Mmmm... Chana Masala :-)

When I used to live in the Caribbean, there was a wonderful small authentic Indian restaurant and we went there on occasion, and they served some really lovely Chana Masala.

I make a bit of a similar 'looking' dish myself from scratch (see my Indian Style Stew), but my own version is more North Americanised in terms of flavors and ingredients.

Anyway, thankfully, President's Choice (Loblaws/Superstore) has a nice line of pretty authentic Indian entrées and other food products, and so last week I grabbed a couple of boxes (frozen entrée) of the President's Choice Chana Masala and, like some of the comments, the flavor is really spot on for authentic Indian Chana Masala flavor. There is too much sauce and not enough chickpeas (the portion showing on the box cover looks more authentic in terms of how it should look, but when you open the box, it's more like chickpeas swiming in a ton of sauce).

None the less, the box contains '2 portions' in the one single bowl, so I heated it up and split the portions and kept some leftover for my lunch today. It's quite delicious and I put it over top of some brown rice to soak up all the lovely sauce (as delicious as naan bread is, I'd have to count my points for that whereas the brown rice is considered Core and I don't have to count it).

For those in Canada or abroad that have access to this PC product, it's really nice to have on standby in the freezer and after a few minutes in the microwave, you find yourself traveling in your mind to exotic India (*wave to my girlfriend Susmitha!*)

I might as well write down what I ate yesterday - Still going Vegeterian and keeping to my pledge!

Breakfast:
Sprouted Bread toasted sandwich (1 Egg and a wee bit of Part-Skim cheese, a bit of ketchup), glass of skim milk.

On a side note: I don't always write down on here what I drink every day, but I basically only drink water, plus a glass or two of skim milk per day, a decaf tea every other night, and the odd diet coke - like when I eat pop corn or pizza.

Lunch:
Leftovers from the night before - Mushroom Onions Whole Wheat Spaghetti.

Dinner:
Brown rice, PC Chana Masala, steamed baby carrots, broccoli and baby corn (the veggies were leftover from another meal)... and I had a very tiny portion of birthday cake (home made on the weekend by mom for my husband's birthday which is today).

Evening snack:
Smart Orville Microwave Pop Corn, a small glass of Diet Coke.

That's it for yesterday!

Tonight we're ordering in pizza for my husband's birthday (his favorite) and I'll get myself a small vegetarian pizza and share it with mom if she wants it, or keep the leftovers for lunch over a few days.

I'm not concerning myself too much with points (although I do enter them all in my WW tracker but I will surely go over) but we basically only order in pizza when it's someone's birthday in the house, and that happens 4 times a year, so I will enjoy it and move on. It's not like we order it every week or something. We don't. I do make some home made ones, which are healthier, but we do like to treat ourselves to 'delivery' for a special occasion here and there, and this is a special occasion :)

Happy Birthday my love!