Oct 14 - Crazy Bean

Breakfast was a quick smoothie with left over oatmeal, fruit, whey protein , wheat germ and flax seed

Lunch was a a great little restaurant called the crazy bean, I had red beans and rice, and a mojo made with
fresh ingredients. 

Dinner, left over Indian food, tandoori shrimp and salad.

I Love Indian Food

Breakfast was left over oatmeal and fruit with coffee.

Lunch was Tuna on whole grain but I almost went to the local Chipotle Also...Ummm.

Dinner was my favorite Indian food, Tandoori chicken and shrimp with rice.

I agree with Lee about eating local.  Be indigenous ( When in Rome do as the Romans do)

Dine Out for Farms

Tonight we ate at American Flatbread.  A great pizza/flatbread place who uses as much local ingredients as possible.  Even the desserts are made locally, with local ingredients.  While dining on my Figs with Cheese wrapped in local bacon, I read about Dine Out for Farms.  A great program trying to help save our local farmland.  Check it out, support a restaurant in your area who participates. 

Chipotle

Chipotle is one of my favorite places to grab a quick meal.  Recently I noticed a promotion inside their store.  If you show up on Oct 31 dressed as a scary processed food you can get a burrito for $2.  http://www.chipotle.com/en-US/fan-antics/boorito/boorito.aspx

.... second the routine.

SO routine is definitely key.  And as Trish said, having the pantry stocked!  A plus to eating unprocessed foods?  Grocery shopping is easier.  You don't have to walk up and down the isles.  All the food you need around the outsides of the store.  Occasionally  there may be staples like, flour, spices, etc which are found in the isles, but most items are right on the edges of the store. 


To fuel myself for my morning bike commutes to work, I eat oatmeal (real oats, not instant)  with brown sugar, honey and sometimes raisins.  Lunches have consisted of fresh baked bread, sliced smoked turkey and provolone cheese from the deli. 

Dinners are more creative.  Roasted chickens, steaks, potatoes, veggies, salmon, risotto.  All made with fresh spices and good oils (canola and olive).

Eating unprocessed is less of a challenge than eating the close to 3000 calories a day of unprocessed foods in order to get enough fuel for my workouts.  

Oct 12th Still Unprocessed

Breakfast : Steel cut oatmeal with almond milk , Coffee

Lunch : Grilled Chicken Sandwich on whole grain bread with lettuce & Tomato
             Water

Dinner : Whole wheat pasta with chopped up tomatoes, onion, green chili's, garlic pressed
              and mushrooms.  Made garlic bread on whole grain bread with evoo and garlic.
              water

It's not too hard to eat unprocessed when your busy if you get into a routine.  Updating the blog
is as easy as being on facebook so no troubles there either. I think the key is too prepare your
pantry and then it's not too different than eating processed.

Oct 11 - first day of real estate school

Breakfast : One egg scrambled, Half a whole grain bagel and a greek yogurt.

Lunch : Grilled chicken salad w/ oil & Balsamic vinegar

Dinner : Roasted Chicken Breast with string beans and collard greens.

Oct 10th in the sun fishing off the dock!

Breakfast : scrambled egg wrapped in a whole grain tortilla

Snack : Fruit

Lunch : Turkey and Hummus in a tortilla 100% whole grain

Dinner :  Lara Bar, Turkey wrap and fruit. Quick food to eat while fishing on the end of
my dock. The mullet fish were jumping in the air, I should have traded my fishing rod
for a net and a mallet.

Oct 9 - Busy day, on the run

Breakfast : I'm hooked on the smoothie I had for lunch on Oct 8. So I had to mix it up again..

Lunch : Half pound of large boiled white shrimp and ice tea

Snack : lavasch cracker & hummus

Dinner : sushi & seaweed salad

Snack : a peanut butter lara bar.

Smoothie kind of day

Breakfast : 2 eggs scrambled wrapped in a 100% whole grain tortilla and coffee w 2 raw sugars.

Lunch : Smoothie made with whey protien powder, left over steel cut oatmeal, almond milk, fresh ground peanut butter, banana, unsweet applesauce, flax seed, wheat germ and ice..Yummy!

Dinner : Left over Chicken stack from the day before.

Lot's of water...

Oct 7, Easy fix'n good unprocessed food - Who Knew!

 Breakfast :  One bowl of steel cut oatmeal w/almond milk & raw sugar. 2 cup's of yuban organic w raw sugar.

Lunch :  Tilapia baked w/ old bay seasoning and green salad with baby portabella mushrooms Balsamic vinegar and evoo. Lot's of water.

