2016 Whole30 Week Four and Review

Day Twenty-Two-
Breakfast- Ham egg cups
Lunch- Vegetable beef soup

Dinner- Meatballs, fries

Day Twenty-Three-
Breakfast- Breakfast casserole

Lunch- Leftover chicken meatball kale soup

Dinner- Pork over sweet potato with homemade BBQ sauce, smash potatoes, homemade coleslaw with an Asian twist

Day Twenty-Four-
Breakfast- Casserole

Lunch- Taco salad with avocado lime dressing

Dinner- Dinner was skipped because we were out taking care of farmer's market business, but we each had a Larabar later on

2016 Whole30 Week Three

Day Fifteen-
Breakfast- Fried eggs, Aidell's sausage, "fried potatoes"

Lunch- Egg salad, cucumber, avocado oil chips, banana

Dinner- Hamburger, sweet and white potato fries, avocado

Snacks- Apple with almond butter

Day Sixteen-
Breakfast- Egg cups

Lunch- Potato soup (a healthified version of a family recipe), salad with grilled chicken

Dinner- Chocolate chili over sweet potato

Snacks- Apple with almond butter

2016 Whole30 Week Two

Day Eight-
Breakfast- Sweet potato hash, fried eggs, sausage
Lunch- Ham on lettuce, hardboiled egg, pickle, apple, coconut oil chips

Dinner- Spaghetti sauce over spaghetti squash, salad, fried plantain

Drinks- Sparkling water

Day Nine-
Breakfast- Scrambled eggs with hash, monkey fruit salad
Lunch- Leftover lettuce wraps with avocado and olives

Snack- Smoothie with frozen strawberries, frozen banana, kale, spinach, coconut milk, almond butter, ice, water

Dinner- Spaghetti sauce over sweet potato, steamed broccoli, sauteed onion and zucchini

Drinks- Sparkling water

2016 Whole30 Week One

Day One-

Breakfast- Scrambled eggs with sausage

Lunch- Chicken broccoli casserole, monkey salad with cinnamon, olives

Dinner- Grilled pork chops, roasted brussel sprouts, carrots, and sweet potatoes

Snacks- Clementine

Drinks- hot water with lemon upon waking (me)

Day Two-

Breakfast- scrambled eggs with olives (me), scrambled eggs with ham, peppers, olives, avocado (mom)

Lunch- Chicken salad with homemade mayo, fresh dill and thyme, salt, pepper, garlic and onion powder, apple, pecan, olives, on a bed of lettuce with avocado, sliced Seckel pear

Dinner- Chocolate chili over sweet potato

Snacks- Banana, clementine, pear, sunflower seeds

Drinks- Iced Citrus Tazo tea

Let It Snow Ice Cream

During the night, several inches of snow fell on us. I think the only thing that would be better than the sky dropping down snow is if it would snow ice cream. Since it doesn't, I'm content to just make snow ice cream.

 Normally, I would rush out to grab a large bowlful of snow and drench it in milk, vanilla, and sugar and then  proceed to devour the entire bowl.

 Last year I tried making snow ice cream with honey and that did not work. Not even a little bit. This year, I should have just gone the Laura-Ingalls route and tried the maple syrup snow treat, since it would be technically more Whole30-friendly than what I'm about to confess that I did.

Snow waiting to be sculpted..into ice cream

I made snow ice cream with sugar. *embarrassed face*
 Before you pooh-pooh me for disrupting the Whole30 for the sake of that dread abomination, sugar, let me tell you what else I put in the ice cream.

Snow with vanilla and sugar

I tried my hand at what a lot of people already do on a regular basis, but is something I don't do often: experimenting in the kitchen! And it was fun! The Queen Mother suggested that I try a dairy milk alternative, so I did. Two, in fact.

Into the first bowl went full fat coconut milk. Into the second bowl went cashew milk. By the way, I'm kind of liking cashew milk and might try making my own soon.

Left: Coconut milk ice cream
Right: Cashew milk ice cream

Cashew milk ice cream with added cocoa

They were both good, but I preferred the mildly-coconut-flavored coconut milk ice cream since it tasted more like the original snow ice cream. The cashew milk gave the ice cream a stronger flavor so I added cocoa powder and looked that a bit better.


So... Even though I'm almost done with the program, I still deviated from it...and I'm not sorry that I did. I chose to consume sugar rather than send out stress hormones from not being able to enjoy this snow day. I think that sometimes we can make things too complicated and we end up in a worse state of things.

But I'll get off my soapbox and on my sled.
Stay warm!
Soon I'll have more Whole30 posts up, so come back!

Whole30 Round Two

Hello! I can't believe it's been almost 5 months since I did a blog post! How embarrassing...

The Queen Mother and Princess Me are doing another round of the Whole30. I am so much more relaxed this time around. However, I can see that, just like last time, the biggest obstacle will be retraining my brain to not just grab something and pop it into my mouth! Hopefully there will not be any cornbread hallucinations or scary food dreams this time.

Come back for the recaps--and better food photography. I've been practicing.

Stay warm!

A Cold Day in August

I've decided that it will be a cold day in August when I sell out in one day.
Well, guess what, folks? I'm wearing a jacket today! That means y'all need to come out and help my dream come true!

The finest tomatoes on any side of the Mississippi

Challah bread and photo cards

Back view of herbal and floral bouquets

Come and see us! (Bonus points if you know what local commercial I quoted that from)