Friday
B: chicken apple sausage and TJ's 'healthy 8' veggie mix (sauteed), black coffee
L: beef stew over acorn squash, clementine
S: apple, hard boiled egg
D: Caribbean Seafood Stew (I think!)
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Friday
B: chicken apple sausage and TJ's 'healthy 8' veggie mix (sauteed), black coffee
L: beef stew over acorn squash, clementine
S: apple, hard boiled egg
D: Caribbean Seafood Stew (I think!)
Today (rest day)
B: ground beef/veggie/egg casserole, black coffee
S: banana, almonds
L: see breakfast with a tangerine, need to go shopping
D: big salad with red lettuce, flank steak, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, beets, a few pecans and sunflower seeds and hazelnut oil for dressing (I went shopping)
Rest day
B: left over fritatta with artichoke hearts and herbed Boursin, mango chutney, blueberries
L: turkey burger patty, apple, refried beans
S: about a fourth of a Luna bar
D: restaurant... shared a carpaccio plate with DH, had scallops with spinach and a few potato filled gnocchi, 2 glasses red wine, one scoop of vanilla ice cream
When we got back to our hotel last night, there was a coupon for a free brunch at the very nice restaurant at the Lenox Hotel.
Ate about 1/4 of a Luna Bar
I worked out for 30 minutes on the elliptical (intervals) and did a few sets of bicep, triceps, and flys at the hotel fitness center
B: I had dinner for breakfast! Salmon on a bed of pureed parsnips and Brussel sprouts, coffee
we walked quite a bit around the Museum of Fine Arts, got home around 1:30.
L: 4 slices of chicken breast rolled up, piece of cheddar, half a spelt roll dipped in olive oil, blueberries
D: grilled chicken breast with tomatillo-green chili salsa, side of refried black beans, salad with lettuce, oranges, walnuts, sprinkle of goat cheese, grapefruit vinegar and oil, 2 squares dark chocolate, glass of red wine
Today (and my Whole 30 is officially over)
B: Paleo "French Toast" (thinly sliced sweet potatoes rather than bread), bacon, coffee
1 hour very creative and challenging group workout!
L: big salad with flank steak
S: Mocha - probably the BEST mocha I've ever had in my life with great coffee, pure cacao and no added sugar!
D: Rogan Josh (beef rather than lamb) - (out of Well Fed), VERY good - spices rocked though I used too much liquid. I put it over baked spaghetti squash and also had a small salad. A Founders Breakfast Stout (lovely chocolate stout), and a fresh pineapple spear for dessert.
Homemade Rogan Josh seasoning recipe here, and Rogan Josh recipe here. If you like richly layered spices then you should like this.
I looked at the Rogan Josh recipe yesterday, while preparing my shopping list. I am trying to stay away from too much beef/lamb until I get my blood work done for my cholesterol reading.... however, I will make this eventually.
And, I like the fact it has the name Josh, my older son's name. That's why I first tried it in an Indian restaurant.
B: eggs scrambled with spinach, 1 slice bacon
S: banana
L: Rogan Josh from dinner last night, over spaghetti squash and berries for dessert
Easy 40 minutes on the trainer
D: Citrus Carnitas (used too much lemon/lime juice this time - I was experimenting with the recipe, still good though) with sauteed kale
S: Paleo banana 'bread' experiment with a small amount of butter
I was also going to make some Italian Sausage Eggplant Strata (from Well Fed) for the week, but I decided that I had spent enough time cooking for one evening. I will make it tomorrow night if I am not too tired.
B: 2 eggs scrambled with low fat cheddar, 3 slices uncured bacon, blueberries and strawberries
L: 4 slices of chicken breast on a corn tortilla with tomatoes, avocado, with a cup of roasted red pepper/tomato soup
went on a 3.75 mile hike that included a difficult stream crossing and 1600 ft. of climbing
S: apple, slice of cheddar
D: glass of red wine, one breast of a whole roasted chicken, red quinoa, salad with orange grape tomatoes, lettuce, red pepper, fig vinegar, 2 squares of dark chocolate
Friday night, I didn't have one of the ingredients for the dinner I'd planned, so we went out. I had wild Alaskan salmon topped with asparagus and a pile of roasted root veggies on the side.
