Thursday, July 9, 2015

AIP Journey Day 1 (a tale of fail)

I'm going to admit. I caved. I failed. I just did NOT plan enough ahead of time to make this happen. So here I am, July 9th and I have succeeded! Today's food consisted of:

Sage and Garlic Spiced Turkey Meatballs
Banana
Spinach and Beet Salad
Curried Chicken and Vegetable Soup
Carrots (of the baby variety!)
Creamy Sausage and Green Soup
Apple

The biggest factor in this for me is: how quickly can I prepare food and keep the natives from getting restless? It is only me on this journey, for I am the one that is ill. However, when you do this kind of thing, well, the family kinda gets roped in ;) Poor little humans!

We get our CSA on Wednesday, do the final grocery shop of the week on Thursday, and I chop and prep everything we get as I find the time/energy to do so. It is the end of the day and I am particularly tired today after all of our running around, so tonight, I sit. Tomorrow night, I hope to do more prepping, but it's realistic to say that I will prep more Saturday.

I have found that soups are the easiest to prep. Throw stuff in a pot, voila! FOOD. With that, my normal people family can add in their chosen starch and I can eat my food unscathed. I'm determined to make it one week. ONE. Short goals, baby steps.

The meal plan for the week looks like this:

Dinners:
Magic Chili
Creamy Chicken Soup
Pork Chops with a salad, "cole slaw", snow peas (for the fam) and roasted sweet potatoes with "mayo" from "The Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook"
Hearty Vegetable Soup
Moroccan Lamb Stew -- I'll be subbing in ground beef. I can't get my hands on lamb right now.
Breakfast Dinner

  • Banana Pancakes
  • Bacon
  • Salad (the kids and hubby will have eggs)
  • Some random veggie -- I can always find them this time of year!
Picnic Dinner 
  • Burgers
  • Cauliflower Fried Rice (normal rice for the kiddos)
  • Some other random veggie ;) 


Lunch:
Classic Tuna Salad from "The Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook"
Leftovers

Snacks: 
Fruits, cut veggies, salads
Lemon-Raspberry Gummies
Cherry-Ginger Gummies
Smoothies to be determined

That's my plan. Let's hope it works out and I don't starve!



















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