Hi WhatNot Health Coaching Family-

This week we are working on meal planning, this was sparked by my husband needing to be on-call for work and we decided the best option to prevent an “on-call” call is to stay home and work on our eating habits instead of going out. Cause if we went out we would could potentially be put in a situation and get anxious waiting for a check as we may need to get home quickly. Therefore, I took this opportunity to work on our home meals and making sure we are not stuck in a rut. I am not a huge fan of meal planning to sticking to a certain schedule, as moods and craving change all the time.

In order for this to work for us, what we did is took a bunch of our cookbooks and went through to find recipes we liked and things we could modify to make them lighter and better for you. Things we took into in account, things we don’t eat (shellfish and mustard) and things we can find a modification (for those who are looking for an app to help with that I would recommend fooducate) .

Now as you can see in our board I listed things I can make easily for my husband and I, what you don’t see is that there are modifications too it, and I will explain in a bit. Then there is a list of things I think we can do in a slow cooker so if we aren’t having a good week we can make something easy like that. And finally the substitutions, things we can use to make modifications.

This week, which is why this post week was delayed, we made Cheeseburger in Paradise cause if you haven’t caught on we are huge fans of the Margaritaville Resorts and my husband usually gets one of these when he can there. As a result, I wanted to make him something special this week, problem, I really don’t eat a lot of beef (very rarely), and for me loving sustainable eating, I made myself an impossible meat version of this meal, while he had it normal. And as for the paradise sauce we made minor changes to suit our needs as week like spicy things and lighter things.

Overall, it ended up tasking very good. Next time we are considering making them into sliders (we just happened to have full burger buns so we wanted to use them).

As for tomorrow, we are projecting doing a garlic pesto on whole wheat pasta with roasted garlic on bread. As you are aware from our Halloween post on garlic that it is very healthy for you if you can handle it, as it is medicinal and full of fiber. This recipe we got from The Stinking Rose cookbook, however that recipe lists the pesto as a “relish,” but I think it is more of a pesto over a relish.

Throughout this on-call period we will continue trying to change our eating habits, not be stuck in that rut and we are working to make these changes for the better; these are just thoughts to consider as you are working through your goals.