Real Food Challenge: Days 3, 4 & 5

Well, things got a little bit messy this weekend.  We stuck to the real food, but I didn't rock at updating and missed photos a few times.  Our colds are still plaguing us and Miss Anni's coughing kept us all a little sleepless... here's hoping we're on the upswing!

Day 3

Breakfast

You guessed it... yogurt and fruit (and flaxseed)!  We don't eat meat on Fridays... so I had to keep that in mind as I planned our day (as much as I wanted to eat the leftover pasta from the night before!)

Lunch



Some leftover homemade ww bread, shells and cheese (kind of a cop-out, but it still fits within the rules... just not something we should do for every meal!) and peas.

Snack

We eat plenty of snacks that I don't document (usually handfuls of fruits and veggies), but apparently I was inspired by this one!  Ak-mak ww crackers (check them out... they're yummy!) with peanut butter.

Dinner

This is Anni's plate, hence the super tiny piece of pizza... it's always hard to know what her appetite will be doing, so we start small and have more on hand if she wants more!

We made some homemade pizza!  I had made the dough before, but had never made my own pizza sauce, so it was a little more of an adventure than usual, but still pretty simple.  Luckily, the girls took good naps while I made the dough (and Lettie woke up just in time to watch me knead it, but she was content to just hang out), so everything was pretty timely despite the extra work (plus, Daniel grated the cheese for me while I baked the crust... we like it extra crispy, so that gets a little while in the oven before we load our toppings on).


Day 4

Breakfast

Yaaaay, weekend!  We get a little overly giddy around here when we get Daddy all to ourselves... and oftentimes that means Anni and Daddy make waffles!  We love these whole wheat waffles even more than we loved our sugary ones... seriously, even if you think you don't like whole wheat things, check them out.  The cinnamon is what makes them I think... we ate them plain the rest of the weekend as snacks, they're that good :). 

Lunch

Lunch was leftover in general, but since both Anni and I had chicken salads, I figured it was worthy of a picture (and so pretty!)  I am continually amazed at Anni's willingness to scarf down a salad (at first she claimed she didn't like the tomatoes, but finally tried one after Daniel started stealing them out of her bowl, and declared "I like them!")

Dinner

ha... in comes me stealing my husbands phone to grab a mess of a photo.  I cooked the beans from scratch and under-estimated cooking time on them... so Anni actually had other random leftovers for dinner (a peanut butter and strawberry waffle sandwich I think?) as the beans weren't even nearly edible until 8 or later.  I had some leftover corn muffins from right before we started the challenge (luckily, I had known we were going to start and made sure to replace the sugar with honey) and that rounded it out nicely :).

Day 5
 
Alright, I totally failed photos today.  Anni's cough was so rough we ended up going to separate Masses so one of us could stay home with the babies at all times (poor girl hates missing Mass!)  For breakfast I ate part of a leftover waffle plain and a handful of blueberries.  I'm not entirely sure about what everyone else had, but I know part of Anni's meal included yogurt and applesauce.  We all ate leftover chili for lunch, and we had spaghetti carbonara, veggies and leftover ww baguette bread for dinner.  

Welcome to a new week... 5 days to go of the challenge!