Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner...

scrambled eggs with fruit on the side

A typical breakfast seems to be either eggs, or oatmeal- we are falling into a pattern.

For lunch today we were craving peanut butter and jelly. So, here is my improvise:

chop almonds in the food processor

stream in olive oil

To make Almond Butter-

Put almonds in food processor and chop- stream in olive oil until smooth (mine turned out a little runny).

I added a very more almonds in the end, so there would be a little more texture- chunkyness.

I also added a pack of stevia, and some kosher salt

almond butter

mix almond butter with ricotta cheese

sliced strawberries

smoosh them up

spread the almond mixture on rice cake, top with strawberries

Tah Dah! PBJ- in a way...

Enjoy!

Tuesday means Family dinner with lovely company!

Nothing like a full table! We love it. Lots of help in the kitchen, Yeah! Had to repeat surf and turf, so easy and so good. Strawberries with pecan cake for dessert.

mixing up the pecan cake

Creamy Pecan Cake

1/2 cup margarine or butter

3 dropper fulls of stevia

2 eggs

3/4 cup coconut flour, 3/4 c brown rice flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1t baking powder

2 heaping t of flax meal

1/2 t xanthan powder

1t cinnamon

1 t nutmeg

1 t allspice

1 t corriander

1 T poppyseed

1 cup ricotta cheese

1/2 cup greek yogurt
1 can thai coconut milk

1/2 cup chopped pecans 

Takes @ 60 minutes at 350F in my oven

Mary's coating the fish, getting ready to grill- flour mixture, egg, flour again...

grilling up the steak,
green beans cooking in the tall pot;
peppers, garlic, and onions in the front short pot

Jena putting together the salad- lots of sprouts on top

Kelly finds the mutant strawberry! Yowza!

Creamy pecan cake with strawberries and whipped cream, Wow!

Perfecting the strawberry smoothie...

1/2 carton of Greek yogurt

add juice of 1 lemon

3 handfuls of frozen sliced strawberries

add some whipping cream

add about 2 t vanilla extract

add cinnamon

add ice

add almond milk

add about 3 droppers full of stevia

blend and serve

Makes at least 4 servings

breakfast with cheese

eggs for breakfast

 We added a little cheese to our diet today. We were pretty excited about it. We'll see how that goes... We have been on the diet for about a month now. 

We're a little leery about adding things, it's not like we're feeling much better yet. I actually have had the most benefit so far. My hot flashes are gone and I am off the medications for them. I am starting to get some energy back. My husband thinks he is having less headaches, but he still has a daily low-grade headache. Our daughter is still very sick, however, and rarely well enough to leave the house. The Dr. added more supplements for her. We're hoping they help. One of them, though will increase the "die off", so she may feel even worse before she feels better. She may feel flu symptoms, with nausea and fever. She was very dizzy yesterday, and was in bed most of the day. Today should be better.

There is a powder for chronic fatigue that you mix with liquid. We tried it in water, in smoothie, and in hot tea. It mixed the best with the tea. 

The smoothies for this breakfast turned out great.

I used the smoothie that I had frozen the other day:

put it in the blender and added

2 handfuls of frozen strawberry slices

rice milk- @ 1 c

1 dropper full of stevia

blended on low for 1 minute

Eggs

olive oil

brown together in pan:
bacon
1 green pepper
2 green onions
whip 9 eggs together and add to veggies
sprinkle in pepper and k salt
when almost done top with slices of montery jack and colby cheese
fold eggs in half so cheese melts on the inside

serve with fresh parsley and tomatoes