January 13th - Friday! Its Friday Friday!!

Since the weather has turned off cold (in 20s at night); I decided it was time for some of my "half homemade vegetable soup"!!  I know you're wondering why its "half homemade...........well I start off using 4 cans of Progresso (weight watchers with points on label) soup then add other stuff.  I put in tomato juice from last summer's garden, peas that were frozen last summer from garden too.  I like lots of chicken in my soup so I use frozen bags of grilled chicken strips.  


Oh yeah I found at Wal-Mart the Great Value brand of something kinda like salsa, tomatoes, onions, black beans and corn.  I had a jar of it that I bought some time ago because it looked like it would be good in my soup.  Also a couple of spoonfuls of jalapeno peppers that are pureed a bit in blender; adds spicy hot flavor!

How does it look?  I love this slow cooker (crock pot) because the container/pot sits on a hot plate type thing so when you finish and have some leftover you don't have to transfer to another container to store in the fridge; it has glass lid and you just cover it after it cools and plut in fridge!  My sweet Mother in Law, Julia, gave it to us as a wedding gift so we've been using it for 28 years!

Got my exercise for the day on the dreadmill on the back porch; boring as usual but listened to radio so that helped!  35 minutes/2 miles.  Nothing special but I did it and kept my streak going!  My weight stayed the same, 138.4 so I can't complain, I have just hit a plateau but I am hoping it will pass and maybe next week I will go down again.

That's about it............