This week is almost all about food.

With driving up North yesterday, I didn't get my food post completed.  In fact, to be honest I thought that I had posted it. That means when I signed off from my Blog App that is on my phone, I accidentally deleted it.  Day four which was Thursday I started out my day with an unconventional breakfast.  We are such creatures of habit aren't we?  We have breakfast foods, lunch foods, snack foods, and dinner/supper foods.  Really?  This food plan is breaking the mold of what foods should be eaten at what time.

Chicken, steamed cauliflower and avocado

I didn't put a picture of my morning snack in because I've eaten it before this week, carrots and almond butter. Lunch called for tuna with a side of vegetables and 1/2 cup of chickpeas (I still haven't found them which means that I am still using the substitute of kidney beans.) Lettuce is considered a free food so I decided to make these a wrap.

Tuna Veggie wrap with Kidney Beans

This program is designed for the "average person" and my goals were determined by a questionnaire that I answered.  So the menu is a little heavier in carbs that what my goals are set at.  When I saw that the afternoon snack was a turkey sandwich on Ezekiel bread with tomatoes, I decided to make it an open faced sandwich.  I also sprinkled the tomatoes with cinnamon for a little extra flavor and to hide the flavor of the tomato.

Open Faced Turkey Sandwich on Ezekiel Bread

Supper was pretty good.  Although I normally don't put something warm on top of a lettuce salad, it did work this time. This is more food than what I am used to eating.  

Salad topped with Sautéed Garlic Broccoli & Chicken

Day 5 food because of my goof-up yesterday, you get to see two days of pictures at one time.  I hope that it is not too annoying.  I do need to say that this is a lot more variety than what I am used to eating.  But that is part of what I am looking for to make it a life-long way of life.

Breakfast again was untraditional with leftover chicken, sautéed spinach and a side of baked cinnamon apples. 

Chicken and Spinach Sautéed in Coconut oil with a side of cinnamon apples

I didn't look ahead at the ingredients to understand what they meant to do with this.  It originally called for spaghetti squash which I have never had.  After cooking everything I realized that I should have used the potato peeler to "string" the zucchini so that it looked more like spaghetti.  The turkey meatballs were pretty good.  The recipe called for buffalo meat but that wasn't available around here.  The tomatoes were sautéed in garlic while the meatballs cooked.  That was a good taste.

Spaghetti of sorts

The afternoon snack was more of a traditional breakfast for me as a child.  Rice cereal sprinkled with cinnamon and nutmeg.  As a child we added butter, sugar and topped it with milk.  

Rice Cereal with protein powder, cinnamon and nutmeg

Friday evening I was traveling up to Dad's.  I decided to make something that I could eat in the car.  It looks absolutely terrible but it was filling and kept to the diet plan.  I had a chicken sausage/brat that I wrapped in a leaf of romaine lettuce with some avocado slices.

Travel food? - Chicken Brat in a lettuce wrap with avocado