36 Days until we've been Paleo/Crossfit for 1 Year!

I was able to track my food with phone with pictures today.

Breakfast: 2 eggs, 2 slices of bacon, 1/2 avocado, blueberries

Lunch Leftovers: Paleo Jambalaya with Roasted Veggies

Snack: Leftover Guacamole and carrots

Dinner: Emeals Meal

And as I promised on Facebook I am sharing the recipe.

This recipe got 2 thumbs up from the entire Smith Household! So yummy and so easy.

When I was at the store getting the pork, I had misread and bought bone in chops. So for the first time tonight I made bone broth!!! I've boiled chicken bones before but never slow and for as long as I did tonight. I've read wonderful things about bone broth and its health benefits. I'm in the process as we speak of turning the bone broth into soup. I've added random veggies that I had on hand. Simmering now is carrots, celery, onion, sweet potato, cauliflower, and the rest of our leftover squash, zucchini, and red pepper). I am having some dental work done tomorrow afternoon and wanted to make sure that I had soft food available to eat for dinner. It smells so good in my house right now! I definitely see bone broth more in our future. I told Mr. that we should make a throw together soup more often so the next time one of us is sick we could have some in the freezer. Although...we rarely are sick now that we eat Paleo.

I also posted on Facebook today some pictures with my lined up ingredients. I've written an entire post about that here: Lining Up the Ingredients. I just want to stress that if you feel overwhelmed in your kitchen while making dinner, lining up the ingredients will help to melt a lot of that dinner time stress away!

Have you ever been making something and get to a key ingredient only to realize you don't have it? When you line up your ingredients that becomes a non issue.

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