![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
#WholeLent #Whole30 Here we go again.
Feb. 15th, 2018 09:14 amAll right, time for my... sixth? try at the Whole30. Yesterday was Day 1.
Day 1:
M1: sweet potato/spinach/bacon/egg/nutmeg casserole & coffee with vanilla-flavored collagen "creamer". Only a dedicated Paleo eater could call this stuff "creamer". It is not sweet, it does not have a creamy mouth-feel, & it leaves a gritty residue both in my mouth & my coffee mug. The only way it is palatable is to thoroughly blend it into strong coffee & drinking the resultant brew as quickly as possible, before it either settles out of solution or gets cold. Not a fan. I mean, I'm going to use up the jar I bought, but I won't buy it again.
Snack: I was so snacky yesterday! I ate an apple & a ton of trail mix (dried cranberries, roasted almonds, raw walnuts, roasted pepitas, & raw pecans).
M2: lunch salad (mixed greens, diced deli chicken, carrots, bell peppers, & Tessamae's ranch dressing), the last of my shepherd's pie, & a LaCroix.
Snack: nom nom nom nom another apple & a bunch of pistachios. Gonna need better snacks, or bigger meals. I am surprised at how hungry I was.
M3: I made a special Valentine's Day dinner for me & my wife. The main dish was chicken prosciutto involtini & the sides were cauliflower mash (made with coconut milk & ghee) & zoodles. I used my Mama's spaghetti sauce recipe in place of marinara sauce. It was DELICIOUS. For dessert, we had UTTERLY NON-COMPLIANT chocolate-covered strawberries. I'm not apologizing for this departure from Whole30-purity. I had two strawberries & probably less than a gram of dark chocolate. Having a good date with my wife for Valentine's Day >> Whole30 Puritanism.
Day 2 (today):
M1: same as yesterday -- sweet potato casserole & collagen coffee.
M2: same lunch salad as yesterday, apple, LaCroix.
M3: I'm going to heavily modify this recipe for vension stew - sub cow for deer, omit the flour coating, sub red wine vinegar for burgundy, fresh cremini mushrooms for dried porcini mushrooms, beef stock for veal stock, coconut aminos for Worcestershire sauce, add spinach, cook in Instant Pot.... Actually, I'm going to modify this recipe so much, I should really just re-write it. Maybe I will.
Day 1:
M1: sweet potato/spinach/bacon/egg/nutmeg casserole & coffee with vanilla-flavored collagen "creamer". Only a dedicated Paleo eater could call this stuff "creamer". It is not sweet, it does not have a creamy mouth-feel, & it leaves a gritty residue both in my mouth & my coffee mug. The only way it is palatable is to thoroughly blend it into strong coffee & drinking the resultant brew as quickly as possible, before it either settles out of solution or gets cold. Not a fan. I mean, I'm going to use up the jar I bought, but I won't buy it again.
Snack: I was so snacky yesterday! I ate an apple & a ton of trail mix (dried cranberries, roasted almonds, raw walnuts, roasted pepitas, & raw pecans).
M2: lunch salad (mixed greens, diced deli chicken, carrots, bell peppers, & Tessamae's ranch dressing), the last of my shepherd's pie, & a LaCroix.
Snack: nom nom nom nom another apple & a bunch of pistachios. Gonna need better snacks, or bigger meals. I am surprised at how hungry I was.
M3: I made a special Valentine's Day dinner for me & my wife. The main dish was chicken prosciutto involtini & the sides were cauliflower mash (made with coconut milk & ghee) & zoodles. I used my Mama's spaghetti sauce recipe in place of marinara sauce. It was DELICIOUS. For dessert, we had UTTERLY NON-COMPLIANT chocolate-covered strawberries. I'm not apologizing for this departure from Whole30-purity. I had two strawberries & probably less than a gram of dark chocolate. Having a good date with my wife for Valentine's Day >> Whole30 Puritanism.
Day 2 (today):
M1: same as yesterday -- sweet potato casserole & collagen coffee.
M2: same lunch salad as yesterday, apple, LaCroix.
M3: I'm going to heavily modify this recipe for vension stew - sub cow for deer, omit the flour coating, sub red wine vinegar for burgundy, fresh cremini mushrooms for dried porcini mushrooms, beef stock for veal stock, coconut aminos for Worcestershire sauce, add spinach, cook in Instant Pot.... Actually, I'm going to modify this recipe so much, I should really just re-write it. Maybe I will.
