Most of the time when I look through my viewfinder, I see someone else's family... so this blog gives me a new reason/excuse/opportunity to pick up my camera and see the people I love most in this world... my family! Thanks for joining me here - isn't the view beautiful?!
Breakfast : my standard Activia yogurt with strawberries, blueberries, and sliced almonds; coffee
Lunch : Pork chop, 2 slices provolone, 6 strawberries, mayo-free egg salad (1 hard boiled egg, 1/2 c. cottage cheese, squirt of yellow mustard, salt & pepper), water
Snack : 2 cookies, water
Dinner : grilled chicken; spinach salad with strawberries, avocado, grape tomatoes, oranges, and dressing; 6 baby carrot sticks; 3 pieces of broccoli; water
Bedtime snack : 4 cookies and a glass of milk
Breakfast : Activia yogurt with strawberries, blueberries, and shaved almonds; a cup of coffee.
Lunch : Pork chop with 2 slices of provolone cheese, a cutie, water.
Snack : 5 big strawberries and 2 of these tasty chocolate chip cookies!! (I used 100% unsweetened shaved cocoa instead of 75% listed in the recipe.)
Dinner : Apple-ham-sweet-potato bake, milk, and 2 more cookies for dessert.
Bedtime snack : you guessed it… milk and 3 more cookies!!
Apple-Ham-Sweet-Potato bake
4 small granny smith apples, cored, skinned, and sliced
1 large sweet potato
1 c. cubed ham
1 Tbsp butter
1/3 c. water
1/2 tsp. marjoram
3 tsp. lemon juice
1/4 tsp. onion powder
Microwave sweet potato for 5 minutes to get it soft, then skin and slice into 1/2″ thick pieces. Spread apple slices on bottom of 9×9 pan, then a layer of ham, then a layer of sweet potatoes. Melt butter and mix with water, marjoram, and onion powder; pour over sweet potatoes. Bake at 350* for 30 min. This turned out pretty good, and we ate it in a bowl like stew. Serves 3.
Here’s shot of my typical breakfast, followed by the yummy cookies!
I knew today would be a challenge, between serving at church all morning for Easter services (where our usual breakfast is a donut) and lots of Easter candy around the house from our annual Easter egg hunt in the afternoon… but I think we did pretty well!
Breakfast : another zucchini-blueberry muffin, a banana, apple juice, and a small cup of coffee
Lunch : ham, green beans with bacon (yummmmm….), fruit salad, bean salad, 2 deviled eggs, baked shredded potatoes with cheese, and water (all prepared and served by our wonderful friends at Dick and Lynne Barnes’ house — thank you!! It was pretty tough resisting all the pies after lunch, but we did!)
Dinner : tasty Strawberry-Avocado-Pork salad (using up the grilled pork from last night), water.
Bedtime snack : a glass of pomegranate-blueberry juice.
Here’s the recipe for the delicious salad:
Strawberry-Avocado-Pork salad
Spinach
1 pint strawberries
1 avocado, cubed
2 c. cubed grilled pork
sliced almonds
dressing — simply mix the following:
1 tsp. agave nectar
1/4 c. olive oil
2 Tbsp. honey
2 Tbsp. cider vinegar
2 tsp. lemon juice
2 Tbsp. mayo
1/2 tsp. balsamic vinegar
a pinch of poppyseeds
Breakfast : ham & cheese omelets (first time I’ve made an omelet in years, and they turned out great!), milk, coffee
Lunch : strawberries, cottage cheese, grapes, milk, and these delicious zucchini-blueberry muffins — adapted from one of my favorite recipes. So the no-sugar, no-grain recipe is as follows:
Zucchini-Blueberry Muffins
3 eggs
1/2 c. canola oil
1/2 c. applesauce
3 tsp. vanilla
1 c. agave nectar
2 c. shredded zucchini
2 c. almond flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1 Tbsp. cinnamon
1 c. blueberries
Mix all ingredients and bake at 350* for 25 minutes (muffins) or 45 minutes (loaf)
Snack : a few orange slices, quickly between Easter services at church…
Dinner : Awesome Pork Salad with Summer Fruit, more Zucchini-Blueberry bread, and a glass of white wine. Oh, and about 1/2 c. of egg salad that Eden didn’t want to eat with her supper! But the best part of dinner was hanging out with some fun friends from Momentum gym — fondly dubbed the “Mo Joes” — thanks for a fun evening guys!
