Spinach, feta and carmelized onion quiche
(is a quiche ever really anything but a big omelet that you bake in a pie pan?)

This is from a website that I can’t remember but I cleaned it up a bit to a lighter version!

3 lrg eggs
4 egg whites
1/2c of fat free milk
2c of baby spinach (packed ~100g), chopped with the stems removed
2 lrg onions (~300 g) chopped
1c (~120g) of feta crumbles
2T of olive oil
basil/oregano/salt/pepper or any other spices you might desire to your own personal taste

Chop and then carmelize the onions in the olive oil. I don’t know how YOU carmelize but it takes me forever and I carmelize one onion at a time since I don’t have a pan big enough to carmelize two at a time. Use a tablespoon of olive oil for each. You could probably cut back a little here but I like olive oil and don’t mind a tad extra. While the onions are carmelizing, de-stem the spinach (it’s worth the effort, it really is) and then chop (or tear) into small pieces that you can eat comfortably. Mix (I use a fork because all my whisks are rusty and I need new ones but a whisk would work better) the eggs, egg whites and milk. Add the spicing you want (I use salt, pepper, oregano and fresh basil from my garden because I already have a crap ton of basil and it’s only April!). Hopefully by this time your onions are done, if not, sit down and watch some tv or something until they are. But dude, take the time to carmelize them. They taste better and contribute a lot to the overall quiche-y flavor at the end.

Preheat oven to about 350F.

So, everything is ready (and you have a pie pan! I bought a green ceramic one at Walmart. I LOVE green!) — I make mine in two layers. Half of the spinach, top with half of the onions, top with half of the feta cheese. Then repeat. Pour on the eggy mixture and make sure it goes all the way to the bottom and under the spinach. I kinda squish it down to make sure that all the feta/spinach/onions get a little bit of the eggy stuff on top of them.

Pop that baby in the oven and bake for 35 or 45minutes. I stick a knife in the middle to make sure it’s done. Not that I know how to tell if it isn’t but so far it’s pretty good.

PICTURES!!!

see – green pie pan! and a clean stove because I cleaned the kitchen!

Mmmmm. Feta and carmelized onions!!!

Nutrition information:
If you make it this way the entire pie pan will include
935cal, 56.5g of fat and 8g of fiber
I made eight servings -
that’s 117cal, 7g of fat and 1g of fiber or 2.7WW points per serving

Now, this could be lightened more by reducing the olive oil used, using low fat feta or using fewer eggs and more egg whites. This is just my first re-vamp but I am relatively satisfied with it thus far!

Then there was a soda – and a lot of chores

And there was another soda with this – mmm chicken gyro goodness (there were some pitas too – but I don’t know where they went)

Not pictured due to a forgotten digital camera and a malfunctory cellphone camera…
Fruit – honeydew, cantalope, watermelon and pineapple
Half a turkey sandwich, a pickle, a salad with ranch, potato salad, mac salad
A slice of chocolate cream pie
A LOT of cups of tea with honey and two Pepsi’s

Here there was a handful of dark chocolate peanut M&Ms

Too much quizno’s but — only ONE soda today!! Go me!

Oh – here is a link to my belly dancing routine. I’m really rather proud of it. I can do the footwork and the hipwork up through 1:20!!!!

What isn’t pictured here is the dark chocolate peanut M&Ms, the one Reese’s miniature pb cup, the 5 little Snickers fun size bars, the two 2-packs of Starbursts or the 4 little Dove milk chocolate eggs

What isn’t pictured here is the funfetti cupcake with starburst jellybeans on top

Not one of my better days food wise really….

This is the soup I didn’t eat yesterday….

The salad was tasty – especially the ranch-bbq sauce combo…

Here was the real problem – the quiche not so much (carmalized onions and spinach are healthy – I need to revamp the recipe to have less egg and less cheese though before I post it…) the black licorice though..ugh. I ate the WHOLE bag….I’m gonna poop green tomorrow!

Fiesta ranch dip with veggies

ICE CREAM!!!!

This was breakfast – ciabatta bread with tomato pesto tuna and cheese, kiwi, tomatoes and strawberries. The soup is pictured but was not eaten as I was too full.

This is Josh’s lunch from Maggie’s Pita Place in the Fiesta Mall – our new favorite restaurant. I consumed >10 fries from this.

This is my lunch from Maggie’s Pita Place in the Fiesta Mall. I took two meals to eat this whole thing and forgot to include my soda!

My dessert. Sugarfree chocolate pudding topping with a sprinkle of cinnamon and a sprinkle of cocoa powder….

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Edited to add:
Jackie got me thinking about a boot camp and so I joined one too!

Mine is three days a week for a month – from 0530 to 0630 and will start April 27th. I’m excited and afraid all at the same time!