My Home Made Gringo Gordita

Hello everyone, Here is the newest dinner I have made. It was VERY good!! This one it a big thicker on the calorie side, but still isn't too bad. It was a total of 557 calories.

A couple months ago Amy and I got a small bag of pinto beans. I wanted to try to make some re-fried beans from scratch in a healthy way. We had some extra time today so I thought I would make a Gringo Gordita (my own invention).

First off the beans, I made it with a serving for 4. Here is what you need:

• 1 Cup of Pinto Beans
• 5 Cloves of Roasted Garlic
• 1/4 Cup Chicken Broth
• 2 Tablespoons Butter w/ Canola Oil by Land O Lakes
• Sea Salt
• Garlic Powder
• Onion Powder

The way I cooked this was:

• Boil the Pinto beans in water for 2 hour
• After 2 hours I pored out all the water until they beans were 1/2 covered with water.
• Then, put in the rest of the ingredients into the pot and put the flame at low-med
• Stir every 5~10 min or so for 30 min
• After 30 min, smash and your beans are done (it is about 4 1/2 oz. a serving)

That was the hard part. Next the rest of the Gordita:

• 1 Pita Bread, They one I used I got from the farmers market and is 116 calories
• 4oz of 7% fat Ground Turkey. I would have gotten 1% to save on calories but this is what I had
• 1/2 Cup shredded cabbage
• 1/4 Cup shredded Mozzarella 2% cheese
• 2 Tablespoons Chipotle Salsa Safeway Select

Here is how we cook the rest of the Gordita

• Cook the meat in a pan with a lid
• Once meat is cooked put the Pita bread on top of the meat, put the lid on and let it steam
• Once it is hot, build the gordita with all the ingredients

It was REALLY good... Here are some pictures...

Made the BEST soup ever tonight!!

It has been a long time since I have blogged (months). I am doing VERY well on it. I have stuck to my 1400 calorie diet and I am down a big 170 pounds so far. I weighed in a 330 a few days ago.

Today I was talking to my sister and wanted to invite her over for soup tonight because she was saying hard hard it is (she is also doing the diet at 1200 calories) for her to get the full feeling all of us big people LOVE. I told her I can make her a soup for under 200 calories that would more than fill her up. It didn't work out for her to come over so I decided to make soup anyways but the way I would like it. It came out SOOOOOO good I thought I would post it incase anyone else wanted to make it. It is easy to make, tastes very good and is spicy!!! If I would make it for my sister I would not make it as spicy as I did. Well here we go!

Here is what you need to make the soup: Serving Size 6, 164 calories per serving

• 3 can's of Swanson's Chicken Broth 60 Calories
• 3 Chicken Mozzarella & Roasted Garlic Sausage's (from Sam's Club) 360 Calories
• 3 Med size (3 1/2 cups) of some Sweet Onion 224 Calories
• 3 Cups Sliced Mushrooms 46 Calories
• 1 1/2 Cups Chipotle Salas Safeway Select 180 Calories
• 1 Bellpepper (1 cup) Red Bell Pepper 46 Calories
• 2 Serrano Peppers 8 calories
• 1 Cup chopped red cabbage 28 Calories
• 1 Bag Bean Sprouts by Life Force 30 calories
• 1 good handful of Cilantro 0 Calories
• 2 cups water 0 Calories
• 1 Tablespoon Chili Powder 0 Calories
• 1/2 Tablespoon Garlic Powder 0 Calories
• 1/2 Tablespoon Onion Powder 0 Calories
• 2 Teaspoons of black pepper 0 Calories

1. Get a big soup pot and spray some calorie free butter spray in it
2. Then cut up the onions into fairly long pieces and throw in the pot
3. Chop up the sausage also put into the pot
4. With the pot covered, turn the heat on Med/High on the stove
5. Chop up the Bell Pepper and throw into pot (stir)
6. Dump the 3 cups of mushrooms in the pot (stir)
7. Chop up the cabbage and dump into pot (stir)
8. Mince the Serrano peppers and dump in pot (stir)
9. Leave the pot covered and stir every once in a while until onions look soft
10. Then put in the 1 1/2 cups of salsa into the pot
11. Dump the 3 cans of broth into the pot
12. Dump the 2 cup of water into the pot and give it a good stir
13. Dump in the bag of Bean Sprouts into the pot and stir again
14. Chop up the cilantro and put in pot
15. Then put in all the spices and give it a stir again
16. Turn the heat to a Med/Low flame
17. Bring to simmer and let it simmer for 10 min stirring every once in a while
18. Dish out into 6 bowls and Enjoy!! :)

It is really good to add some instant Brown Rice from Minute Rice (150 more calories for one serving)

Here are some pictures of it: