Whole30 – Still Going Strong

Day 12 is complete!  Here’s what we were up to (food-wise) this week:

Breakfasts – mostly eggs, but we did add some potatoes to one over the weekend, and I also made homemade turkey sausage this weekend – super cheap and definitely something I’ll continue to do beyond these 30 days!

Breakfast for lunch with some homemade turkey sausage

Lunches – mostly leftovers.

Snacks – bananas, almonds, pistacchios, Trader Joe’s ‘Just Mango’, lara bars (they have a list of approved ones here), apples with almond butter, and Matt made some beef jerky this past weekend and these delicious energy bars so that was a treat!

The energy bars! yummmm

Dinners:

Tortilla-less, cheese-less, ‘Rita-less Fajitas – Not as torturous as I thought it was going to be.  We still grilled up our steak and chicken and veggies like we normally would, topped it with some fresh pico de gallo I made with leftover veggies, and it was delicious!  We shared this meal with some good friends on the night before the 4th, I think this made it even better 🙂

Steak and Roasted Potatoes with grilled asparagus – no recipe needed here, we just grilled some steak, tossed some potatoes with olive oil and rosemary andpopped those in the over, and then grilled seasoned asparagus.  We needed to have an extra good dinner this night (the 4th) because we ate before going to a friend’s place where everyone else would be eating pizza and cookie cake, which also went a lot better than I expected.

Paleo Sweet Potato Chili with a salad – we made this for small group on Tuesday and it was a hit with everyone.  Used some of the chili powder from our Penzy’s trip last weekend, and it came out great.  The recipe makes A LOT.  It filled out dutch oven to the top (as you can see in the photo.

Spicy Shrimp Paleo Spaghetti Noodles – these were delicious, found the recipe from last week’s poster on the whole30 recipes instagram.

(Modified) Spaghetti Squash Boats with Spinach and (homemade, compliant) pesto – we’ve made the non-whole30 version of these before (and check out that link for other varieties!).  The whole30 version turned out to be just as delicious.

Grilled Chicken with misc stuff we had laying around.  I went to a movie in the park with a friend on Friday so there was limited dinner time and snacks were needed so I’d avoid the popcorn that was there! (also, not bringing my wallet helped)

We’re headed to Syracuse this weekend and have some family BBQs – our second real test in all this (the first being the previously mentioned pizza and cookie cake on the 4th of July).  We’re headed there with homemade speidie sauce (recipe to come later), so hopefully that on our chicken and the fruit and veggies will be enough to help us resist the rest of the deliciousness we come into contact with!