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Hey, y’all! Welcome to the first edition of what will hopefully become a new series here on the blog! I’ve entitled it, “What’s on My Plate?” (“WOMP” for short), and I’m hoping to make it a weekly feature published on Wednesdays. While enthusiasm lasts (on your end and mine)….
Basically these posts are meant to give you some helpful visual inspiration for easy, real-life healthy food. I’m not going to be sharing all my meals, but if I have a camera handy I’ll snap a quick picture. Every week I’ll compile my shots and post them. I think you’ll soon find out that while I’m definitely a foodie (a disease exacerbated by my blogging occupation), I value quick and easy just as much as, and probably even more than, most people. A high school teacher of mine calls it “smart lazy.”
Since these posts include pictures from what I’ve made in the past week, you’ll often get sneak previews of recipes that will appear on the blog (or in my next cookbook, which I’m already thinking about…). Some of the pictures in these posts are taken in my makeshift “studio” for the purpose of looking good for the blog, but quite a few will just be snapshots taken in the kitchen under awful incandescent lights. I would apologize for the quality – but hey, it’ll show you what life is really like back here. 😉
Do you have easy meal/recipe ideas to share? Please do so in the comments! If you enjoyed this post, please do share it with your friends! (Social media share buttons are located under the title at the top of the post.)
Breakfast:
(S) Detox Porridge (with cinnamon and butter on top instead of stirred in; I added a tablespoon of THM Just Gelatin for protein.)
(E) Oatmeal with cocoa powder and sweetener topped with half a sliced banana and a splash of skim milk (I use this occasionally in an E setting; you could use unsweetened almond milk as well.)
(E) 2 slices Homemade Bread, toasted, with a teaspoon of butter; low-fat cottage cheese with a few peach slices
Lunch:
We often have leftovers for lunch. Sometimes we repurpose them, as you see below. Sometimes we just heat them up and eat them as-is. The pictures you see below don’t necessarily represent my whole lunch – just the main part that I actually took a picture of.
(S) Lettuce, grilled chicken, cheese, black olives, tomatoes, a sprinkling of chickpeas, thinned-down Ranch dressing (it’s lighter this way, and it coats the salad better!), Bri’s Sweet & Spicy Rub (recipe coming soon!)
(S) Leftover roast beef on Joseph’s lavash with cheese, salt, and pepper (baked until heated through and the cheese melted)
Snacks:
(E) Low-fat cottage cheese with a little pineapple canned in its own juices (drain the juice off)
(S) My go-to Sunday evening after-church snack/supper: a low-carb wrap with shredded mozzarella, pepperoni slices, and horseradish, folded and fried in coconut oil until crispy
Meals:
(S) Bone-in chicken thighs with Bri’s Sweet & Spicy Rub (recipe coming soon!)
(S-side dish): Stir-fried zucchini, onion, banana pepper, and okra in butter, seasoned with curry powder and garlic salt, topped with a little cheese
(S) Perfect Barbecue Sauce (recipe coming soon!) with pulled pork, roasted okra, salad
Desserts:
(S) Strawberry Cardamom Superfood Ice Cream (recipe coming soon!)
Other pages you might enjoy:
Judy says
Hey Briana! Thank you for all you do!! I am very excited about WOMP! I have been looking at your old post the last few days. I look forward to this new post ?
sandy says
lovin your recipes! now i need to learn portion control too! the visuals are a big help
Sandi says
Love this! Shared the link with my little group of THM gals. Thanks so much!!
Laura Lane says
Oh I am going to like this series!
Be blessed!
Laura of Harvest Lane Cottage
Kristen says
Great job Briana! Eager to see the rest in this series!
Candace says
I love your new series! This is awesome and so very helpful!
Rhonda Anderson says
I think this is a great idea. Looking forward to the recipes, especially the BBQ sauce. Thanks for taking time to help us along our journey.
Gerrie Johnnic says
Going to love this feature!
Julianne Van Cise says
WOMP is an answer to prayer…I am clueless as how to put together MEALS…OK..I am really good at snacks, but for a MEAL…HELP!!! Can not wait for next Wed….praying for your cookbooks and so bless with the loving way you SHARE JESUS and HIS LOVE..
Briana Thomas says
Thanks so much, Julianne! Blessings!
Jan says
I have searched in vain for a THM version of chicken and dumplings. I used to make them with a flour based dough, rolled out and cut into squares, then dropped one by one into the broth. The flour from rolling out, which sticks to the dough, thickened the broth. The dumplings were quite firm. The recipes I have found result in a very light dumpling which tends to dissolve into the broth. Do you have any suggestions?
Briana Thomas says
Hi Jan! I’ve never actually made dumplings, THM or otherwise, so I’m not much help. However, maybe what you described would be closer to something like this homemade pasta dough from Wonderfully Made and Dearly Loved? http://wonderfullymadeanddearlyloved.com/homemade-pasta-dough/
Jan says
Thanks, Briana. I want to try this recipe. I love your blog.
Patti says
I always love your recipes! Excited about WOMP!
Jen says
Awesome idea for a series! I love seeing “real life” stuff like this 🙂 Can’t wait to see more!
Sheryl says
You have such a gift with food creativity and display! I admire that!
Emma says
WOMP is a useful, fun, helpful, encouraging idea!
Anne says
I love this series and hope you keep it going for a long time. I am very new to THM. In fact, I still haven’t successfully implemented it yet. I’ve read the book and borrowed the cookbook from the library, but it’s so different from how I’m used to eating (all that S food on top of an E like spaghetti and meat sauce!) that I really need new easy substitutes. I love the idea of the mozzarella pizza wrap. Thanks for all the ideas! Can’t wait for next Wednesday!
Tanya Brillhart says
Brilliant. Thank you.
Cheryl says
Thank you! I am going to enjoy see how you eat on plan.
Josephine Kitchen says
Three words: Awesome Awesome Awesome!!
Dorene Martin says
I love your new feature and will look forward to it! Time is a big factor in my life as a mom and dairy farmers wife, so I like fast, easy, quick meals as well! Thanks for sharing! ~ Dorene