Meal Plan: Vacation at Disney/Super Bowl party January 27- February 2

So this week is a little different! We leave for vacation on Monday. We are driving to Walt Disney World for a whirl wind of fun. All followed by a return trip, and a super bowl party on Sunday! This is going to be a very different meal plan.  I will include all the things we will be eating for the week so you can see how we plan around a vacation and traveling.  It is an extra challenge to have continued weight loss on vacation. We were able to do in on our trip and May, and hope to success this trip as well! The first step is planning, planning, planning! Posting this to show how I plan, but feel free to jump back a couple of weeks and use an old meal plan this week.

Monday: Travel day (Drive 5:00 AM- 8:00PM)
Breakfast
Adults: Beachbody Shakeology
Kids: Chex and honey nut cheerios, apple slices

Snack
Bananas, Walnuts

Lunch
Adults: Peanut butter, nutella and Fig preserve sandwichs, grapes, Skinny popcorn
Kids: Kids Cliff bar, Grapes, skinny popcorn, yogurt, fruit snacks

Dinner
Chick-fil-a, fruit snacks

Tuesday: Arrival day (Drive 7:00AM -12:00PM)
Breakfast
Adults: Beachbody Shakeology, banana
Kids: Kids Cliff bar, Grapes, yogurt

Snack
Adults: Celery with peanut butter, skinny popcorn
Kids: fruit squeezes

Lunch (In room)
Adults: Microwave egg whites, turkey bacon, yogurt and bread
Kids: Toddler meals, yogurt Fruit snacks

Dinner
Old Key West Birthday Celebration

Wednesday (Animal Kingdom/Magic Kingdom): 
Breakfast
Adults: Beachbody Shakeology, banana
Kids: Cereal and milk, banana

Snack
Grapes, baby carrots

Lunch (In room)
Peanut butter, Nutella, fig preserve sandwich, apple/orange, skinny popcorn
Toddler meals

Dinner
Cosmic Rays- John and I split Roasted chicken, add extra yogurt

Thursday (Hollywood Studios)
Breakfast
Adults: Egg Whites, Turkey Bacon, grapes
Kids: Cereal and milk, grapes

Snack
Fruit squeezes, Walnuts

Lunch
Adults: Baked potato with cheese and turkey bacon
Kids: toddler Meals

Dinner
Hollywood Studios- Studios catering Co.

Friday: (Magic Kingdom/ departure)

Breakfast
Adults: Beachbody Shakeology, banana
Kids: Cereal and milk, yogurt

Snack
Cereal bars

Lunch
At MK Pinocchio Village Haus

Dinner
On Road Chuck E Cheese

Saturday (Travel day):

Breakfast
Adults: Beachbody Shakeology, banana
Kids: Cereal and milk, yogurt

Lunch
Adults: Peanut butter, nutella and Fig preserve sandwichs, grapes, Skinny popcorn
Kids: Kids Cliff bar, Grapes, skinny popcorn, yogurt, fruit snacks

Dinner
At Home- Something from the freezer!

Sunday(Super bowl party):

Turkey and Veggi Turkey

2 Lbs Ground Turkey

1 Large Onion, Chopped

4 Garlic Cloves, Minced

4 Large Carrots, Chopped

4 ribs of Celery, Chopped

2 Medium yellow peppers, chopped

2 Orange Bell peppers, chopped 

2 Tbsp Chili powder

2 Tbsp paprika

1 Tbsp Cumin

2 Tsp Oregano

1 Tsp Salt

½ Tsp Cayenne Pepper

6 cups of reduced sodium chicken broth

6 (10 oz ) Cans Diced tomatoes with chilies

2 (15.5 OZ) Cans Kidney Beans

2 (15.5 Oz) Cans fat free RE-fried beans

Coat a 12-inch sauté pan with cooking spray; set over medium-high heat. Brown turkey, breaking up meat with a wooden spoon as it cooks, about 10 minutes; drain and set aside.


                       

Coat a large pot with cooking spray; set over medium heat. Cook onion, stirring occasionally, until soft but not browned, about 5 minutes. Add garlic; cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add carrots, celery and peppers; cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Add chili powder, paprika, cumin, oregano, salt and cayenne; stir for 1 minute.


Stir in broth, tomatoes, both types of beans and turkey; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer, uncovered, stirring every 5 minutes, about 35 minutes total.

Serves 16

168 Calories per serving

Weight Watchers Corn Bread (From Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook, pg 63)

2 1/2 cups yellow cornmeal
1 1/2 Cup all-purpose flour
3 Tbsp sugar
5 tsp baking powder
1/2 Tbsp Salt
2 1/4 cups low fat buttermilk
2 eggs

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees, prepare 24 count Muffin Pan (With cooking spray or wrappers)

In a large bowl, combine the Cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder and salt .  In a small bowl, beat buttermilk and eggs. Pour over the flour mixture; stir until just blended (Do not overmix)

Transfer to muffin pan, Bake until golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean, 20 minutes.  Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, serve warm.

Serves 24
100 calories per muffin

Cinnamon Honey Butter (This just sounds amazing, but use sparingly because it is still pretty high in calories)

2 sticks of butter, at room temperature
6 Tbsp Honey
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp Salt

Combine ingredients in a mixer with paddle attachment. Serve at room temperature.

