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Hey folks! I’m home again! I had a great weekend in Lancaster rehearsing with the group that’s going to South Africa in February (you can see a picture of us here!). Thankfully the weather was fairly mild while I was up north, but I did see a little bit of snow. Nothing treacherous, though. 😉 One highlight of the weekend was attending another choral sing. If you’re interested in seeing videos, you can click here to see a playlist. After Lancaster, I went to Holmes County, Ohio, and hung out with my cookbook printer for a few days. We did some press checks and had lots of informative conversations…and I came home with way too many ideas for future projects. A printing and design company like that gives me an infectious sense of possibility. When I’m there with so many resources at my fingertips, I get an overwhelming urge to create something. It’s a scary situation. 😛
I got home last Thursday, so there’s not quite a whole week’s worth of food in this post. Close enough. As always, leave a comment below and tell me about what you’ve been eating! Anything new or exciting? Any flops?
If you’re new here, these “What’s on My Plate?” posts are meant to give you inspiration and show you just how easy healthy eating can be! They are not professionally-styled photo shoots, nor do they necessarily catalogue everything I ate in a week’s time. These posts aren’t meant to be guides for serving size or anything like that. I don’t always have everything on my plate at the beginning of the meal when I get my phone out to take a picture (and sometimes I forget to take a picture, period). Please just use these posts as inspiration for what to eat, not how much to eat.
You may also enjoy:
- Starting THM
- my recipe index
- my recipes grouped by fuel type, allergy info, and theme
- previous editions of WOMP
Breakfast:
(Deep S) Scrambled eggs with coconut oil, salt, and pepper
(E) Oatmeal with cocoa powder, THM Pure Stevia Extract Powder, and sliced banana
(E) Sprouted bread toast (we get the bread at Aldi), low-fat cottage cheese
If you’re wondering what’s on the bread, that would be a drizzle of honey. Honey is not technically on plan for THM since it’s so high on the glycemic index, but I use it once in awhile in a small amount in an E setting.
(E) Homemade Bread toast, low-fat cottage cheese, sliced banana, and some failed E granola
Homemade Bread – pg. 160, Necessary Food
(E) Oatmeal with cocoa powder, THM Pure Stevia Extract Powder, and sliced banana
Lunch:
(S) 1/3rd of a Joseph’s lavash with mayo, meat, cheese, and spinach
(S) A delicious Sunday lunch of steak, broccoli, and spaghetti squash with butter, salt, and pepper. I could eat that squash like candy…. The steak was good too; we recently had a cow butchered so we’ve really been enjoying the cuts of meat that we normally wouldn’t purchase!
Supper:
(S) Peanut Butter Milkshake – it made a great supper on the go
Peanut Butter Milkshake – pg. 179, Necessary Food
(E) Mom’s Chicken Soup, Budget-Friendly Cornbread
Budget-Friendly Cornbread – pg. 168, Necessary Food
(S) Mommy’s Meatloaf, cabbage sautéed in butter and garlic salt, salad with feta and Ranch
Mommy’s Meatloaf – pg. 42, Necessary Food
(E) I was working on a single-serve E cornbread recipe, and you’ll be seeing it here on the blog shortly! I’ll include the recipe for the simple black bean topping as well.
Snacks/Dessert:
PS – the low-carb granola that keeps popping up will be making its blog debut on Friday. Yogurt parfait ideas (including a blueberry sauce recipe) will be following on Saturday.
(S) Instant PB&C-Covered Blueberries (no added peanut butter, plus peanuts, plus coconut flakes)
Instant PB&C-Covered Strawberries – pg. 296, Necessary Food
(S) Briana’s Ultimate Brownies
Briana’s Ultimate Brownies – pg. 323, Necessary Food
(FP) Basic Milkshake Recipe – pg. 180, Necessary Food
(E) Mandarin Orange Gello Salad – pg. 136, Necessary Food
(S) Yogurt parfait with Greek yogurt, blueberry sauce, and low-carb granola (stay tuned later this week for the recipes!)
