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#WholeLent #Whole30 Day 3.
Feb. 16th, 2018 07:53 amM1: sweet potato casserole & collagen coffee.
M2: lunch salad (mixed greens, deli chicken, carrots, celery, bell pepper, & lots of Tessamae's avocado ranch dressing) & leftover beef & vegetable stew.
My first run at the re-done stew recipe is... a little eh. I put too much vinegar in it - probably 1 cup would've been plenty & I used 2 cups. So the overall profile is way too acidic. Also, putting the spinach in BEFORE pressure cooking was a mistake - it looks wilted & gross. I should've added it at the very end. I felt like this recipe needs 1.5-2 pounds of stew meat, but it could be that the beef just isn't as flavorful as the venison (likely). Minor detail: the green bell pepper didn't look as nice in the stew as the red bell pepper, & it wasn't as sweet. More carrots would be nice, too. And I think a few herbs (marjoram, a little oregano, maaaybe a little sage?). I might try replacing one of the potatoes with a turnip, too. And homemade barnyard bone broth would doubtlessly taste better than the quart of store-bought beef bone broth I used.
M3: sauteed zoodles topped with Mama's spaghetti sauce.
M3: We went out to Briar Common Brewery with Bri & Steve. I had flank steak, fries, & portabella mushrooms with chimichurri.
Notes on cheating: I have cheated on each of the first three days of this Whole 30 by eating chocolate-covered fruit. The first two days were chocolate-covered strawberries for Valentine's Day (I ate 2 on V Day/Day 1 & one on Day 2). But on Day 3 I ate a big handful of chocolate-covered blueberries. I am going to try to go a whole day without cheating today, but I'm also not going to bust my own balls for one cheat a day.
I went climbing last night (Thursday, Day 2) with Bri. We did five pitches each - I did a 5.5, 5.7, 5.8 (fail), 5.6, & the crazy Anxiety Corner 5.6 that should not be a 5.6 (fail). I actually got over the first roof on the Anxiety Corner pitch, which I have never done before. THAT was a good feeling. I didn't complete the route, but when I got down, my hands were shaking & my arms were pumped all the way to my elbows, so -- good workout. I'm starting to develop climber's calluses on my fingers.
M2: lunch salad (mixed greens, deli chicken, carrots, celery, bell pepper, & lots of Tessamae's avocado ranch dressing) & leftover beef & vegetable stew.
My first run at the re-done stew recipe is... a little eh. I put too much vinegar in it - probably 1 cup would've been plenty & I used 2 cups. So the overall profile is way too acidic. Also, putting the spinach in BEFORE pressure cooking was a mistake - it looks wilted & gross. I should've added it at the very end. I felt like this recipe needs 1.5-2 pounds of stew meat, but it could be that the beef just isn't as flavorful as the venison (likely). Minor detail: the green bell pepper didn't look as nice in the stew as the red bell pepper, & it wasn't as sweet. More carrots would be nice, too. And I think a few herbs (marjoram, a little oregano, maaaybe a little sage?). I might try replacing one of the potatoes with a turnip, too. And homemade barnyard bone broth would doubtlessly taste better than the quart of store-bought beef bone broth I used.
M3: We went out to Briar Common Brewery with Bri & Steve. I had flank steak, fries, & portabella mushrooms with chimichurri.
Notes on cheating: I have cheated on each of the first three days of this Whole 30 by eating chocolate-covered fruit. The first two days were chocolate-covered strawberries for Valentine's Day (I ate 2 on V Day/Day 1 & one on Day 2). But on Day 3 I ate a big handful of chocolate-covered blueberries. I am going to try to go a whole day without cheating today, but I'm also not going to bust my own balls for one cheat a day.
I went climbing last night (Thursday, Day 2) with Bri. We did five pitches each - I did a 5.5, 5.7, 5.8 (fail), 5.6, & the crazy Anxiety Corner 5.6 that should not be a 5.6 (fail). I actually got over the first roof on the Anxiety Corner pitch, which I have never done before. THAT was a good feeling. I didn't complete the route, but when I got down, my hands were shaking & my arms were pumped all the way to my elbows, so -- good workout. I'm starting to develop climber's calluses on my fingers.
