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[DaiseyMama]

Hi Laides...

I was wondering if you would be kind enough to help me get started with a bang in this way healthier kind of eating .....by showing me what a rundown of your weekly dinners look like.

Breakfasts and lunches would be cool too...but I didn't want to ask so much that you tend to think it too huge of a project.

For now, I'd especially love to see what nightly dinners look like for a week around your house. I am having the most difficult time all of a sudden making a grocery list for Dh...having meals planned...my mind is being retrained and in the process.... going blank...and I'm getting in a rut.

Rice and beans. Rice and beans. Rice and beans..... And that's all acid I've just learned. !!!!!

SO.........Weekly menus please, please, please...this will help us out in such a huge way.....If you have a monthly menu or a two week menu..that would be EVEN more lovely.....

Thank You , Thank You!!!!!

Daisey

[Mom2boys]

Daisey,
My monthly menu is at www.tasteofhealth.homestead.com . Click on menus. There is also a shopping list and recipes for each menu there.

[KatieAZ]

WOW! Those meals are intimidating to me! ROFL

Here is average fodder here. Remember my boys have some food allergies so our recipes will be low on the wheat/milk/corn side.

Breakfast:
Rice Ceareal (is rice really an acid?) I am planning on making smoothies in the morning more often but rice cereal is SO easy and the kids can make it themselves. It is basically rice cooked in a cooker (20 minutes) and they poor just a scant amount of milk over it (I will have raw goats milk here soon!!!) and a sprinkle of cinnamon/sugar mixture. Ok, the cinnamon/sugar stuff could be better but really it is way better than some things so I am happy.
Oatmeal Used to do this often but my boys are allergic to oats. I'm told that fermented steel cut oats are very yummy. I have the oats but have yet to try them due to my boys.
Eggs Scrambled. YEs, even though Dr. Mercola say scrambled is the worst way to way to eat your eggs. I LIKE scrambled eggs. Although if they are an acid and we should start out with an alkaline I'd be more than happy to move my egg burritos to lunch.

LUNCH
sandwiches Deli meat, Deli cheese, alfalfa sprouts, mayo, mustard, cucumbers, avocado, romaine lettuce on french bread. ya ya, we should use a hearty wheat but we have not bought any because we rarely eat bread.
salad This is a biggie here. We eat this all the time!! Romaine lettuce (I buy chopped in bag, ready made), carrots, celery, radishes, green onions, cheese, dorito chips(crushed), cucumbers, your choice of dressing. Dollop of tuna salad or egg salad.
chicken salad Jenna requested this. I made it just like potato salad only used chicken thighs, pan fried in olive oil and chopped up.

Dinner
Chicken, Rice Stuff Pan fry chicken with garlic powder in olive oil. Chop chicken and add cooked rice. Use salt, pepper and thyme liberally. Add frozen broccoli florets and let cook another 20-30 minutes. Top with cheese in your bowl.
Spinach Lentil Soup Saute a chopped onion and heaping spoonful of chopped garlic. Add bag of lentils and water. Add more water as needed. Cook for 20-30 minutes. Use tons of sea salt to flavor. Pepper. At the very end add 1-2 tblsp lemon juice and LOTS of spinach. Put cheese (we use cheddar) on the bottom of your bowl and ladel soup in. Oh my goodness, I am salivating, this soup is SO good! My twins can't eat it (lentils and cheese) but the rest of the kids love it!!

All these meals are the type that take a couple minutes to throw in a pot and then you can have a kid check on it and stir it once in awhile. I'm not the type that hangs out actually cooking for an hour. When the chicken is pan frying I know in my head how long it takes so I put the chicken, garlic powder and oil in, put a lid on it and walk away. In 15-20 minutes I come back, chop chicken, add more stuff and it is done in another 20 minutes.

I'll post if I remember anything else that are staples in our home. Anyone see anything wrong health wise with the things we are eating?

[Mom2boys]

Katie,
You guys are definitely eating a lot of acidic foods. Can you do the fruit in the morning, starches at lunch and have protein in the evening? That is the best way to eat for your bodies digestion. Protein is actually more of a stimulant than sugar. I can write up an explanation of that tomorrow if you want. I am trying to finish up some work today.
Tina


How about moving your egg burritos to dinner once a week? Keep the salad at lunch and add some lunchmeat to that? Eat lots of salad at lunch. Keep the lunchmeat and nix the bread or vice versa, but not both.

That soup does sound good! I think I'm gonna make it this week!

[Mom2boys]

okay, I thought of a few quick alkaline lunches.

We cook up sweet potatos in advance so they are ready to just pull out of the fridge and eat. They are also ready to go into a sweet potato souffle quickly.

I also make a huge pan of the squash casserole that is under the produce category. It can just be heated up as needed.

I purchase 25# of carrots at a time and cut them into carrot sticks . The container gets pulled out every night and we eat them like potato chips. They are our snack. It's the crunch I want anyway. I don't offer dip with them. You can if that's the only way your kids will eat them.

My produce bill is pretty big. We go through about 40# of bananas a month . Those mostly go into smoothies.

My sugar crashes too, but I have learned to keep apples and sweet fruits sliced up in the fridge and grab those instead of a cookie.

I also make oatmeal flaxseed cookies for treats. They are sweet and they clean you out ;D

I'm sure I will think of more.

