Lunch was frustrating. I thought the chicken was going to be a no-brainier, but it wasn’t. But I made do and didn’t starve. Dinner was also not exactly what I wanted.

Breakfast

Breakfast’s Ro-Tel, avocado & egg concoction wasn’t a quarter as appetizing looking as I’d planned, but it was tasty. Not terribly filling, but tasty. I also had a venti black Pike’s Place Roast from Starbucks with homemade almond milk. This was much less groady than last weekend’s coffee.

Lunch

Lunch at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Cafeteria. Baked chicken (which I ate only the insides of because I couldn’t tell whether the stuff on the surface was little bits of skin & spice or some sort of pan sauce making crud) and olive oil sautéed green beans.

Dinner

Delivery steak pizziaola (NY Strip with tomato and veggies). This was not as satisfying as I’d like (too light on veggies) and I was still hungry afterward. Plus, the smell of the garlic bread was intoxicating.

Snack

A restorative Starbucks with almond milk (I brought my little bottle out) as balm against the wind and cold.

I also had some hazelnuts while I pouted about dinner.

More Whole30 goodness.

Today was an unexpected dinner in day – luckily, I had just enough extra chicken to make a meal and a small sweet potato I could repurpose.

Breakfast

My favorite – DH’s green smoothie + hemp protein powder and coffee with homemade almond milk.

Lunch

Cruciferous crunch with leftover pulled pork and a hazelnut oil & lime juice dressing.

Dinner

Doesn’t look like much, but sure was tasty. A simple sweet potato hash with chicken thighs and egg.

Snack

Hazelnuts. It has come to my attention that my hazelnut snack pics may be misleading. I eat 1 ounce of nuts per snack; the previous pictures feature only four because I had eaten most of my nuts before I remembered to take the picture and didn’t bother taking another.

More Whole30 goodness.

Today’s food was light, bright, and flavorful.

Breakfast

My favorite – DH’s green smoothie + hemp protein powder and coffee with homemade almond milk.

Lunch

Last night’s dinner leftovers – yum!

Dinner

Dinner was fantastic. Leftover pulled pork with a salad of Apple/mint/cilantro/radish and lime. Unfortunately, I did not take note of the quantities of ingredients I used so I won’t be able to share the recipe.

Snack

Hazelnuts.

More Whole30 goodness.

Today was good. My chicken worked out for dinner and lunch was tasty. Score!

Breakfast

My favorite – DH’s green smoothie + hemp protein powder and coffee with homemade almond milk.

Lunch

Cruciferous Crunch with some leftover roasted turkey breast and an Asian-inspired quick vinaigrette.

Dinner

Sesame Chicken Zoodles. Y-U-M.

Snack

Hazelnuts because lunch just wasn’t hearty enough. And extra hazelnuts after dinner.

More Whole30 goodness.

Lunch was bright and flavorful and dinner was ridiculously easy.

Breakfast

My favorite – DH’s green smoothie + hemp protein powder and coffee with homemade almond milk.

Lunch

Apple mint salad with leftover pork chop.

Dinner

Delicious and dead simple roasted Brussels with chicken.

Snack

1/4 cup roasted cashews.

More Whole30 goodness.

Yum. Dinner was great and lunch was a no-brainer.

Breakfast

My favorite – DH’s green smoothie + hemp protein powder and coffee with homemade almond milk.

Lunch

Cruciferous crunch with the last of my leftover roasted meat and a simple hazelnut oil & roasted garlic Choula dressing.

Dinner

Instant Pot green coconut curry with carrots roasted cauliflower rice and radish/toasted almond topper.

Snack

Hazelnuts.

More Whole30 goodness.

Oh hi there, nicotine fit, I’d almost forgotten about you. It is *now* that I remember Whole30 makes me want a damn cigarette. I don’t know what it is – it’s not like I eat that far off of W30 the rest of the year – but something about it just kicks my infrequent cigarette wanting into overdrive. Like, as I’m sitting here my lungs are tight and I can barely get a full breath (which is exactly what a nicotine fit felt like). For perspective, I quit 6 years ago and haven’t had even a drag since – and I know I don’t actually *want* one; my lungs just think they might. And they want to tell me about it. What’s next? Reese’s Nutrageous cravings? Those used to go hand-in-hand with wanting a smoke.

Breakfast

Breakfast was fantastic. My DH’s green smoothie + hemp protein powder and coffee with homemade almond milk. You’d think that after having this smoothie pretty much every week day for the last two years, that I’d be tired of it. Not so. My body craves this breakfast when I haven’t had it in awhile – just like it used to crave bacon & eggs & hashed browns with toast.

And my coffee … after a weekend full of less-than-stellar cups, I’m actually excited to be back with my old standard cup.

Lunch

Glaaaaaaaamorus! Let me tell you, I know how to pour the glamour on. Leftover roasted meat from last night’s dinner with the last of my guacamole and some roasted garlic Choula.

Dinner

Much better. Instant Pot pulled pork (recipe coming soon) with spiced roasted parsnips.

More Whole30 goodness.

Today wasn’t so bad until I hit Target in the early afternoon and got overwhelmingly hungry. It’s a good thing I’m doing Whole30 – that 50% off Holiday snacks aisle was looking pretty darn tasty.

Breakfast

Brunch out – ratatouille with merguez (spicy lamb sausage) and egg. Plus coffee with my homemade almond milk. This was fantastic. I picked the potatoes out of mine, because although white potatoes are *technically* allowed on Whole30 (a recent change I don’t particularly agree with), for me they go against the spirit of Whole30. White potatoes for me are one of those “trigger foods” that signal to my brain that anything goes. Like fries.

Lunch

I didn’t have any real lunch; brunch was pretty late. I did, however, snack on the rest of that capicola I had for dinner yesterday when the post-Target hangries hit. Mental note: fill purse with emergency snacks. The Target by my house is a war zone.

Dinner

The hubbs wanted delivery, so I made him get kebabs. I had roasted lamb, pork and chicken kebabs with a side Greek salad (olive oil and vinegar dressing, hold the and cheese). It took pretty much all my willpower to not eat the pita and fries it came with.

Snacks

To switch it up, hazelnuts.

More Whole30 goodness.

Today was good, despite the beginnings of a breakfast meltdown. Not as veggie laden as I’d hoped, but such is life.

Breakfast

Breakfast almost resulted in a meltdown. We waited late (again), the cricket protein bar I was excited about eating turned out to have honey in it, and then – when we were well into the subway station and down to a lucky 1x reception, I got anxious about whether dried cherries were forbidden or on the limit list (the limit list, as are walnuts – which were also in my bar). By this point, I was starving and starting to get dizzy. Luckily the train didn’t come right away and my phone was able to load the page I needed to put my fears at rest.

Breakfast was black coffee from 7-11 with homemade almond milk and a beef/cherry/habanero Epic Bar.

Lunch

Today, we decided to avoid the rain and cold and jump into crowds at the American Museum of Natural History. AMNH is one of those places I don’t mind eating in the cafeteria at – they always have some kind of compliant meat and usually some sort of veg I can grab from the cold bar.

Today I chose roasted pork loin, chicken breast, sweet potatoes and mixed vegetables.

Dinner

Score! This uncured capicola from The Piggery is compliant! I know today I’m doing a crappy job of eating veggies, but this was infinitely more exciting than salad. Cured meat is one of my favorite ‘I’m dying and I need protein’ snacks to grab while walking around the city, and a compliant version is even better.

The Brussels were fantastic, too – balsamic roasted.

Snacks

More cashews. I’m hoping to grab more variety during tomorrow’s grocery trip.

More Whole30 goodness.