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Fuel Challenge Week 1

Posted by bronick on January 13, 2014
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Week #1… Done!

First thought… Anyone know how to teach cats to wash dishes? Just kidding, kind of. I’ve been doing a LOT of dish washing because I’ve been doing a lot of cooking in my tiny kitchen, which is a good thing, and have started stock piling food. Overall, I think I’m did pretty good. One of my biggest hurdles with meals is being lazy, there are lots of time when I just want to eat. Not have to cook and clean. Just eat. Queue the slow cooker! Plus every time I cook, I’ve been making lots of food and freezing part of it (queue vacuum sealer) for quick meals later on. Here are a few of the meals I had this past week:

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O Paleo, Paleo! wherefore art thou Paleo?

Posted by bronick on April 5, 2011
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Once again I’ve let my eating get the better (or more accurately, the worst) of me. Since the Paleo Challenge ended, I haven’t been very good with my eating. Its been a mix paleo, pizza, almost paleo, pizza, burgers, pizza, beer, etc… ugh. Yes, its really that bad. If I don’t have anything ready, I usually end up ordering pizza.

“Eat like crap, feel like crap”… kinda. One of my problems is that when I do eat bad, even after eating clean I don’t really feel like crap. However, I think its finally caught up with me. While I might not feel like crap initially, as of recently I have been lacking energy. So…

With a new month and the start of the week, I’ve decided to get back on Paleo for at least 30 days. After coming home to some slow cooked dry rubbed spare ribs (w/ broccoli), it was shopping and then cooking:

I need to make sure I stay on top of my meals and have stuff ready to go so there is no temptation to order pizza. Hence all the prep last night to keep me going for most the week. Now I just need to keep up with it. Here I go…

Paleo Meals

Posted by bronick on January 10, 2011
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A little review of my meals from last week…

Its nice to be cooking at home again, although the dishes drive me nuts! Its a never ending task when you have a small kitchen. Bulk cooking helps… alot! My attempt at crock-pot beef and veggies turned out ok, but it needs alittle something-something. I’ll need to look up some recommendations. My attempt at Paleo Shrimp Scampi (recipe below) on the other hand turned out great!

I did take some time to look up some Paleo recipes and decided to try the Thai Chicken Soup as my first one. Overall it is very good, however, it does seem to be missing something. You check out the recipe below along with my notes. Next up Paleo Butter Chicken… we’ll see how that goes!

I did eat out a bit this week. Breakfast was from the office cafe since I slept in or out with friends over the weekend, just because I wanted to be social. Either a omelet or scramble with some fruit. Did eat dinner at Una Mas on Sat because I was attending open house for my drum corps (San Francisco Renegades) and it was a fundraiser. I got the steak fajitas, just meat and veggies w/ gauc and tomatoes.
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Paleo Day 3

Posted by bronick on March 3, 2010
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Paleo Butternut Squash Soup

Breakfast
Scramble with ReddiEgg, lean ground beef, spinach, peppers, onions, and mushrooms
Orange
Few almonds
Snack
Mesquite Jerky
Dried fruit
Almonds
Lunch
Cajun chicken breast
Spinach Salad w/ tomato, broccoli, bell peppers, onion, and mushroom
Paleo Russian dressing
Snack
Pear
Snack
Sliced turkey breast
baby carrots
almonds
Dinner
Jerk chicken breast
asparagus
Paleo Butternut Squash Soup (roasted squash, coconut milk)
Snack
Orange
almonds
1 Ginger snap “cookie” (seed based)

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:

  • butternut squash
  • coconut milk

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.