Breakfast
Scramble with ReddiEgg, lean ground beef, spinach, peppers, onions, and mushrooms
Banana
Few almonds
Lemon herbal tea
Snack
dried fruit
jerky
almonds
Lunch
Broccoli and tomatoes
Lemon pepper chicken
Mint herbal tea
1 Ginger snap “cookie”
Snack
Apple
Snack
Baby Carrots
Few bites of turkey
almonds
Dinner
Butternut Squash Soup
Chicken with Vindaloo spice
Banana, blueberry, coconut milk smoothie
Paleo Butternut Squash Soup
Overall, a pretty good day… Still finishing off some of the not-quite-paleo stuff like the jerky and chicken. I have to say the Russian Salad Dressing is better than the Spinach one from the other day, but still missing something. The highlight of the day was definitely the butternut squash soup! With all the rain we’ve been getting, the salads at lunch just haven’t really been hitting the spot. So I bought some squash yesterday and looked up a recipe for paleo friendly soup:
That’s it! I seasoned the squash with garlic powder, allspice, cumin, and little cayenne. Then roasted in the oven for about 1/2 hour. This was tasty on it own, will definitely just have it by itself one day. Pureed it with the coconut milk and a bit of water… yummy! And did it hit the spot.
I really need to start looking into cooking some paleo meals instead of just chicken and some salad or veggies. I like strong flavors and that’s what I’ve been missing from my meals (except for the soup).
You know… after looking at the list above…. I eat a lot through out the day compared to other folks on the challenge.
Single ingredient banana ice cream... yum!
Paleo friendly cookies?
Not sure about these… but I think these are paleo friendly “cookies”. They are raw seed based snacks made with:
I tried two of the little bite sized pieces and they where pretty good. I nice little crispy treat. I think I’ll keep these around for when I get a craving for something crispy and sweet.
Breakfast: Eggs, beef, bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, and an orange.
Its official… I’m starting the Paleo Challenge!
What is Paleo you ask? Its also known as the “caveman diet” or “Hunter/Gather diet”, which means you only eat things which could be hunted or gather like our cave dwelling ancestors use to do.
So for 30 days, I’m going to be lots of fruits, veggies, meats, nuts, and seeds. I’m really excited that we’re doing the Paleo Challenge at the gym, as I haven’t done so good with starting Paleo on my own. My eating recently has been a mix of really good (Paleo meatloaf, salads, etc…) with really bad (pizza, burgers, and such). With the challenge I’ll hopefully get the help and support that need to stay on track. You can find the info for our challenge and about paleo in general here:
http://cfscpaleo.wordpress.com/
Unfortunately I missed the kick-off meeting this last Sat because I was heading up to the city to march in the Chinese New Year parade with the SF Renegades Drum and Bugle Corps. So I’m officially starting it off today with my breakfast as see above. You can see the results of my trip to Costco yesterday ;-) Hopefully this will keep me going for a while. One box filled with some lemons, oranges, bananas, mini bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, asparagus, broccoli, and spinach!
Next step is go through and clean out all the non-paleo stuff from my apartment so I’m not tempted to cheat…
Breakfast
Other
Lunch
Other
Snack
Post-WOD
Dinner
Overall Paleo rating for the day (out of 10): 3
Mainly this is because the only Paleo meal I had was lunch. CFSC posted that they are going to be doing a Paleo Challenge and already setup a new blog for nutrition (http://cfscpaleo.wordpress.com). Can’t wait for an official challenge since I kinda been halfassing it on my own.