new baby weekend - not so much cooking

we welcomed in our goddaughter's baby sister this weekend!! we had big sister this weekend and she's an amazing child but a tough eater; no veggies, minimal fruits, no bread & really doesn't like pasta...what does a kid eat then???? nothing of what we had in the house....so it was pizza, mac & cheese & mcdonalds...we broke down, it was late....shame.

i was able to cook the spaghetti squash marinara sauce for dinner tonight and was quite amazed with how tasty it was! i did add mushrooms, artichoke hearts & chicken sausage to the marinara sauce. i made sure to add the spaghetti squash to the sauce and heat it all up together. i did melt a sprinkle of low fat mozzarella on each serving in the oven. we both ate our serving it was 2 points as prepared, but with the chicken sausage it probably brought up the points to 5 WW points...not bad for a dinner that was filling!

with a shortened week, i didn't really plan out any meals except eating leftover spaghetti squash for lunches for me and a quiche for sweetie. i am going to make the sesame shrimp salad/cups and the peanutty chicken cutlets/stir fry for dinners.

i did make a version of a WW quiche with leftovers from last week's ingredients...spinach, mushroom feta quiche. i just used the basic egg version of the recipe that i linked. i also used whole wheat flour and only 2 eggs and more egg substitute. i also used a frozen pie crust, they were on sale and i didn't have the patience for phyllo dough tonight.

sweetie, big sister & i did make mini brownie bites stuffed with reese's peanut butter cups for a party...they were so not low cal...but they didn't stay in the house, thank goodness!!

i will be making my pumpkin whoopie pies for thanksgiving and sweetie will be making her sweet potato pie. it's going to be an interesting eating this year, as i am way more into what i am ingesting.

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