Noelle likes Good Food

Happy Sunday everyone! I don't really have an excuse for not posting for the last 3 days, except that I have been busy. You know, same old same old. Everybody's always busy all the time :). No worries. I still have some pictures and I will catch you up on the the highlights of the last 3 days and celebrate that today is the last day. Chris is very excited for coffee and biscuits with strawberry jam tomorrow morning! So, when was my last post? Oh yeah, Wednesday. Let me catch you up! Thursday morning we ate a grapefruit and another omelet with salsa.  For lunch we ate the last of the roasted carrots.  We also ate the last of the chicken, carrot brown rice with peanuts and coconut.  For dinner I made sloppy joes with a carrot added for sweetness instead of honey/brown sugar. I served it with oven roasted potatoes and okra. It was dehydrated okra and it didn't hydrate very well and tasted... well... not good. Kind of like I was eating wood....

Hey everyone! If you are new here, check our my first post where I talked about the guidelines of our detox. We are doing well and enjoying our food. I could have done a much better job with exercising. But, a person can only do so much. I am trying to extend myself some grace when I am tired and not try to push past my limits. You know, life is about balance; which is something I continually need to define and work towards. Now we only have four days left and then I will make Chris all the chocolate chip cookies he wants. While he eats cookies, I will eat some dark chocolate covered pretzel thins (that I bought in a moment of weakness on the clearance rack at the store). They have sat untouched for the last 2 weeks in our cabinet and I can't wait to eat a few. Yesterday for breakfast I made oatmeal , an egg sunny side up and an orange. We also drank tea (on left) and oat straw infusion (right). Lunch is not pictured because I forgot my lunch at home yesterday. I was ...

I am planning on posting tonight about what we ate yesterday and today. However, I had a few minutes before leaving for class and I wanted to post my Mom's chili recipe. I always make chili when I do freezer cooking and it is Chris' favorite meal. He could probably eat it for dinner every day for 3 weeks straight before getting tired of it. Since I feature us eating chili quite often on this blog I figured it was high time I posted the recipe :). Chili makes 10 servings  1 lb. ground beef 1 medium onion, diced 1 jalapeño, diced 3 cloves garlic, minced 29 oz tomato sauce 29 oz crushed tomatoes 29 oz kidney beans with liquid* 29 oz pinto beans with liquid* 2 tsp cumin powder 1 1/2 T chili powder 1 1/2 tsp black pepper 2 tsp salt 2 cups water Cook ground beef and set aside. Cook onion and jalapeño and garlic until soft. Add all other ingredients in a large pot and bring to a simmer over low heat. Cook stirring frequently for 2 hours, or cook on low in a crock...

We are done with the 8th day of our detox! I had a good day at school and I enjoyed my new classes. As far as I know my first test went well too :). For breakfast we had the potato/kale/onion mixture with an egg and salsa and an orange.                At school I found a nice chair and ottoman in a study room to eat my lunch.  I really enjoyed the brown rice salad and roasted carrots that I made yesterday.    Chris has requested chili every night since we finished our chili last week. So, we pulled another bag out of freezer and ate it for dinner tonight with goat cheese. Instead of eating anything for dessert after dinner we just ate an extra bowl of chili. It was delicious :). I will post the recipe soon! I felt bad after my post yesterday where I complained about all the things on my to-do list and my stress level going into this week. I thought a lot about it this morning on my commute to schoo...

Hey everyone! I only thought I was going to have lots of time this weekend to cook. It ended up being really busy, and I didn't even take any pictures yesterday. Sorry!  I will give you the quick run-down for yesterday's eats. We ate our usual orange, oatmeal and soup for breakfast. We ate leftovers for lunch and went over to a friends house for dinner. They served baked chicken, sweet potato, asparagus and kale. It was absolutely delicious and we had a lovely time! Today, I did a much better job of taking pictures.  We ate grapefruit instead of oranges for breakfast this morning. My Mom ate her grapefruit like this and taught me how to peel them. Now I love eating it this way too! With a small paring knife you cut the rind off of the grapefruit. Then you cut into each segment with the knife and scrape out all the flesh.  There is very little waste with this method as long as you cut as close as you can to the peel.  It was really yummy! ...

Hey everyone! We are finished with day 5 of our detox. I can't believe it has already been 5 days. I think things are going extremely well considering how busy and stressful our week has been. It is funny because Chris has started trying to negotiate stopping earlier or giving me the many reasons why we should make cookies. I think he is regretting the moment he said he would do this with me. But, it is too late now and he has already committed. *cue evil laugh. For now we are sticking to the plan and will be done next Sunday.  He also gives me many reasons to laugh when he tells me all the things he wants to eat as soon as he is done with the detox. Such as going to go to the Mexican restaurant to order the biggest bowl of cheese dip and chips he can buy, along with eating a whole pan of biscuits, and lots of cookies. I guess we will see about that. I keep telling him the purpose of this detox is to retrain our minds and tastebuds to appreciate and crave healthy foods instead...

Hey guys! Sorry I didn't post yesterday. It was a long day and by the time I got home from school, made dinner, cleaned up the kitchen and worked in the office looking for paperwork I was ready to fall into bed. Of course we have continued to eat and I will show you the pictures I took from yesterday's and today's meals :).  Yesterday morning we both ate a serving of oatmeal (cooked with water/coconut milk, cinnamon, salt, coconut oil), a half an orange, and an omelette with sweet potato, kale and onion. It was delicious! Today for breakfast, I made plantain pancakes (1 plantain blended with 3 eggs, salt and cinnamon) topped with peanut butter. Chris ate his with veggies and half an orange.  I ate my plantain pancakes with a half an orange and a cup of soup. I took the roasted veggies we didn't like from two days ago and cooked it in some chicken broth and greens and pureed everything together. It is really good and the mug keeps it warm while I ...