Yummy

I wanted to post about my latest food journey because it's been so amazingly delicious!!!

Of course my brilliant mom got the idea to do whole 30 and told me about it. And then bought me the books, and I was dragging my feet about doing it with her. Actually she was dragging me along kicking and screaming as usual because I didn't want to give up my gluten free donuts!  Yes, that's a real thing, and they're delicious.

The whole idea of this whole 30 is sugar free, dairy free, grain free. Which I have known for awhile that I need to try. But darn it I love coffee with creamy half and half and a bowl of lucky charms every day, I mean, on occasion. Oh and did I mention no alcohol either. 

So now I can enjoy some kumquats and bean sprouts and learn to stop eating my feelings!! Sounds like fun right???  

The one saving grace of this program was the cooking is fun. Jeremy and I LOVE to cook. And the  recipes are actually interesting, different, and pretty simple, and as an added bonus, they taste good!!  All except the BBQ ribs that went horribly wrong somewhere along the way and ended up tasting like baby vomit. Everything else has been grand!  I am going to post a few of the ones we have tried because who doesn't love staring at other people's food?! Right?!

Many different forms of coffee with dairy free milk.  This one was an almond milk creamer, no sugar, not awesome, but I gotta start somewhere...  

Cobb salad with homemade ranch dressing.

Watermelon salad...I was nervous to try it but its amazing. Lime juice, red onion, cilantro, salt, pepper...yum! 

Grilled pork chops, dairy free mashed potatoes--I had never made mashers without a stick of butter and a ton of milk!! SO my portions are a bit over zealous on the potatoes but give me a break I'm living off of celery and tears these days!! Just kidding, not really.  

 Coconut milk creamer this time, getting closer.  I like adding spices like nutmeg and cinnamon and full fat coconut cream isn't too shabby in the morning latte either.  Ignore the piles of laundry in the background this is real life people!

Sweet potato stacks for breakfast with bacon and poached eggs and a fruit salad the kids made.  Loved the fruit but sweet potatoes instead of toast didn't quite cut it for me.

Leftover pork chops sliced up to make lettuce wraps the next day. Yum












Ellie was begging me to make sweet potato soup for breakfast.  When we added blueberries and cinnamon it was surprisingly tasty.













Greek Salad--total yum!  Ellie and I could have polished off the whole bowl!