Whole 30 - Day 15

Today's Menu

Breakfast: Purple Smoothies and soft boiled eggs

Lunch: leftover mousakka, paleo apple crisp

Dinner: Soup (roasted acorn squash, cauliflower, onions, carrots, garlic, apples, and hazelnut butter) with a sprinkling of sausage

snack: a clemmie

Whole 30 - Day 13 & 14

Saturday's Menu

breakfast: Civilized Caveman's paleo pancakes, fruit salad, scrambled eggs

lunch: leftover beef stew

dinner/snacks: leftover burgers and baked sweet tater fries

Sunday's Menu

breakfast: green smoothies

lunch: leftover stew/soup

dinner: paleo mousakka

snacks: chocolaty banana cherry coconut frozen goodness, clemmies

Whole 30 - Day 12

Snow and two power outages will slow down a blogger... this was the day we were both longing for bread and sweet treats.

Today's Menu

breakfast: green smoothies and TGIPaleo's fluffy paleo pancakes (These were more like egg cakes, tasted like fried bananas, and were nearly impossible to flip. Finally, at the end, I let them cook on the first side longer and that helped.)

skipped lunch as we ate breakfast late.

snacks: clemmies and marcona almonds

dinner: burgers made with belmont's butcher's blend, caramelized onions. cooked mushrooms, homemade bar-b-q sauce, and baked sweet tater fries, a yummy dessert (in the blender I tossed cold coconut milk-most of the water removed, a ripe banana, cocoa powder, and frozen cherries in the blender--it was soooo good, and the rest is now in our freezer!)

Whole 30 - Day 11

Well, I kind of forgot to do lunch as I woke up late, ran all my errands in the middle of the day and then spent an hour prepping beef stew, so I was just a snacker. I will say that I love love love going to Belmont Butchery to buy meat. Tanya, the butcher, is awesome. She's answers all kinds of questions, explains every possible method for cooking something. I'm a big fan of her and her butcher shop. Another one of those I *heart* RVA moments.

On a completely different not, I'm craving chocolate like nobody's business. I swear whole foods was forcing the smell of fresh baked chocolate chip cookies through their ventilation system! This is a good reminder for me that desserts seem to be my food addiction (and go to comfort food). When we're done with this whole thing, I hope I don't crave them in the same way, even though I'm sure I'll still want to eat cookies. They're just so good. But hey, I can do anything for a month.

Today's Menu

breakfast: purple smoothie and hard boiled egg

lunch (jess): salad with tuna cakes

snacks (noe): 2 clemmies, some almond butter, half an avocado

dinner: beef stew and salad

Whole 30 - Day 10

Today's Menu

breakfast: green smoothies and a hard boiled egg

lunch: salad and tuna cakes (tuna, carrots, onions, egg, paleo mayo, coconut)

snacks: banana and clemmie

dinner: salad with yesterday's chicken, toasted almonds, roasted beets, olives, and apples

Whole 30 - Day 9

some food and body thoughts from noe...

my belly was angry this morning... it's either a bug (with the encouragement of our administrative assistant I decided to work from home, just in case) or something I ate. I was able to eat something at every meal today, but there continued to be an uneasiness in my belly. I find these kind of days to be frustrating. As the day has continued, I do really think it's a food reaction and that the puniness that followed was me failing to catch up to good hydration.

So other than being sick this morning, how am I feeling after the first week of this food challenge? Pretty good. My sinus congestion, while still present, seems to be lessening. I haven't had any headaches. I'm full between meals. I'm sleeping more soundly. I have identified my cravings for sweets (specifically chocolate and cookies) and have realized I'm never actually hungry when I crave those things--weird--it's totally connected to my emotions or boredom. (does anyone else eat when they're bored?)

I don't think eating this way is very difficult when you can cook for yourself. We've had plenty of tasty meals and they actually don't require a slice of bread to be complete. Who knew?! I do think if we ate out more I'd struggle with this challenge. I hate being the person at the table that asks a million questions. I wish menu's had to be written out with nutritional and ingredient information the way grocery store labels are. oh well...

Today's Menu

breakfast: green smoothie and a hard boiled egg.

lunch: leftovers from last night

dinner: a salad with apples and almonds, roasted beets, and Nom Nom Paleo's Tandoori Chicken (I went the coconut milk route. I didnt have tandoori spices, so i mixed Penzey's singapore seasoning with garam masala--it smelled good)

snack: nut-ola and whipped coconut milk

Whole 30 - Day 8

Today's Menu

breakfast: purple smoothies, nut-ola, whipped coconut milk, and frozen berries
(Noe made a first pass at "paleo pancakes," but they were, umm, kind of gross. . . flavor was nice, but we couldn't get past the texture)

lunch: (Noe): leftover carrot and fennel soup topped with warmed almonds and pancetta, a salad with avocado, smoked trout, olives, almonds, and homemade dressing
(Jess): leftover kitchen sink soup, some carrots, an apple, and an orange (Jess ate on the go before teaching a class, and yes, she's still hungry. . .)

dinner: delicata squash stuffed with apples, sausage, pecans, and kale (it was delightful!!)