What did you eat today?

[Crankin]

glass of almond milk, 2 dried apricots, 5 almonds before one hour trainer workout
B: coffee, 2 eggs with kale, lox, sprinkle of goat cheese, an orange
S: handful of walnuts
L: 2 veggie burger patties, half a cup of cole slaw, an apple
S: slice of Ezekial bread and soy nut butter
D: half a beer, 4 turkey meatballs with organic marinara sauce, large salad with yellow grape tomatoes, carrots, fig vinegar, 2 squares dark chocolate

[spokewench]

B: oatmeal, 1/2 banana, 1% milk, coffee
L: bowl of homemade chicken/cabbage, potato, etc. soup
Snack: two homemade oatmeal raisin cookies cup of tea with honey
Dinner: small helping of beef and broccoli with rice
1 cup of tea with honey, 1 oatmeal raisin cookie

[spokewench]

B: wheat chex, 1% milk, 1 banana
L: 1 bowl of chicken/cabbage soup
Snack: 3 peanut butter crackers
Dinner: small salad with vinaigrette, spagetti and meatballs w/tomato sauce (hardly ate any of the pasta and meatballs went to a restaurant for a board meeting and it was bad!), 1 glass red wine
1 cup of tea with honey and 1 oatmeal cookie

[GLC1968]

Catrin - your meals look so similar to mine!

Can I ask about your pumpkin 'muffin'? I'm guessing it's not really a muffin in the traditional sense. I'm curious about your recipe because this weekend I'm going to be doing some experimentation on some handy post-workout carby things that are sugar free. Pumpkin and other winter squash, sweet potato, etc will figure prominently. Right now, I wait until I get home AND walk the dogs, so I'm not refueling for over an hour and that's not going to be good as my intensity increases. I need something simple that I can eat in the car on the way home!

Is your chocolate chili from Well Fed?

[Crankin]

Thursday:
B:glass of almond milk before boot camp and 2 hard boiled eggs (in the car ) after
L: left over ground lamb, chick peas, whole wheat cous cous, blueberries
D: 2 super thin pork chops with chili rub, large salad with goat cheese, dried cranberries, walnuts, fig vinegar, half a plate of broccolini, glass of red wine

[Catrin]

Catrin - your meals look so similar to mine!

Can I ask about your pumpkin 'muffin'? I'm guessing it's not really a muffin in the traditional sense. I'm curious about your recipe because this weekend I'm going to be doing some experimentation on some handy post-workout carby things that are sugar free. Pumpkin and other winter squash, sweet potato, etc will figure prominently. Right now, I wait until I get home AND walk the dogs, so I'm not refueling for over an hour and that's not going to be good as my intensity increases. I need something simple that I can eat in the car on the way home!

Is your chocolate chili from Well Fed?

The chocolate chili is indeed from Well Fed and it is pretty darn good! If you like spicy then you will need to add spices, but it is a great base recipe. I've had it over cauli-rice, as well as baby spinach. I bet it would also be good with shredded sweet potato as well.

I've tried different versions of the pumpkin 'muffin', if I can find the recipe I used I will post it. I REALLY enjoy the recipe in Practical Paleo for pumpkin 'pancakes', I made a small batch last night to go with my dinner - nice and savory. I never use the maple syrup such recipes seem to always call for. Recipe here - if you make them thin they can make a nice savory "wrap" kind of thing.

[GLC1968]

The chocolate chili is indeed from Well Fed and it is pretty darn good! If you like spicy then you will need to add spices, but it is a great base recipe. I've had it over cauli-rice, as well as baby spinach. I bet it would also be good with shredded sweet potato as well.

I've tried different versions of the pumpkin 'muffin', if I can find the recipe I used I will post it. I REALLY enjoy the recipe in Practical Paleo for pumpkin 'pancakes', I made a small batch last night to go with my dinner - nice and savory. I never use the maple syrup such recipes seem to always call for. Recipe here - if you make them thin they can make a nice savory "wrap" kind of thing.