[KatieAZ]

Can you do the fruit in the morning, starches at lunch and have protein in the evening?

Honey, we can do ANYTHING here. We could eat soup for breakfast if that is best. No one ever called us traditionalists! ROFLPMP!!! ;D

The only thing I MIGHT cry about is if I lost my rice cereal all together. It is such an EASY meal and my kids love it. Is rice an acid? I could move it no problem, but to lose it completely I might have a breakdown.

With regard to the sandwiches (I already understand the protien versus sugar stimulant thing) I am reading Weston price's stuff and he is saying (remember I am at the beginning of the book) that many of these people live mainly on bread and cheese and milk. Or fish and some grain. It seems there is a grain/animal product connection. I have not read the back where he talks more about diet and I have not read Nourishing Traditions but I kinda figured the sandwiches would be safe. They are yummy but unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately ) will likely be short lived just due to cost. Deli meat is NOT cheap. We went for weeks and ate salad for lunch everyday. That is my plan for the summer months. To eat it everyday. We had a cold snap here and so I made some soups and stuff for a bit. Now we are getting back to salads. After we finish up the two pounds of Deli meat I bought today.

Sweet potatoes and squash casserole sound fantastic!! We also do the raw carrots (no dressing) thing for snacks here. All of our snacks are bananas, apples, oranges and carrots. No more goldfish (even though they were so cute and friendly). I exposed my kids to squash the other day. They were all being sickie, well, they had eaten garlic so were on the road to getting well.....and I decided we were having a raw foods buffet for lunch. So I went and bought all manner of veggies and the kids requested that I pick out something new for them to try as well. They were very excited about the fresh veggies though. I bought yellow squash and everyone loved it. I took the left overs and made a veggie beef soup for dinner and it was so funny, Jenna said "The squash went squish." ;D But they all raved about how good the soup was and they especially loved the squash. I think they just loved it because it was something new and it was yellow!!!

Anyways....they would be so excited with a squash casserole! And of course everyone loves sweet potatoes. They used to fight over who got to mash them when it was still cold enough to bake here in AZ. You know, that two weeks of winter that we get. Do you eat your sweet potatoes cut in cubes or what? You said "Pull out of the fridge and eat." but what does that mean? Ok, off to find that squash casserole.

[Mom2boys]

Katie,
Rice is acid, but you can still have it as long as it makes up the 25% acids that you have each day. We really only need 25g of protein per day. So , you don't necessarily need to loose the rice cereal

This is the thing with lunch meat. Unless you're buying the expensive stuff, it is full of nitrites and nitrates which are cancer causers. The other big ingredient is MSG. Even Boars head has MSG.

Those salads sound great!

On the sweet potatoes. We normally just cut the potato open and eat it right out of the potato. Sometimes if I'm running short on time , we microwave them Otherwise, I heat them in the oven. Honey and cinnamon are good on them or just plain butter. I like mine plain. Organic sweet potatos are sweeter than non organic ones by far. I'll post the sweet potato souffle recipe after church.

The squash casserole is my absolute favorite!

You're also cooking for a lot more people than I am. I only have two boys and my hubby

[DaiseyMama]

Interesting stuff here....

Wanted to add about sweet potatoes. We slice them up and eat them raw like carrot sticks. Sometimes I don't fool with cutting them into stick but rather sliced like thin potato chips . They're a big winner and even dh takes them to work. You can eat the squash the same way.

An Alkaline-ish lunch that I really like is simply homemade tortillas with Avacado in them. yum......A very simple roll.

Going over to look at that menu today.

Daisey

[smfeet2001]

I am having trouble figuring out why acidic foods are bad for you and yet you recommend that lunch meat is ok.

Lunch meat is bad for you because it has nitrates in them. We avoid lunch meat and hot dogs here in our family if we can help it....

Just trying to figure this whole thing out....

Holly

[Mom2boys]

I agree with you on the lunchmeat Holly. It is not okay. There are a few brands that don't have nitrates, but most do.

[smfeet2001]

Can you tell me what brand doesn't have nitrates? It would be nice to have them for my dh's lunch....

Thanks so much!! Sorry if I seemed harsh. I seem to be harsh lately. Anyway didn't intend to come across that way. (I re-read my post and realized I was a bit harsh )

Holly

[Mom2boys]

You did not seem harsh. Just straight forward. Straight forward is good. That's what I am ;D Boars head advertises that it is nitrate and nitrite free. You will still need to check the label for MSG. The Boars head turkey is pretty good. The ham has MSG in it.

Applegate farms is another good one and when we do it pork, it is always Beelers brand.You can look them up online. Just do a search for Beelers

[smfeet2001]

Thanks so much!! I will do some searching...I think the Walmart supercenter has the Boars head meat but not sure...I will double check the MSG. I wish our Chinese buffet restaurant do not have MSG. ggrrrr!!! It is the best buffet in town but they use MSG wah wah!!!

Whew! I am glad I didn't offend with my straight forward question/comment....
Holly

[Mom2boys]

I don't know if you have a Publix or not , but they have Boars head in the deli. Sam's club deli meats are nitrite and nitrate free also.

[smfeet2001]

We do not have a Publix but where we go for our vacation has a Publix and we shop there for food since we live in a condo while on vacation (Sarasota, FL Publix and condo on Siesta Key)

Holly