Serving size 1/2 Tbls, yields aprox 36 servings.
55 Calories per serving

Roasted Red potatoes and broccoli 

Ingredients: 

24 red skin potatoes, washed and cut into 1/2 inch cubes
4 cup chopped broccoli
1 Tbsp Salt
1 Tbsp Pepper
1 Tbsp garlic powder
1 Tbsp paprika
2 tsp basil
cooking spray

Preheat oven to 425 degree and warm Large roasting Pan for 5 minutes

Remove pan and spray with cooking spray, and add all ingredients. Toss with tongs.

Spray vegetables with cooking spray, cover with foil and bake for 35 minutes

Remove from oven, Toss with tongs, and replace for 10 minutes with heat increased to 475 degrees to crisp.

Serves 16 (170 calories per serving)

Chocolate Buttons (300 Calorie Cookbook, pg 184)

Ingredients
10 Dates, pitted and chopped
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup soft baking butter with canola oil
1/4 cup chopped bittersweet chocolate
1 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp salt
1/4 cup Dark Brown sugar
1/4 cup fat free sour cream
1 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

combine dates, and water in small sauce pan. cover and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to med and simmer 1 minuted or until dates are soft. place dates and cooking liquid in food processor, process until smooth. (Mixture will be pasty.)

Melt butter and chocolate in small sauce pan over low heat, stirring constantly. Remove from heat

Combine flour, baking soda and salt in medium bowl, and mix well.

Beat date mixture, chocolate mixture, brown sugar, and sour cream in a large bowl an med speed for 2 minutes (until well blended)

Add flour mixture  beat a low speed until blended

Drop dough by teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet. Sprinkle with cocoa.

Bake 6 minutes or just until set. Do not over bake. cool on cookie sheet 2 minutes, and then transfer ti wire racks to cool completely.

Yogurt Caramel Corn

Ingredients:
2 containers Dannon yogurt
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup sugar
1 2/3 cup maple syrup
2/3 Bag of skinny pop popcorn

Combine Yogurt, brown sugar and syrup in skillet. Cook on Medium-high heat to boil,  stirring occasionally. Stop stirring and allow to bubble for 5 minutes. remove from heat.

Place 2/3 bag of skinny popcorn into a large bowl. Drizzle mixture over the popcorn. Stir to coat evenly.


Veggie Tray and Roasted Garlic Spread with three cheeses (300 calories page 48)

Ingredients
Various veggies for dipping
2 heads of Garlic
2 pacakges of cream cheese, softened
1 pacakge (3.5 oz) Goat cheese
2 Tbsp  (1 oz) crumbled blue cheese, plus additional for garnish
1 tsp Dried Thyme

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  cut of the tops of garlic head to expose the tops of cloves. Place Garlic in a small baking pan. Bake for 45 minutes or until very tender. Remove from pan, and cool completely. Squeeze garlic into small bowl and mash with fork. Discard skins

Beat cream cheese and goat cheese in small bowl until smooth. Stir in Garlic, 2 Tbsps of blue cheese, and thyme. COVER AND REFRIGERATE OVER NIGHT (OR  3 HOURS).

Put and serving bowl and garnish with blue cheese crumbles. Serve with veggies.

2 Tablespoons equals 37 calories

To Pack
Blender
Cups with straws
Dish soap
kids bowls (2)
Kids spoons (2)
Potato express

10 scoops of shakology (Chocolate)
Almond butter
Fig preserves
Cinnamon
Almond Milk
5 Ziplock servings Honey Nut Cheerios
5 Zip lock servings Chex
5 apples
8 bananas
4 ziplock baggies of walnuts
Peanut butter
 Nutella
Loaf of bread
6 Very full ziplocks of grapes for sharing
12 servings of skinny popcorn
8 Kids Cliff bars
2 adult cereal bars
12 yogurts
36 bags of fruit snacks
Celery with Peanut butter
6 Fruit squeezes
6 Egg whites
Turkey bacon 8 slices
4 toddler meals
2 ziplocks of baby carrots
2 medium potatoes
2 sevings of shredded cheddar
2 servings of chives

Grocery list (Since I am pretty sure no one else will be following this plan this week this is literally my grocery list.)

1 Large Onion
3 Garlic Heads

4 ribs of Celery

2 Medium yellow peppers

2 Orange Bell peppers 
10 Dates, pitted
Bananas
Grapes
apple
3 baking potatoes
Jif (Small container)
Nutella (Small)

Loaf of bread

6 (10 oz ) Cans Diced tomatoes with chilies

2 (15.5 OZ) Cans Kidney Beans

2 (15.5 Oz) Cans fat free RE-fried beans

Small bag yellow cornmeal
baking powder
Baking Soda
Salt
Dark Brown Sugar
1/4 cup chopped bittersweet chocolate
Maple Syrup

Fruit Squeezes (6)
Toddler meals (4)

2 1/4 cups low fat buttermilk
8 eggs

fat free sour cream

2 containers Dannon yogurt
12 Yogurts
2 pacakges of cream cheese
1 pacakge (3.5 oz) Goat cheese
crumbled blue cheese

Turkey bacon

2 Bags of skinny pop popcorn
Fruit snacks

Veggies for tray
24 red skin potatoes