Excellent, thanks! I'll start with that pumpkin pancake recipe and work from there.

Yeah, I made the chocolate chili once and wasn't all that impressed but I know a lot of people love it. Honestly, so far, it is the only recipe from that book that I don't rave about. The citrus carnitas, czech meatballs and sausage seasoning are some of our favorites that we make over and over again.

[Catrin]

Excellent, thanks! I'll start with that pumpkin pancake recipe and work from there.

Yeah, I made the chocolate chili once and wasn't all that impressed but I know a lot of people love it. Honestly, so far, it is the only recipe from that book that I don't rave about. The citrus carnitas, czech meatballs and sausage seasoning are some of our favorites that we make over and over again.

I didn't like the chili the first time either, but I was out of one of the spices. It was MUCH better with the cumin I am going to make it again this weekend for the work week and spice it up more this time, and thanks for the meatballs rec., hmmmm

[Crankin]

Citrus carnitas? Sounds good.
glass of almond milk, ran on the treadmill for 15 minutes, did some core work at home
B: egg whites, kale, ham, salsa scrambled, blueberries, coffee
L: one of the rare occasions I went out. There's a sandwich shop that has Paleo food in Lowell, so I had a bowl of pulled pork and a salad. It was way too much pork, but I ate it and about 1/4 of the salad
D: went out again and had a cup of tomato soup and a chicken Cobb salad, glass of red wine.

[spokewench]

B: 1 piece wg toast, butter
L: ham sandwich with slice of cheese and lettuce, wg bread
D: pot roast, potatoes, carrots, salad, vinaigrette
Dessert: orange sherbert with chocolate pieces and a cookie

[Crankin]

Won't discuss what I ate yesterday, but it involved half a slice of apple pie and ice cream after some extremely strenuous snow shoeing. The rest of the day wasn't too awful, I guess.
Today:B:2 small sour dough waffles with dried cranberries and walnuts, bowl of blueberries and oranges, coffee
L: small stuffed tomato, with home made chicken salad/red pepper, cup of tomato soup, an apple
S: handful of nuts and cranberries, 8 oz. glass of almond milk
D: chicken breast, sautéed with a yogurt tarragon sauce, pan seared asparagus and baby turnips, 2 squares dark chocolate

[spokewench]

B: 1 bowl of grapenuts and 1% milk, coffee
L: leftover roasted chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, peas
Snack: 1 beer
Dinner: beef cooked with ancho and new mexico chili sauce (homemade yum!), and polenta, 1 margarita
chocolate pudding

[Catrin]

Yesterday:

B: frittata (half my usual amount), 1 slice nitrate-free bacon, coffee with cream
1-hour hard group training session that featured heavy strength work & finished with a .5 mile run - followed with a protein shake
L: sliced braised arm roast, 1/4 large sweet potato, salad
S: toasted unsweetened coconut flakes
D: pecan-coconut chicken breast strips, 1/4 large sweet potato, small salad with citrus vinegar

[Crankin]

yesterday:
glass of almond milk and 3 dried apricots before boot camp
B: endive stuffed with light veggie cream cheese, lox, chopped red pepper, and a small sweet potato, coffee, handful of blueberries
L: cup of low salt tomato soup, egg whites, kale, green chili salsa, an apple
S: handful of nuts, 2 slices low salt Boar's Head ham
D:went out with a friend, had another cup of tomato soup, duck salad with walnuts, sprinkle of goat cheese, lettuce, vinaigrette, glass of red wine

[GLC1968]

There's a sandwich shop that has Paleo food in Lowell, so I had a bowl of pulled pork and a salad. It was way too much pork, but I ate it and about 1/4 of the salad

OK, I first saw this and thought - no way...paleo in Lowell??? But then I was booking my trip to New England earlier this morning and remembered this post and I'm SO THANKFUL that you posted this. This restaurant is just one mile from our office in Chelmsford so you can guess where I'll be eating a few times while I'm visiting!