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October Unprocessed: Days 2 & 3

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Day 2:  Thursday, October 2

For breakfast, I  had a hard-boiled egg and some watermelon.

Mid-morning snack:  I had a few leftover pieces of chicken from last night’s supper, some popcorn, and a banana.

Lunch:  I made a green smoothie containing 1/2 cup water, a handful of spinach, 1/2 cup kefir, 1/2 cup frozen blueberries, and 1 1/2 frozen bananas.  This was VERY filling and kept me full for most of the day.October 3, 2014 002

Late-Day snack:  I had a stick of mozzarella cheese when the girls got home from school.

Dinner:  I made a chicken soup from the leftovers of last night’s dinner.  I used butter, celery, onions, carrots, the leftover broth from last night’s chicken, and the cooked, chopped chicken that was leftover as well.  For the kids, I also added some rotini (because that is their favorite part of the soup!)  I tried to avoid eating the rotini, although I may have had a few pieces slip in (I’m not going to worry about that, though.  My goal is not to be perfect, but only to become more aware of WHAT I am eating and WHY.)

I did snack on a few chocolate chips later on.  I have to admit, I wasn’t hungry at all, but they were there and that’s the only reason I ate them.  Overall, not a bad day other than the chocolate chips that I wasn’t hungry for. 🙂

Day 3:  Friday, October 3

I had a slice of Boar’s Head Ovengold Turkey as I was making my daughter’s lunches.  That is the only lunch meat I will allow myself during this challenge, as it claims to have no fillers, preservatives, etc.

I also made a batch of Flourless Peanut butter cookies for my 11-year old’s snack, and I had one of those as well.

For breakfast, I had scrambled eggs mixed with about a tablespoon of Feta cheese and a sundried tomato.  It was really good! 🙂

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Mid-morning snack – again, I had a few chocolate chips although I wasn’t hungry.  I think I just need to stop buying them! 🙂

For lunch, my friend gave me a cup of DELICIOUS carrot soup that she had made!  It contained coconut oil, onion, cinnamon, nutmeg, sweet potatoes, water, chicken broth, carrots, salt & pepper.  It was really good, and the perfect thing to warm me up on this cool, fall day.  I wish I had remembered to take a picture of it.  It was a beautiful shade of orange, and it smelled just as great as it tasted!

Afternoon snack:  I had an apple and another PB cookie.

For dinner, I had the rest of the potato salad I made the other day.

I went to a gathering tonight, and there I had celery and some chips with salsa.

Overall, I’m feeling pretty good about the challenge!  I’m looking forward to see what the weekend will bring.  Have a great weekend!!

October Unprocessed: Day 1

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I survived the first day of October Unprocessed without too many cravings! 🙂

This is what I ate today:

I began the day with a glass of water.

For breakfast, I had an apple and an omelet. We have 13 chickens, so eggs are a big part of my diet. I generally have eggs every day in some form. To make the omelet, I sautéed ¼ cup onion with a Roma tomato from our garden in a teaspoon of coconut oil. I added ½ slice American cheese to the omelet as well.

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Around midmorning, I had a snack of 2 peanut butter cookies. This is one of my favorite cookies, and one of the reasons I love them so much is because they are unprocessed and contain NO flour and NO white sugar. Check out my Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies recipe here (today I left out the chocolate chips.)

For lunch, I had potato salad that contained all REAL-food ingredients.  Here is the recipe I used, only this time I used Greek Yogurt instead of the mayonnaise.

For an early afternoon snack, I made popcorn.  The popcorn kernels I used were GMO-free from our local farm.October 1, 2014 006

A little later in the afternoon, I had a few grapes to hold me over until dinner.

I roasted a chicken for dinner.  In addition to the chicken, I had corn on the cob from our local farm and roasted zucchini, broccoli, and onions along with some of the leftover potato salad from lunch.

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I didn’t find today too difficult because I had planned my meals ahead of time. I expect it to get more difficult as the month progresses as I try to discover some new recipes and foods. I did crave some chocolate chips at several different times today, but I held off on eating them. I will be allowing myself chocolate chips as one of my “deliberate exceptions,” but I just wanted to get through today without them. 🙂

If anyone would like to join me in this challenge, it’s not too late!  You can take the challenge on your own terms.  Any step toward wellness is a step in the right direction!  Click here to take the pledge and join me and over 18,000 others in October Unprocessed 2014!