Every Monday I try to come up with a meal plan for the week. Sometimes I mostly stick to the plan and sometimes the plan might as well not exist. This week I was fairly consistent with what we had vs. what was planned. Minor tweaks and a major head and body ache on Sunday was the difference.
What was planned for last weeks meals:
1. Chili, coleslaw, cornbread
2. Chicken tamale casserole, broccoli
3. Steamed shrimp, new potatoes, tossed salad
4. Mac and cheese, broccoli, Waldorf salad
5. Leftover lentil soup, cheese biscuits
6. Take-out
7. Conecuh sausage one pan meal (onions, peppers, potatoes and cabbage), corn bread
What we really ate:
Monday: Shrimp, new potatoes, tossed salad
Tuesday: Chicken tamale casserole, tossed salad
Wednesday: Mac and cheese, green beans, Waldorf salad
Thursday : Chili, coleslaw, pilot crackers
Friday: Takeout Taziki's Friday Special
Saturday: Leftover lentil soup and crackers
Sunday: Mushroom soup for TheHub, hot tea for me (felt bad)
This weeks plan is virtually nonexistent. I hopped off the keto trail before Christmas and need to get back on it, so I am doing a severe plan to kick off keto, beginning Tuesday. It is a five day mainly soup plan with daily breakfasts. It does not sound particularly enticing, but it is only 5 days and is doable. I did tell TheHub he is on his own for dinner. There are leftovers, things in the freezer, or he can stop on his way home and get whatever he wants. Since I will be on this beginning the 1st, it only leaves me with 2 meals to plan, Monday and Sunday night.
1. Spaghetti and meatballs, tossed salad
2. Something grilled (weather permitting), tossed salad, baked potato (or none) and if the weather is bad we will cook a burger inside.
Have a great week staying on plan, going off plan, or with non plan at all!
Good luck with rejoining the keto trail.
ReplyDeleteWe are going to do the groceries later today. Our plan (such as it is) will depend on what the stores have at the moment (some products are noticeably absent).
Noticeably absent seems to be the operational word everywhere right now.
DeleteHope you feel better!
ReplyDeleteI feel much better today!
DeleteAt one job, I ate the same soup for lunch for three months and lost 30 lbs with no effort. The soup did have diced potatoes and corn, so probably not keto, huh? But, soup did the job. Happy keto eating.
ReplyDeleteNope not keto at all. I just need a fast reset then I will continue on with keto, but do normal keto.
DeleteThanks for including this link, Anne! I'm seeing several of her recipes that intrigue me.
ReplyDeleteI've used several of her recipes and enjoyed them.
DeleteME wants the chicken tamale casserole recipe please, and I think I will do chili tomorrow, you have inspired me.
ReplyDeleteI will try and post the recipe this week. It is so easy!
DeleteClose relation had surgery today ( Monday). I had a peanut butter and banana sandwich for supper. I probably will be doing grocery deli during my caregiving duties after work this week. Some weeks are like that. Your menu actually sounds good. I like tomato soup. Broccoli and cheese is very nice also. Cindy in the South
ReplyDeleteI hope they recover quickly. Some weeks are definitely just snatch and grab weeks.
DeleteGood luck with your hard reset.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I need more structure than just starting a regular keto diet. This does not sound great but it is only 5 days.
DeleteHope you are feeling better, Anne. Good luck with the keto kick off week! I remember trying an Atkins diet soup, back in the late 1970s (78 I think), and hated it! But, that might have been because it had no added salt.
ReplyDeleteThis is basically a ketofied Atkins soup diet.
DeleteGood luck with your re-set with Keto. I just can't live without my bread and potatoes so it would never be for me
ReplyDeleteI do like bread but I can easily forgo the potatoes. I really miss crunchy food when doing keto.
DeleteThis is perfect chili weather! I need to make that this week.
ReplyDeleteI love chili. We had it last week and it was very good, with lot left for THeHub this week
DeleteYummy.
ReplyDeleteNot really yummy, but decent
DeleteKinda like a plan serves the purpose. And can't go wrong with Bobby Bare. Good luck with your diet. I did a sheet pan roast with lemon potatoes, brussels sprouts & salmon yesterday. I came across a recipe for a chickpea/tomato/chard topping for spaghetti squash and that's next on the menu. I need to make a pot of soup. Maybe carrot/rice to use up the garden carrots stored in the fridge. Good luck with your reset with a new month.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the luck. I need it as much as I need to get back to doing that keto thing.
DeleteGood luck with the keto soup plan. I just had a look and it does seem doable!
ReplyDeleteI had the soup today and it is neither good nor bad. Doesn't matter because it is what I am having for the next 4 days (secretly glad day 1 is in the books)
DeleteGood luck with your Keto diet!
ReplyDeleteChili is so good in this weather. I made a pot yesterday. :)
I hope you have a wonderful week.
Chili is delicious when it is cool!
DeleteGood luck with your 5 day plan! That's really the perfect amount of time to kick start a diet (or anything) -- long enough to have an effect, short enough to stick to.
ReplyDelete5 days is doable and I am seriously glad 2 are over!
Delete5 days of strict soup keto sounds like my idea of hell so I take my hat off to you!
ReplyDeleteIt never occurred to me that keto pretty much counts out crunchy carbs, lucky it allows plenty of delicious butter :)
It is not particularly satisfying but it is just 5 days
ReplyDeleteI am not envious of your diet! We try to keep things varied and try new recipes, though that leads to tempting ourselves a lot.
ReplyDeletebest... mae at maefood.blogspot.com
Trying new recipes and tempting myself is exactly why I am in need of this strict (and mostly unappealing) reset.
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