Saturday
B: bacon, 'waffles' - egg and sweet potato cooked in a waffle form. I ate mine plain, my H put maple syrup on his. Tea.
L: 1/2 a carnitas salad from Chipotle
D: I have no idea what I ate for dinner. I was making chili, so I had a couple of bites of that to taste it but then I just snacked. I know I ate some guacamole with carrots, but I didn't sit down to a real meal because I just wasn't in the mood.
Sunday
B: bacon, eggs with kale, onions and zucchini, melon, black coffee
L: grass fed beef burger on a bed of mixed greens and tomatoes with guac
D: a couple of blueberry sausages and a couple of clementines before bowling, and then I ate the leftovers of my carnitas salad and a banana afterward.
Monday (today - planned)
B: sausage, kale and onion frittata, canteloupe, black coffee
L: beef stew over acorn squash, mixed green salad, banana
D: carribbean seafood stew, mixed green salad, clementine
2 dried apricots, half a glass of almond milk and a handful of walnuts before boot camp
B: left over fritatta with artichoke hearts and light Boursin cheese, an orange, coffee
L: for the first time in almost 2 years, I bought lunch at the grille in my office building. An OK veggie salad with a scoop of chicken salad, which I dipped in some Italian dressing
S: 6 inch whole wheat pita round with hummus
D: 4 slices flank steak with "bistro" sauce (cabernet, veggie stock, Dijon, teeny bit of butter), roasted sweet potatoes, roasted Brussel sprouts, glass of red wine, 2 squares dark chocolate
Yesterday:
B: eggs scrambled with kale and mushrooms, bacon, coffee
1 hour workout
S: boiled egg, 6 dried cherries
L: Last of the Rogan Josh over baby spinach, tangerine
D: Citrus Carnitas, sauteed brussel sprouts
Today (so far):
B: omelet with spinach and beef tip strips
40 minutes strength session
S: nuts and dried cherries
L: Italian Sausage Eggplant Strata (from Well Fed), salad
D: Will likely be Carnitas + veggies, we will see.
Tuesday -
B: sweet potato/egg waffles with almond butter, 1/2 a banana, blueberry breakfast sausage, black coffee
L: veggie and meat chili over sausage
S: 1/2 banana, cashews (maybe)
D: sausage and cabbage 'noodles', mixed berries
B: 4 oz. almond milk, coffee, egg whites, broccoli, salsa, cheddar with an orange
S: I left for skiing at 11:00 Ate a slice of whole wheat raisin Ezekial bread with soy nut butter
did 11k of nordic skiing
L: cup of red pepper tomato soup, small salad with left over roasted chicken and red quinoa, champagne vinegar, an apple
S: slice of Machengo cheese
D: left over Czech meatballs, mashed cauliflower "potatoes," salad with lettuce, walnuts, dried cranberries, a little goat cheese, fig vinegar, glass of red wine, 2 squares dark chocolate
Dinner tonight was a couple of carnitas, a small piece of Italian sausage eggplant strata, broccoli, sauteed parsley/mushrooms. 1 slice banana 'bread' for dessert.
I really want ice cream, but it is only from being a bit depressed. No riding, no ice cream ;)
I'm going to have to try that rogan josh, except with yogurt (because I have some in the fridge, and since it's northern Indian food, the coconut seems sort of out of place). (I'm half Indian. That means I can be picky about it, right?)
B: Cereal with 1% milk, tea,
S: Chex mix.
D: 2 helpings steak and ale pie (beef, potato, onion), and sugar snap peas with mint and butter. It's a pretty shallow pie--one potato, one onion, 1.3 pounds raw of beef in a 9x13 dish, because that's all I have, so it's about an inch and a half deep and about a quarter of that is the crust. It's starting to look like 1/4 of the pie is a serving.
When I got home last night, I had zero desire to cook or eat, so my H ordered a pizza and I just snacked a bit before my Pilates class. I'll be making the sausage and cabbage 'noodles' tonight since the ground beef is already defrosted.
