This time I am going to do it properly. I have bought stackable containers of differing sizes. I have gone through some of the new-found paleo/Whole30 blogs and listed some recipes to make. I have started going through my Bikini Cookbooks and listing the Whole30 friendly recipes there are quite a lot!), or noting omissions or additions that could be made to make sure I can still use those cookbooks through my first Whole30. They are my favourties after all - as anyone who follows me on instagram would know hehe...
My main problem with eating well during the day is that I am often in a rush, between getting the kids ready to get to school, rushing to work, and working until 1pm when I am ravenously hungry. By then the carbs I have eaten in the morning have worn off and I am ready to chew off my arm. The shakes, sweating, and inability to think straight takes over, so I really can't be coming home and cooking up a storm for my lunch. I am going to be heavily relying on leftovers or pre-prepared, home-cooked frozen meals, especially for lunch and the one day I work in the afternoon.
I have been going through a lot of recipes lately and come across some unusual ingredients I haven't heard of or even thought of buying. Coconut aminos (Whole30 compliant) for example, is a good replacement for soy sauce (not whole30 compliant). A delicious sounding recipe for "Sunshine sauce" I found in Well Fed, a paleo recipe book by Melissa Joulwan, contains sunflower seed butter. Nope, never seen that before either. Perhaps it's around, but I've never looked for it.Also coconut butter, which i have heard of but not seen. I have ordered these items, and a few others from the iHerb website this morning. If you have never used this website before, its great! You can zoom in to the nutrition labels and read exactly what is in each product, so you know if it has any ingredients that aren't compliant with the Whole30 rules. And on your first order you get $10 off, and it usually arrives in around 5 days. Faster than being couriered from the eastern states!
Another preparatory effort for my first Whole30 was making some home-made beef stock. It is just too hard to find one in the supermarket that doesn't have added sugar or other non-compliant ingredients. So i thought I would have a crack at doing it myself, so I know exactly whats in there. Its the first time I've made beef stock from scratch, and it smelled great while it was cooking. The recipe I used was this one from the Taste website
I have frozen some in containers as well as some 20ml ice cubes of the stock, so its easy to grab out the amount i need for a recipe. I have put them into a big ziplock bag, so that they don't take up too much room.
Next on my list of things to do is start making a few dishes in the slow cooker. I don't have a slow cooker (I used to but I found that when i was home all day with one of the kids, I would be smelling the food cooking and by the time dinner time rolled around I couldn't think of anything worse that eating what had been wafting around all day). So this morning I borrowed my mum's slow cooker, which I'm sure she won't miss one bit since they are leaving to go on a European cruise on the weekend! I figure since i am preparing these meals and freezing them, I won't have the aversion to eating them like I used to!
So over the next few days I will be picking out a few recipes to prepare..I'm looking forward to stocking up my freezer!
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