Breakfast & Lunch for Week 1

Thanks to Jen Sellwood - who I owe at least one cold, early am Saturday run for sleeping in this morning - I'm bumping up my Whole 30 to start January 1.  Yes, I will miss beer and chili with my football on New Years' Day, but my wagon has been dragging for the last two weeks and I need to get it moving again :)

If you like eggs, W30 breakfast is a piece of cake!  Cook up a couple of eggs, serve them with some veggies, and you're good to go.  If you like omelets, they're a great starting place for incorporating veggies into your breakfast.

I had a comprehensive food panel in August that showed an egg sensitivity, so my breakfasts take a little more planning.  My go-to breakfast food is spinach salad - literally a couple handfuls of baby spinach, tossed in vinaigrette, topped with a little fruit and some sunflower seeds.  Whole Foods carries Tessemae's salad dressings and hot sauce (OMG - so good!!), all of which are W30-compliant:

http://www.tessemaes.com

Because I usually work out first thing in the morning, I have some winter squash or half a sweet potato on the side for recovery.  It's the protein piece that takes a little planning for me.  For now, I'm going to make a big serving of paleo shrimp and grits:

http://www.health-bent.com/seafood/paleo-shrimp-and-grits

I'm hoping I have a few slices of sugar-free bacon left in my freezer; if not, I'm going to try my luck at the SoPo Farmers Market tomorrow.

Lunch plan for the week - kale salad with lemon-butter shrimp:

http://www.thekitchn.com/lunch-for-one-kale-salad-with-148328
http://greenhsv.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/shrimp-with-lemon-butter-herb-sauce/

Unsweetened dried fruit is 1) hard to find, and 2) hard to fund, so I'm going to replace the dried apricots with fresh grapefruit.  To keep the recipe W30-compliant, I'm taking out the parmesan cheese and the beans.

As for the shrimp recipe, butter is out on the W30, so I'm going to make my own ghee (clarified butter) and will even then cut the butter in half.  Here's the recipe I'm going to use - fingers crossed it turns out okay:

http://www.grassfedgirl.com/how-to-make-ghee-in-your-crock-pot/

And Whole 9 has a forum which includes a W30 Log.  I'm going to post meals there, too:
http://forum.whole9life.com/topic/5220-egg-free-3/

I hope you're all starting to get excited for this!!