Day 1

We started the day off really well with cottage cheese pancakes. They are made from uncooked oatmeal, cottage cheese, vanilla, nutmeg and cinnamon. I just put it all in my Magic Bullet and that was that! While they cooked I put some blueberries and strawberries in the Magic Bullet and used that as a topping. I think this picture tells what the boys thought of this meal...


We rate this meal with four monkey thumbs up!

Morning snack was homemade black bean dip and cheddar cheese on whole wheat sandwich thins and blue berries on the side. The snack also gets 4 monkey thumbs up.


I have lots of different little boxes and containers I like to use to give the boys meals and snacks in. It makes things a little more fun.

Lunch was black beans and rice it was really pretty!


But none of us were crazy about it. I had to suppress the urge to smother it in cheese to make it more exciting. It did have diced tomatoes and peas in it. I think next time I'll try it with some salsa. That is if I make it again. We give this just one monkey thumb up.

Afternoon snack was another big hit.


Whole wheat mini bagels with some really yummy hummus from Trader Joe's (I have been wanting to try to make my own but this stuff is do good there isn't much point!), blue berries and strawberries. Four monkey thumbs up!

Dinner was chicken and broccoli pie. I added a little zucchini and frozen corn and made whole wheat crust from scratch.


It wasn't very pretty to start with. The crust was pretty crumbly. Not sure if this was because it was whole wheat or maybe because I had to use olive oil instead of vegetable oil but either way it was good!


I was very happy with how it turned out. We all really liked it. Four monkey thumbs up for this one too!

If anyone has any advice about the pie crust I would love for you to leave a comment. Even with the way it came out I would make it again but it would be nice if I could make it a little prettier next time.

I probably won't post every single thing we eat everyday but with it being our first day I thought it would be fun.

Now my goal for the rest of the week is to read about the nutritional benefits of flaxseed, figure out when to use it as seed and when to use it as meal and then start using it!

And I do realize that my pictures are pretty shadowy. I just use my phone and we have a solotube in the kitchen so I can't seem to get the lighting right. I'll keep trying though:)

-Jen-


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