Day Two of Clean Real Food, Snack Ideas, Meal plans

Day Two:  I am encouraged by all of your comments and messages!  I'm glad many people are also eating well!  It is fun to be on this journey together.  So here is day two of clean eating, some snack ideas, and meal plans:

Breakfast:  Egg in a basket.

Lunch:  Slade and Blane made whole-wheat tortillas to eat with the leftover black beans and brown rice.  
We added an avocado and kale.  Delicious!
The variations to the recipe of black beans are that we did not add any ham.  

Dinner:  Elena, Blane, and their friends helped to make veggie and cheese pizzas.  I used whole-wheat crust from a recipe on one of my favorite blogs, it was actually a recipe for pizza pockets.  I may make these soon, and fill them with veggies.

These were delicious!  I sauteed the veggies on the stove, first.  Yummy!

Now, Here are some of our favorite Snack Ideas:

Trail mix:  peanuts, raisins, cranberries, pecans

Slade is having trail mix and a rice cake with his grammar lesson.

I love my new beautiful fruit bowl Michael made me for Christmas.

Crackers:  We like Wasa, Original Triscuits, and a 100% whole-wheat cracker  from Trader Joes. 

Elena eating carrots

Nuts:  raw nuts are fun to crack.  We mostly buy them already shelled, for convenience and price.

Here is a quick list of snacks we enjoy:

Vegetables

Fruit

Olives

Raw Seeds

Raw Nuts

Smoothies

Veggies with dips, hummus, black bean dip, mustard

Cheese and Crackers

Popcorn

Yogurt with blueberries or other fruit

Crackers and Peanut butter

Trail Mix

Plain Rice Cakes with Peanut butter 

Corn Meal Mush (Hasty Pudding)

Hard-boiled egg

Michael's new favorite snack is Ezekiel 4:9 cereal with frozen blueberries, organic banana, and almond milk.  Delicious!

Meal Plans:

So far, all I have is what we had today.  Sorry, I will plan more soon.  

Breakfast:  Scrambled eggs in whole-wheat tortillas with salsa

Lunch:  Whole-grain spaghetti with homemade sauce, green smoothie (spinach, banana, Greek yogurt, cinnamon)

Supper:  Brown Rice, Stir-fry vegetables (garlic, mushrooms, carrots, broccoli, and whatever else I find), green salad

Dessert?  Maybe fruit and some dark chocolate!  Yum, I could eat that now.  

Stay tuned:  I bought chia seeds, buckwheat groats, and amaranth grain, for the first time at Miller's Country Store today.  I look forward to finding good recipes to use them.  They are gluten-free.  Chia seeds are a complete protein.