With the help of our Facebook friends our “Whole Family” (minus the hubs who unfortunately couldn’t get away) won a trip to the beach thanks to http://www.rickcrozier.com!!! We were so excited and thankful and only had a day to pack! Due to our crazy day, our meals were fast and full of leftovers and a little odd, but that’s okay…we were packing for the beach!
Breakfast on our crazy day was leftovers of sweet potato slivers and chorizo sausage. Yummy even the second time!
Monday brings us back to work, back to school, back to routine. Does it bring us back to boring food? Um…NO! No matter how “routine” of a day, our food is never routine. We had a great day of eating wonderful food that was wonderful for us.
We started our morning off wonderfully with the kid’s long awaited breakfast of breakfast pizza. Not only is it full of vitamins from the eggs, the protein, the veggies, and the fruit…but it tastes incredible too!
Check out the recipe here and go make it for your family. They will love it and love you for it!
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Lunch was leftovers of pork carnitas and it was just as yummy as the first day.
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I’ve been wanting to make this recipe for a while and finally the stars aligned, the kids cooperated, the kitchen was clean, and mama could make some shrimp.
And make some shrimp I did!!!
Let me tell you, these are the best darn shrimp you will ever have. They really are not spicy, just “well seasoned” as my kids say. If you wanted to spice them up, and what I will most likely do next time, is add a little bit of cayenne pepper. Yay for “well seasoned”!
This recipe is super SIMPLE, super fast, super easy, and super delicious.
I am planning ahead of time to have a low-key week. I know already that Tuesday night is basketball, Wednesday night I am getting together with my small group women to help a friend unpack in her new house, Thursday is cheerleading and my bible study night, and Friday is an early bedtime because of an early basketball game Saturday morning. Our nights are full this week so I want to keep as much of our day as SIMPLE as possible. My only goal is to try some new meals from new places. I will be using a recipe from Nom Nom Paleo, Eat Love Run, Chowstalker, and hopefully more.
Bring on the week!
Monday:
Breakfast- breakfast pizza
Lunch- leftovers: carnitas
Dinner- Spicy coconut shrimp with spanish “rice”
Tuesday:
Breakfast- Eggs and sweet potato hash
Lunch- Salmon patties, a knock-off of Nom Nom Paleo’s crabby patties. Sure to be great!
Dinner- leftovers: carne asada
Wednesday:
Breakfast- Eggs and veggies
Lunch- chorizo and sweet potato coins
Dinner- Pork and cabbage stir fry from Eat Love Run
Thursday:
Breakfast- Frittata
Lunch- Tuna salad on tomatoes
Dinner- Salmon from Chowstalker
Friday:
Breakfast- leftovers: frittata
Lunch- homemade raw sushi
Dinner- leftover cabbage stir fry
I hope my SIMPLE meal plan inspires you to feed your family good, whole, SIMPLE foods this week as well. Eating well doesn’t have to be hard, it doesn’t have to be complicated, it doesn’t have to take a long time with a lot of ingredients. It just has to be good. And it will be. Feed your “Whole Family” good food.
There will be “thank you’s” all around….
I’m sure I say this every Sunday, but this Sunday really was a LAZY Sunday. Brandon had a work function he needed to be at so the rest of us decided to sleep in. And did we sleep in! We all slept in until 10 and I finally woke Levi up at 10:30. Apparently we needed our sleep and it felt really good.
Because of our late wake-up we had “brunch”. The new idea of “brunch” very much confused the kids since we’ve never done this before, but they adjusted quickly. And it tasted pretty darn good!
I had previously slow-cooked a pork roast to use for our weekend meals. It was great to know the main component of our meals was done for us and made the weekend cooking much more SIMPLE. For brunch I used that pork and made carnitas. Carnitas literally means “little meats” in spanish and that’s exactly what it was. I had slow-cooked the pork on low all day with comino, onion powder, garlic powder, cayenne pepper, dried oregano, salt and pepper. After simmering in it’s own juices all day it was beautifully tender and falling apart .The perfect meat for carnitas.
I plated the carnitas with the obvious lettuce, onions, tomatoes and avocados. The perfect light brunch for the “Whole Family”.
Levi loved it too, I promise. This face was the “I’m not going to look at you or smile because I wanted a fourth plate and I am not okay with you telling me no. So humph.” Really!!!
We’re at week 3 people! I hope everyone is still hanging on strong. As my dad says, “We’re on the downward slope!”
This week I thought I would change it up, head back to my roots, and challenge myself to bring my Mexican heritage of great food to a more healthier place where we can all enjoy it.
This will be a challenge for sure. When I told the hubs my plan he said, “Mexican food without beans, rice, cheese, or tortillas? How you gonna manage that?!” Well, my dear Watson, I have no idea. Thank goodness I am extremely stubborn and creative so I am betting I will find a way. Here goes!
I have made my meal plan up of some of my favorite mexican meals that I am preparing to make Whole30 approved. I hope it inspires you to go back to your roots and instead of missing out on those hometown comfort foods, do a little tweaking, bring it to a healthier place, and make your mama proud.
*Side note: Monday is a holiday, which I consider a stretch in my weekend, so the day was not structured, or planned, or Mexican. Thank you.
Monday:
Breakfast- Eggs and homemade breakfast sausage
Lunch- Eggs with smoked salmon and onions
Dinner- Fish with mango-kiwi dressing
Tuesday:
Breakfast- chorizo and eggs
Lunch- Surprise! We’re joining some friends for lunch so who knows what it will be! 
Dinner- Mexican roast with spicy zucchini and squash
Wednesday:
Breakfast- breakfast burritos
Lunch- Spicy fish with plantains
Dinner- Cabbage enchiladas with spanish “rice”
Thursday:
Breakfast- Chorizo and eggs
Lunch- Chile rellenos (stuffed chiles)
Dinner- baja fish “tacos”
Friday:
Breakfast- Eggs a la paloma
Lunch- spicy coconut shrimp with veggies
Dinner- Carne asada wiith pico de gallo and spanish “rice”
Saturday:
Carne guisada
Remember, this is a rough draft. Every week, every day, things come up. Things are constantly moving around, being juggled, and being pushed over. Some of these meals might not make it, some might get switched, some might get eaten up by my ravenously hungry tribe. However it works, it will work, and my “Whole Family” will thank me with their full bellies.
