of the stir-fry, and mixed it all together.  I then portioned this into three servings.

This is a picture of all 6 servings

The 6 servings total have roughly 705 calories, and about 50% of your daily value of sodium.  The meals without rice, have no carbs.

Stuffed Whole Wheat Pitas

One day the baby had just laid down for a nap, and I knew that I didn't have much time to make something and eat it.  I came up with the following:

Needs: sliced or ground turkey

salsa

shredded pepper jack cheese

desired spices

hot sauce

whole wheat pita (mini or regular)

Cook turkey with desired spices and hot sauce, mix in salsa and pepper jack cheese.  Cut Pitas in half, stuff them, and enjoy.

Turkey Tacos

I pack my lunch in little to-go GLAD containers to make it easier to take to work

This is the meal made with lettuce

this is the meal made with rice

So my boss told me about how his wife made turkey tacos, so I decided that I would try it out.  However, I didn't have any taco seasoning, so I improvised.

Items:

Ground Turkey

Mexican chili powder

Paprika

Crushed red pepper flakes

Mrs. Dash southwest chipotle

Hot sauce

Chopped Onion

Butter spray

I sprayed my pan with some of my no calorie butter spray, and put the turkey in the pan.  I used the seasonings and hot sauce on the turkey while I cooked it.  Once it was done I added the onion to cook it with the meat and spices.  I was happy with the look and taste when it was done.

To serve it, I was planning on using whole wheat tortillas, but instead I decided to use brown rice.  After I cooked the rice I put it in a new pan and added the seasonings and then the meat and mixed it all together.  I didn't use all of the meat, because I wanted to save some to make a no carb meal.  For the no carb meal, I chopped up lettuce and mixed it in with the meat.  This meal should be pretty good!  Im excited about eating it!

The ground turkey has about 130 calories per serving, and the brown rice has about 150 calories per serving.