Work temptations at Lunchtime...

No matter when i've tried to lose weight in the past, a huge factor in my failures has been lunches at work. Many of my co-workers choose to eat out for lunch which adds temptations to eat unhealthy food. Who wants to order a salad with lowfat dressing when your friends are sitting across the table eating a hamburger and fries?

The Jenny Craig options for lunch have not only helped me enjoy the healthy foods I've been eating so I'm not tempted to go out, but I've been saving a ton of money. I know that people have been detered from joining Jenny Craig because they think the food is expensive, but I actually think I am spending less by eating the Jenny Craig meals.

Over the past two weeks I've tried to sample as many of them as I could to get a feel for the ones I liked versus the ones that weren't quite my favorites. Just like the breakfasts that I blogged about last time, I rated them based on taste and fillingness (is that a word?). Here's how they stacked up:

Cheesy Potatoes and Chicken

Flavor: 4

Filling 4.5

Overall: 4.25

Creamy Chicken and Corn Chowder

Flavor: 3.5

Filling: 4

Overall: 3.75

Zesty Tortellini Soup

Flavor: 3.5

Filling: 4

Overall 3.75

Rotini with Meatballs (one of my FAVORITES so far!)

Flavor: 5

Filling: 5

Overall: 5

Chicken Stuffed Sandwich

Flavor: 4

Filling: 4

Overall: 4

Swedish Meatballs

Flavor: 5

Filling: 4.5

Overall: 4.75

Meatball Stuffed Sandwich

Flavor: 5

Filling: 4

Overall: 4.5

Personal Pizza

Flavor: 3.5

Filling: 4

Overall: 3.75

Tuna Salad Kit

Flavor: 4

Filling: 4

Overall: 4

Beef Chow Mein (my other new FAVORITE!)

Flavor: 5

Filling: 5

Overall: 5

I have a lot more lunches to try still because there is so much variety on this program. When I try them I'll let you know what I think as well. Look for my next post when I talk about dinner selections (and probably how much I actually miss cooking sometimes)

Jenny turned me into a breakfast person...

It's unbelievable but it's true! Jenny Craig has turned this not-so-morning person into a breakfast eater! I've always like breakfast foods, but never the waking up early to make them. I'm the kind of person who leaves herself JUST enough time to shower and get ready for work and get there. There's rarely time for me to even eat cereal with milk. Before Jenny Craig, the extent of me eating breakfast, if I ate breakfast, was a granola bar, dry cereal, or sometimes a yogurt; but most often I just skipped breakfast.

I know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and that it kick starts your metabolism daily, but for some reason I still skipped it...well, not anymore! Thanks to Jenny Craigs yummy breakfasts, I've converted into a breakfast eater. Now, instead of running out the door empty-handed, I grab one of the Jenny breakfasts and take it with me to work! I guess it's a good thing that I work at a desk!

Since I've been on the program for over two weeks now, I've had a good sampling of the food so far and thing it's time I let you all know what's what; what's good that is! Below I'm listing the breakfast items I've tried, how I think they taste, how filling they are, and an overall score (average of the two). Have you tried any of them? Let me know if you agree!

Oatmeal Breakfast Square

Taste: 3.5

Filling: 3

Overall: 3.25

Banana Nut Mini Loaf

Taste: 4.5

Filling: 3.5

Overall: 4

Blueberry Mini Loaf

Taste: 4

Filling: 3.5

Overall: 3.75

Cheddar Cheese Omelet

Taste: 5

Filling: 5

Overall: 5

Blueberry Pancakes and Veggie Sausage

Taste: 4.5

Filling: 4.5

Overall: 4.5

Breakfast Scramble

Taste: 4.5

Filling: 4

Overall: 4.25

Frosted Oats Cereal

Taste: 4

Filling: 4

Overall: 4

Sunshine Sandwich

Taste: 4.5

Filling: 4.5

Overall: 4.5

Stuffed Breakfast Sandwich

Taste: 5

Filling: 4.5

Overall: 4.75

French Toast with Berries

Taste: 5

Filling: 5

Overall: 5

Look for my next food reviews of the Jenny Craig Lunches!