Lasagna

Lasagna is one of my favorite meals to make for a period of dieting.  On the one hand it doesn't seem like it would be all that effective a dish. Meat, cheese, sauce and noodles all mixed together seems a high calorie recipe.  However what I do like about it is that it's one of the few dishes I really like leftovers of.  You'll notice in most entries that most of my handful of recipes are very much one and done foods.  Even if I have the same meal two or three days running, each meal is a distinct entity.

An old roommate used to call it "the taint."  For a lot of meals there is a mild sensation that old food is rotten food.  This is crazy of course, but it tends to be my perception nonetheless.  Lasagna being a food I can eat over a week though makes the recipe into a good diet food.  It's a fairly controlled set of calories in an organized meal, but it's also "special" enough that I want to eat it over those several days.  Lasagna defies the "taint," if anything it's better the second day.  Plus it's remarkably easy to cook in those later days in the week, since a few minutes in the microwave has it ready to eat.  All in all you'll probably see two or three more days of lasagna this week...though by the end of the week I'm probably going to be sick of it.

Food today:  egg and cheese sandwich with light lemonade for breakfast (240 calories), two hamburgers (one with cheese) on light wheat rolls with light lemonade for lunch (585 calories), lasagna with garlic toast and diet mountain dew for dinner (1204 calories)

Exercise today:  another hour on the exercise bike and another 19 miles (562 calories)

Totals
Food eaten:  2029
Calories Burned:  562
Daily Points:  1533
Weekly Points:   9453
Total earned: 18576