Get cooking challenge - day 6

Thursday is grocery shopping day, we nearly always use Aldi as our first choice food shop, with a quick dash into Asda for particular things.

Breakfast - Bacon, scrambled egg and mushrooms

Lunch - Ham salad with 85% chocolate bar

Dinner - the challenge of fitting in dinner between son returning from band practice and me going out to meeting, dropping off an order first!
Bacon wrapped meatloaf based on a recipe from Mrs Paleo

I was on the 'meet & greet' at a Scout Leaders meeting, but I didn't eat any of the biscuits!

Get cooking challenge - day 7

Friday is an early start morning and I leave before our son goes to school.  I try and have my breakfast and be out of the kitchen before he comes down.

Breakfast - Blueberry and banana paleo muffin

Lunch - (have no idea!)

Afternoon snack - coffee and paleo chocolate mug cake

(I found this recipe on Pinterest)

Dinner - Paleo fish pie

Get cooking challenge - day 5

Wednesday is the day I do a regular weekly market - recently it has been very quiet and we tend to drink coffee and nibble on the samples - not ideal, but at least I'm not bringing them home

Breakfast - bacon, scrambled egg and mushrooms

Lunch - Smoked salmon salad and a small 85% chocolate bar

Dinner - Chicken not-pie and vegetables based on Chicken pot pie from Mrs Paleo - we have it without the pastry topping, as we weren't that keen on it

Supper - Greek yoghurt, flaked almonds and a drizzle of honey

Get Cooking Challenge - day 4

A day at home day today - meant to be clearing a pile of orders, although not a lot got done due to a couple of long phone calls

Breakfast - bacon, scrambled eggs and mushrooms

Lunch - leftover Coconut curried pork with a side salad

Dinner - Citrus marinaded pork chops with vegetables

Supper - raspberries with greek yoghurt and flaked almonds

Get Cooking challenge - day 3

Today was a mad day - pub lunch, dentist, AGM - so meals had to be juggled a little

Breakfast - bacon, scrambled egg and mushrooms

Lunch - Pub lunch (no photo)
We go to a monthly lunch club in our local village pub. It is aimed at getting the older people out, and I'm generally the youngest there.  It is a set menu, unless you ask for a vegetarian option.  They probably could cope with special diets, but it is so complicated that I often go the veggie choice.

Yesterday the set dish was chicken casserole with dumplings, with vegetable curry as the alternative.  The first time I had the curry it came with a side salad, so when I signed up for this one I didn't think to say 'with salad', so it came with naan bread.  I gave that away and had extra beans instead!

On Mondays, our church runs a little coffee shop - in our village we are limited to where we can walk to, so we do like to go to support this, as it is only across the road.  This is now the only place that I eat grains, and I suffer later because of this, so I need to think about a solution which will probably mean taking my own cake!  My husband left early to go to the dentist.

Dinner - Baked tuna with carrots and broccoli
We had to do early dinner , as my husband had an AGM to go to - tuna is simple and you can do other things while its cooking!

Supper - raspberries with greek yoghurt and flaked almonds

Get cooking challenge - day 2

Remembrance Sunday today which means the boys have Church Parade, and now they are at Explorer Scout age those who turn up to church get to go karting later in the day - this in fact means a second trip out!

Breakfast - Bacon, scrambled egg and butter fried mushrooms
This is a normal breakfast for myself and my husband - we cook a packet of sausage or bacon which will do a couple of days, then he will scramble the eggs in the microwave while I fry the mushrooms.  We sit down for breakfast together 5 -6 day a week, as we eat after the children have gone to school.

Lunch - Ham salad bowl
The salad bowl will have 'bistro salad' which is mixed leaves with grated beetroot, then chopped spring onion, radish, cucumber, celery, sprinkled with mixed seeds and sultanas.  Pour over a vinaigrette made from olive oil and wine vinegar.  Top with chopped meat (or fish)

Dinner - Coconut curried pork
A pulled pork recipe done in the slow cooker.  I tend to pull the pork while the vegetables are cooking, and put it all back into the sauce to serve it.
[the blog I got the recipe has been taken down, so I intend to load up my recipe shortly]

Get Cooking Challenge - day 1

Bill from Real Food for Real Men threw down a 'Get off the Couch and Get Cooking' challenge.
He is promoting a healthy lifestyle of good clean food and staying active

So for the next 3 weeks, the target is home cooked meals that are grain/gluten free.

So these are today's meals

Breakfast - Blueberry and banana paleo microwave muffin (I can't find the recipe, but it has no added sugar with the sweetness from half a banana and about 25 blueberries)
This is the breakfast when I have to be up and out before the rest of my family are ready (once or twice a week) as I can eat this with a mug of hot lemon, and check my emails and facebook at the same time.

Lunch - Curried broccoli soup from Nomnompaleo, chunks of chicken  and 2 satsumas as I was at a craft fair.  When you no longer eat grains, it can be challenging to take a packed lunch and I have found this the most successful.

Dinner - Curried meatloaf with Hungarian sauce and steamed broccoli - the sauce is standard tomato sauce with a teaspoon of curry powder and one of paprika to give it a bit of a kick!  The meatloaf has a tablespoon of curry powder, as well as onion and egg added to the minced beef.  I don't eat dessert.

Unfortunately, the walk/run is not likely to happen, especially coming up to Christmas as this is my busy time as people are buying their Christmas presents.