Manna for Muscles
The challenge started off a bit slow for me, I had gotten a bit lazy with food preparation and fell into a rut. I am also trying to get my kids on board and have encountered some resistance. They like a good, fresh baked baguette from the french bakery now and then, as anyone would. Both kids are open to trying it out, under one condition, that I prepare EVERYTHING. I am a firm believer in planting the paleo seed when they are young so I will, for now, agree to this monumental task. I think it’s an important part of the foundation they will build on throughout life. It’s not easy though! They are bombarded with so much crap, and it’s crap that tastes good to them. Both my children are athletes, seemingly hungry all the time so I have a feeling I will be spending A LOT of time in the kitchen, stay tuned. Meantime, here are some of the yummy paleo meals I have prepared over the past few weeks.
mixed greens w/ tomato, peppers, avocado & olive oil lemon dressing
Sweet potatoes baked w/ a bit of coconut oil, topped with walnuts & cinnamon
veggie omelet with 1/2 avocado & tomatoes
Pork butt, slow cooked, pulled & reheated in it own fat (a little) with fennel seed, served with mixed greens & raw veggies
tomato, onion & herb omelet w/ hot sauce. Enjoy!
Rewind to Friday Day 12 thru Today 5/14
Friday 5/14 (Day 19)- Didn’t have time for breakfast this am, just grabbed a cup o’ coffee w/ a splash of cream
Lunch -2 eggs scrambled, leftover wilted braising greens & 4 oz wild salmon
Day 18 (Thurs. 5/13)
Breakfast- 2 eggs, black coffee
Lunch - leftover Thai-ish meat stuff over spaghetti squash
snack - 1/2 small paleo kit (shared w/ my son… he loved it!) and 1 oz beef jerky
Dinner- Herb Roasted turkey breast, mixed greens w/ walnuts & braising greens wilted in coconut oil
Day 17 (Wed. 5/12)
Breakfast - smoothie with mixed berries, coconut water & coconut milk
coffee w/ coconut milk (still experimenting with this one)
lunch - 2 cups blueberries
Dinner -(birthday party dinner) Hamburger, salad, tiny bit of potato salad, baked eggplant, honeydew melon, mineral water
Day 16 (Tues. 5/11)
Breakfast - 3 eggs scrambled, coffee w/ splash of cream
Lunch - 1/2 Cantaloupe
Dinner - Thai-ish meat sauce (grass-fed beef, onion, garlic, red, orange & yellow peppers, coconut milk & spices, served over spaghetti squash & side salad w/ lemon ginger dressing
Day 15 (Mon 5/10)
Breakfast - 3 scrambled eggs & coffee (w/splash of cream)
Lunch- 1/2 cantaloupe w/ walnuts
Snack - 2 oz pkg beef jerky
Dinner - quick salad, nothing special… no time
Day 14 (Sunday, Mother’s Day)
Breakfast - spinach omelet, bacon & coffee (w/ splash cream)
Lunch - Banana
Appetizer - sushi (i know, i know… with RICE!)
Dinner - 2 glasses of Prosecco, Grilled Salmon & tuna, clams, grilled veggies, salad & a very tiny sliver of homemade (organic) cheesecake
Day 13 (Saturday 5/8)
Breakfast - Eggs, Bacon & coffee (black)
snack - grapes (prob around 2 cups)
Lunch - Pork chop broiled, braising greens w/ onions, mineral water
snack - beef jerky
Dinner - Pork chop, again, this time grilled though. (Unbeknownst to me was on the menu at my sister’s house) 2 glasses Prosecco
Day 12 ( Friday 5/7) crazed, racing all over the place!
Breakfast - mixed berry smoothie, coffee w/ coconut milk
Lunch - more coffee
Dinner - boiled shrimp w/ lemon & swiss chard (slightly sauteed in olive oil)
Day 10 - 5/5/2010
Finally got it together (somewhat) and got some food. Stopped at Back to Earth (the health food store in my neck of the woods), hoping they would have shiitake salmon but to no avail! Disappointingly they did not have any good protein source that was not mixed with mayo or some other crap. I opted for a small gazpacho (about 2 cups), which I devoured immediately. Had an apple while driving home.
Need protein!! Made 2 eggs scrambled in coconut oil with 6 cherry tomatoes & sofrito (recipe to follow, it’s so damn good!) topped with guacamole & cilantro. And 3 strawberries.
I feel much better now :)
Day 10 - 5/5/2010
I am so tired can’t even think about what to have for breakfast. I’m cranky!! Had my usual BIG water,no lemon today though. And also had some coffee, with a splash of cream and a 14 oz bottle of Zico coconut water. NOT a good start for the day!!
forgot to write in last night (monday)
Had an apple pie Lara bar with Pelligrino for a snack before bed
Day 9 - May 4
Breakfast
16 oz Coffee w/ splash of cream (it’s amazing how adding just a capful changes the flavor so much)
(about half hour later)
Smoothie (8 oz. coconut water, 2 oz coconut milk, banana, frozen blueberries, strawberries, raspberries & pomegranate)
1/4 of a cantaloupe
2 hard boiled eggs
Lunch
1/2 pear
handful walnuts
2 oz. bag beef jerky
1 tsp. liquid fish oil
( I am hungrier after eating then I was before!)
(added a few slices of leftover steak after pic)
Day 8 (Mon)
Breakfast
4 smallish chicken & sage breakfast sausages
2 cups black coffee
1 tsp fish oil
snack
about a cup and 1/2 of fruit
skipped lunch (I was out & didn’t have time)
1 tsp fish oil
snack
handful of almonds
Dinner
Chicken breast, baked
chopped salad w/ 1/2 avocado, 1/3 of a large tomato, cilantro & parsley with cilantro lime dressing
Day 7
Breakfast
16 oz water
3 eggs scrambled with sofrito
1/2 avacado
5 1/2 peices bacon
2 cups coffee w/ splash of cream (grass fed)
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