Meal Plan & post-Halloween reset
I'm interrupting my trip posting here to put up our meal plan for the week real quick. Part 3 of our DC Trip pictures will be coming soon!
In rebellion of all of the Halloween candy hanging around our house, I'm putting myself on a sugar detox this week (starting tomorrow), just like we did as a family back in January. After eating on the road during our trip, I was feeling a little blech anyway, and then Halloween came along, followed by a little too much candy indulgence on my part, and I have been feeling really blech. I've lived through this season enough times to know that Halloween usually begins a slippery slope of bad eating through the holiday season for me, and I'd like to try to combat that this year. So no sugar for the next two weeks, and hubby is joining me. We're also eliminating other difficult-to-digest stuff this week (wheat, dairy & meat) to really reset after our trip, cutting back to 1 cup of coffee per day, and drinking tons of water. I'm not holding the kids strictly to the detox this time, but since they usually eat what we eat, they'll naturally detox a little with us I think.
So I will probably be in withdrawal for two days or so (that happened last time)... after that I'll be feeling great! Can't wait!
Benefits of the detox that I experienced last time and I'm looking forward to:
1) Improved sleep-- more restful and restorative
2) Increased energy and no more after-lunch crashing
3) Increased self-awareness... shifting my focus away from eating for pleasure or stress, and focusing more on eating foods that fuel my body well and give me good energy.
Hopefully this awareness will carry me through the holiday season and allow me to indulge without slipping in to more permanent patterns of bad eating. I'll keep you posted!
Halloween was a bit of an afterthought because it was the day after we got back from DC. Basically the girls just raided the dress-up bin in the playroom. N was Elsa, L was a fairy, and C was "Snowdrop". Auntie Bethie came over-- check out her amazing costume!!!
Yes, you are seeing a little space in N's mouth... she lost one of her front teeth on Halloween! A visit from the tooth fairy and trick-or-treating all in one night was quite a lot of excitement.
Here's the meal plan...
Saturday breakfast: Daddy makes waffles
Saturday lunch: scrambled eggs & fruit
Saturday supper: loaded baked potatoes
Sunday breakfast: soaked baked oatmeal
Sunday lunch: caesar wraps in the car on the way home from church
Sunday supper: homemade pizza
Monday breakfast: leftover baked oatmeal or waffles
Monday lunch: turkey pickle vegetable wraps for kids, salads for grown-ups
Monday supper: kale, black bean and avocado burrito bowl
Tuesday breakfast: poached eggs on GF toast
Tuesday lunch: quesadillas & smoothies for kids; salads & smoothies for grown-ups
Tuesday super: mushroom stroganoff over quinoa
Wednesday breakfast: steel cut oats in the crockpot
Wednesday lunch: packed lunches to take to Grandma's (sandwiches or salad wraps)
Wednesday supper: leftovers
Thursday breakfast: leftover steel cut oats or cold cereal
Thursday lunch: packed lunches for homeschool activities (quesadillas and fruit); salad for grown-ups
Thursday supper: Groundnut Soup for grown-ups (subbing chickpeas for the chicken), Annie's Mac for kiddos
Friday breakfast: protein pancakes
Friday lunch: yogurt with dried fruit, hummus & veggies
Friday supper: leftovers
Saturday: Daddy makes GF waffles and various leftovers throughout the day!
I hope your Halloween was happy and spooky :)
Linking up with Laura and Jill today!
In rebellion of all of the Halloween candy hanging around our house, I'm putting myself on a sugar detox this week (starting tomorrow), just like we did as a family back in January. After eating on the road during our trip, I was feeling a little blech anyway, and then Halloween came along, followed by a little too much candy indulgence on my part, and I have been feeling really blech. I've lived through this season enough times to know that Halloween usually begins a slippery slope of bad eating through the holiday season for me, and I'd like to try to combat that this year. So no sugar for the next two weeks, and hubby is joining me. We're also eliminating other difficult-to-digest stuff this week (wheat, dairy & meat) to really reset after our trip, cutting back to 1 cup of coffee per day, and drinking tons of water. I'm not holding the kids strictly to the detox this time, but since they usually eat what we eat, they'll naturally detox a little with us I think.
So I will probably be in withdrawal for two days or so (that happened last time)... after that I'll be feeling great! Can't wait!
Benefits of the detox that I experienced last time and I'm looking forward to:
1) Improved sleep-- more restful and restorative
2) Increased energy and no more after-lunch crashing
3) Increased self-awareness... shifting my focus away from eating for pleasure or stress, and focusing more on eating foods that fuel my body well and give me good energy.
Hopefully this awareness will carry me through the holiday season and allow me to indulge without slipping in to more permanent patterns of bad eating. I'll keep you posted!
Halloween was a bit of an afterthought because it was the day after we got back from DC. Basically the girls just raided the dress-up bin in the playroom. N was Elsa, L was a fairy, and C was "Snowdrop". Auntie Bethie came over-- check out her amazing costume!!!
Yes, you are seeing a little space in N's mouth... she lost one of her front teeth on Halloween! A visit from the tooth fairy and trick-or-treating all in one night was quite a lot of excitement.
Here's the meal plan...
Saturday breakfast: Daddy makes waffles
Saturday lunch: scrambled eggs & fruit
Saturday supper: loaded baked potatoes
Sunday breakfast: soaked baked oatmeal
Sunday lunch: caesar wraps in the car on the way home from church
Sunday supper: homemade pizza
Monday breakfast: leftover baked oatmeal or waffles
Monday lunch: turkey pickle vegetable wraps for kids, salads for grown-ups
Monday supper: kale, black bean and avocado burrito bowl
Tuesday breakfast: poached eggs on GF toast
Tuesday lunch: quesadillas & smoothies for kids; salads & smoothies for grown-ups
Tuesday super: mushroom stroganoff over quinoa
Wednesday breakfast: steel cut oats in the crockpot
Wednesday lunch: packed lunches to take to Grandma's (sandwiches or salad wraps)
Wednesday supper: leftovers
Thursday breakfast: leftover steel cut oats or cold cereal
Thursday lunch: packed lunches for homeschool activities (quesadillas and fruit); salad for grown-ups
Thursday supper: Groundnut Soup for grown-ups (subbing chickpeas for the chicken), Annie's Mac for kiddos
Friday breakfast: protein pancakes
Friday lunch: yogurt with dried fruit, hummus & veggies
Friday supper: leftovers
Saturday: Daddy makes GF waffles and various leftovers throughout the day!
I hope your Halloween was happy and spooky :)
Linking up with Laura and Jill today!
Good for you for implementing a reset this week... I really should join you. The candy is waaay too tempting and like you, it just makes me feel awful. I hit the wall hard yesterday afternoon!
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