April 4, 2010 - 12:45 pm - I think I could handle this diet... except not while pregnant because I have been craving bread/carbs like crazy! :)
No picture for today… maybe tomorrow… But my menu today was:
Breakfast : Activia yogurt with sliced almonds, chopped walnuts (much better than pecans!), frozen blueberries, and a cup of pomegranate blueberry juice.
Lunch : Leftover grilled lemon chicken from last night, 2 slices of provolone cheese, dried apricots, water.
Snack : Big bowl of fruit salad left over from last night.
Dinner : Spiral sliced ham, baked sweet potato, fruit salad (oranges, kiwi, strawberries, banana, blueberries, yogurt), milk.
Snack : A glass of pomegranate blueberry juice. And I might have a glass of milk before bed too…
I also went grocery shopping today and loaded up on fruits (strawberries were on sale – yay!!!) and veggies and meat for the grill… Now that we’re officially trying this diet, it is amazing how much I notice about what other people are buying at the grocery store, and also how the store arranges the food in the aisles. For example, right next to the canned fruit and applesauce section is the marshmallow and chocolate pudding section… hmmm… but the store’s tactics didn’t work on me… I chose some no-sugar-added applesauce to try in a recipe tomorrow!
April 3, 2010 - 5:54 pm - Paleo diet seemed so normal to me.
This month we’ve decided to try a new way of eating, simply as a healthy lifestyle choice and an exercise in willpower! I thought it might be good to track our progress and our meals here on the blog, so you all can see that we’re not crazy (or at least if we are, then you can discover that right alongside us!) Here’s the deal: for all of April, we are going to do our best to eat a paleo* diet — and I’m including the * because we’re not doing the diet in the strictest sense. Basically, we’re not going to eat grains or sugar, and we will eat everything else — meat, veggies, fruit, dairy, eggs, and nuts. (Stricter paleo diets also cut out dairy, but we like milk too much to give it up!) Also, we’ll still allow the girls to have some of the “off-limits” foods from time-to-time, but we’ve actually been weaning ourselves off of grains for a few months now (I can’t remember the last time I bought breakfast cereal, and it’s been several weeks since there’s been a loaf of wheat bread in our house…) so it’s hopefully not going to be that huge of an adjustment. At the end of the month, we’ll try to assess how we feel (hopefully more healthy) and how difficult or easy it was to eat this way. Then we’ll reintroduce the foods we miss (like ice cream) and keep some others off of our family’s menu (like anything with “bleached enriched flour”… bye-bye Kraft mac & cheese…). So here’s what I ate today:
Breakfast : Activia yogurt with sliced almonds, chopped pecans, and frozen blueberries. Coffee with sugar-free creamer (which is the last one we’ll buy this month… once it’s gone, we’ll move to plain cream or milk).
Lunch : Egg salad, 5 strawberries, 1/2 apple, cottage cheese, water
Snack : Dried apricots
Dinner: Grilled lemon chicken, peas, fruit salad (oranges, pineapple, blueberries, strawberries, kiwi, yogurt), milk
April 2, 2010 - 8:09 am - hooray! i'm so excited for you guys. i think kevin and i are going to try it out for awhile, too. but we'll be a little behind you...we've barely seen each other the past couple days, and this needs some serious planning. and when does the farmer's market start up down there?? think of all those veggggiiesssss. besides, my breakfast this morning: 2 eggs, and some peas, water. i'm with you, i'm with you!
by Allyson
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