Saturday, January 3, 2015

day 3: lunch dinner, flank steak salad and pesto beef and olives.

So the breakfast was pretty good. Felt pretty good for about 4 hours. Came home and made lunch. Cut up lettuce, red bell peppers and carrots. Grilled a flank steak and let it rest.
Dressing for salad balsamic vinegar, lemon juice, seasme oil and olive oil.

So tasty! Husband said "I can't believe this is diet food!"

We felt good for about another 4 hours.

Made dinner.
Used spaghetti squash for the first time. Very time consuming to make. Made pesto sauce with organic basil, pine nuts, lemon juce, garlic and olive oil.

Combine ground turkey and onions and sauteed.

Forked out the spaghetti squash. It taste really different than I  expected. I'm not sure why everyone says it taste just like pasta. Maybe I didn't roast it long enough. Roasted it for 40 minutes.

Combine all ingredients and top with kalamata olives. This is the first dish I did not enjoy. Either I don't like the pesto sauce, or I dont like spaghetti squash. Either way I did not finish my plate. I don't feel hungry though and I just came home and ate an orange.

Complications: paleo has cost us a lot of money. It could be trying to buy everything organic. It could be buying all foods at trader joes. Or it could be all the meat.

So far just this week alone we have spend over 130 dollars. There is only 2 of us. We arent eating out and I have been cooking everything right. Tomorrow we go back to the store and will try a different approach.

First we will go to winco and bring next weeks list.  I'll have to try to get more creative. May even look at going to costco. In reality though if we end ip spending more thrn 240 a month for 2 people, I just don't see us keeping up with this book. You made find me tweaking some reciepes. We aren't going to stop paleo but may have to try something different.

1 comment:

  1. Not sure if my first comment went through... But it's too bad you didn't like the Spaghetti Squash! It definitely doesn't taste like spaghetti, or even have the texture... but it does act similarly as a vehicle for your favorite seasoning and goodies! It's definitely a favorite in our house, I would give it another try!

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