B: apple cinnamon hot mash, blueberry sausages, hot tea
L: chili on a bed of spinach
S: hard boiled egg and a clementine
D: sausage and cabbage 'noodles', mixed berries
The apple cinnamon hot mash is also called 'Jicama Oatmeal' but it's so far from being oatmeal that I don't like that name at all. It's good though!
http://blog.stuffimakemyhusband.com/...a-oatmeal.html
B: chicken-veggie sausage, 6 inch whole wheat pita dipped in olive oil, blueberries, 1/4 avocado, and a small wedge of Machengo cheese, coffee
It's a rest day, but I am so stiff in my hips from yesterday's ski, I did 20 minutes of a light spin on the trainer, with 10 minutes of stretching
S: walnuts
L: frittata with one egg and egg whites, broccoli, half a sweet potato, an orange,
S: nuts, cranberries, chocolate bits
D: open faced sandwich on a slice of sourdough bread, fresh from the bakery. yes, I had white bread in my house :eek:chicken breast with a mayo/adobo sauce/apricot spread and lettuce with a side of cole slaw, 2 squares dark chocolate
Yesterday:
B: eggs scrambled with veggies, bacon, coffee
1 hour hard group training session (back-squat day!)
S: boiled egg, 1/2 banana
L: carnitas, salad, slice banana "bread"
S: 1/2 banana and a few nuts
D: sardine salad made with home-made mayo, mustard and onion over salad greens
Today:
B: the usual + a bit of fresh pineapple
30 minute training session (featured single deadlifts today)
S: boiled egg, pineapple & cucumber
L: Italian sausage eggplant stratta, beets, and 1 slice banana "bread"
D: Probably the last of the eggplant stratta and a salad, need to set out something from the freezer to cook tomorrow night!
Catrin - what is the banana 'bread' that you are eating? Do you have a recipe? I've got about 1000 super ripe bananas in my freezer and I need to do something with them before they get together and form a plan to take over the whole house. ;)
Wednesday
B: sausage, kale, onion frittata topped with avocado, melon, black coffee
L: sausage and cabbage 'noodles', clementines
S: hard boiled egg, apple
D: chili, mixed greens and tomato salad
Here is the link to the recipe. I ordinarily just use a "muffin cup" recipe where I mash 1 banana, 1 egg, a bit of almond butter (and sometimes a bit of quality dark chocolate) into a tall coffee cup and microwave for 2 minutes. I do not normally use coconut "flour" for anything, but I had wanted to try it to see what it was like. It doesn't have much coconut flour and almond flour would also work. It makes a nice banana bread loaf that isn't TOO dense and has nice flavor.Quote:
Originally Posted by GLC1968
The same guy has a "Lara bar" recipe that I want to try at some point.
Here is a recipe for pumpkin pancakes (no "flour" of any kind). You can add a banana to the mix which really turned out well for me. It does increase the number of pancakes - but it is nice. I make this on the occasional weekend morning - especially if I've got something going on where I decide I need a few more carbs than normal for brekkie.
Interesting. I actually have the Civilized Caveman's ebook and haven't made anything from it. And that recipe would never have appealed to me (except that it uses 4 bananas!) but I'll try it based on your recommendation.
That pancake recipe is similar to the waffle recipe I use if you were to sub mashed sweet potato for the pumpkin. I hadn't thought of trying it in pancake form but that's a great idea!
Thanks!
The banana bread recipe would likely be even better with nuts -it just depends how much fat you want in it :) I mixed it in my blender which was fine. Nice and moist, the flavor is decent but I think I might tweak the spices if I make this again. It DOES fill that "dessert bread" kind of place.Quote:
Originally Posted by GLC1968
I have his e-book as well and so far have only tried one thing out of it. I am finding that I prefer actual books when it comes to cookbooks, I suspect I would have tried more of the recipes by now if it were a physical book. I've printed a few recipes out for later use but haven't made them yet.
I am the same way. I just received 'The Paleo Slow Cooker' cookbook and I brought it with me to work to read at lunch time. It looks beautiful and I cannot wait to dig into it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Catrin
I agree. I bought the Mark Bittman vegetarian cookbook for my Kindle and I never use it. I really need to feel and see the pictures.
