I tried to donate blood yesterday!

I tried donating blood yesterday as we are on an 8 week schedule all last year and for the first time my hemogloben was too low! That has never happened to me before!

I went home, untapped, and did some research.

This week my plan is to eat...

Breakfast: 1/2 cup Oatmeal + 1 T Chia seeds + 1 t cinnamon + 1 T sugar = 250-300 cal (8% iron)

Lunch or Dinner: 2 c sauteed spinach leaves + 2 eggs + chopped onions + seasoning = 200-250cal (18% iron)

Lunch or Dinner: 1c sauteed spinach leaves (5%) + 1 can of blackbeans (52.5%) + chopped onions = 420 cal and 57.5% iron divided in half with hubby = 210 calories & 28.75% iron

Snacks today will be 1 banana 121 cal (2% iron) + 1 serving cashews 160 cal (5%) + 1/4 c rais1ns 108 cal (4% iron) ..... ginger tea w/sugar

so ... adding this up... that should be.. 1149 calories (which is good cause you know I am gonna cheat and have I don't know a couple of big bowls of popcorn!!!)OH and I WILL BE eating salad of some sort with dinner and yogurt too.... I love greek yogurt - I am soo addicted to it!!! I can't go a day w/o it! ... and hint, if you have not tried drinking hot tea of some sort (caffiene free is fine - really hot flavored water) and finding out how filling that is... try it! Oh you have to drink the cup of hot flavored water and wait like 15 minutes for your brain to recognize it then it's really filling. It's something about the 'hot' vs 'cold' that makes you feel fuller...??? I am making some hot water for ginger tea right now! ;-)

anyway this is my plan for the next 5 days (we will see how long it really goes) so that I can raise my iron count and donate... platelets I guess so that I can stay on our share blood donation schedule. ;-)

If you have not done blood donations, please do. It's a great way to give something to a total stranger. Great Karma. ;-)

NOW what is your healthy food plan for the week?

Do you have any suggestions for me?

BCbabe

01/04/2016 10:28AM

Louise, add your greek yogurt to your oatmeal in the morning. It is a little more filling, might keep the "snack" monster at bay first thing in the morning. I love your commitment to your schedule, you will do it!! My healthy meal plan this week is to make sure my portions are correct, found out that they were waaaaay out of whack!! and adding more water over the next couple of days because that was lacking. I am now thinking about hot tea, I have a mint mojito blend in my desk, time for something warm!! Have a great day ROCK STAR!!!!

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Louise

2 tablespoons of unpopped popcorn, air or microwave popped /wo oil or salt is only 146 calories....... ;-) when you are really hungry it tastes great! 1 cup of chopped celery is like 15 calories + 1/2 c chopped onion 34 cal + 1 chopped cucumber (50cal) + 2 T Zesty Fat free Italian Dressing (25) = 125 calories and it's a HUGE amount of crunchy... and what is really SURPRISINGLY good!!! is small chopped up RED DELICIOUS APPLE!!!!!! YUM! and like 225 calories for the entire thing!!! And it's like a huge bowl!

there are so many combinations when you start to look at what you have and what you can put together. Just need to get it into the house so that I can eat!! lol and to get the kids to stop going to the corner store for pop and chips!! work in progress!!

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