So, let’s get started with this whole healthy living thing. We’re taking it one day at a time, and I will offer suggestions on each meal for 7 days.
If we balance out each meal with plenty of fibre from our veggies, a portion of healthy fat from an avocado, olives, or coconut milk or something, most of us will not need snacks. If you do need a snack, go for something that has protein and/or fat to make sure it keeps you going. Fruit will spike your blood sugar and only tide you over for a little while before you start going hungry again.
So let’s get started.
Saturday
This is usually my grocery day. Breakfast consists of whatever is in the pantry at the time. Eggs is a pretty safe bet.
Breakfast: Omelet with salt cured bacon and any type of veggies with bulletproof coffee
This is pretty much meant to use up leftover assorted veggies, without spending too much energy on it.
Lunch: Salad with lots of greens, smoked salmon, and homemade mayo
Dinner: Nom Nom Paleo’s Big-O Bacon Burgers
Sunday
This is often my prep day. Sunday afternoons are reserved for preparing food for the week so mornings and portable lunches take up less time on my bus weekday mornings.
Sunday morning breakfast can be a bit more decadent. No? Of course. ;-) Nom Nom Paleo’s Bacon Pancake Sandwiches
Lunch: Zoodles Alla Puttanesca
Dinner: Pan fried chicken fillet with spinach stoemp: stoemp is a typical Belgian/Dutch dish. It’s basically mashed up potatoes and veggies. Boil an extra portion of potatoes for German Potato Salad for a portable lunch during the week. When the potatoes are done, you add chopped up spinach leaves to the potatoes when they’re done, and mash the whole thing.
Prep: Use your extra potatoes for the potato salad listed above. Other things I always prep are hard-boiled eggs, and a bowl of chopped up veggies to toss in a pan for a quick breakfast omelet, and frittata muffins for another portable lunch.
Monday
Breakfast: Apple And Onion Hash
Lunch: Frittata muffins
Dinner: Paleo Chili Con Carne with cauliflower rice. Cauli rice can be storebought at ridiculous prices. You can also make it yourself, basically by tossing cauli florets into a blender and grinding it until you have little rice-sized bits. Sautée and serve as a side with your chili.
Tuesday
Breakfast: Bacon mushroom omelet with avocado
Lunch: Leftover Chili with a Microwave Baked Potato: You need a microwave at work to do this, but your co-workers will envy you for the aroma your lunch will spread as they chew down their cheese sandwiches.
Dinner: The Pioneer Woman’s Hamburger Soup
Wednesday
Breakfast: Paleo Breakfast Brownies
Lunch: Paleo potato salad (prepped on Sunday, remember?)
Dinner: Taco bowls with Slow Cooker Cilantro lime pulled pork: A taco bowl is pretty much everything but the taco. Meat, veggies, guacamole. Yummmm
Thursday
Breakfast: Huevos Rancheros Style Shakshuka: This is why I always make a big batch when cooking chili. ;-)
Lunch: Leftover Hamburger Soup.
Dinner: Slow Cooker carrots, parsnips and chicken thigh fillets. You can do this in a slow cooker and have dinner waiting for you when you get home (I love my slow cooker) or on a tray in the oven. Cut carrots and parsnips into the shape of fries. Toss in extra virgin olive oil and thyme. Place on tray or in slow cooker. Rub the chicken with spices of your choice (my bottle says “Poultry”), and place it on top. Place in oven or turn the slow cooker on. I love being able to toss dinner in there in the morning, and arriving home from work with dinner as good as ready.
Friday
Breakfast: Leftover carrots and parsnips, topped with eggs sunny side up.
Lunch: Frittata muffins.
Dinner: Sausage with celeriac-and-potato puree
The one thing that pulls me through my mornings, and I cannot live without it, is coffee. Part of my regular Sunday prep routine is the making of cold brew.
I make it in my gorgeous French press. I add 20g of coarsely ground coffee per 100ml of cold, filtered water. Let it steep for twelve to eighteen hours and push down the thingie on the French press. This coffee keeps in my fridge for about a week. I do dilute it, either with hot or cold water, or with almond milk.
This means I can stumble out of bed and be slurping my first shot of caffeine within five minutes.
I will devote an entire article to its magic, and why it is so amazing. Right now, you’ll have to take my word for it. ;-) I have to run. My two favourite witnesses are about to have a radio show and I must go and listen to it.
Hugs
Tiny
Please do a post about what paleo is about because i don't really get it. I thought it is about what you can hunt or gather. Looks like milk is not allowed but coconut oil is, please emlighten me in a few words, thanking you, much love.
Paleo is about turning that eating pattern into something sustainable in our society. It's not so much about the fact that you can gather it, as about the most prevalent food groups in hunter gatherer cultures. I could find grains in the wild too, but not enough to make tons of meals out of it. So that wouldn't eat it a lot. They did gather veggies, fruit, tree nuts, and eat meat and fish. Coconut oil is derived from a tree nut and requires no chemical processing to extract it. The coconut oil must be cold pressed and not deodourised. Olive ok would be ok too. ;-)
I will do a more extensive post at some point, but does this help?
Yes, thanks a lot, it is a great way of looking at food, will need some time to sink but very good starting point.
That potato salad up there looks so good. I'm bookmarking the recipe page to try it out! ;)
It's a variation on my German Nana's recipe. Especially if you make the mayo with white balsamic vinegar, for a sugarfree hint of sweetness, and serve it in bacon cups (bacon strip roasted to crispness in a muffin tin to shape it), it is to die for and works as a cure appetiser at parties too. ;-)
pretty sure we're going to try it. i'm a sucker for good potato salad.
That all looks delicious. And now I miss coffee sigh
I have some ready in my fridge at all times. ;-)
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These all look and sound delicious. Now I need a snack :)
Oh god! You're meals are luxurious and most the people here can't afford. I just burgers and pizza spag with chicken and rice with deifferent variety same old shit everyday :D
These are actually pretty budget friendly where I live. But there are other things you can do to keep the costs down. I'll write about that next time.