Sunday, August 11, 2013

Week 1 Paleo

As I made out the grocery list and shopped for our first week of paleo, I realized something exciting....everything I bought and put in our cart (with the exception of the cashews and almonds which were salted) had only 1 ingredient...meaning everything I bought was a WHOLE food.
That was a good feeling.

 

 
Monday
 
 
Breakfast
Walnuts
Cherries
Coffee (black)
 
Lunch
Garden Salad
Mixed Nuts with dried fruits
Apple
 
Dinner
Steak (quality grass-fed New York strips)
Green Beans (straight from a friend's garden and steamed)Strawberries





I used the skirt steak marinade off of the blog, Mark's Daily Apple



 

Tuesday


 
 
Tuna Salad ingredients
Breakfast
Hardboiled Egg
Blackberries
Coffee (black)
 
Lunch
Tuna Salad
Mixed Veggies
Mixed Nuts and Dried Fruit
 
Dinner
Lemon Basil Cod
Sautéed Zucchini and Squash
Cherries



Before
After


 
 
Wednesday

 
 
Egg Salad Ingredients
Breakfast
Pecans 
Cherries
Coffee (black)
 
Lunch
Egg Salad
Mixed Veggies
Peach
 
Dinner
Strawberry Chicken Salad
Green Beans


Strawberry Chicken Salad

 
 
 
Thursday
 
 
Breakfast
Strawberries 
Avocados
 
Lunch
Garden Salad
Mixed Nuts with dried fruits
Blackberries
 
Dinner
 Salmon
Baked Sweet Potato
Spinach and Strawberry Salad
 
 


Friday
 
 
Brunch
Scrambled Eggs with Onions,
Spinach, and Avocado
Strawberries
Pears
Veggie Juice (homemade)
Coffee (black)
 
Dinner
Steamed Shrimp and Crabs
Sautéed Veggies




 
The Weekend
 
The weekend was challenging because Katy and I spent the weekend at Virginia Beach volunteering with the organization "Life Rolls On" at their "They Will Surf Again" event in which volunteers help people with physical disabilities surf. It was an amazing event, and so we cheated some during the weekend, but we did our best and I was proud of our efforts. For breakfast they offered doughnuts and bagels, but we brought a pear and banana and so ate those instead. Lunch and dinner we cheated out of necessity. On Sunday we had eggs and fruit for breakfast at a local restaurant and for lunch stopped on our way home at a grocery store to have a salad. For dinner we picked up some shrimp and we made a salad.
 

 
Thoughts
 
We made it through the week with only eating desert once, and that was during our weekend at the beach. For every night that we were at home we staid true to the diet, and we did our best while eating out. Every recipe we cooked was from the cookbook 500 Paleo Recipes. We made mayo, salad dressings, tuna salad, and egg salad all from scratch. It was a good first week of Paleo and definitely made evident what some of the challenges will be (eating out) and what some of the rewards will be (cooking everything with whole ingredients).
 
 
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2 comments:

  1. LizAugust 19, 2013 at 10:04 AM

    Thanks for sharing, Eli! I love that this diet involves cooking from whole foods, that's a perk I hadn't thought of. For me, the no dessert would be a big challenge! I look forward to hearing more!

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  2. Eli and KatyAugust 19, 2013 at 11:00 AM

    Thanks so much for reading, Liz! You can do desert, it just a huge challenge with the main rules of the diet being no dairy, no legumes, and no grains. Some people on this diet love their dark chocolate, but it has to be the real deal. Katy and I used our fruit as our "desert" some nights...sweet NC peaches one night and some cherries another. We've found recipes for baked pears with a little honey and cinnamon, we tried some fried apples during our week 2...they were fried with a little olive oil and then sprinkled with a little cinnamon. Anyways, thanks for reading and commenting!

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