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Fat Chef gets Fit Day 3

June 17, 2006 on 8:56 am | In Fat Chef gets Fit | No Comments

Update for July 16, 2006. 

Well I started off my day to day with 12 of each exercise, took a quick shower, and headed off to work.  (I work as a software designer during the week, and a chef on the weekends.)  So Friday is bagels and doughnuts day, but some how I managed to just have one bagel with a little bit of cream cheese.  I didn’t bring anything for lunch, so I picked up a cob salad.  Later on they brought in some leftover Lasagna, garlic bread, pastries and salad.  I was quite good in that I only had some salad, and 1 small piece of garlic bread.  Later when I got home I made some pasta with fresh made sauce, with green beans, and cauliflower.  My wife cooks most of the time during the week and she is a great cook, the bad part is she doesn’t know how to cook very healthy meals.  She makes great Mexican food, especially tamales, pozole, tostadas and much more.  So since she was still at church when I got home, I took the chance to whip up something.  I put the recipe link below.

Breakfast:
Sun dried tomato bagel, with cream cheese.

Lunch:
Cob Salad with Triscuit crackers.

Afternoon snack:
Mixed Greens with a little ranch dressing, and 5 gold fish crackers. 
1 small piece of garlic bread.

Dinner:
Pasta with my fresh made sauce and vegetables.
      
Cooking tip of the day: 
When cooking vegies like Green beans and Cauliflower, that have different cooking times, boil them separately until almost done, and then remove them from the heat and set aside.  You can stop the cooking and “refresh” the vegetables by putting them in to an ice bath or under running cold water.  Use lots of fresh vegetables like in my pasta recipe.
This recipe is easy, quick and you can use broccoli, squash or other vegies instead of the cauliflower or green beans.