This weekend went by pretty quickly as most weekends do. Between my lazying around the house, doing laundry, attempting to meal plan (by stopping at the grocery store, produce market, meat market, farmer’s market, health food store and Costco), and breaking my vacuum, I found there wasn’t much time to blog about anything, so you’ll get an exciting three-day recap here! Meals 1 and 2 are usually boring throughout the day, with meal 1 usually consisting of eggs in some form. I haven’t gotten too creative with them, but I don’t mind them scrambled, and Jared doesn’t mind them fried, so it’s been working out just fine (a dozen eggs every other day is normal, right?).
Meh..
Weekends are still a bit of a struggle since there isn’t any structure to them, so it’s usually a fend-for-yourself kind of day and you fill in the meals when you can. We did have nice sit-down dinners on Saturday with steaks, smothered in onions (literally, smothered), and last night we enjoyed pesto chicken “pasta”.
I think I mentioned it before, but one of my favorite things so far with this Whole30 is being a little more open to trying new things. Such as zucchini. And I bought beets (and no clue what to do with them..) And Kombucha.
Whole30 encourages you to eat real food, and not make smoothies or shakes or paleo-ify any desserts because people tend to have an emotional attachment to foods, so remaking the foods with approved ingredients isn’t separating the emotional feeling. Outside of Whole30, the Paleo world seems to be accepting of such things like paleo-pancakes or muffins. Inside the Whole30, none of that is allowed by Kombucha is, which confuses me. I think it has made an acceptable transition to fill the void that wine used to fill. I will write more about this miracle drink on Friday, but if you don’t know what it is and don’t want to wait, Google it. Buy it. And thank me later. (And ignore the fact that you’re drinking fermented mushroom bacteria..)
This product has made the Whole30 much more tolerable.. hehe. It is still going as planned, well, for the limited planning that I did do. I cannot believe it’s already 1/3 of the way done and while we still have our sanity, we almost lost the oven today! Long story short.. preheated the broiler, something got too hot, thick black smoke, some flames.. meh..
Maybe it is time to replace this antique… :\
In GOOD news.. I won another giveaway!! Actually, TWO giveaways! I feel like I’m on a winning streak lately! One item was shipped today, so I’ll spotlight that, and I plan on doing a review of the other once I receive it (the anticipation is killing, you, I know!).
This is how the delivery people “hide’ our packages. Yes, that’s my shadow.
Courtesy of Kerri at FitViews, I won a copy of Everyday Paleo’s Family Cookbook! I am quite thrilled about this cookbook since my kitchen skills are pretty limited, AND it fits in perfectly with the Whole30 challenge I’m doing and will be nice to get some fresh ideas. Though I am really anxious to try the Pumpkin Pie recipe already, I must be patient and wait until October!
Other good “ups” so far: I hit a planking PR of 3:01 last night! When I was doing the NROLFW, part of the program called for 90 second planks. And I could have died. But now that I’m doing more heavy lifting, the planks have gotten so much easier! 90 seconds is nothing! And I just tried a Coconut Creme Larabar and it reminded me of my favorite Girl Scout cookies, Samoas.. YUM..!
Any dramatic stories from your weekend? 
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