Breakfast - Turkey sausage, 2 egg whites, 1 whole egg on an everything bagel thin with a cup of Trop 50 OJ. (325 Calories Total) Love me a good breakfast sandwich, especially when it doesn't cost me $4.99!!! Although, as good as my sandwiches are home made, there is still nothing like a good breakfast sandwich at a deli. Maybe in February . . . . . . . . . .
Supermarket Time - so we went to Shoprite and Costco today to refresh on the stuff we need for the week. Spent $110 on stuff for us. (more on stuff for the kids, but I'm trying to calculate the money spent on OUR food as opposed to going out to eat. Tack on the Shoprite bill for the first 12 days which was $208 + $40 that KRistyn did at Costco last week, that takes us to a total of:
$358.00
This will get us through January 18. That's just under $10/day per person. Again, at my calculations, $5 breakfast, $8 lunch, $13 dinner, $5 7-Eleven run (on school days) and at least 1 diet coke from vending machine $1.65 (on school days) would put me at $550 in 18 days, leaving out 7-eleven and sodas on the weekends and NOT accounting for what it costs to have a meal out that is bigger than pizza or Chipotle. And that is just for ME!!!! Let's put Kristyn in at 1 $15 lunch a week, $3 dunkin every school day and a $13 dinner - play it conservative and say she brings lunch and eats breakfast at home - THat adds another $268 + groceries for her food - say $40/week, so that's another 100. If we ate like that for the same 18 days, we'd be talking about over $900!!!!! That comes in at $25/day per person. So my calculations say that eating home will cost us approximately 40% of what it costs to eat out at this point - and that still includes a whole ton of stock left over in the cabinets of non-perishables we grabbed the first shopping trip. I like my math. It makes me feel better. Credit Card - GO AWAY!
Lunch - Leftover Chili Lime Shrimp bowl with brown rice (575 calories)
Snacks - 11 goldfish (30 calories) I am trying to keep track, every little bit counts!
1/3 of a bagel (100 calories) We got this for Joey and it was just sitting there and I kept picking at it, so I have to log it.
Dinner - Cauliflower Pizza from Costco. 2 slices = 500 calories Also had a salad which included iceberg lettuce, 1/2 a cucumber, some shredded cheddar, sunflower seeds and red wine vinegar. (180 calories.)
Now let's talk about this cauliflower pizza because you each fit into one of 4 categories.
- You've tried it before (and may or may not like it)
- You've heard of it and are looking forward to trying it
- You've heard of it and have absolutely no interest in trying it
- You are hearing about it for the first time and are basically thinking "WTF?"
I was somewhere between the 2nd and 3rd option. I had heard of it and was told by some that they were scared to tell me they tried it because I would not look positively on them. I told them that I have no problem with the concept, but I was not really sure I'd be into it. Intrigued but not running out the door to try it.
So we picked up a box at Costco today. It was $12.99 and had 2 pizzas in it. They are not huge. Each pizza was a total of 1,000 calories. You are going to need to eat at least half of it to consider that you had an actual meal. (may want to add some toppings or have a salad with it to bulk it up)
The verdict: It was actually quite good! In fact, I'm looking forward to having it again. The texture was not weird. The way they create the crust makes it really feel like a normal crust. It had good taste and I did not in any way feel like I was eating cauliflower. I mean, it tasted like a frozen pizza would normally taste, so if you are not into that at all, then you likely won't like this. But if you are cool with cooking a frozen pizza, then I highly recommend trying it.
Now I have to do to the math and find out if it's really a big victory in terms of health/calories/etc. I have yet to find a real accurate measure of the nutrition facts in a regular slice of pizza from a typical north jersey pizzeria, but I'd consider half of this pie as equivalent in size to 1 to 1.5 slices of regular pizza. Not all that much in the end. I am assuming that the fact that the crust is supposed to be made significantly out of cauliflower makes it so that there are some nutritional values that are better than a regular pizza. I also have no idea what it REALLY means to have a cauliflower crust. I'm sure that there is much more to it than that, but hey if I can get some veggies in by eating a pizza, I'm cool with that.
I took the liberty of looking up regular Costco pizza as a point of reference and here's what I found:
Costco Regular Pizza vs Cauliflower Pizza
- Serving Size - 107 grams vs. 126 grams (therefore, the regular slice is about 17% smaller than the cauliflower slice.) From here on out, I will multiply all of the regular pizza by 1.17 to come up with equal serving size nutrition facts.
- Calories - 330 vs 230 (30% less)
- Fat - 11.7g vs. 8g (31% less)
- Cholesterol is up from 21 mg to 25mg (16% less)
- Sodium - 750 mg vs. 570mg (24% less)
- Carbs - 42g vs 27g (36% less)
Nutritionally it seems like it is an improvement from the same exact item without the cauliflower crust. But at least this gives you an idea. I don't know if I did math right in coming up with the percentages, but I think it did. But the numbers seem to tell a good story. I still have no basis of estimate against real pizza from a real restaurant that is not frozen.
Snacks - Peanut butter crackers + a sour patch kids ice pop (240 calories) I think I had a slice of cheese at one point today too, so let's put that here. (80 calories)
Water Intake - didn't start until almost noon AND I didn't bring it with me to the stores. Had to work hard on it today to get it done. BUT I DID IT!
Total Calories - 2,030 calories
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