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Food Preparation Begins

Apparently there are "brain-friendly" foods.  The list is pretty much a clean eating diet which is my jam so this should be fun.

Here's the list I was given to work with:
Organic free range eggs
Organic avocado
Hormel Natural ham
Draper Farms/organic chicken legs
Hard boiled eggs
Celery
Good dip ingredients
cottage cheese
meatballs
tuna
lettuce
asparagus
full fat yogurt
cucumber
berries
blueberries
tart cherries
pepperoni
sausage
zucchini
celery
chives
bacon wrapped chicken bites
cauliflower 
chicken salad with yogurt
edamame
fruit skewers
baked apple chips
coconut whipped cream
turkey breast
skinless chicken
grind own chicken/turkey
snap peas
red grapes
salmon
halibut

trout

The task for this weekend is prepping as much as I can for breakfast, lunch and snacks.  Dinners are going to mostly be from Home Bistro's Paleo Dinners for the first week.  Note, that if you want to use a meal delivery service that YOU DON"T have to do anything except heat up, Home Bistro and Freshly are your best choices it seems.  Otherwise, you'll be spending time making the dinners with the mostly pre-cut/measured fresh ingredients.  Super fun for some, but not for this busy working mama or my TBI'd friend.  Biggest difference between Home Bistro and Freshly is the former is flash frozen, the latter fresh.  Home will hold longer in the freezer and can be ordered and delivered much faster.  Freshly (which I would have preferred to try first, frankly), has a two week lead time for first order.  Makes sense if they're doing fresh and refrigerated.  But, I think we'll be ok.

First on the prep list for the week: Paleo Granola and Anywhere Cookies.  I am a huge fan of author Danielle Walker (Against All Grain, etc.).  She's got great heart and great recipes.  If you're looking for grain-free, she's your gal.  



Next is meat prep.  Precooking the salmon and chicken to top salads this week should make assembly a snap. 

Finally, Monday is shopping for the fresh stuff; Tuesday and Wednesday is prep.  A step at a time....

One final note, I love knowing the nutrition contents and will be including this in my menu plan for CAN.  Historically getting this information together easily for recipes has always been a challenge.  So, imagine how thrilled I was with www.myfitnesspal.com newest feature!  You can now copy the link from a web page recipe you find anywhere into their recipe builder and it will see the list of ingredients, the quantities and build the nutrition profile FOR YOU!  Total time saver.  You can save the recipe for use later.  

So, we're off and running!

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