So not too long ago, one of my fave podcasts (which I’m listening to even MORE now) did a “what we ate” roundup. (Episode 72 of The Mom Hour.) We’re not talking the perfect meal plan. We’re talking about how it actually went down.
Because I’ve been texting pics to my whole30 buddy, I’ve got PLENTY of evidence of how it actually went down. The good, the bad, and the ugly. (And I was too lazy to edit these photos so all of them are pretty ugly. Apologies.)
If you’re catching up, these are my goals for this whole30. And this is what I actually ate for week 1:
Breakfasts
Breakfast “hash” with sweet potato, arugula, roast chicken, walnuts, cinnamon, olive oil, salt, and pepper topped with a poached egg
Mushroom omelette eaten with a couple bites of pear
Fried eggs with leftover carrots
Fried eggs, leftover Brussels sprouts, avocado
Egg scramble with bacon and spinach, banana with Sunbutter
Sweet breakfast salad with sausage
Lunches
Meat muffins with mayo and Casablanca carrots
Salad with salsa vinaigrette
Sweet salad with chicken, greens, broccoli, pears, walnuts, and balsamic vinaigrette. And that’s not tea, it’s a cup of broth.
Lunch date! Steak with greens, roasted red peppers, artichoke
Rando leftovers salad (this was not great) with chicken, cucumbers, mushrooms, and who knows what.
Meat muffins soaked with mayo fail “sauce”
Family adventure in Viterbo. Steak topped with truffle and lard, mountain of wilted greens
Dinners
Pulled pork with homemade sauce, cucumber salad, and white sweet potatoes
[Day 2: Apparently I was struggling with my caffeine withdrawal headache that I forgot to take a picture of this. No clue.]
Stuffed pepper with roasted Brussels sprouts
I cooked a whole fish! (I mostly followed this method. Very pleased.) Eaten with mashed sweet potatoes and steamed broccoli that was topped with mayo fail “sauce”
Date night! Steak and veggies.
Sweet potato topped with Sunbutter, cup of collagen, and coconut cream
Notes:
I tried to credit any recipes I used, but know that I don’t follow recipes exactly. In part, because I refuse to measure. Like anything. This is why I can’t bake.
This isn’t always pictured, but I had Fish Oil most mornings and Collagen dissolved in hot water most evenings. Fish oil is unless I forget. Collagen is if I feel like it.
For beverages, I had plenty of herbal tea. Plenty of water and sparkling water. I may have done some decaf coffee, but I tried to put some distance between coffee and myself–even decaf–in the early days. On this whole30, I’ve had some bulletproof, but definitely not every day anymore.
Snacks aren’t listed because I really don’t snack. I may have a few nuts while cooking dinner if I’m putting nuts on something. One day I had a clementine and some nuts at the zoo for a pre-lunch snack because I horribly misjudged how long we would be out. (I think my “real” lunch was at 3:30 that day.) But in general, no afternoon snacks. Nothing after dinner other than the pictured coconut cream.
So there you go. It’s not sexy. But it gets ‘er dun.
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