(FP) Low-fat cottage cheese with cocoa powder, THM Super Sweet Blend, and Reddi-Wip
(Light S) Low-fat cottage cheese with a sprinkling of low-carb granola
(S) Instant PB&C-Covered Strawberries
Instant PB&C-Covered Strawberries – pg. 296, Necessary Food
Yolie Bieber says
Hi Briana, are all these new recipes in your book? and which one? or are you going to post them in Facebook? or emails? they look amazing! please let me know!!!
Briana Thomas says
I believe these are the only two new recipes that I mentioned in this post that hadn’t appeared on the blog yet:
https://www.briana-thomas.com/cornbread-in-a-bowl-beans/
https://www.briana-thomas.com/vanilla-yogurt-blueberry-topping-and-yogurt-parfaits-a-myriad-of-ways/
Necessary Food contains the recipes published on my blog through July 2016, and my next cookbook will contain the recipes published after that (including the recipes I just linked). 🙂
Donna says
Briana, thank u for ur cookbook, I love it! I have printed so many of your recipes over the last few year, so I was really glad when you said u were doing a cookbook! I love all that I have tried thus far!and love them! I am excited about making some of your ice cream, I just got an ice cream maker!
Can’t wait to try more!
Sandy Johnson says
Made your cake in a bowl today. Made a peanut butter icing. My family loved. Me too. The cake really doesn’t need icing. Just a little whip cream. Love the cook book.
Dianne Wagner says
Briana! I love your cookbook. It arrived last week and I am in the process of reading it cover to cover and setting up my kitchen as a THM friendly environment (I purchased the THM books also). I am excited to try your ice cream recipes. Do you have a particular ice cream maker that you would recommend? Also, I am jealous you got to visit Holmes County. I was there in September for my birthday. I took my mom for her birthday. It is so beautiful there and we met and chatted with so many wonderful people. Thank you for all of hard work at creating the recipes to help me move toward better health.
Briana Thomas says
Hi Dianne! I’m so glad you’re enjoying the book! Here’s the ice cream maker we use (affiliate link): https://www.briana-thomas.com/recommends/cuisinart-1-12-qt-automatic-ice-cream-churn/
Mitzi says
I pre-ordered your book and LOVE it! The spiral binding makes it so easy to use, too. Beautiful pictures, tons of recipes…thank you, thank you!!
Briana Thomas says
Thank YOU!
Helen says
Thanks for your link to Netrition for the lavash. I have been looking for these and haven’t found them in the stores around here. I ended up getting lots of things!
Lisa says
Got your cookbook last Friday and am going through it in awe and trying to decide what I’m gonna fix. I already made up your baking mix. I attempted waffles, and think I should probably start with pancakes. Didn’t do too well on the waffles. However, I made that yummy meatball casserole posted online (not in cookbook) and it is delicious. Shared with my mom and have been eating leftovers all week. Thanks for inspiring all of us with your blog and cookbook.
Briana Thomas says
I’m so glad you’re enjoying the book, Lisa!
Crystal Conrad-Kauffman says
Briana,
Thanks for your blog and posts! And of course your incredible cookbook! I never had eaten jicama in my life before seeing your recipe for Jashbrown Breakfast on page 24. I had noticed jicama for sale at our local grocer and thought I would give it a try. I LOVE it. It was a great breakfast, super tasty and satisfying! Thanks for broadening my food horizons. I also made your Pumpkin Spice Syrup (pg 417) using pumpkin spice tea (I didn’t have gingerbread!) So yummy on the jumbo pumpkin pie pancake (pg15) Thanks for your hard work with all of this! I have been enjoying trying so many of your recipes and have been very pleased with all of them so far! Just had Chia Pudding (pg38) which I added a dollop of pumpkin to and some of the Pumpkin Spice Syrup and a scant handful of pecans – delightful! One of my new favorite snacks is the Chocolate Covered PB & J Protein Mess (pg 391)!!! If any one reading these comments is on the fence about purchasing the cookbook, purchase it! You won’t be sorry!
Thanks again, Briana! Keep using those gifts the Lord has blessed you with! You are helping so many people get and stay healthy!
Crystal
Briana Thomas says
Thanks so much for your comment, Crystal! I’m so glad you’re enjoying the recipes – and your tweaks to the chia pudding sound awesome! I hope you get many good years of use out of the book!