Whole30, Day 5, Saturday 1/6/2017
What is this post about? Day 5 of 30 days of clean eating, spanning roughly the month of January. Our goal, to determine if body aches are linked to my diet by getting the usual suspects off my plate and out of my glass for a while: sugar, alcohol, legumes, dairy, carrageenan, MSG or sulfites, and grains or baked goods.
I am behind. I intended to post once a day for the duration of my 30 days on the Whole30. Life intervened and now I am playing catch-up (mmmmm ketchup). So, I shall do a couple of short posts to get caught up.
Day 5 was my first Saturday and at least this time I managed to stay on track with the eating plan, even on a weekend day.
In the evening my daughter made cookies. With delicious homemade cookies coming out of the oven featuring several things that are currently banned from my feedbag, including wheat flour, sugar and butter, I was still able to hold firm. This is a good thing, but I missed the bonding that occurs over a nice hot batch of cookies. My daughter’s pride in making something yummy everyone in the house wants to share, the opportunity to accept this gift from her, the glass of milk, the Hallmark Card moment. I just can’t see having that kind of bonding over a plate of kale chips or even sliced strawberries. It felt like a loss. As bad as I think white flour and sugar and most of the contents of a standard cookie are for me, it felt like a loss.
What I ate Saturday 1/6/2017
Breakfast: Almond milk, eggs, coffee
Lunch: Green beans, corn, homemade marinara (no sugar)
Dinner: Cauliflower rice, almond milk, butternut squash soup, broiled tilapia
Snack: Almond milk, mixed nuts (no peanuts) bananas and berries
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id love to hear your views about eating cold spinach out of the packet. I have heard people say its not beneficial as the body dosnt take in all the nutrients however others swear by it. Any thoughts?
good luck with your diet, great inspiration to others.
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Interesting question about the spinach. I too have heard that not all the nutrients in spinach are available when you eat the leaves raw. I have also heard this can be helped with citrus, that by combining oranges say or other vitamin C rich foods with raw spinach you get more of the benefits of both.
I hate to weigh in on either point because I am neither a nutritionist nor scientist. And like a lot of other people, I get a little desensitized by all the information that we get about food and nutrition. I'd like to think our bodies do a pretty good job of telling us what is good for us. I hope that is true. But then I try to remember whether I felt any different about eggs when the official word came down that they were off the naughty list and on the nice list again. Did I always know the lovely egg for what it is, one of nature's most perfect foods? Hmm not sure. I only remember feeling happy and relieved when that happened.
I did just have raw spinach today with blueberries and carrots and balsamic vinegar, and loved it, mostly for the way it tasted though.
Thanks for reading and responding.
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What is cauliflower rice? I’m assuming you somehow make a rice like dish out of cauliflower. I’m also assuming I can google it but I’d rather hear how you make it.
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