Day 4

Paleo egg muffins are a God-send. 

I am not a morning person so I needed a healthy breakfast on-the-go. These last for a few days in the fridge so I was stoked when I found a recipe on these 2 websites:http://www.primal-palate.com/2010/07/breakfast-on-go-egg-muffins.html and http://everydaypaleo.com/2010/03/24/egg-cupcakes/

I did it a bit differently though so here's the recipe-

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PALEO EGG MUFFINS 

*Note these aren't my exact measurements. In fact I made way too many veggies which I've stored in the fridge for eggs later this week. This is what I think may work better for 12 egg muffins.

Ingredients:

10-12 eggs whisked well

1.5 cup broccoli

1 cup spinach

1 green pepper 

6 pieces bacon (or sausage) FULLY COOKED

coconut oil

other suggested ingredients from websites I saw: onions, zucchini, egg whites, roasted red & yellow peppers

Instructions:

-Preheat oven to 400 degrees

-Grease muffin pans with olive oil

-Saute veggies in a frying pan over medium heat with the coconut oil.

-Cut off sauteing process about half-way through cooking. Veggies will finish in oven

-Mix the veggies and bacon 

-Divide veggie/bacon mix evenly between muffin tins

-Stir veggie and egg mixture briefly to disperse evenly in tins

-Bake the egg muffins in oven for approx 20 minutes. Cooking time may vary depending on the tin and oven

-Let the muffins cool and store in your fridge...They typically keep for about a week

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For a snack I made the strawberry banana almond butter smoothie. delicious again. I stored it in my work fridge. Then for lunch I had a work meeting at a restaurant and just about the only think I could order was a grilled chicken salad with oil and vinegar for dressing. For a snack later I had a few raw almonds. 

So for dinner I had the pulled pork and paleo bbq sauce...the pork turned out great but the bbq sauce tasted like nothing. There has to be a better paleo recipe. 

Here's what I did for the pork:

PULLED PORK

Ingredients: 

2 lb. pork tenderloin

2 cups broth (I used chicken) 

1 onion

2 cloves garlic 

full cloves (which I completely forgot) 

Instructions: 

1. Cover bottom of crock pot with onion, garlic and broth. I chopped the onion but the recipe didn't specify

2. Pierce tenderloin with cloves

3. Cook on low for 7-9 hours

And I suggest finding a good bbq sauce! 

I made zucchini with this. I heated some coconut oil and seasoned the zucchini with rosemary, oregano and pepper and sautéed for about 10-15 minutes. delicious! 

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For exercise today I walked around my neighborhood for 20 minutes.

I go to Trivia every tuesday at an Irish pub and it was rough! I wanted a beer but passed, then my table ordered homemade chips with blue cheese crumbles...ugh...I passed again. 

I still really want chocolate, I don't think this craving will ever go away.