Day One:
Breakfast: Basic Oatmeal Squares (with raisins and chocolate chips added)
Lunch: egg salad with relish
Snack: homemade trail mix featuring cashews
Dinner: caprese salad and cashew pesto
Day Two:
Breakfast: chia seed banana bread with nut butter
Lunch: stir fry with brown rice, carrots, broccoli, snap peas
Snack: baked fried pickles with chia seed breading
Dinner: carrot pasta with creamy zesty garlic sauce
Day Three:
Breakfast:
Lunch: egg salad
Snack: trail mix
Dinner: lima bean and sugar snap pea mint salad
Day Four:
Breakfast:
Lunch: stir fry with carrots, broccoli, and snap peas
Snack: deviled eggs
Dinner: avocado with balsamic vinegar
Day Five:
Breakfast:
Lunch: avocado almond butter sandwich
Snack:
Dinner: salad with artichoke hearts
Day Six:
Breakfast:
Lunch: dijon pork chops and sauteed broccoli
Snack:
Dinner: broccoli cheese soup
Day Seven:
Breakfast:
Lunch:
Snack:
Dinner:
Grocery List:
lettuce
avocado
chia seeds
carrots
broccoli
brown rice
tomato
raw cashews
frozen baby lima beans
chocolate chips
(shallot)
(mint)
tahini
pickles
dog food
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Friday, April 24, 2015
Monday, April 20, 2015
Meals 4/19
On Sunday I had work from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm so I was rushing around in the morning getting my lunch cooked and ready!
I made it though.
For breakfast I made the cranberry walnut breakfast cookies but I substituted chestnuts for the walnuts since chestnuts are the nut of the menstrual phase. I happened to have a bag of pre-roasted chestnuts that my mother-in-law gave me a while ago and I had never opened!
The cookies were pretty yummy. I like the pumpkin ones a little better but these are good. They also don't hold together quite as well as the pumpkin ones.
We did the dijon mustard pork chops with wild rice. I got just a box of wild rice mixed with long grain. I realized later that I could have gotten brown rice and wild rice and mixed them together for my own custom blend. Next time. I cooked the boxed rice in home made chicken broth and added chopped craisins and chestnuts. I ate half of this before I left and then the other half at work a while later.
In the evening I finished up grocery shopping and I decided that I couldn't wait any longer for a food processor. So we tried to go to Goodwill to look for one, but it being Sunday night they were closed. Then I found a Big Lots and got a nice big food processor for $30. (Here's the one I got. It's a tiny bit cheaper on Amazon).
With that I was able to make the black bean avocado brownies that I was so excited about. But they were a huge disappointment. They weren't at all sweet.
Granted, I was low on the brown sugar and didn't put in quite enough but it's hard to believe that little bit could have such a big effect. It tasted like dense refried beans more than brownies. They look so good too! :(
We also had some snack foods for dinner like the buffalo cauliflower and some guacamole with rice crackers.
I made it though.
For breakfast I made the cranberry walnut breakfast cookies but I substituted chestnuts for the walnuts since chestnuts are the nut of the menstrual phase. I happened to have a bag of pre-roasted chestnuts that my mother-in-law gave me a while ago and I had never opened!
The cookies were pretty yummy. I like the pumpkin ones a little better but these are good. They also don't hold together quite as well as the pumpkin ones.
We did the dijon mustard pork chops with wild rice. I got just a box of wild rice mixed with long grain. I realized later that I could have gotten brown rice and wild rice and mixed them together for my own custom blend. Next time. I cooked the boxed rice in home made chicken broth and added chopped craisins and chestnuts. I ate half of this before I left and then the other half at work a while later.
In the evening I finished up grocery shopping and I decided that I couldn't wait any longer for a food processor. So we tried to go to Goodwill to look for one, but it being Sunday night they were closed. Then I found a Big Lots and got a nice big food processor for $30. (Here's the one I got. It's a tiny bit cheaper on Amazon).
With that I was able to make the black bean avocado brownies that I was so excited about. But they were a huge disappointment. They weren't at all sweet.
Granted, I was low on the brown sugar and didn't put in quite enough but it's hard to believe that little bit could have such a big effect. It tasted like dense refried beans more than brownies. They look so good too! :(
We also had some snack foods for dinner like the buffalo cauliflower and some guacamole with rice crackers.
Saturday, April 18, 2015
We Have Blood!
Day 48 and I am officially in the menstruation phase. I may be the only woman trying to conceive who is thrilled about that, but I am.
That is shorter than the 60 to 90 day cycles I have been having (and many of those periods were brought on by outside forces like medication to force me to ovulate so they could check me for PCOS).
It is said that 28-35 is a normal length of cycle. But I'm pretty sure my friend who has two children has a cycle that's usually in the 38-40 day range.
Plus I only started the diet part way through this cycle. I'm pleased that I think I pegged where I was in my cycle pretty accurately based on emotional cues.
I'm not going to go back to taking my temperature quite yet. It stresses me out and makes me frustrated when it isn't what I want to see (it's very low all the time, never seems to rise).
I will see as I continue my diet how long my next cycle is. After a couple of cycles in the realm of normal then I will start taking my temperature and using the ovulation test strips that a friend sent me to see if having a period means that I'm ovulating.
That is shorter than the 60 to 90 day cycles I have been having (and many of those periods were brought on by outside forces like medication to force me to ovulate so they could check me for PCOS).
It is said that 28-35 is a normal length of cycle. But I'm pretty sure my friend who has two children has a cycle that's usually in the 38-40 day range.
Plus I only started the diet part way through this cycle. I'm pleased that I think I pegged where I was in my cycle pretty accurately based on emotional cues.
I'm not going to go back to taking my temperature quite yet. It stresses me out and makes me frustrated when it isn't what I want to see (it's very low all the time, never seems to rise).
I will see as I continue my diet how long my next cycle is. After a couple of cycles in the realm of normal then I will start taking my temperature and using the ovulation test strips that a friend sent me to see if having a period means that I'm ovulating.
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