I had a great idea about making a sweet potato/egg/etc. hash for breakfast this morning to change things up, but we didn't have any sweet potatoes. We ended up putting ham in the eggs instead of spinach, which was a nice change.
Last night, we sat down to make a menu for next week, but it was just too hard. On week 3, you add grains such as barley, quinoa, and oatmeal, more fruit such as grapes and clementines, and 1 oz of dark chocolate per day. For some reason I had it in my mind that we would be able to add an additional serving of dairy per day, but that is not in there. :( Our biggest problem with menu planning, is that we don't normally eat barley, quinoa, or oatmeal. In order to incorporate them into our diet, we would have to look up and try new recipes, which is so much work. And so often the recipes include things we can't eat yet, like other fruits. Also, I wanted to make sure the store that I order my groceries from had those things before putting in all the work to find and choose recipes. I was able to find them, plus a semi-prepared quinoa and vegetable dish to try. As I was ordering groceries, it was getting later and later and Cameron kept falling asleep, so we ended up not making a menu for next week yet. We did, however choose what to eat for today. Because I hadn't ordered groceries or even gotten our new staples from the store near us, our choices were pretty limited. We were too tired to go grocery shopping and didn't want to go today either, because it is our Sabbath day. So we had to scrounge around to figure out what to eat. We didn't have lettuce, avocado, steak, or sweet potatoes. We ended up deciding to order delivery Subway salads for lunch, and I took my breakfast hash idea for dinner. I made ground turkey w/ sausage seasoning, egg, carrots, corn, and spinach. It was actually pretty good. We also had berries for dessert, which are growing on me, but the frozen one we bought are pretty tart. I ordered some fresh berries, which will come tomorrow.
We decided to keep things simple by just eating the same thing tomorrow (Day 15) as we did today, even though it starts a new week. Although, I did buy a dark chocolate bar, so I will definitely add that tomorrow. I bought it today on my way from from my run in the park, and I wanted it so bad while I was waiting for our salads to come, but I just drank more water. (I had cashews, coffee, and an apple before my run.) My run today was the worst I've had. It was just so stinkin' hot. And my calves were aching the whole time. I did week 8 day 1 today, but I'm planning to just skip to week 8 day 3 and do it early Thursday morning. It's supposed to be over 100 F starting Thursday, and someone told us they measure the temperature north of the city in the forest. So it's way way hotter here in the concrete jungle. Thank goodness the park I run in has a lot of trees and shade. I'm waiting until Thursday, because I want to give myself and extra day of rest for my calf muscles. We're leaving on vacation next Monday, so that's why I'm skipping week 8 day 2 - I'm just really stressed with packing, etc.
So maybe we'll make a menu for the week, or maybe we'll just wing it. I looked up some recipes this evening and saved them. It's just really annoying, because I feel like I've done this already. When we first moved here, I looked at recipes, tried them out, saved the good ones, altered them to my liking, etc. - I even made my own recipe book. Then with minimalism, I narrowed my menu down to our 5 favorite meals and just a couple of places to eat out. It was so great. And now, I feel like I'm starting all over from the beginning. It's a lot of work, and it's really annoying. But maybe, if we put in the work now, we will eventually get to that great minimalist menu again with our new diet.
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