I printed out the banana bread recipe. I think I will use almond flour/butter because almonds and bananas sound like a good combo to me.
B: 4 oz. almond milk, half a Luna Bar before boot camp. Coffee, egg white frittata with chicken and broccoli, an orange after class
L: salad with lettuce, grape tomatoes, left over chicken legs, red quinoa, an apple
S: right after lunch I ate some dried cranberries and nuts, at 5:00 I ate the other half of the Luna Bar from this morning.
D: DH made a salad Nicoise recipe from the new Cooking Light. I am so full. I could have saved a bit of it; each ingredient alone was not more than I would eat, but together, even the veggies filled me up.
I'd be terrified of getting anything on an electronic device, seeing as how nothing in my kitchen stays clean for more than 15 minutes.
Late B: Cereal, tea with sugar and half-and-half
S: More tea, a handful of walnuts and a cookie.
D: Piece of steak-and-ale pie, sugar snap peas with butter.
S: A few bites of the tabbouleh I made for lunch, an apple. I'll probably have a mug of hot chocolate later.
Edit: Scratch the apple. I'm having a bowl of pineapple chunks with shredded coconut.
Let me know what you think of it! There are a couple of cookbooks I've been considering but I don't need an entire shelf of paleo cookbooks! The funny part is I've avoided cookbooks my entire adult life - preferring just to put things together. While that worked, I am finding that actually using cookbooks encourages me to use different spices and combinations that I wouldn't have considered on my own.Quote:
Originally Posted by GLC1968
When it was just me, I preferred to make my own way in the kitchen. Now that I cook for me and my husband, I kind of like having someone else's recipe for new things. That way, if it's gross, it's not entirely my fault! ;) Typically, I make a recipe as close to as written as possible the first time and then put my own twist on it for repeats. And I totally agree about the spices. I love trusting that unusual spice combinations in recipes from certain authors I can totally trust to work out even though they seem odd. I've found that with both Melissa Joulwan and with the woman from Everyday Paleo (I can't remember her name).Quote:
Originally Posted by Catrin
The Paleo Slow Cooker looks awesome. The writer is Armenian, so there are lots of recipes that really appeal to me (I'm Greek and they share a common palate). And I spent some time reading the back half of Practical Paleo and there are some recipes in there that I'm really excited to try as well. What are your favorites from that one?
Yesterday's evening meal was quite a bit different than I had planned. My parents send my H and I a lobster dinner for two from Legal Seafood for our anniversary. So I ended up eating lobster with drawn butter, roasted veggies and Boston cream pie for desert. 10 year anniversaries only come around once in a lifetime if you are lucky, right? Oy. I did have the foresight to freeze both the crab cakes and the clam chowder that also came with it but there is no denying that I broke my Whole60 for an anniversary desert. And guess what? It was worth every. single. bite. :D
Today I am back on track:
B: sausage, kale and onion frittata topped with avocado, melon, black coffee
L: lobster, roasted veggies, blueberry sausage, apple
D: eating out but I'm going to order a tomato based meat or seafood sauce over zucchini noodles
Happy Anniversary!
B: 1 piece toast with butter, cereal with strawberries
L: 1/2 liverwurst sammy with swiss cheese on WG bread
D: rigatoni pasta with turkey hot italian sausage, onions, zucchini, edamame, basil, olive oil and parmesan cheese, 1 glass shiraz
Today:
B: eggs scrambled with kale, bacon, coffee
S: Paleo banana bread
L: big salad with last of the Italian sausage eggplant strata
1 hour Crossfit workout (at a different gym than usual)
Post-work - hemp protein shake
D: another big as* salad with Italian seasoned browned ground pork
Nothing wrong with the occasional indulgence - no reason to feel guilty & it sounds like you had a great time!Quote:
Originally Posted by GLC1968
I enjoy trying different things, so the cookbooks really help that. I love Practical Paleo - if my budget allowed it and I actually thought I could go without eggs for a full month I would love to try her autoimmune protocol for a month - but right now that isn't in my budget. Eggs can cause an autoimmune response and my psoriasis is the only thing that hasn't resolved since going Paleo - as THAT is an autoimmune issue I would like to try that protocol at some point.
