Whole30, day 10 in Whole 30/post w30 eating
- Jan. 10, 2015, 4:48 p.m.
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1 pm
I’ve been far too lazy to take pictures so far today. Sorry. For breakfast I actually had exactly the same thing I ate yesterday. Lunch was a salad—mixed greens topped with broccoli slaw, zucchini, mango salsa, turkey, and ginger dressing—and a blood orange.
I have something going in the crockpot for dinner. I’ll let you all know what it is if it turns out well. :p
I need to make my sweet potato hash tomorrow for breakfast, but I’m just so lazy. If I’m smart, I’ll cut up the zucchini and onions tonight so I only have to fight with the potatoes in the morning. If I’m REALLY smart, I’ll prep it all. We’ll see.
5:15 pm
Dinner:
The crockpot chicken, half an avocado, some of the carrots I cooked with the chicken, and the cauliflower soup.
I adapted the Lime-Garlic Chicken with Rice recipe from Betty Crocker One-Dish Meals. (A quick note on this cookbook: I LOVE it. It’s the reason I started cooking. Everything is not only easy, but I find these recipes extremely easy to adapt, either to be healthier or to use different veggies or more veggies. LOVE.) Here’s the recipe as is:
1 1/4 pounds bone-in, skinless chicken thighs
1/4 cup fresh lime juice (2 limes)
1 1/2 cups chicken broth
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped,
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
salt/pepper
2 Tbsp butter
1 cup uncooked instant rice
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Place chicken in slow cooker. Add remaining ingredients except rice.
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Cover and cook on low heat 8-10 hours. During last 15 minutes of cooking, stir in rice.
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Remove chicken from slow cooker. Place cooked rice on each serving plate. Top with chicken. Spoon any remaining juices over chicken.
Obviously I didn’t use the rice, and it’s really hard to find compliant chicken broth so I used Pacific organics veggie broth. I also subbed ghee for the butter and added a bit more lime juice because one of my limes didn’t juice well. I also threw some carrots in the pot because I had leftovers from another recipe and didn’t know what to do with them. This way I figured they wouldn’t go bad. Surprise to me, I actually liked them.
While I was typing out the recipe, I realized why I had the one thing I was going to complain about, which was too much broth and not enough lime/garlic flavor. I didn’t read the instructions carefully enough and totally spaced that the rice was cooked in the liquid in the crockpot (which is stupid of me because I was even thinking that that’s why so much cooking liquid was called for). So if I made this without the rice again, I would cut way back on the broth, but probably leave the full amount of lime juice because I didn’t get enough lime flavor. I would also probably add more garlic. The chicken is delicious though. It was falling off the bone as I was trying to pull it out of the crockpot. I forgot how good thighs were.
I’m so ridiculously full right now. I clearly didn’t eat enough (fat?) at lunch, so I was hungry and snacked on a banana and cashew butter, but that meant I wasn’t entirely hungry when I ate dinner. I should’ve waited, but it had to come out of the crockpot and I wanted to eat it while it was hot. And then I was thinking that I didn’t want to eat a half meal because I didn’t want to be snacking all night when I got hungry again and it was a great big mess. :p
Callie went to the grocery store today and brought all of these foods I desperately want to cheat with into the house (like the blackbean nachos she’s making RIGHT NOW and the ice cream in the freezer). UGH. It turned into temptation island. But I got this. I hope.
Deleted user ⋅ January 11, 2015
Yay for making to day 10!