FOOD!

Well...today is officially a food day again. I am glad I did not try to struggle through 10 days of juice fasting...the 4 I did were PLENTY! I did however stick to the plan of juicing during the daytime meals and eating a plant based dinner each evening. It worked out great!

So, my meals listing here will be pretty boring but I will give you the highlights of my dinner entrees each evening. I have them pinned on pinterest and these are the photos from the blogs I gleaned the recipes from. I will include a link to the blog as well.

Dinner on Tuesday night was a homemade vegetable soup...and if I do say so myself, it came out fantastic! Basically I just sauteed up some onions, carrots, zuchinni (green and yellow), and garlic. I then filled up the crockpot with water, added in a can of organic tomatoes chopped up some sweet potatoes and I put in about a cup and a half of organic sprouted wild rice and quiona (that had already been cooked). Let it simmer all day on low.  It was perfect. I made so much it made for quick and filling lunches too.

Wednesday night was Vegetarian Shepherds pie.

Found this on a super fun blog called "The Shiksa in the Kitchen" . Go and check it out, you will enjoy her style, humor and fabulous recipes! I doubled this recipe and so glad I did! It makes great leftovers for lunches. Next time I think I will add in a little bbq sauce or liquid smoke to the lentil mixture. This was filling and felt like comfort food. Perfect and healthy.

For breakfast this morning I had a green smoothie instead of a juice. It was quite good!

You can find this recipe at Zoey's Kitchen. I am looking to incorporate more kale into my daily diet. I think smoothies are a great way to do that. I was concerned our little magic bullet wouldn't have enough umph to get the job done, but I was WRONG! It made this smoothie perfectly! I am just thrilled with that little mixer!

 Check out this video clip to find out why kale is just so incredible for your body!





Tonight dinner is a meat dish! We have not had any meat for two weeks! We are hoping to cut back our meat consumption to just a couple of nights per week....which we really only ate it about 3-4 nights a week before, so this is not a huge change for us. For tonight we will be having Blackened Chicken and Cilantro Lime Quinoa, on the side will be asparagus and probably some sauteed chard as well. We will also indulge in some dessert tonight...although I am not sure what that will be! Hopefully I will keep up the posting on this little blog sharing my fun food finds and lessons I learn about eating and cooking with lots of fruits and veggies!
Shabbat Shalom!