So what DO you eat?

I get asked this alot.  I was explaining (vaguely) what we were doing to Noah's pediatrician and I think I scared her.  I'm sure in the file somewhere she has written down "Make sure he's getting real milk", "make sure she's not feeding him nuts".  Yes, Noah is drinking cow's milk (organic of course) and he's not eating nuts or peanut butter :)  It is, however, a challenge to feed him when we are eating fish and spicy bean hummus.  But he does ok.  What are we eating?  Here's a list of some of the things:

• Breakfast - always a protein fruit smoothie (unsweetened vanilla almond milk, a little greek yogurt, frozen fruit, protein powder)
• Weekend breakfast - brown rice and eggs scrambled together with a slice of Ezekial bread that is topped with natural peanut butter and a drizzle of honey.  This lasted all through sunday school and church without getting hungry!  And we eat breakfast early!
• Snack options:  greek yogurt mixed with blueberries and 1/4 c Kashi go lean, Ezekial cinnamon raisin english muffin topped with 1 TB natural peanut butter and a drizzle of honey, banana with 23 almonds, apple with 1 TB natural peanut butter, any other fruit with nuts, Larabars (apple pie is my fav), carrots with hummus
• Lunch - typically we make a big pot of something so we can zap it in the microwave.  Some recipes we have tried are Black Bean and Beef Soup, White Chicken Chili, some other bean and rice combination.  When we use meat it's grass fed beef or free range chicken and we add more beans.  We throw in rice too so the beans and rice make a complete protein.  We also do salads with black bean salsa and lots of veggies.
• Dinner - pan seared tuna with grilled veggies (still my fav!), last night it was grilled veggies topped with Dill and lemon pepper tilapia.  Sometimes it's salad, one of the bean dishes, or shrimp and grits!  I thought I was going to get tired of fish.  Hasn't happened yet!  We are trying new veggies too:  maple glazed parsnips and carrots (WW recipe using maple syrup - it's a natural sweetner!), roasted brussel sprouts and cauliflower, carrots, onions, mushrooms, broccoli, sweet potatoes.  I'm not feeling deprived at all!  I feel like I'm eating gourmet every night :)

There are a few "processed" foods I have allowed back in but they have to be organic.  For the nights we don't have time to cook or I'm too hungry to think I have some of Amy's Organic burritos on hand.  And we did have organic pizza twice BUT it didn't have meat on it, just veggies.  I'm thinking if Jillian was starving and didn't have time to cook (well she would probably run up to the local tree hugging restaurant and grab something) but this is Jemison and there's no such place so I'm thinking she would go for this.  One day I might ask her :)

So there you have it.  This is what we DO eat.  I have tried so many new things and I'm loving it!  The weekends are still sometimes tough but we just treat them as a week day and eat the same things.  When we are out and there are tough choices to make we both agree that it's nice that we don't really have to debate about whether we are going to allow ourselves this or that.  Instead we can blame it on Jack and Jill!  They are the crazies not us ;o)