Sour Cream Noodle Bake...ehhh..

So tonight I tried my first recipe from Allrecipes.com. I tried the Sour Cream Noodle Bake. (Recipe here: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Sour-Cream-Noodle-Bake/Detail.aspx?prop31=1) I made a few adjustment. We used whole grain pasta instead of egg noodles, garlic instead of garlic salt, white onions instead of green onions, used fat free sour cream, and low fat cottage cheese instead of the fatty stuff. Oh, and I added a little bit of cayenne pepper. LOL! Typing it all out like that, with all of those changes, I guess I didn't really use an Allrecipe recipe, I used an Amber/Allrecipe recipe! It was just ok. Nothing spectacular. Just so so. I give it 3 stars. It probably would have been 4 and 1/2 stars if I would have made it with all the fatty ingredients it called for. Allen and I are making a commitment with our new move to have new diets. NO, we are not fad-dieting, we are just going to be making smarter food choices, substituting the good stuff in for the bad stuff as much as we can and watching our portion sizes, a little less meat, a lot more veggies. (Which is almost necessary regardless of whether we want to or not with the price of meat!) On our grocery trip we purchased a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables, instead of chips and cookies. We are going to start eating breakfast and not going to take the processed meat sandwhiches for lunch anymore.

LOL! As I am typing this, Allen just told me a funny story. We took lunches today that consisted of a piece of string cheese, one half of a celery stalk w/ 1/3 less fat cream cheese, one half of celery stalk w/ peanut butter and raisins on it, grapes, strawberries, and an apple. All in our nifty little divided food containers we bought at Wal-Mart last night. Allen said that the maintenance man at work saw what Allen was eating for lunch today and asked him if his wife put him up to eating that. Allen responded by saying , "Well, we both want to do it, but it was her idea." and the man said, "What I would have done was thrown it in the trash and bought me some Hardee's. " LOL! Cracks me up!

Well, today was Friday, but it sure doesn't mean much when you have to work on Saturday. I don't have to work Saturdays very often, but Allen gets stuck with them alot. Ho-hum.