Whole30 Breakfast

Whole30 breakfasts are delicious, especially egg scrambles.  Typically, I make a scramble with potatoes, bell peppers, onions, ham, and eggs, and they are quite tasty if I do say so myself.  Recently I found a recipe for a different scramble, and it's a game-changer.  This recipe has bacon, plantains, and apples.  You sprinkle a little salt and cinnamon over it, and then cook your eggs to order.  Because Patrick prefers eggs well scrambled, I usually make them that way if he is home.  But he's been in Puerto Rico for the last two weeks, so over-easy it is!  That runny yolk just hits the spot with the rest of the ingredients.  Yum.

This is the second time that Patrick and I have done Whole30.  Our first experience was last August, and it felt really daunting at the beginning.  I had to go grocery shopping every 4-5 days and carefully and specifically plan out each meal ahead of time.  Once we figured out what we could and could not eat, it became much easier, and we ended up finding several recipes that we still make all the time.  (see below)

This round has been less daunting and amazingly feels almost normal.  The hard part has been doing it by myself while Patrick is away.  It takes me forever to eat the food I prepare because I'm not sharing with another person.  Days and days of the same food really gets old and challenges my resolve.  So far, I've stuck with it.  (Although I did accidentally drink some almond milk that had sugar in it...oops.  Not starting over though.)  I'm on day 19, so the end is near.

Why do the Brices do Whole30 every so often?  It's not to lose weight or because we think we might be gluten or dairy intolerant.  We simply want to be healthy, and we feel that sometimes it's good to refresh our system and start over.  It's also a good reminder to think about what ingredients are in the food we eat all the time (added sweeteners are in a frustratingly large number of foods).  We don't feel dramatically different while we are in the middle of the 30 days, but afterwards we definitely notice a difference as we add foods back into our diet.

11 more days.

Some of our favorite Whole30 meals:
Spinach-Artichoke Twice Baked Potatoes
Apple, Plantain, Bacon Breakfast Scramble
Chicken, Pineapple, Red Onion, Bell Pepper Skewers
Stew Beef, Red Onion, Bell Pepper Skewers (marinate in coconut aminos)
Taco Salad (mix and match as desired) with Salty Plantain Chips
Pot Roast (just use Whole30-friendly ingredients)
Bananas with almond butter are the BEST snack
Pesto Chicken & Veggies






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