Thanks for the tips Natasha, I'll have to try the Crystal Light. What do you eat in the evening if you happen to be too tired to fix anything?

That happens a lot since I drive in a lot of traffic! If I'm too tired to cook...
Any fast food: Get two or three of the 99 cent burgers or chicken sandwiches and throw away the buns and a side salad. Wendy's has chili that you could work around the beans...I'm not sure how legal it is but it would only be a minor imbalance as it has not bothered me yet!
At home: heat up 3 hot dogs and top with cheese and onions and no bean chili, ketchup, mustard and mayo. I always try to keep coleslaw on hand. It goes well with most anything. I snack on pepperoni, cheese slices, dill pickles. I also make dips. Take one cup of sour cream and one cup of mayo and add tons of seasonings and dried herbs and spinach and bacon bits and garlic and chives. Make some spinach dip, bacon/garlic dip and dip with celery or top pepperoni with it.
I sometimes take sliced deli meat and layer it with cheese and nuk it for a few seconds...If you can get the large slices of pepperoni, top them with tomato sauce and mozzarella and pop in the toaster oven for a pizza. On Sunday or whatever day you're off from work, you could cook up a lot of veggies...Green beans, squash w/ onions, broccoli, or make some casseroles that would last you through the week. Make a cheeseburger pie. My favorite thing is to cook up a big batch of hamburger meat and season it for tacos. Then if I want a taco salad all I have to do is add the lettuce, cheese, salsa, onions, tomatoes, and I add a few tortialls crushed up (this doesn't bother me) for cruchiness...Top it with taco sauce and it's great! I hope that helps! I'm getting hungry just talking about all of this!!!!

Hi Kitty Kat,

That taco salad sounds great!!! I'll be browning up ground beef tomorrow

Best regards,

Isis

Great ideas! Thanks a lot, that was very helpful. I especially like the idea of precooking the taco meat. A taco salad sounds great to look forward to, and even I can prepare it (my wife will like that )!

For those of us who don't want to do the tortillas we can nuke slices of cheese and use them like crackers. They are wonderful in taco salads and even as taco shells if you make big ones!

I love the little pepperoni pizza snack idea and the dips sound fantastic. Gotta try some of these things for sure!

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Have any of you have ever heard of Tastefully Simple products? That's where I buy my dip mixes. They're really good. All you do is add 1 cup of mayo and 1 cup of sour cream. Their website is www.tastefullysimple.com It's sort of like those where you have the parties, etc. at your home and sell products. You can find a rep in your area and just order the product from them instead of having the party...I don't like doing the parties so I buy from a lady I know. Look at their products though..Very good quality and good tasting!!!!

I tried SS after doing WW and CALP. I am back on the CALP program starting this week. I really like Suzanne's recipes. But, I think I was having too many caarbs, especially too much fruit. The result was that I was hungry all the time, even an hour after eating a LC meal. The CALP program will keep me in line more.

Good luck to you starting SSing.