So get this. I am trying to work this Paleo thing in to my eating habits. Not easy. As a really quick summary, assume you can not eat grains, beans or rice….Mexican food is almost completely on the no-no list. No bread…no pasta. Now I can agree with much of this, but other parts … not so much. For example, I really don’t feel the need for a whole lot of bread. Ok. Scratch that off the list. Beans…hmm. Well that is tougher. They have been minimized but not eliminated. Rice, this is another one that I could probably go without. So I put it on the no-no list. Not too much of a problem there either. So the only one, in general, which is a little tough is beans. I am working on it though.
Now I have one exception to this paleo thing and one funny story. First the exception…Breakfast. I have a hard time losing my grain at breakfast. This doesn’t mean donuts or cinnamon toast. No. It means oatmeal or my granola bar. I do have more fruit in the morning to compensate, but a Zone bar of granola bar is still on the list. I saw a “sample menu” for breakfast. Here were a couple of suggestions:
A pork chop
Beef stew (without potatoes)
Seriously? Beef stew for breakfast? Yeah… I don’t think so. I am definitely not there yet.
Now for the funny story. On Friday my company had an all hands employee meeting. Now as I was walking in, I could have sworn I smelled bacon. That would mean that there were probably eggs as well.. Score! As I reach the table, I find out that my nose played a mean trick on me. There weren’t any eggs or bacon. There was coffee (paleo acceptable), tea (paleo acceptable), donuts (not acceptable) Danish (not acceptable) and muffins (not acceptable). Please note, not a fruit to be found. So after a couple cups of coffee, I considered that breakfast. (kinda, sorta).
But I figured I could make that up at the company lunch. So here was the lunch spread:
Pulled pork sandwich
BBQ beef sandwich
Veggie sandwich made with a black bean patty
Eggplant sandwich
Rice
Mashed potatoes
Salad
Lots and lots of dessert. – seriously – there were two plates
Ok now you need to add on one additional item here. It was Friday and on Friday during lent (which goes from Mardi Gras to Easter) you should refrain from eating meat. So now look at the menu.
Pulled pork sandwich (on the no-no list 2x)
BBQ beef sandwich (on the no-no list 2x)
Veggie sandwich made with a black bean patty (on the no-no list 2x)
Eggplant sandwich (the eggplant would be ok but only without the bread)
Rice (on the no-no list)
Mashed potatoes (technically on the no-no list, but I did not restrict that… yet)
Salad (ok – I now have one legit item on the lunch menu)
Lots and lots of dessert. – seriously – there were two plates (on the no-no list)
So what did my lunch consist of? Salad, mashed potatoes, and the eggplant out of the sandwich (I threw away the bread and such). My salad mounded over my plate. Sigh…This gets easier…right?
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