I've really enjoyed all the recipes I've tried. I really like the seasoned salts - I had never thought about doing that! Other favorite recipes include the balsamic braised short ribs, orange braised beef shanks, sweet potato pancakes, roasted chicken, the lemon & artichoke chicken, just to name a few favorites. I also really like the candied carrots, sauteed red cabbage with onions and apples & the spinach salad with walnuts and artichokes. There are still a good number of recipes I want to try, such as the roasted figs with rosemary. Lots of good recipes to choose from!
one hour on the trainer, doing various one legged drills and endurance intervals
B: 1/4 oz almond milk, sliced tomato, chicken breast slices (4), avocado, sprinkle of low fat grated cheddar, an orange, coffee
L: 2 veggie burger patties with a bib lettuce salad with green beans, grape tomatoes, 1/2 cup no fat plain Greek yogurt with blueberries and walnuts
S: piece of Machengo cheese
D: 2 very thin pork chops in a cherry/ginger glaze, half a sweet potato, roasted asparagus, glass of red wine, 2 squares of dark chocolate
I started cooking for Passover. Sigh...
B: 1 piece wg toast, butter, coffee
snack: 1 banana
L: leftover pasta with italian sausage and veges
Snack; Small helping of mandarin oranges
D: 1/2 chicken breast sauteed with lots of herbs in olive oil, brown rice, green bean salad (green beans, celery, cucumbers, red bell pepper, garbanzo beans and vinaigrette dressing with blue cheese crumbles).
1 dark chocolate kiss
B: 2 egg omelette with red pepper, avocado, a little goat cheese, 2 chicken breakfast sausages, an orange, coffee
L: I had a tuna salad whole wheat wrap sandwich at the bike workshop.... I got an emergency phone call about a client, which interfered with me making a better choice and enjoying my lunch! I should have just had a half of it, the wrap itself was huge.
S: slice of Ezekial bread with hummus, a slice of Machengo cheese
D:we went out to a new restaurant, which while the food was great and good for healthy and Paleo type eating, the service sucked. Anyway, I had steak tips with a side salad/vinaigrette, and sliced carrots, with a glass of red wine and decaf.
B: 2 eggs, hashbrowns, 1 piece wg toast with butter, coffee
Snack: 1/2 banana
Lunch: liverwurst and swiss sammy on wg bread
D: red beef chili, beans, brown rice burrito smothered with green chili sauce and gaucamole, 1 beer
small helping of vanilla pudding
Thanks for the inspiration, Catrin. I have a pot of Rogon Josh on the stove right now. I didn't use the same recipe, and I decided to spring for the lamb (cause I love it!). It needs to simmer more, and I'm not going to serve it until tomorrow, but I'm already happy with the results!
:) I've never actually had it at a restaurant, so I don't know if what I made was really like it but I really enjoyed the flavors from the recipe I used.Quote:
Originally Posted by indysteel
I tried the Egg Foo Yong recipe out of Well Fed tonight - very nice! Half of it will be for breakfast tomorrow.
B- cornflakes with fresh pineapple pieces and fresh raspberries with a dollop of yogurt and skim milk. Tea with skim milk.
Snack - an almond croissant and coffee with milk at bakery where I biked to.
Dinner- stir fried broccoli, pepper, shanghai bok choy, ginger root, garlic, onion with light noodles.
Snack-cornflakes with milk. (Ok, I ate dinner at 5:00 pm). It seemed right after several hrs. of dirty fingers from doing some art work.
B: I made sweet potato waffles! Delicious. Had one and a half waffles with walnuts and dried cranberries, 2 slices of uncured bacon, 4 oz. almond milk, coffee
L: left over fresh tuna with mayo and an orange, 8 oz. almond milk
14 mile ride, hilly, but not fast
D: turkey meatloaf with red and green pepper, cauliflower "mashed potatoes", glass of red wine