Day 11 How Do You Count Puppy Chow?

The alarm shot off at 5:45 a.m. and recalling how good it felt yesterday to get the walking out of the way early, I popped out of bed. "What is hard to bear, is sweet to remember".
Cindy Laupner and Devo were waiting for me as I pulled on a pair of my son's basketball shorts and headed out. I was back by 6;45, ready to face the day. How is your walking coming along? Are you managing to fit it or some other type of aerobic activity in each day? If not, why not?
No doubt, week days are more challenging to squeeze in anything extra, but you have two whole days, back to back on the week ends when there is extra time. Set the clock and get out early. You have got to plan the time. If you say, "This is the last thing I have time to do, BUT, I'll walk for fifteen minutes," I'll bet you a Victoria Secret IPEX bra that you'll walk longer than fifteen minutes. You'll just want to, once you're out there. Keep moving!
Did you know that eight ounces of Tropicana Pure Premium Orange Juice has 110 calories?
Do you know anybody that drinks only eight ounces? I grab a tumbler and glunk, glunk..15, 16, heck, I don't know, maybe 17 or 18 ounces, maybe more. Now, I am reading the labels of every slurp, sip, and crumb I put into my mouth, and, I'm skipping the OJ and replacing it with an orange. For what I was swallowing in juice, I could've eaten three Sunkist oranges (small-medium).
Breakfast: Coffee (80), 1 1/2 cups Captain Crunch w/ 1 cup skim milk (290).
Lunch: The Usual PB&J (230), a Yoplait Whips! Raspberry Mousse (like eating 2 pink colored cotton balls of air, for 140 calories, don't think I'll do that again).
Dinner: Puppy Chow. Puppy Chow? You're thinking dog food, aren't you? I am not that desperate yet.
My daughter had "snack" the next day in homeroom. After flipping through Jello-O cook books and surfing the Food Netwook, she came up with a creative culinary idea: Puppy Chow for the Bull Dogs (the school mascot). Think of a sweet chocolate, peanutty butter Chex Mix. Remember the old Reese Cup commercials?
A guy sticks his head out of a sewer lid and yells to some peanut butter jar toting pedestrian, "hey, you got peanut butter in my chocolate!" The pedestrian retorts, "hey, you got....", (I always stoll down Fifth Avenue with an open jar of Jif in hand, don't you?) Anyway, Google "Puppy Chow" and what follows is just one of the chow recipes you'll find from Cooks.com:
Chex Mix Puppy Chow
9 cups Chex cereal
1 cup chocolate chips (semi-sweet or milk)
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup butter
1/4 t. vanilla
1 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
Place cereal in a large bowl. Melt chocolate, peanut butter and butter over low heat in a medium saucepan.
Stir in vanilla and pour over Chex cereal. Place cereal mixture in a large Ziploc bag with the confectioners sugar and skake well to coat. Spread mixture evenly on waxpaper and allow to cool.
We doubled the recipe. I ate approximately 3 servings of Corn Chex cereal but I couldn't count THAT as 112 calories per cup. I could've calculated all the calories in the ingredients and added this total to the calorie content of 9 cups of Chex, divided it out by 18 (the number of cups the recipe made) and multiplied this by 3 (the number of bowls I scarfed down) to get a fairly accurate calorie count. I think I would've rather relined the shelf paper in my kitchen cupboards. I simply ball parked it at 250 calories per cup (x3) and added that to my day's tally for a total of 1490. I skipped dinner and ate nothing else the rest of the evening.
Was it delicious? Yes. Did I really need to eat 3 cups? No. Would I have preferred a "proper" meal or a Lean Cuisine? Sort of.