I have been working on my homemade bread stuffing recipe for well over 10 years. Way back then in a previous life I was a cook at a local family restaurant for several years. During that time I learned a lot of good recipes. Some of them I have held on to and made better over the years. Others have kind of faded into oblivion. One of the recipes I have held onto is homemade bread stuffing. I make this once, maybe twice a year which is probably good considering the high number of calories it contains. I figured I would share the recipe. If you are looking for a low calorie, low fat Thanksgiving. I would not suggest trying this recipe.

This recipe makes a very large batch of stuffing. You might want to alter it to fit your needs. This will give you enough to stuff a 20 pound turkey to the point where it is spilling out (the only way to stuff a turkey) and then have some leftover to bake separately.

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We have had a turkey in the freezer for about 4 months. We bought it right before summer started. At the time we had planned on having some family over and were going to serve turkey dinner. We ended up doing something else and the turkey hung out in the freezer taking up space for the summer. Who wants to eat a turkey dinner in the middle of summer? With the weather getting a bit more fall like lately. Although, the past few days have been more like spring. The windows are open and the fans are running. It is beautiful outside and I am sitting inside working and not outside enjoying it. Anyway.. back to my turkey. I decided it was time to put the thing out of its misery and enjoy a turkey dinner. With thanksgiving coming up in just over a month, we decided to make the turkey a little different than what we usually do. Usually we roast it with lots of good veggies like celery and onion and carrots and packed full of homemade bread stuffing that I have been perfecting over the years. Each year it gets a little bit better. This time though, we opted to use a recipe we tried once before saving the traditional bird recipe for thanksgiving day. Yesterday’s recipe was a maple, bacon turkey. More specifically, this was a 13 pound turkey covered in two pounds of tasty bacon and smothered with a full flask of 100% pure maple syrup. Now, seeing as I am trying to lose weight, I know I’m not supposed to be eating things like this. But, sometimes you just need to say, what the hell. And I did!
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One of my favorite soups is French Onion. I have always liked it. I just try not to eat it very much. We haven’t had any for close to a year, so I decided to make some on Tuesday. It is a simple recipe, cooks up quickly and tastes great. The problem is, the fat content and even worse, the sodium content. My recipe contains:

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I was out shopping yesterday and saw some tortilla wraps that looked good and ended up searching for something to use them for. I decided on trying to make veggie wraps. Without a specific recipe, I had no clue where to even start. I picked out some veggies I like and decided I would give it a shot for lunch today. My new lunch recipe included:

1/2 small onion
1/2 green bell pepper
1/2 red bell pepper
2 small vine ripe tomatoes
3 babby bella portabella mushrooms
3 - 10 inch tortilla wraps

I sliced the peppers, onions and mushrooms really thin and cut up the tomatoes into small chunks and set it all aside while i heated the tortillas in a small frying pan. After the tortillas were heated I set the veggies in the pan and put some wishbone fat free Italian dressing on it and cooked it just long enough for the veggies to be slightly warm and bendy. Iused a slotted spoon to let some of the juice drain off and then placed the mix on a wrap and filled up.

The recipe ingredients I used were enough for 4 wraps. I ate three of them and then finished the veggies. I was particularly hungry today. The veggies totaled about 153 calories with 9.4 grams of fiber. I used a bit too much dressing… about 5 servings worth. I need to cut back on that next time. That totaled 100 calories and the wraps totaled 300 calories and 24 grams of fiber. So I got a full belly on less than 600 low fat calories and I got close to an entire days worth of fiber in one meal. Not bad. And if you aren’t quite as hungry a I was you could probably fill up for half of that. The best part is, it was mighty tasty!

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