Week One, Day One. How Ominous Does That Sound?

I made an absolute TON of food yesterday (Sunday). It turns out, if you aren't eating animal proteins, you have to (get to) eat scads of food! Just because I'm eating differently doesn't mean I'm suspending my "get it all ready while Sam naps on Sunday so I can enjoy the rest of the week without scrambling to make dinner" habits. Since my plan is to eat the same things for the first couple weeks since there's so much variety, I went ahead and made a couple weeks worth of most of the sauces, veggie dishes, and bean dishes. I also made extra because the veggie dishes sounded so good I thought they could be the sides for the boys, who do not want to give up their meat! Couple that with the chicken spaghetti, taco fixings, and pork chops I made for Sam (Jeff's out of town for work) and my fridge is PACKED. I honestly do not think I could fit anything else in there! I don't think I'll miss the meat much. When it's hot, I don't eat much meat anyway. We'll find out next Sunday when I haven't had animal protein in a week and I'm making the boys food for the week.

 

Right, on to day one.

 

Breakfast was about half a cantaloupe, strawberries, blueberries and an orange sprinkled with ground flax seed. Flax seeds are full of Omega-3 fatty acids which are great for lowering elevated triglyceride levels! And, bonus, they added a nice texture. I didn't take a picture because if you don't know what cantaloupe, strawberries, blueberries and oranges look like, you might not be ready to eat a fruit heavy diet :).

 

Lunch was a GIANT (as in, I couldn't fit it all on the plate) baby kale, chard, and spinach salad with 1 1/2 cups black beans and balsamic vinegar and a whole wheat pita with tahini spread, roasted red onion and portabello mushroom, fire roasted red peppers, and arugula. Get the recipe HERE. I don't think I got the tahini spread mixed up good enough because there were big chucks of tahini remaining which tastes a little bitter without the accompaniment of the other ingredients. Otherwise yummmm!

 

Dr. Fuhrman's Red Pepper Portobello Pita

 

Here's what was left (not including the cup of baby kale, chard and spinach mix that's in my work fridge). Honestly, I just can't, I'm too full!

 

 

Dinner was another mixed green salad (I used the same mix from lunch) with red peppers and tofu/dill/lemon juice, Golden Austrian Cauliflower Cream Soup, and strawberries sprinkled with cocoa powder. The lemon juice on the salad was a breeze because this was already my favorite "dressing" and the tofu and dill with it were a nice combo. The soup was a touch sweet for my taste, likely due to the ground cashew in it but it was not bad. 

 

 

I didn't get all of the peppers or hardly any of the strawberries with cocoa. My little food thief thought it was all too yummy. He even ate about a third of my soup. And this was all in addition to his own dinner!!! Observe......

 

 

 With the amount of food this boy is packing in, he may be 7 feet tall by next week.

 

Day one a success. The food is delicious if a little focused on the sweet side, I felt good and full all day and my little guy likes it all too. So far, I just, plain miss salt. Keeping my fingers crossed the craving is short lived. It IS interesting to taste food, really taste it without all of the salt. I'm excited for what this journey holds yet.