We cut up all the remaining strawberries the night before so they were portioned and ready to go. I grabbed one and some oatmeal for breakfast and James had strawberries, yogurt and a wafer. I had some cucumber snacks and stole a lollipop at work from the communal treat bin, although to be honest I was still hungry.
For lunch, we enjoyed another new creation.. lemon juice and spices in a baked pork chop with mashed potatoes and a packet of gravy. It was really tasty and a change from “normal” work lunches.
Dinner for James and I was the last of the pasta and pork bits. I think we’ll be making pasta again in other weeks! We had a little tv time and polished off the chips and wafers.
Thursday -
We are certainly getting close to the end! Another bowl of strawberries and oatmeal for me, and James is starting to get desperate with the last of the strawberries with a pudding.
We made more meals on Wednesday night, and tried “stir fry” of carrots, cucumbers and a pork chop with rice with soy sauce, which made 2 servings. Then also made 2 servings of pasta with some nice (not from scratch) sauce, cut up carrots and the last pork chop.
For lunch I had the last salad with vinegar and James had one of the rice concoctions. For James’ early dinner he had one of the spaghettis.
Now remember how grandma sent me home with some free soup and applesauce? Remember how I said we would save those for next week after the challenge? Well.. we caved and had soup for dinner tonight (8pm). James and I are SO hungry today. We figured they still counted in the challenge as free food, but we’re scraping the barrel!
Learnings:
-So. Many. Dishes. Meal prepping and making from scratch means a lot of dishes during that process, but when James and I each come home with 2-3 containers.. our poor dishwasher! (Thanks mom and dad for all the containers for Xmas!)
-We are out of everything so it’s probably easier to list what we still have.. a bit of milk, a smidge of butter, half a jar of pasta sauce, carrots, a ramen packet, all the juice (made 2 containers) and pantry staples (although we’ve killed the soy sauce and 50% of a big flour bag)
-This is seriously hard to do when surrounded by food and snacks you do have in the house. We’ve been very good with no cheating besides the soup, but with a freezer full of veggies, a fridge with lots of apples and yogurt and drawers full of snacks and chocolate.. it’s so tempting here near the end to just grab something
- We now see bananas as treats.. and look forward to a different protein next week.
As a final learning, don’t do a food challenge like this while also starting a new excercise regime (60 day fitness), as your hunger goes up and your available cook time goes down. Poor James.
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