Friends and Rainbows

Friends and rainbows what more can you ask for.  Our dear dear friends, Steve and Reva, oh what the heck call them family are here from California and we haven't seen them in darn near two years.  We were up late last night catching up on so much and telling them what we have planned for them this week, there going to have to go home to rest!  It seems like just yesterday that we were at their house for thanksgiving and exchanging phone calls with the realtor making an offer on our new home here in Missouri.

Steve and Reva

"A real friend is one who walks in

 when the rest of the world walks out."

We went to my brothers Sunday night for dinner and an early visit and on the way home Jan snapped a couple of pictures from the car.  Have ever noticed that when someone sees a rainbow they say, there's a rainbow and most everyone stops to look at it and make some kind of remark, they are just eye catching and you really don't see them that often.  Every once in a while you might even see a double rainbow, does that mean that there are two pots of gold at the end of the rainbow?

Interesting cloud

Oh, look at the rainbow

“The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, 

but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.”

This weeks weigh-in was ok, I lost 1.6 pounds, you might say that's great but I'm suppose to be maintaining, so I need to really work on it. That's my goal this week, to gain a little or at least maintain.  Jan had another loss this week and was tickled pink.

There has been a lot of talk lately about breakfast and since it's the most important meal of the day I wanted to share a few things with you.

Break the Fast to Shed the Pounds - some people skip breakfast in an effort to lose weight, but the practice is more likely to cause weight gain than weight loss. Skipping breakfast is strongly linked to the development of obesity. Studies show that overweight and obese children, adolescents, and adults are less likely to break the fast each morning than their thinner counterparts.

According to research, skipping meals, especially breakfast, can actually make weight control more difficult. Breakfast skippers tend to eat more food than usual at the next meal or nibble on high-calorie snacks to stave off hunger. Several studies suggest that people tend to accumulate more body fat when they eat fewer, larger meals than when they eat the same number of calories in smaller, more frequent meals. To teens, especially teenage girls, skipping breakfast may seem like a perfectly logical way to cut down on calories and lose weight. It's important for moms to educate their kids about the importance of the morning meal and the role it plays in maintaining good health and preventing obesity

Kids Need Their Morning Meal - While adults need to eat breakfast each day to perform their best, kids need it even more. Their growing bodies and developing brains rely heavily on the regular intake of food. When kids skip breakfast, they can end up going for long periods of time without food and this period of semistarvation can create a lot of physical, intellectual, and behavioral problems for them.

A Good Investment - If you and your kids regularly skip breakfast in the interest of saving time, calories, or getting a few more minutes of sleep, remember that eating a wholesome, nutritious morning meal will probably save you time in the long run. By recharging the brain and body, you'll be more efficient in just about everything you do. Interestingly, studies show that kids who skip breakfast are tardy and absent from school more often than children who eat breakfast on a regular basis. Preparing a good breakfast can be as quick and easy as splashing some milk over cereal. Time invested in breakfast is much more valuable than the few extra minutes of sleep you might get by bypassing the morning meal. If you and your kids seem unable to make time for breakfast, consider enrolling your children in a school breakfast program, if possible, or pack a breakfast brown-bag or smoothie the night before that can be eaten on the way to school and work.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

This weeks food find is a great tasting and quick fix for a speedy meal.

Serving size 2 oz.,  Fat 1g, Carb 1g, Protein 9g, Fiber 0g

The recipe this week is one of my favorites.

Crock Pot Chicken Salsa Verde

Servings: 6 • Size: 1/2 cup • Calories: 145 • Fat: 2 g • Carb: 5 g • Fiber: 0 g • Protein: 26 g

Ingredients:

·         1 1/2 lbs raw skinless chicken tenders

·         1/4 tsp garlic powder

·         1/8 tsp oregano

·         1/8 tsp ground cumin

·         salt, to taste

·         16 oz salsa verde

Directions:

Season chicken with garlic powder, oregano, cumin and salt and place in the bottom of the slow cooker. Cover with salsa verde, cover and cook HIGH 2 hours.

Remove chicken, shred with 2 forks. Remove 2/3 cup of liquid from the slow cooker, and discard (unless you want it over rice). Place shredded chicken back into the crock pot with remaining salsa, adjust seasoning to taste if needed and keep warm.

Put over rice or on a tostada or taco shell, don’t forget to add the nutritional information for these.  Add some jalapenos for heat if you like.

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