Day 2 Breakfast and Lunch

Breakfast was a smoothie again.  Banana, strawberries, and apple juice

Lunch was hamburger patties with salt and pepper and Montreal steak seasoning

Steamed brocali

Fresh strawberries

Drank one water bottle in the morning.  

Scott is tired and nauseas and has a headache

I am cooking the meat in the George Forman grill and it is so nice to do it that way.  We have had it for years and I have not used it enough.  This is also making me better at doing the dishes regularly at least for now.

Day 1 Breakfast

This morning I started our family with a smoothie.  In it we put a frozen banana, frozen strawberries, and 100% pure apple juice.  There was also a bowl of cantaloupe. 

I weigh 150 right now.  Scott is at 237.  Scott is having a rough morning, sad and depressed and not wanting to talk.  He wants to do this diet but he also doesn't.  We have never been on a diet before and have always just had whatever we feel like.  We have been eating out a lot the past few days and he called it his Marti Gras  to eat everything he enjoys before going without.  Well at least we are starting out.

Homemade Yogurt

My little boy loves yogurt... he eats at least 1 thing a day so I decided that it was time to try and make my own. My mom had this recipe that she used to make so I decided to give it a go. It is a little more runny than the store bought yogurt but Adam does pretty good with it and we love it! I think it takes nice and creamy!

1 package unflavored gelatin
1 Tablespoon Sugar
3 cups water
4 cups (1 qt) milk
1 can evaporated milk
3 Tablespoons plain yogurt

Heat oven to 275

Mix together 1 package unflavored gelatin, 1 Tablespoon Sugar, and 1/4 cup water. Add 3/4 cup boiling water. Set Aside.

In a big pot mix together 4 cups of milk, 1 can evaporated milk, and 2 cups warm water. Add the gelatin mixture to the milk mixture. Add 3 Tablespoons plain yogurt and mix well.

Turn off the oven and put the pot in the oven until it sets up. When I did this I put it in overnight. My oven was actually cooling down a lot right before I went to bed so I turned it back on for just a minute to get it warm again. It still looked a little runny in the morning but it set up a little more once I put in separate containers and let it sit in the fridge.

Store in the fridge.

I separated my yogurt into 3 medium sized containers. Before we started to eat each one I added some vanilla, sugar, and frozen strawberries, thawed, cut up into small pieces.

Save 3 Tablespoons of yogurt as your starter for the next batch.