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Each week I sit down and make a plan of what to eat, usually on Mondays. My goal is to avoid the 4pm “What’s for dinner?” panic that always sets in and more than one trip to the grocery store each week. My family is experimenting with 3 different diets right now, so things can get a little tricky. I’m doing a modified paleo diet, but also need to cook for a candida diet and those who are only dairy-free too. This week I thought I’d share what we are having to give you an idea of what a typical meal plan looks like.
Breakfast:
Soaked oatmeal with coconut milk and sweet potatoes (recipe and method described here)
Eggs in a pepper or brussel sprout and potato hash
Cereal and almond milk
Lunch:
Roasted sweet potato with pecans
Green salad or turkey sandwich
Roasted beets with orange segments
Leftovers
Chicken soup with quinoa pasta and veggies
Dinner:
Sushi (out)
Lemon roast chicken and rice and garlicy spinach
Fried rice with chicken, peas, and carrots
Meatloaf (gluten and sugar-free) with roast potatoes
Home-made turkey sausage with sage, quinoa pancakes (from The Yeast Connection Cookbook)
Chicken and apple hot dogs with home made baked beans (sugar-free)
Snacks:
Raw pecans and walnuts
Beef or turkey jerkey
Apple Cinnamon Oat Muffins
Healthy peanut butter cups
Roasted carrots with balsamic
Steamed edamame
Apples with almond or peanut-butter
Baked apples (with vegan butter and a little maple syrup and pecans and raisins)
Tags: candida, dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, menu, paleo, recipe, sugar-free
Hi Michelle! I hope you enjoy the healthy peanut butter cups. They have become a favorite in our home! I’ve been making them mini lately and have also had great success freezing them in ice cube trays and then just popping them out and storing them in the fridge. That way I don’t have to use any liners.
That soaked oatmeal with sweet potatoes sounds amazing! I’m definitely going to be trying that! Thanks for sharing the link
Thank you so much Mindy. We love these even more than Reese’s Peanut Butter cups! I feel good about serving this sweet treat to my kids and because it has healthy fats, fills them up differently than other ‘candy’. I will definitely try to make them smaller and I like the idea of making a bunch and freezing them.
I think you’ll like adding sweet potatoes into the oatmeal – it felt decadent at first and really did taste like a sweet potato pie by the time I added in the nutmeg, cinnamon, and vanilla. We also like to put dried fruit to sweeten it up a bit and have used pineapple, craisins, dates, and raisins – all with good results.