Thinner Thursday #3

O Dear... my first truly late post. 

In my own defense there were some family matters to attend to yesterday and I was just too beat to write up a decent post for you all.  In fact, it's still questionable today as to whether or not this post will be decent. 

In my quest to eat healthier... I totally fell off the wagon this week... with my low point being a hot dog with french fries for lunch yesterday (Thursday).  Oh and thinking I "deserved it," I sucked down a big glass of  orange soda with it.  Yep... and I felt crummy and grumpy all afternoon and evening... talk about getting what you deserve.  Today, in contrast, I ate half a chicken salad sandwich... and I oddly wasn't hungry.  Why?  Apparently freshly made chicken salad has more nutrients (and veggies) in it that a hot dog.  No surprise there.  Wait, there kind of is a surprise... I ate less food and felt better because the food was healthy.

Kinda gives you something to think about, doesn't it?  What are you stuffing into your mouth thinking, "I've earned this indulgence," that's really just doing more harm than good?  Just as your body will ache when you (perhaps foolishly) think you can do a 1 hour work out called "Turbo Fire," it will also tell you when you have (completely foolishly) stuffed junk in your mouth.  Bad moods... bloated belly. Calories aside, because I could "afford" them yesterday... it just wasn't worth my choice of calories.

So... here's tonight's dinner recipe.

Italian Sausage Skillet.

1 lb. Sweet Italian Sausage

1 red pepper, diced

1 yellow pepper, diced

1 bag Simply Potatoes diced potatoes with onion [you can do this yourself, but I was in a hurry!]

1 tbsp. Olive oil

Drizzle olive oil in skillet and cook sausage, browning outsides.

While sausage cooks, clean and dice peppers.

Remove cooked sausage from skillet and add in peppers and potato mix. 

Cook potatoes until browned and peppers have softened.

Slice sausage and add back in to potato mixture to warm back up.

Serves a family of 4 (2 adults, 2 kids... no teens... double the recipe if you have teens!)

Seriously, that's it and it's healthy.  In fact, my husband was surprised to discover the sausage was made of turkey.