Eating is my main problem. I don't have time to cook, and so I end up eating whatever I have in the house, which is usually something I picked up from the grocery store when I was hungry. I can generally find time to workout if I make myself, but the eating healthy is harder for me. I know once I start eating healthy the cravings for bad stuff will go away, but I just have to get a couple of weeks into healthy eating. The second thing that makes it hard to eat healthy is when I'm with my husband or back at home in Arkansas because I go out to eat.
One of my friends makes all her and her husbands lunches during the weekend for the week ahead. I'm only one person so generally one big meal lasts me all week long. I decided to eat clean for a week, which means avoiding processed and refined foods. Basically whole wheat if its going to be bread/pasts, no sugar unless its natural and lots of fruits and veggies and concentrating on whole foods. I'm making all my meals today and that way I can just pick which one I want to eat and pull it out of the fridge. I've made 4 meals for this week, breakfast casserole, steak carnitas, chicken pasta dish with veggies and homemade granola. I'm also a big smoothie drinker, especially after workouts and my favorite is spinach, banana, strawberries and water and its surprisingly filling. I figure this will help me to eat consistently healthy during the week, will keep me away from snaking at night, which is killer and it will get rid of me hunting for stuff to snack on as well.
I'm really excited about the carnitas! I love a good mexican dish. I have corn tortillas and I'm going to make salsa and chop up some cooked veggies to go with it. One of my favorite go to dishes for just about every home cooked meal is zucchini and squash sautéed or steamed broccoli and carrots. I'm just glad to be getting back to eating well. I always feel disgusting when I don't.
So far I've made the granola and the breakfast casserole which I put in muffin tins to make individual servings. It has cheese (this is iffy on the clean scale, but I'm not eating much of it, less than an ounce per serving), eggs, potatoes, veggies and turkey sausage (drained of fat). I made 24 and two are less than 150 calories with tons of protein to get me through the morning. The granola is a replacement for sugar cereal that I like to have for breakfast. It is really good, made with honey and cinnamon for flavoring. It is high in fat, and has a lot of calories so when I eat it I won't eat a lot of it, but thankfully its really filling.
I just thought an update was in order! I'll share the recipes soon, I got all of them from another blog called blessthismessplease.com and last night I made whole wheat pizza crust, not from this site and it was excellent. I only used half of the recipe and it made a decent sized pizza. I think some of the best things I find make me happy because I get to play around and make them how I want. My goal for the blog this week is to share the recipes and to update on how the clean eating is going! Head over to Bless This Mess if you want the recipes now, or you can check them out here later in the week!