Dinner : Chicken Stack- eggplant sliced thick, yellow squash sliced lengthwise,sliced tomato, basil leaves and very then boneless skinless chicken breast. Stack eggplant on the bottom then build up with tomato, squash,basil leaves and sea salt and black pepper chicken breast.  Cook at 350 for 20 to 30 minutes.
Water, water and water....

Somehow I keep forgetting to have snacks in between the meals. Guess I'm just satisfied..

Busy schedule...

So, part of this challenge is how to integrate good eating habits into a busy schedule. This post will be short, but I'm working on a longer post about the last couple of days.  Working full time, 5 month old, 13 year old in baseball and band and working on my own fitness make me a very busy boy.  But it can be done!  Routine is important.  Planning the weeks menu and sticking with that menu is key.  This week I did not have time to go to the store and build my menu based on the challenge.  We have been working on eating unprocessed for a while, so this week of really thinking about every thing I consume is showing me how well we have been doing.  I can and will do better! 

Oct 6 was a yummy day indeed..

Breakfast : A scrambled egg with goulda cheese and one half of a whole grain all the way bagel thin half.
                 2 cups of organic yuban joe with 2 packets of raw sugar.

Snack : Banana

Lunch : Homemade tuna salad w/ celery cut into very thin slivers, and chopped vidalia onion, organic mayo.
            Served on 100% whole grain sandwich rounds.  With a side salad and balsamic vinegar and evoo.

Dinner: Baked  skinless chicken breast w/ light shakes of sea salt, garlic and black pepper. two baked small red potatoes halved with evoo and fresh rosemary. One small baked vidalia onion .

Generally, the stinker the food the more yummy it is...also, just water with lunch and dinner.

No Chemical Calories

Breakfast was steel cut oatmeal with banana and almond milk. Coffee w 2 packs of raw sugar.
Pretty good but kinda boring...

Lunch was white albacore tuna mixed with organic mayonnaise ( I can't make my homemade mayo..
gotta get my food processor when I'm back in Virginia). I had my tuna on this great bread that's
100% whole grain sandwich rounds.  Perfect size for a sandwich.  Lot's of water today.

Dinner was very tasty, Grilled Basa Fish ( A very lean white fish) with fresh lemon slices and pepper.
I cooked red, green and yellow peppers with fresh garlic & onions.  I cook on medium heat until the onions are translucent. I baked two very small red potatoes also.  Just used a at of real butter on the taters.
More water...

Now Lee, What kind of peanut butter and jelly are you using...Do they have chemical calories ?
I ground my own peanut butter at the fresh market Sunday.  That and a banana will be my snack if needed later.

Oct 4, 2010 Trish's Menu

Breakfast consisted of one scrambled egg wrapped in a half of a whole grain tortilla.

Lunch was in St Augustine at the Reef Restaurant overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
I had 4 oz of grilled Snapper, small portion of Japica Rice, Steamed Broccoli & Carrots.
and water.

Dinner was consumed at Whitey's Fish Shack in Jacksonville's Orange Park. That's
on Swim Fin Creek : 7 grilled scallops Brown Rice and Green Salad with Oil & Vinegar for dressing.

I went to this fabulous place over the week-end and prepared and replaced ingredients in my pantry
to prepare for this challenge.  What fun that was and expensive however, a great education.  The great find was when I went to Winn Dixie and the fish guy really hooked me up with Grouper and a fish I never heard of called Basa.  Good stuff !  My first day was fun, tomorrow I plan to do a bit more cooking. I also pulled up Julia Child's recipe for mayonnaise and will attempt that this week also..

Look out my wonderful nephew, I'm up for the Challenge !

Peanut Butter and Jelly?

Today's menu:

• Breakfast: Oatmeal (from rolled oats) with brown sugar and honey.
• Morning Snacks: Banana and Apple
• Lunch: Peanut Butter and Jelly on Whole Wheat, pretzels and carrots
• Dinner: Homemade roasted tomato soup with grilled cheese.  

How does PB&J fall into this challenge?  That is the question!?

Unprocessed Food Challenge Start Date October 4,2010

My Nephew Lee Diehr whom is a dedicated Bicyclist and Photographer has accepted a 30 day challenge to eat only unprocessed food.  I've created this blog so we can both keep a journal and update our daily challenges to avoid processed foods.

This began after Lee put the link http://www.eatingrules.com/ on facebook.  I agree with Lee that this is a great website to check out.

We'll start our updates on Monday  Oct 4,2010 with our consumption of daily foods .