new ideas

-pork with brown mustard, heavy creme, and garlic

-meatloaf with peppers, cheese, onion

-turkeyloaf with olives, basil, pine nuts, sundried tomato, and garlic

I'm also going to start working on my snack bar recipes again. wish me luck

Bean Soup

Last night's dinner was ok. It tasted like a roast. I added some salt and pepper when it came out and Wyatt and I had some sweet potatoes to complete the meal for us.

I also made some primal snack bars. Basically they are a mix of coconut, walnuts, peanut butter, almonds, craisins, sunflower seeds, milled flaxseed, olive oil, and 2 eggs. i baked it for about 20 min (plus a little after i turned the oven off). It is good...tastes like a "healthy" food though. Chris seems to like it a lot. We both agree that a layer of peanut butter on top would make it really good. I also realized after making it that I was supposed to put in honey (I stole the idea to throw stuff together from mark's daily apple). Honey might help a lot also, but would raise the GI.

Although not very primal, tonight we are having easy to make 15 bean soup with onion, smoked sausage, and garlic. I'm making it in the slow cooker again and the 15 beans soup came out of a bag with cajun seasoning.

side note-woke up early this morning with a horrible stomach ache after having a splitting headache all day yesterday...not sure what that's all about. Because of this, this morning i just put some of Wyatt's protein powder in my coffee for breakfast.

another side note-I am currently getting myself un-addicted to sugar again after a few weeks of treats. These things will probably taste better to me once my sweet tooth subsides. But withdrawal really sucks!

Steak and Potatoes & Pot Roast #1

Dinner from the other night...eh. A lot of salt helped. Probably won't make that exact recipe again.

So yesterday I cut up two sweet potatoes, an onion, and some steak and threw them in the crock pot for about 5 hours. It was very good. Chris thought the steak was a bit dry and added some mustard. I liked it and Wyatt ate it.

Today I have a beef bottom round roast on top of two cut up onions with salt and pepper and bbq sauce. The bbq sauce has a lot more sugar than I would like, but should add a lot of flavor.

The idea...

My husband and I have created www.threequestiondiet.com . It would take a book to fully explain all of these, but basically we eat fruit, veggies, fat, and meat while keeping in mind the sugar content of fruit and veggies. I have not only had a ton of success losing good body weight, but my husband is able to maintain a very muscular body while fighting some genetics. We feed our 1 1/2 year old the same food and I am also nursing a newborn. My main reason for starting this is because with two under two we just got a crock pot and I am going to try to create meals within our budget that will feed us for a couple of days so that I'm not always in the kitchen with a crying baby. A lot of this will be experiment. I plan to post the recipe and then our response. Last night we mixed a pound of ground turkey, lima beans, red beans, an onion, water, and italian seasoning in the crock pot. It smells ok, but I haven't tried yet, so we'll see how it turns out. My husband took some to work, so he'll have the first opinion.