Day 7

That was just yesterday... Seems like long ago.

I kind of skipped breakfast. I am bad about doing that on weekends.

Lunch- turkey in Gf wrap with avocado and mustard

Dinner- lucayan salad from calypso. Oh my. I could eat this every single day. It has oranges. S that is a no-no. However, it has been ages since I have had oranges. I think I don't like them but then I get this salad and it is delicious. Also had a side of black beans. Yum. Yum. Yum.

Day 6

Breakfast- almond milk with honey rice puffins

Breakfast was late, so on to an early dinner.

Dinner- a Moe's bowl made right this time. Rice, black beans, chicken, guac, lettuce, cucumber, cilantro. Delicious. But, bad me. I ate the chips. Sigh.

Day 5

Breakfast- smoothie with almond milk, chia, flax, spinach, kale, peaches, blueberries, and blackberries

Lunch- GF wrap, turkey, mustard

Dinner- almond milk with Barbara's honey rice puffins cereal

Snack- sweet potato pop chips

Day 4

Breakfast- smoothie with almond milk, chia, flax, spinach, kale, peaches, blueberries, and blackberries.

Lunch- turkey, GF wrap, mustard

Dinner- Trader Joe's vegan black bean soup and rice (super yummy but does have a little corn and potato)

Day 3

Yesterday afternoon they cancelled school for today due to bus, heat, and water issues from the cold. So, I slept in a little. I felt better when I woke up but still a little lightheaded so I took it easy all day. When I moved around too much I felt more lightheaded.

Breakfast- Smoothie with almond milk, chia, flax, spinach, kale, peaches, mango, blueberries, blackberries. Drank it over a few hours.

Lunch- turkey, avocado, mustard on a GF wrap (I'll post a picture of the wrap soon).

Dinner- I had some of the leftover soup type stuff I made Monday. I made some rice to have with it and roasted asparagus with olive oil in the oven. The leftovers were not so good. Not at all really. I tried to get some of the chicken pieces out to eat for protein and ate some rice and asparagus. Probably will need a snack later.

Day 2

Day 2 did not go as planned. I woke up at 3 am with a migraine. I think that migraine lingered because I felt weird all day. Anyway...

Breakfast- I made a smoothie with almond milk, flax seed, chia seed, kale, spinach, peaches, and mango. I make my smoothies large and put them in two cups. I drink one on the way to work, and the other at lunch time. Yesterday I drank both throughout the morning.

Lunch- I took leftovers from the night before but just didn't think I could do it so I went to Moe's and got an Earmuffs bowl. There is some slight cheating involved with Moe's bowls- the guac has tomatoes (I pick them out as best as I can), some of the ingredients have soybean oil, and there is pepper in the seasoning I'm sure. I get rice, black beans, chicken, lettuce, cucumber, and cilantro. Yesterday's was heavy on the cucumber and light on the rice, beans, and chicken. Not what I wanted at all! Anyway, I ate it and felt a little better.

After work I went to the store to get frozen fruit, Boar's Head turkey, and almond milk. I also got some gluten free wraps that are good. They have some potato starch and probably something else technically not allowed, but I am making some concessions. I also got a coke because I was feeling so sick, just in case. By the time I got in the car and felt horrible, which led to eating something I should not have, but was not horrible...

Snack- tortilla chips from Moe's. I had gotten them with my bowl and was going to give them to my parents. As I was driving home and feeling so bad, I felt the need to eat and they were right there. By the time I got home, I felt so bad I managed to put the things in the fridge and freezer, take some Advil with some coke, and hide my eyes and ears under blankets on the couch. I fell asleep after about an hour (which is when I was going to let myself take a migraine pill). When I woke up, I felt much better.

Dinner- Boar's Head turkey and mustard in one of the wraps. Loaded with turkey, I thought maybe I needed protein.

So, overall a very weird day. I ate a food I shouldn't have and drank some coke, but since I felt so weird I don't feel too bad about it. I think I must have been having some neurological migraine symptoms.

Day 1

Thanks to the weather, I got to sleep in today.

Breakfast/Lunch- I had a shake (Inflammacool from the doctor's office) for brunch.

Snacks- I had a handful of almonds twice during the afternoon for a snack.

Dinner- It was adapted from this recipe-
http://pinchofyum.com/crockpot-chicken-wild-rice-soup#more-15365.

The original recipe-

 

Crockpot Chicken Wild Rice Soup

Author: Pinch of Yum

 

Ingredients

• 1 cup uncooked wild rice
• 1 pound chicken breasts
• 2 cups mirepoix
• 6 cups chicken broth
• 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
• ½ cup butter
• ¾ cup flour
• 2 cups whole milk
• a few tablespoons white wine (optional)
• up to 2 cups additional milk or water

 

Instructions

1. Rinse the wild rice. Place the uncooked wild rice, raw chicken, mirepoix, chicken broth, and poultry seasoning in a crockpot. Cover and cook on low for 7-8 hours. The chicken should be cooked through and the rice should be soft. There will be extra liquid in the crockpot; do not drain.
2. Remove the chicken breasts from the crockpot and allow to cool slightly. Using two forks, shred the chicken. Return the shredded chicken to the crockpot.
3. When rice and chicken are done cooking, melt the butter in a saucepan. Add the flour and let the mixture bubble for 1 minute. Slowly whisk in the whole milk until a thick, creamy mixture forms. Stir in the wine.
4. Add this to the rice and chicken in the crockpot and stir to combine. Add extra water or milk to adjust the consistency as you like it. Season with additional salt and pepper.

 

Now, if you read what I can and cannot eat you know I had to make some adjustments. First, into the crockpot went chicken breasts (frozen), basmati rice (because I did not have wild and though why not), chicken broth and vegetable broth mix (what I had), mirepoix, and some random seasonings (because no poultry seasoning on hand). First problem- the basmati did not work so well. It pretty much cooked into mush and became a great thickener for this. It was creamy after 7 hours without needing the next steps, but I moved forward. I used ghee for butter and gluten free flour from Trader Joe's. This brought on problem two- no bubbling happened here. I watched and waited, nothing. So, I started adding some almond milk substituted for the whole milk. Bring on problem three- there was no thick, creamy mixture here. The flour would not integrate well into the almond milk. I kept whisking, the flour kept clumping. So, I decided to just add it right in to the crockpot. I added some water but it disappeared and did not change the thickness. I added more, same thing happened. Then I was too hungry to try something else so I just ate some.

 

It was not bad. It had problems, but I ate it all. There were some clumps of flour in there. There was no discernible rice. It needed salt (which I had not added). But, it was edible!

 

I won't make it this way again, ever. No way. I will experiment and try some things differently, such as actually using wild rice, not using the flour, not making it a "creamy" soup and just leaving it with a broth. For what is left, I think I will cook some rice and add it. And I already added more water and salt.

 

So, not great but not too bad.