Winner, Winner, I made a yummy Dinner!
January 12, 2012
We had Moroccan Meatballs, a recipe from ’Well Fed’, a cookbook of Paleo Recipes for People Who Love to Eat (http://www.theclothesmakethegirl.com/wellfed/) by Melissa Joulwan. No photos of the dish (it was a pretty one!) which I completely intended to do but Baby Girl had a different idea. The guys ate (Daddy O had a buddy over to watch NBA) while I tended to her. By the time I came down, my plate was cold and Daddy O had already packed up the leftovers. Good man I’ve got, by the way…just sayin’. 
Anyways, here it is: my honest-to-goodness menu from the past two days.
Menu for the past two days:
Tuesday
B: 1 mango jalapeno sausage (then to the grocery store to stock up)
Snack: 2 eggs cooked in coconut oil
L: Small bowl of leftover “chili”
Snacks: pieces of Baby Girl’s meals (throughout the day) banana, roasted sweet potato, clementine wedges, handful sunflower seeds
D: roughly 5oz grassfed sirloin, grilled with spices, coconut oil sauteed brussel sprouts w/ garlic
SS: 3/4 baked apple and raisins w/ cinnamon and coconut oil (I decided to save the last quarter for another night)
Wednesday
B: 2pc bacon, 2 eggs, 2 cups black coffee
Snack: 1 date, handfull roasted and salted almonds and sunflower seeds
L: Burger patty w/ 1.5pc bacon, saut mushrooms and garlic, sliced tomato, 1/2 clementine
Post Run Snack: small banana, small handful of coconut flakes
D: Moroccan Meatballs w/ Cauliflower “rice” (3 or 4 meatballs w/ a healthy scoop of sauce and onions, and 5 steamed cauliflower florets microwave-steamed w/ coconut oil, lemon juice, garlic and salt. Also, I threw in a small handful of raisins into my sauce. Definitely a nice little sweet touch to the savory sauce.)
It’s strange how, as the day goes on, you don’t feel like you’ve eaten too much, but once it’s on paper (or the web as it were) it seems like so much more. I’m not one for counting calories on the regular, but I feel like today’s meal would come in pretty high. I guess I’ll never know unless I plug it in. Every once in awhile, though, I get super motivated and track everything through fitday.com, but it’s so much time and effort to keep track of it all. I guess the meatballs and sauce with cauliflower were just so rich it makes me feel guilty – like I’ve somehow cheated. Maybe that’s a sign of a good meal? Who knows… I definitely won’t be having a Sanity Snack tonight (aka sweet treat).
A big thing happened for me today: I actually committed to and started training for my first 5k run! This is huge for me. I’ve always wanted to do a Run but haven’t had the courage before now. I can remember the last time I ran on purpose for fitness: Crossfit WOD March 2010! That was only 22 months ago…and I’m certain it was less than a mile, and not consecutive. Well, tonight I mustered up the willpower to start training. I bundled up and broke in my new LuLu pants as I ran aimlessly through our neighborhood. I had one plan, actually, run until my lungs hurt. My legs were actually good to go, but it was my lungs that did me in. I’m betting the cold temps didn’t help my situation. I set my phone to a tracking app and took off. Turns out I ran for exactly 10 minutes and covered 1.17 miles! I can confidently say I have never ever in my life run that far in one outing. That’s both exciting and a little sad. I’m surprised and excited to have 1.17 miles as my starting off point. It gives me hope that getting up to 5k won’t be as difficult as I had originally thought. You can definitely expect to hear about my journey up to running 5k. Who knows where I’ll go from there!
Well, I’m hoping to get a little light yoga in tonight before bed (Daddy O actually jumped in with me last night!).
Til’ next time!
Peace out, cub scout…
