This was my meal plan for the 1st week of September:
Brunches: Pancakes✔, egg salad or tuna salad sandwiches✔(for dinner), scrambled egg and toast✔, salad✔, cereal and milk yogurt✔
Brunch: Pancakes, syrup
Dinner: Cold cuts sandwich with lettuce, mustard, and multi grain bread
Snacks/Desserts: Mango
Daily Points Total: 3.25
Tuesday
Brunch: Pancakes, seeni sambol (sweet and spicy onion relish)
Dinner: Chicken, leftover rice mix, corn
Snacks/Desserts: Papaya, nectarine, cookies,
Daily Points Total: 3
Wednesday
Brunch: Subway sandwich (from Subway): cheesy garlic steak, red onions, bell pepper (and my stomach let me know what it thought of the raw onions and bell pepper!)
Dinner: Tuna salad on multi grain bread
Snacks/Desserts: Orange juice, 1 Fuyu persimmon, nectarine, 1 tea cookie
Daily Points Total: 3
Thursday
Brunch: The other half of the Subway sandwich (I took an antacid and pulled out most of the onions and bell pepper strips!)
Dinner: Tuna salad on multi grain bread
Snacks/Desserts: Peanut butter and crackers, papaya
Daily Points Total: 0
Friday
Brunch: Yogurt, peach jam, cereal for crunch
Dinner: Salad (lettuce, cucumber, cashews, chicken)
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| Friday Salad |
Snacks/Desserts: Crackers, pears, strawberries
Daily Points Total: 4
Saturday
Breakfast: Scrambled egg, slice of multigrain bread toasted, orange juice
Lunch: Salad (lettuce, carrots, cherries, chicken)
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| Saturday Salad |
Dinner: Chicken and vegetable gyoza
Snacks/Desserts: Half a pear
Daily Points Total: 3
Sunday
Breakfast: Leftover gyoza, granola bar
Lunch: Corned beef sandwich
Dinner: Rice, chicken curry (12 ingredient curry powder, chili powder, curry leaves, tomatoes, onion), dhal (red lentils, turmeric, curry leaves, garlic, onion, tomatoes), moringa curry, plus coconut milk and lemon juice in all three curries
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| Sunday Dinner |
Snacks/Desserts: Asian pear, Calamondin juice infused water
Daily Points Total: 11 14
Daily cup of tea = 1 point
Weekly Plant Based Food Points Total = 28.25 31.25
I think I did well enough, this week. I followed the meal plan for the most part and I almost met the 30 different plant based items for the week. I had forgotten to add the fact that the curries on Sunday included coconut milk and lemon juice and that I had added calamondin juice to a glass of water that I drank.
I am not sure if I will continue to count the plant based points anymore. Instead, I will focus more on getting the 5 servings of fruits and vegetables, a day.
Moving on to September Week 2
It's almost too hot to think of food! We are supposed to cool down to highs in the 80s (F) by the end of the week, so that's something to look forward to! In the meantime, this is the plan:
Brunches: Corned beef sandwiches, tuna salad or egg salad sandwiches, salad, pancakes or waffles, smoothies?
Your salads look delicious and I like that you are having multigrain bread.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Bushlady. This is the ideal weather for salads. I still prefer white bread, but, the multi-grain bread is better for me, isn't it?
DeleteCavolo sei proprio brava a riuscire a seguire un piano alimentare regolare, io da quel punto di vista li sono un disastro
ReplyDeleteThank you, Stefania. I look at meal planning as meal options - a list of possible meals based on what I have on hand. I have found that having a set meal plan, with a certain meal on a given day, doesn't work that well for me. But meal options work and maybe they might work for you, too?
DeleteYou did do well with your meal plan and plant based points. I think counting the points each week was a good exercise which has made you more aware of what you need to be eating for a healthy diet. Although our weather is cooling I've still not felt like making roast dinners so still plenty of salads for us. I have an intolerance to onions too although my husband loves spring onions and raw red onion, definitely not for me!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Eileen. Yes, counting the plant points definitely make me more aware of how much or how little plant based food I eat a week. I find it a little difficult to maintain the variety, but, I've just realized that I had forgotten to list the calamondin juice I added to a glass of water on Sunday and the lemon juice and coconut milk I added to the curries! So, I did exceed the 30 points, after all! I need to go back and edit the post!
DeleteIt's good that you are still having plenty of salads. I'm sure that there will be plenty of time for roast dinners as it gets cooler. :)
That salad does look delicious!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Belinda. I'm not a big salad person, but, I am trying to change that!
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I am with you and think mine are meal options rather than a plan. As soon as I start trying to plan daily meals, I find I start creating reasons NOT to have whatever was planned.
ReplyDeleteMeal options seem to work best for me, Anne. At one time, I thought that meal planning on the basis of something like, "chicken on Monday, pasta on Tuesday, beef on Wednesday, etc." - you know, a sort of set menu to simplify meal planning, but, that didn't really work for me, and an even more detailed "chicken curry on Monday, stir fried beef on Tuesday" worked even less. The options work better. :)
DeleteYour Sunday dinner looks delicious. I managed to get lots of veggies into my curry, earlier on this week. Xx
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jules. You did well to get lots of veggies into your curry. :)
DeleteI wish you were my neighbor so I could watch you make curry and then I could eat some.
ReplyDeleteAnd then we could have tea & crochet in front of the oscillating fan.
Wouldn't that be fun if we were neighbors? In addition to eating curry and crocheting, you could also read my collection of Betty Neels books! I seem to recall you saying you liked them. :)
Deletelol Yes, I would borrow those books :)
ReplyDeleteDo you reread them? They kind of all blend together in my mind. And the Dutch names - I'm sure I've mangled them in my mind as I'm reading. I think I'm drawn to these books because I enjoy reading about the financial struggles of the heroine and her wonderful way of handling things. The stories are simple and I'm not always a fan of the often brutish leading men but her stories are enjoyable.
I have reread some of them. Her stories are rather predictable, but, I do enjoy reading them. :)
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