Healthy Food Chart for Everyone

We had comfort food for dinner to warm us up after the cold day we had here in Boston. All week is going to be cold and I assume we are headed straight into winter now without a real warm up until next spring. I like to cook seasonally - warm foods when it's cold, and cold foods when it's hot. Turning the oven on in the summer gets the house all heated up but it's a much appreciated warm up these days! Tonight I made a meatloaf along with mashed red potatoes and asparagus. Meatloaf is such a simple thing to make but I had never made one before. I pulled out my Cooks Illustrated cookbook, looked up the recipe, then ran to the store for the ingredients I didn't have at home. It all came together pretty quickly and was quite tasty! I'll keep that one in my back pocket now that I now I can throw it together fast -- I actually made the whole recipe but put half of it in the freezer so we can make it another day with no prep! I am going to watch a new episode of Top Chef now and then try to get some sleep...no nap today so I am pretty tired.

This Meal Provides Approximately: Vegetables = 2.5 cups, Meat & Beans = 5-6 ounces, Oils = 3 teaspoons, Discretionary Calories = 80-100 kcals (a little butter & milk in the potatoes)

I had a snack of a tangerine (Fruit = 0.75 cup) and some Cinnamon Sugar Pita Chips (Grains = 1.5 ounces, - whole, Discretionary Calories = 20-40 kcals) this afternoon.