Hi all, here’s Real Food Challenge, Week 4. I did pretty well minus the white pasta on Saturday and the molasses bread on Sunday. The bread was homemade, but contained a lot of white flour and brown sugar.
Saturday
Breakfast
Yogurt “parfait:” 2% plain greek yogurt topped with sliced banana, almonds, unsweetened coconut, and all-natural granola (I’ve been eating the same thing for weeks, but I just love this parfait and it keeps me full for a long time)
Coffee with a splash of milk and 1/2 teaspoon sugar
Lunch
Chicken breast and avocado on half a whole wheat pita with a side of roasted peppers, carrots, tomatoes, and butternut squash
Post Work-out
Smoothie with spinach, mixed berries, 1/2 banana, and agave syrup
Dinner
Ordered in: Penne with sausage, broccoli rabe, olive oil, and garlic
Peach Seltzer
Cup of peppermint tea
Sunday
Breakfast
2 scrambled eggs, blueberries, and a slice of spiced molasses bread (post to follow)
Coffee with a splash of milk and 1/2 teaspoon sugar
Lunch
Smoothie with greek yogurt, mixed berries, and 1/2 banana (loving this – Logan is making yogurt as we speak so I foresee a number of smoothies in my future)
Dinner
Ordered in from Josie’s: Chicken breast with sautéed vegetables over brown rice
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I did P90X Legs and Back on Saturday and P90X Yoga on Sunday (the full 90 minutes – yes!). I’m looking forward to some less frigid weather so I can run outside again.
I hope you had a great weekend and stayed nice and warm.
This all looks and sounds fantastic! Except, I would check what kind of oils they are sautéeing your veggies with (avoid veg oils as they contain polyunsaturated fat, etc) and I would avoid cooking with olive oil. What sort of fat/oil do you cook your scrambled eggs with?
Uh, I never thought to ask! I hope it wasn’t soybean oil – my nemesis.
I use butter for scrambling eggs. I don’t do a lot of high heat cooking so I use olive oil for quick sautés; if roasting vegetables, I use canola or light olive oil. And I bake with butter, canola oil, or coconut oil. Since I eat salads pretty regularly, I was thinking of getting walnut oil or flaxseed oil as a drizzling oil to bump up my Omega 3s.
By the way, I’m following the French involvement in Mali pretty closely because Mali is one of the countries where the public health program I work on is run. Just curious about the general consensus in France re. what’s happening.
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