More plants Monday

It’s detox mode over here.  I feel like the biggest cliche in that regard but you know what?  Don’t care.  My body is bloated and blah and in need of major plant based eats.  All the veggies please!  Of course I had to get to the store first and foremost, but I was committed to doing my best with what I had on Monday, no excuses.

NOURISH BREYAHHD.

The kids were too sick for school so we kept to ourselves.  I was super bummed because it meant I missed out on my MOPS moms group meetup and was stuck with snotty, barking, germy littles all day, but I need to get P healthy stat for OIT on Friday.  There was supposed to be a speaker on race and how to talk to young kids about race, which I was really eager to hear, so I told my friends to fill me in.  Does anyone else have good resources for this?

I gave the kids super foods all day to get their bodies’ immune systems in tip top fighting shape.  That smoothie above had almond milk, avocado, apples, kale and home-made nectarine chia preserves, plus this probiotic.

My lunch was salad made right in the bin with the rest of the baby kale and mixed greens that I bought for my Thanksgiving salad. Plus a champagne vinaigrette dressing (that I didn’t make very well), carrots, avocado, and smoked salmon.  It didn’t quite fill me up so I had a bit more salmon.  That did the trick.

V took the world’s shortest nap, so that wasn’t great, but at least it meant we could get to the grocery store and still have time to play in the yard that afternoon.  They were awesome helpers with the leaves that needed to be raked up…and there were a. lot.

New Trader Joe’s finds!

1. Zucchini spirals (to add to their carrot spirals, riced cauli, riced broccoli, and other pasta replaced with veggie options)

2. Almond butter turmeric dressing (vegan and made with cold pressed lemon ginger juice) because it’s so easy for me to get obsessed with salad dressings and this one has major potential

3. 7 Salts of the Earth (now I won’t have to steal my mom’s Hawaiian Black Lava Salt)

Check out these sillies.  It goes without saying that they came up with these outfits on their own…

I made the same(ish) salad I made for Thanksgiving and the week before for dinner.

Apparently I’m just craving squash filled salads right now.  Kyle loves them too, but the kids aren’t quite as thrilled with this meal.

Mixed greens + roasted butternut squash + home-made balsamic vinaigrette + roasted pecans

Plus this FIG GOAT CHEESE LOG impulse buy because as soon as I saw it, I realized plain goat chevre would not do.  I nixed the dried cranberries I was going to put in as a result because the fig was plenty sweet.

I served this Acme bread (leftover from Thanksgiving and gifted to me by my parents) on the side for everyone else.  It smelled so good, but I was still in detox mode, so no wheat for moi.

P tried the goat cheese but didn’t like it.  The rest of us, however, were big fans.  I don’t think V has ever met a cheese she doesn’t like.  She is her dada’s daughter for sure.  And his future ice cream date.

I wasn’t planning on having dessert, but I was hungry later that night and decided to have a small something because I’d actually had two days without dessert.

I unearthed these from my chocolate stash (you can’t tell but there are two stuck together back to back).  They were from my SF getaway with P and tasted like those Samoa / Caramel D’Light girl scout cookies.  That coconut, chocolate, caramel combo is unbeatable.  The best part of all is that I stopped after this portion was gone and felt satisfied.

On to the rest of the week!