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Meal Plans Week of 11-6-11

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Here we are…one of the worst mornings of the year in my opinion…adjusting to the time change. Which means my body is not happy. And I already have a cranky little boy up. And who knows when Rebecca will be up. Not the ideal start to the week. Hopefully everyone will adjust quickly. I’m glad that after church we have the rest of the day to relax.

Last week was a nice week. We had a fair amount of down time. We played and played. I got some more organizing and cleaning done around the house. We did have a few outings as well – we had our first milk pick up, we went to Kindermusik and MOPS. And Justin and I went out for dinner on Friday. We couldn’t go to the restaurant we wanted, but we still had a nice dinner. I guess we’ll have to plan another date so we can try the other restaurant 🙂  In the kitchen I got started on lots of dairy products. I made pumpkin ice cream, raw sour cream, kefir and raw yogurt. I’m experimenting with yogurt methods and I’ll post about them later. I was pleasantly surprised with the raw/uncooked version. It’s the easiest. And both Rebecca and Justin ate it fine. But I still want to experiment with other methods before I settle on how I want to do it regularly. I also made creamy chocolate pudding. Now that we have a lot of milk I have to think of ways to use it 🙂

This week will be a little bit busier than last week. Today is church. Monday is milk pick up. Tuesday is Kindermusik and voting. Wednesday will be Meijer (so thankful I didn’t have to go last week!!! I hope that trend continues). Friday I have nursery duty for the MOPS steering team. Saturday morning Justin has an orchestra concert. In the evening we are having one of his co-workers (and family) over for dinner.

So I’ll be doing a little extra cleaning this week in preparation for guests. Plus some extra baking. I also want to continue to experiment with dairy products. I want to make more yogurt and sour cream. Possibly butter. And I might experiment with some GAPS-legal ice cream. I have a couple methods to try. I need to make a new batch of pesto and mayo. I’d also like to cook more squash and some pumpkin. Our letter this week is J. Not sure what kitchen work will relate to that. I’ll see what I can come up with. For Saturday I haven’t totally decided on a dessert, but I have an idea for a pumpkin pie parfait that I think I want to try. Else I’ll do cheesecake of pumpkin cheese pie. For the dessert I might need to make some homemade cream cheese and whipped cream.

As always still trying to figure out what my body is doing. The end of last week was pretty rough. I think it was from the introduction of raw sour cream. I think I’m going through more die off. From everything I’ve read (and I read a lot…I went through almost every single FAQ on the GAPS site on Friday loking for answers) in the long run the sour cream will really help me. But the adjustment is not pleasant. It didn’t help that in conjunction with it I was decreasing the miralax more (less than a half dose!) and ate steak and an apple. I think I was just asking for trouble. And now I’m paying for it. Still trying to get my body back on track. I was reminded when I was reading through the FAQs that muscle meat is hard to digest (steak). Stick to gelatinous meats. Bring on the bone 😛  Steak just doesn’t sit well with me. I also still wonder about vitamins/minerals. I mentioned them in my monthly goals post. The one that stands out is magnesium. Lots of people use magnesium to help with digestion (just check out the laxative section in the store…all kinds of forms of magnesium). So I wonder if I need more/if that would help. One of the reasons that it stands out is that over the last year I’ve noticed that whenever I drink hot chocolate it seems like my body instantly absorbs the fluids and it helps my tummy. I always thought it was crazy. Why would hot chocolate help? But then I read that cocoa contains magnesium! I drank hot chocolate almost daily during my pregnancy. It was the only way I could drink water sometimes. And lately I’ve been drinking it again (a homemade version with just raw cocoa and honey…and yes, raw cocoa is GAPS legal if you are on full GAPS). Oddly enough it seems to help. So I will continue to look into that. I’m always learning. The other thing I’ve noticed is that my tongue often tells me when I’m sensitive to a food. For the last few years whenever I eat pineapple my tongue burns/stings for half the day. And now it seems to do that with some of the other foods I’m sensitive to…like carrots, grains and apples. I just have to listen to my body.

Rebecca continues to make progress with her eating/tastes. And Abram is growing like a weed. He will be 6 months old this week. He’s moving all over the place. He hasn’t quite gotten into a full crawl, but he is doing an army crawl. And we switched him to a bigger car seat. No more infant carrier. He has one tooth coming in. And probably more on the way.

Anyway, I have a hungry little boy here. Here’s what’s on the menu for now.
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S (church, make parfait)
  L – chicken and veggies in cp (make stock/broth), scalloped potatoes
  D – strawberry milkshakes, buttered popcorn, crackers w/ raw cheese and balogna, apple slices, homemade sweet potato chips (Junk food dinner:)

M (make ice cream, GF, make yogurt)
  D – sloppy joes on homemade buns, roasted squash, sweet potato chips

T (KM, vote, make sour cream)
  D – sloppy joe pizza

W (make pesto, dentist, make sour cream Meijer)
  D – misc. leftovers, salmon cakes, peas

Th (make hot fudge,make smoothies, make yogurt, Meijer, make caramel)
  D – homemade sauasage patties, baked sweet potatoes chunks, peas

F (clean, MOPS nursery, roast beets, bake cheesecake and squash)
  D – pea soup, bread

S (bake bread, clean, laundry, concert, guests)
  D – pork roast w/ fruit, squash, beans, applesauce, rolls, cheesecake 

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