Whole 30 encourages looking at the source of your proteins and eating certain foods organic. We are choosing to do what we can but in the reality of it eating meat can be expensive. We purchase most of our meat at Sam's club. Sometimes buying $25 of pork loin seems kind of redonkulous for 2 people but we split it into 3 sections freeze 2 parts and the one section we use will last us 3+ meals. As a result I am not going to always be super specific on the weight of the meat in the recipe but if you need further clarification just let me know and I will ask Adam to give me an estimate. Someday when I have more money we will eat better meat and veggies.
We have taken to reading every label of everything we buy. Do you know how many different places we had to go to find Chirizo without soy or wheat? The answer...3. We bought a huge thing of Chili powder from Sam's club only to get home and realize it has wheat in it. I didn't even think to read the label until we were cooking dinner. We luckily still had some Chili powder from Penzey's and it is all good. We plan on making a trip to Penzeys this next weekend. We love their spices best anyway. If you don't have one near you fear not you can order online.
We are ok eating the same meals over and over. Most of our dinner meals will make 3-4 meals. If you don't eat like that way divide the recipe or cook and freeze for a later meals. I couldn't stand looking through recipes online that cook food for one person. I can not afford to eat that way. We need to make the most of each meal and it's ingredients.
We started on a Monday so we can prep our foods for the first part of the week on Sunday. Since eating clean takes a lot of actual cooking work we wanted to set ourselves for success.
Adam is allergic to fish but can eat shellfish so you won't find many fish recipes. I am allergic to blueberries so you also won't find any recipes that include them.
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