We are on Day 16 of Whole30 and it’s supposed to be downhill from here.  So far, we’ve been surviving but I’m feeling a little bored of the food that I’m allowed to eat. Last week was also a little tough considering there was Valentine’s Day,  Chinese New Year, and the long President’s Day weekend all in one week!

Here are some of the foods we made/ate this week:

Garlic shrimp over zucchini noodles…pretty good.

We’ve been eating a lot of roasted vegetables: brussel sprouts (above), cauliflower, broccoli, romanesco, kale, sweet potato, and regular potato.

I used the spiralizer on a regular potato and ended up with the end looking like a mushroom.

We roasted the potato noodles and they ended up tasting like shoestring fries. It worked well with the pot roast that Jes made for dinner.

One thing that is compliant is Kalua Pork!! It’s a great topping for salads or just over cabbage. It’s pretty satisfying but I do miss the rice and mac salad.

One day, we made bacon, lettuce, tomato, bacon wraps for lunch. With some of my homemade mayo, it was pretty tasty! Oh yeah, the only compliant bacon that we can eat is one made with no nitrates and no sugar. It is extremely hard to find bacon that’s made without sugar. I scoured Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, and Nob Hill Foods and ended up finding one at Safeway!!

Jesse also made some meatballs using almond flour as a substitute. Of course it had to be eaten over zucchini noodles and it was pretty painful watching the kids eat their spaghetti.

On the eve of Chinese New Year, we met up for dinner with Michelle, Vyl, and kids in the city. In preparation for dinner, Jes and I went to SuperDuper first to fill up on a bun-less burger with avocado and bacon. It was good but I missed the special sauce and ketchup. I also had to watch the kids eat the fries that I wasn’t allowed to eat. At dinner, the only thing I could eat was the steamed chicken. So sad…

Some of my favorite things I have been eating include:

• avocado
• homemade mayo (great for dipping cucumber slices or roasted cauliflower)
• everything with hot sauce
• SALT
• roasted veggies

I also found a tasty almond butter at Trader Joe’s that’s made of just almonds and salt. It’s great for dipping apple slices.

So, I made it to the half-way mark and I’m looking forward to finishing these next two weeks. March 6th is gonna be awesome.