Day 6- can I make it to ONE week?!?

Today was a lazy day.  I had no plans really, except for to pick out some recipes to make for meals for the week. Since I started eating paleo/primal, I've been bombarded with recipes and meal ideas from blogs, books, and Facebook groups, so it's been a little overwhelming trying to choose which recipes I want to try.  So mom and I are picking out a couple to try each week.  Eating this way takes a lot of prep work- fresh ingredients require cooking and preparing!  ;)  Which is one reason why our society eats so many grains- they're cheap, plentiful, and very easy to prepare and eat.

Almost everything we find in the grocery stores are made with sugar, high fructose corn syrup, soy or wheat.  So as a part of this Whole30 challenge, I'm learning to look closely at everything.  While there are recipes to make your own spaghetti sauce and ketchup, I am not at the point where I feel the need to make my own condiments...so I'm just going to look for a low-sugar version of a store-bought brand instead... mustard is fine, as is mayonnaise.

For lunch, mom made a pork tenderloin recipe, which was very good...and along with that, had green beans.  For dinner, I decided to use the kale that I had bought earlier in the week and make a Kale and Sausage soup, using Trader Joe's Chicken Sausage.  I used coconut oil to saute the onions in the recipe, but I don't really care for coconut oil in the soup...next time I will use butter.  I think coconut oil almost has a sweet flavor, that just tastes funny in a soup.  (right now the only thing I use coconut oil for is to heat up my sausage crumbles in my morning egg scramble)

I decided to stay in and do laundry tonight, to avoid being tempted by other foods and drinks...so after making the soup recipe I got pretty fidgety (aka bored).  I made my typical spinach salad, and also had half a grapefruit while watching TV.  While finishing up laundry, I was really having the craving to snack!  So I had a few pieces of banana chips (finishing up in the food dehydrator right now), some cashews, the other half of the grapefruit, and a piece of beef jerky. 

I will admit that I did have a craving for sweets.  I have some dark chocolate that I was almost tempted to eat a piece, but I didn't.  It's 85% dark and doesn't taste good, anyway, actually.  LOL

Overall, though, I came out successful!  Tomorrow I'll be making some new recipes and preparing some meals for the week.