Day 2 of our Whole30®

Joe's Meals

Breakfast: 3 eggs with guac, a banana (lots of water)
Lunch: Leftover burger, arugula + lettuce salad w/ oil & red wine vinegar dressing
Dinner: Salmon steak w/ steamed broccoli + carrots on the side
Snack: hard boiled egg, celery + almond butter

Amanda's Meals

Breakfast: 2 eggs with guac & a couple cherries & blueberries
Lunch: Same as Joe
Dinner: Same as Joe
Snack: hardboilded egg, celery & almond butter, Cauliflower + Greens sauteed in olive oil from Elm City Market, bowl of baby carrots

Yesterday, we went shopping to prepare us for a cooking adventure tonight.  We spent over an hour in Stop & Shop, spent $160, and came out with what felt like barely any food at all.  Everything we looked at had something off limits on the ingredients.  Mostly sugar, gluten, or carrageenan. I'm seriously shocked by how much crap goes in deli meat... I thought it was just meat?!  I think we'll have to start shopping at Whole Foods or Trader Joes.  Joe doesn't like the idea of that at all :)

So, tonight we cooked A LOT.  We made homemade marinara sauce, a breakfast casserole for the week, a Joe original he calls "Kale-shews", pickles, 2 sweet potatoes, homemade mayo (to avoid the soybean oil), and a baked chicken (salt & pepper only) for lunch meat for the week. It definitely made a mess, but it will be nice to have some of the prep work done.

The diet today didn't bother me much at all. I noticed I was pretty hungry a few times throughout the day, so I did a bunch of snacking.  By dinner time, I wasn't that hungry, but the salmon was way too good to not eat :)

Here's our finished product!

From Top Right Clockwise: Baked Chicken, Homemade Marinara, Pickles, Breakfast Casserole, Kale-shews