Wednesday, October 3, 2012

What Are You Eating?? (And Challenge #2!)

Hey everyone! I hope everyone is doing well!
I thought I would give you all an idea of what I eat during a normal day in case people are having trouble coming up with meal plans.
I usually spend most of my days away from home, so between breakfast and dinner I usually eat frequent small meals/snacks that consist of food that I can easily carry with me.

Breakfast:
Eggs and bacon or turkey bacon. (Choose grass fed and nitrate free if possible for the meat)
A Frittata or egg bake is a great dish to make ahead and then you can just heat it up in the morning!
**If I’m in a rush I will sometimes grab some nuts and a piece of fruit

Lunch:
Cut up chicken breast or Turkey
Sweet potatoes (Make these ahead of time and then have them with your lunch for a few days)
Raw veggies (Green pepper, carrots, sugar snap peas, green beans)
Salads
Chicken Salad or Tuna Salad, I like to add some crunchy veggies to mine (celery, or green peppers)
Fruit: apples are easy to carry around or trader joes has great pre-cut fruit as well.

Eating Out:
Habit Burger: I order the chicken club sandwich, lettuce wrapped. Delicious!!
Crepeville: Any omelettes or scrambles, bacon or sausage. They have great salads here, make sure to add meat. If I’ve had a big workout that day, I’ll go double meat or add avocado.
Plutos: Salads, add meat. Again avocado is a great way to get some good fat in here. They also have carved meats here as well that are great for lunch with veggies on the side.

When eating out, look for your BEST option, it won’t always be perfect, but that’s life!
I’ll often order a burger without a bun and add avocado. Eating this way should not keep you from going places with friends and is not meant to make you feel deprived.  You just might have to get creative sometimes!

Dinner:
Dinner is usually meat and veggies. Chicken with asparagus is probably the most common Paleo dinner you will find at my house. If it is just me at home for the night, I might have eggs and bacon or a salad with fruit and nuts in it and oil and vinegar dressing.
Snacks:
I generally stick to fruit and nuts for my snacks.  I always carry “applesauce crushers” (packets of applesauce that are only apples, no added sugar) from trader joes with me.  They are great on the go snacks. Almond butter packets are great as well to throw in. I also always have some kind of nut mix or trail mix with nuts and dried fruit with me.  
After dinner I will often have an apple with almond butter, (my favorite are Pink Lady apples) or some kind of fruit.   

That's about it! I am naturally a pretty picky person, so my diet isn't super exciting, but I am working on branching out and trying new things.  

This brings me to Challenge #2! Post here or to the group facebook page a recipe that you have found and enjoyed since starting the Paleo Challenge. Please do this by Friday. I will add my favorite recipes on Friday as well to the blog. If you haven't joined the group Facebook page yet, please do so if you would like to or if you are on Facebook. Mariah emailed the link to all of you to make it easier to find.

Looking forward to some new recipes! Keep up the good work guys!


-Kirsten


7 comments:

  1. I didn't find this recipe, just modified one that I had used previously. We call this chipigen. Its an oven-roasted chicken stuffed with diced carrots, celery, onions, garlic, potato and bacon. (I'm prescribing to the potatoes and bacon are paleo theory + moderation... they aren't daily foods.) Saute the vegetables with the bacon before stuffing into the chicken. Roast the stuffed chicken for about 1.5 hours.

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    1. ut-oh I am definitely in the bacon is a daily food camp. Is that not good?

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    2. I eat bacon almost every day Greg!

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  2. Paleo Pancakes!

    I tried this recipe form The Food Lovers Kitchen last weekend to break up the eggs every morning routine. Its perfect for weekends when you have more time in the morning! Mix 1 3/4 cup almond flour, dash of salt. 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp nutmeg. Whisk two eggs and then add the eggs to the dry ingredients, mix till smooth. Cook like normal pancakes! For something to drizzle over the top, I cut strawberries and boiled them in some water until it reduced down until a nice syrup. The pancakes were a little dense, so its a work in progress, but a keeper recipe! Next, to celebrate fall, I am thinking of reducing apples in some cinnamon and nutmeg, yum!

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    1. Sounds delish Adele! I've made some great almond flour and coconut flour waffles that I LOVE!!!

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  3. I love shredded pork:

    large pork shoulder from costco
    large yellow onion
    diced bell peppers
    diced tomatoes
    diced garlic (i like 4-5 cloves of garlic but that might be a bit much for some)
    good mustard is key. start with 1/4 cup and add or subtract
    red pepper flakes
    chili powder
    2 seeded habenero peppers (I like spicy, leaving the seeds in will make it hotter still)
    worchestershire sauce
    little bit of vinegar
    salt to taste

    cook in crock pot on low for 6-8 hours. Turn off crock pot, shred with fork and let sit for at least 20 min to re-absorb juices. serve in lettuce wrap "tacos" with fresh tomatoes, guacamole, and a good salsa. Sorry the amounts aren't very precise, I like to just mix things until it looks like enough when I cook. enjoy!

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