Eating Healthy: Meal Plans for the week of July 3rd

Last week’s experiments with Paleo shepherd’s pie was a complete success, while the Paleo clam chowder was painfully lame. This week, the chowder gets spruced up with far more seafood and better seasoning, while the shepherd’s pie becomes cowboy pie and gets a final bit of tweaking before I share the recipe.

So, anyway, here’s what we’re eating this week:

Sunday:

• Breakfast: OJ (not from concentrate, no sugar added), mushroom omelet.
• Lunch: Nitrate-free bacon, avocado, hard-boiled eggs.
• Snack: Bowl of bananas, almonds, and dried apricots, with a sprinkle of gluten-free, dairy-free chocolate chips.
• Dinner: Chilled shrimp, mussels, broccoli, sweet potato fries.
• Dessert: Peach slices.

Monday:

• Breakfast: OJ (not from concentrate, no sugar added), chicken mixed with homemade mayonnaise heaped into a split hard-boiled egg, apple.
• Lunch: Green beans and diced kohlrabi with smoked pork loin.
• Snack: Bowl of raspberries, almonds, currants, and a sprinkle of gluten-free, dairy-free chocolate chips.
• Dinner: Seafood chowder made with frozen mixed seafood, coconut milk, chicken broth and fat, rendered salt pork and cracklings, celery, diced kohlrabi, onion and cilantro.
• Dessert: Banana.

Tuesday:

• Breakfast: OJ (not from concentrate, no sugar added), chicken mixed with homemade mayonnaise heaped into a split avocado, blackberries.
• Lunch: Leftover seafood chowder.
• Snack: Bowl of bananas, almonds, and dried apricots, with a sprinkle of gluten-free, dairy-free chocolate chips.
• Dinner: Roast duck, kale, snow peas.
• Dessert: Apple.

Wednesday:

• Breakfast: OJ (not from concentrate, no sugar added), chicken mixed with homemade mayonnaise heaped into a split avocado, apple.
• Lunch: Leftover roast duck, steamed carrots.
• Snack: Bowl of sliced bananas, almonds and currants, with a sprinkle of gluten-free, dairy-free chocolate chips.
• Dinner: “Cowboy” pie (a shepherd’s pie derivative) made with seasoned ground beef and mixed vegetables, topped with mashed cauliflower.
• Dessert: Blackberries.

Thursday:

• Breakfast: OJ (not from concentrate, no sugar added), chicken mixed with homemade mayonnaise in a split, roasted zucchini,  banana.
• Lunch: Leftover green beans with diced kohlrabi, and smoked pork loin.
• Snack: Bowl of raspberries, almonds and dried apricots, with a sprinkle of gluten-free, dairy-free chocolate chips.
• Dinner: Rabbit, zucchini, mushrooms, and diced carrots with coconut curry sauce.
• Dessert: Apple.

Friday:

• Breakfast: OJ (not from concentrate, no sugar added), chicken mixed with homemade mayonnaise heaped into a split avocado, apple.
• Lunch: Omelet with kale and onion.
• Snack: Bowl of raspberries, almonds, and currants, with a sprinkle of gluten-free, dairy-free chocolate chips.
• Dinner: Leftover cowboy pie.
• Dessert: Banana.

Saturday:

• Breakfast: OJ (not from concentrate, no sugar added), nitrate-free bacon, sauteed zucchini slices.
• Lunch: Leftover rabbit curry.
• Snack: Almonds.
• Dinner/Dessert: Dinner at a restaurant. This week was an indulgence– we had pizza from Shakespeare’s (a Columbia institution). This is one forbidden food that hasn’t lost a single iota of its appeal; possibly because Shakespeare’s uses really high-quality ingredients in their pizzas. Nonetheless, I was pretty miserable the following day, from a digestive standpoint. Still worth it, though.

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