This recipe comes from the Weight Watchers’ Take-Out Tonight! cookbook (p. 48). It works best with lean pork, but can also be used for chicken. This is a protein portion ONLY, so be sure to add a carb and a fibrous veggie to make this a complete meal.

BBQ’ed chicken or pork can be used in salads, pitas, or with the usual rice and veggies.

Ingredients:

* 1 lb. boneless pork tenderloin, trimmed of all visible fat
* 2 T. honey
* 2 T. hoisin sauce
* 2 T. sake or dry white wine
* 2 t. oyster sauce
* 2 t. reduced-sodium soy sauce
* 1 t. Asian (dark) sesame oil

Directions:
1. Prick the tenderloin all over with the tip of a knife or tines of a fork. Combine the honey, hoisin sauce, sake or white wine, oyster sauce, soy sauce, and sesame oil in a large zip-close plastic bag; add the pork. Squeeze out the eair and seal the bag; turn to coat the pork. Refrigerate, turning the bag occasionally, at least 6 hours or up to 24 hours.

2. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Spray the rack of a roasting pan with nonstick spray and place in the pan. Remove the tenderloin from the marinade and place on the roasting rack. Discard the excess marinade. Roast until an instant-read thermometer inserted in the thickest part of the tenderloin registers 160 degrees F for medium, 25-27 minutes. Transfer tenderloin to a carving board and let stand 5 minutes before slicing.

Nutrition Info:
Serving size = 1/4 tenderloin
157 cal, 4 g fat, 2 g sat fat, 3 g carb, 24 g protein

Yougrowgirl.com had a nifty little PDF seed starting date chart available for download. The only problem was that it still required me to manually calculate the dates for planting my seeds AND setting the resulting seedlings outside as transplants.

:crazy:

I doggedly dragged out my Palm and counted the weeks backwards and forwards to fill out my printed chart by hand, but in my mind I was already vowing to transfer the sheet over to Excel and letting my computer figure this out from now on.

This primarily being a fitness blog, I know most of you don’t care, but here’s my Excel version of the seed starting chart, complete with all the equations needed to automatically fill out the planting and setting out dates for a variety of edible plants. All you need to fill out is the yellow box that asks for the last frost date for your area; everything else will be calculated by Excel.

Spreadsheets simply rock.

Seed Starting Date Spreadsheet