I started off my morning with my supplements (which I actually took all of yesterday), and then had a Triple Chocolate, Double Peanut Butter Smoothie with a handful of Naked Bear Chocolate Hazelnut Granola. That stuff is good. It has sweetener, so I technically shouldn't be having it in this phase, but is cane sugar so at least there's that. Also, I didn't have very much.
In any case, this is my go-to peanut butter smoothie. All my boys like it. Kailea won't even try it, but the rest of us think it's delicious. As good as any milkshake I've ever had. I didn't take a picture because...well...it's a brown drink. Use your imagination and sprinkle joy on top of it.
3Chocolate 2Peanut Smoothie
¾ cup nut milk (add ice, more nut milk, or both to increase volume and thickness)
frozen banana
Serving chocolate
protein powder (I did half Owyn and half Sunwarrior again)
1T peanut
butter
1T powdered PB
½ T raw cacao
½ T raw cacao nibs
1 scoop of Naked PB Choco
2 cups spinach
I had a business lunch, so I didn't have the leftovers I was planning. I went to a delicious restaurant in Orem called Oteo. I shared a kale salad
I had two of these little beauties...plantain with almond butter and some crack, I think....
And the Avocado Sope meal. It had pureed black beans, radishes, cabbage, you can see what's there. There was a little cheese of some sort on it, but it was oh so good. I ate one of them and brought the other home.
I am not supposed to snack on this plan, but I did have a few bites of granola and some grapes, as well as a couple of pecan halves before I had my dinner. I took my dinner from Dr. Fuhrman's Recipes on his website. This was called Chopped Nutty Fruit & Veggie Salad
It was really quite good. I thought I would be fancy and put it in a wrap. I used one that was a high protein with flax seed whole wheat wrap. But as much as I want to pretend like it isn't the case, the only kind of wheat that doesn't bother me seems to be Sprouted Wheat. And it doesn't bother my stomach, it hurts my chest while I am eating it. I can't really explain it, but it has happened often enough that I shouldn't pretend it isn't real any more. I am going to be experimenting with Einkorn wheat because I really think that all the genetic modification has made our modern wheat problematic.
So I ended up just putting a bunch of the salad on a plate and eating it. It was a little tangy so I added a few drizzles of balsamic vinegar, quite a bit more vegetables so that the fruit/veggie ratio was considerably higher, a few raisins, and a few extra nuts. I adjusted the recipe to reflect what I did.
CHOPPED NUTTY FRUIT AND VEGGIE SALAD
1 small
tart apple, quartered
1 small
orange, peeled and seeded
1 lemon,
peeled and seeded
romaine lettuce (about 4 cups chopped)
spinach (about 3 cup chopped)
green cabbage (about 4 cups chopped)
broccoli (about 3 cup florets )
1 ounce
carrots (about 2 carrots)
drizzle of chocolate balsamic vinegar
2 T raisins
2 ounces
walnuts
Put the
apple, orange and lemon in the bottom of a 14 cup food processor with an S
blade.
Chop all the veggies an eat-able bite size, stir together with the fruits, riains, and walnuts. And eat.
You may think that was it, but you would be wrong! Yesterday was Legs & Back day at the gym. I have found it remarkable what a difference having a protein "shake" with some lutein and glutamine in it makes in not getting sore. So when I got home from the gym, I made my "Chocolate Cherry Ice Cream." Again, I didn't take a picture. For Christmas I want an ice cream maker that does the churning work for you with a motor on your counter in about half an hour and then it will be even better! But even Gene had to admit that this was very yummy.
Post Workout Chocolate Cherry "Ice Cream"
3/4 cup sweet frozen cherries
3-4 ice cubes
3/4 cup nut milk
1/2 T cocoa nibs
1/2 T cacao
1 serving chocolate protein powder (I used Owyn Dark Chocolate)
1 tsp almond extract
1/2 tsp glutamine
1 scoop lutein
Blend it all in a blender and eat with a spoon. Adjust to ice/cherries and milk amounts to make it thicker or thinner depending on how you like it.
We snuggled up and watched Call the Midwife together while we ate our "ice cream," and one of our favorite characters...well I won't spoil it! But suffice it to say that I was crying into mine. Sniff. Sniff.
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