Day 29

Bizzy B is back from respite and has big dark grey and red patches around and under his eyes which is known as 'Allergic Shiners' and usually means he has eaten something he is allergic to, like dairy.  I can't ask him and he can't tell me so I will have to ring the children's home he stays in to ask.  Things like this make me think even more about the sorts of foods we put in our bodies and what it does to us.  I am so close to the end of my Whole30 I can't believe it!  I will blog in further detail on the 31st day as tomorrow is day 30 so is technically still part of the program.

Tonight after dinner I have cut up a further 105 pieces of fabric for my quilt.  I have back ache ... I must be getting old.  All the preparation takes time but it will finally feel good to start piecing it together on my sewing machine.

At the weekend I started reading 'The fault in our stars' by John Green this has just wrapped up its filming and will be out in the cinemas in the Summer and I am reading it as part of the monthly book club that A Beautiful Mess is doing which is a blog I love. My first impression of the book is that I really love it. 

Here's what I have had to eat on day 29: -

Breakfast

Hard boiled egg
Cumber
Cherry vine tomatoes
Closed handful of cashews

Lunch

Left over bolognese sauce
Rocket
Cucumber
Cherry Vine Tomatoes
Closed handful of cashews

Dinner

Salmon fillet
Roast Sweet potatoes
Roasted veg consisting of:

Red, yellow and green peppers
Mushrooms
Onions
Garlic (added over half way through otherwise they shrivel up)
Courgettes
Cherry vine tomatoes (these were added toward the end so they didn't perish in the heat)


Here is a photo of it about to go in the oven. Yum.

 :)

Day 27 ... out and about

This weekend Bizzy B is away on respite which happens once every 4 weeks.  He goes to his special needs school on Friday morning and transport take him to the children's home and they bring him back to school on Monday morning.  I miss him terribly but I do find the rest very valuable.  It gives me some time and space to recover a bit and a chance for me to spoil the other members of my family who usually miss out.

Usually, I am guilty of being so tired I don't actually go out or do anything exciting.  This weekend though we decided that we should do something so my Partner and I planned a day out shopping. So, we went to the city of Bath.  It was perfect.  I wont go into detail but being a parent to a profoundly Autistic child who can't communicate, who wears nappies full time and has aggressive tendancies is tough and it puts paid to even the most simple and ordinary things  - like going to the shops.

It's not my birthday for 5 weeks but we thought we would go and I could choose some presents.  So my partner treated me to a new coat (embarrassingly mine was a few years old and looked it ... you know when it goes bobbly and the linning is torn and the fastenings are dodgy ... the whole thing was past it!). 

and he also got me these ....

I have huge plans this year for our garden and I have been saving for a new shed and greenhouse so that can help contribute towards my lifestyle choice.  I grew up in a household that grew their own fruit and vegetables and it was brilliant.  I miss it. So these boots will come in very handy for the garden as well as all this rain we are having and maybe if we get any snow.  The welly socks really make them too and I love the colour of the boots which is 'Mint'.

Anyway, this was the first day during whole30 (on Day 27) that I have actually been out and about for lunch time (not counting the funeral) so that shows that I don't go out much.  so after a hearty breakfast I packed a salad in a tub and took a cold bottle of water to drink with the intention of buying some protein in the form of plain prawns. 

I bought a pack of plain prawns with a cocktail sauce on the side (which of course I did not even open or eat) and a small box of plain cashews which I only ate half of and another bottle of water. 

So in all I had a lovely day and this is what I ate altogether on Day 27 ...

Breakfast

Leftover pork fried in the pork jelly (fat removed)
Rocket
Raw carrot
Cherry vine tomatoes


Lunch

(As above)
Plain prawns
Rocket
Red Pepper
Cherry vine tomatoes
Raw carots
Cucumber
Closed handful of cashew nuts

Dinner

Fried chicken
Roasted Sweet Potatoes
Rocket
Cumber
Garlic mushrooms made with ghee and parsley
Small portion of coconut meat.

what a lovely day :)