Whole30, day 10 in Whole 30/post w30 eating

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

1. Place chicken in slow cooker. Add remaining ingredients except rice.

2. Cover and cook on low heat 8-10 hours. During last 15 minutes of cooking, stir in rice.

3. 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.