Week One Meal Breakdown

Monday -

Breakfast - Leftover pork chop sauteed with mushrooms, asparagus and onions in coconut oil and a delicious mug of Stumptown coffee.

Lunch - Salad with smoked turkey breast.

 Dinner - Miss B made a big pot of hearty vegetable soup with carrots, cabbage, mushrooms, onions, celery root, fennel and tomatoes.  She made enough so that she could take it for lunches for the week.  The rest of us omnivores had a grilled petite sirloin steak on the side.

 
Tuesday -

 Breakfast - Pork chop scramble with mushrooms, onions, asparagus and spinach.

  Lunch - Salad with leftover smoked coho salmon ala Dan.



 Dinner - Grass-fed ground beef patty with salad and avocado.



Wednesday-
  On most Wednesdays I do a 24 hour fast.  I don't eat from dinner on Tuesday until dinner on Wednesday. There are a large number of studies on the effects of intermittent fasting as part of a healthy, eating regiment. I'm not going to get into the details here but if you're interested, you can find a great article published in Harper's Magazine earlier this year here.  Also, Mark's Daily Apple has a lot of info about IF.
  That said, I broke my fast Wednesday evening after hula with...

  Dinner - Pan fried chicken liver and onions, a green salad and one of Dan's awesome pickles.





Thursday - 
  Breakfast - Leftover chicken liver and onions and steamed asparagus.
  Lunch - Salad with pan seared sirloin.
  Dinner - Cobb salad (sans blue cheese).

Friday - 
  Breakfast - I was feeling rushed and lazy so I stopped by New Season's on my way into the office and grabbed a scoop of scrambled eggs, a couple of their natural breakfast sausage links and a serving of steamed spring vegetables with lemon-infused olive oil.

Lunch - Salad with leftover hard-boiled egg and chicken from dinner on Thursday.


Dinner - Dan cooked a turkey breast in his smoker and we had broiled asparagus, pureed cauliflower and watermelon on the side!  OMG!  Super delicious!  I was sneaking bits of turkey out of the fridge all night.



Saturday - 
   Breakfast - Saturday morning is boot camp!  I grabbed a quick handful of almonds on my way out the door.  My post-workout recovery meals this week consisted of mashed, steamed sweet potatoes with cinnamon and orange peel and a good chunk of protein.  Monday and Tuesday that protein was leftover grilled salmon.  Thursday the protein was a can of albacore tuna and Saturday morning it was leftover smoked turkey breast.


  Lunch - Mr. M had his last soccer game of the season on Saturday so we also had the end-of-season pizza party.  Obviously, I didn't have pizza but there was a sad little salad bar.  I filled up a plate with lettuce and veggies, popped a few hard-boiled eggs on it and topped it off with Tabasco Buffalo Sauce (Dan's idea after I pointed out that there was not a Whole30 salad dressing option and the cashier looked at me like I was an alien for asking her if she had any olive oil and vinegar.  I remind you, this was in a pizza parlor...)  The salad held me over until we got to our friend's house for their daughters' birthday party where I was happily able to graze on fresh fruit and veggies until she served me up a lovely chunk of steak!

  Dinner - It was pretty late once we left the party, did our weekly shopping and got back home so I threw together quick chipotle beef tostada fixin's for the fam.