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Breakfast- Bowl of cereal with coconut milk

Lunch- We are heading to the Festival of Nations with my sister.  I am so excited to eat Samosas from India!  I don't think there would be any sugar in the ingredients but if there is, I don't care.  They are that yummy.  I would love to get my hands on a good recipe so I could make them at home.  Either that or I need to find a good restaurant that I can get them at during the rest of the year.  I will try to resist desserts today.

I did not resist.  I'm not doing very well this time around.  I will try better!

Dinner- Chicken and potato soup.

I ate way too much garbage for snack-UG!

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Today will not be a no sugar day :(  We have a field trip to DQ.  I can resist the food, but probably not the ice cream.  I'm ok with that :)

Breakfast- Oatmeal with maple sugar and cinnamon

Snack- Scrambled eggs with ketchup, cantaloupe

From here on out the day was NOT sugar free :(
DQ for lunch with ice cream for dessert,  Snack was veg.,  Dinner was frozen pizza white ch. macadamia nut cookies and 2 sips of wine (Tobin wouldn't stay sleeping and fought with me for 2 hours- ug!)

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Breakfast-Banana chocolate chip muffins

Snack- dried fruit

Lunch- Turkey tacos at work. I had a tortilla- it had brown sugar in it :(  I also had chips and queso from Don Pablos.

Snack- Fresh Veggies, homemade hummus and chips

Dinner- Chicken and couscous

Dessert- No sugar chocolate cupcakes

Yummus Hummus! (Moroccan Spiced Honey Hummus)

I got this recipe from www.nationalhoneyboard.com

2 15 oz. cans of garbanzo beans drained and rinsed

1/3 cup honey (I used a touch more)

1 tsp. ground cumin

1/2 tsp. salt

a dasy of cayenne pepper

1/4 cup lemon juice (I used lime since I had no lemon)

1 tsp. minced garlic (I used 1/2 tsp. garlic powder)

2-3 Tb. fresh cilantro or parsley chopped (I skipped this.  I didn't like how bitter the cilantro tasted.)

Combine all ingredients except the cilantro in a food processor and process until smooth.  Put in a serving bowl and mix in the cilantro.  Eat with pita chips.  (I used tortilla since I had no pita, but pita would be way better!)

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Breakfast- Chocolate & coconut pancake

Snack- Ez. 4:9 cereal and milk

Lunch- Spinach pasta and carrots

Snack- Pear, dried fruit

Dinner- Taco salad @ church.  I grabbed a white chocolate macadamia nut cookie to possibly eat during class.  I ended up resisting and gave the cookie to Pete.

Snack-  I had some pea  pods, carrots and celery.  I also made some homemade hummus and tried some.  I've dubbed it "Yummus hummus!".  I will post the recipe!

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Breakfast- Chocolate chip pancakes (no sugar c. chips)

Snack- Dried fruit

Lunch- Leftover chili

Snack- Honey decaf latte, carrots and a sliver of a brownie (I savored all 3 bites)

Dinner- Wheat couscous, corn, leftover Buca and black bean "burgers"

Snack- Coconut milk chocolate ice cream

Hopefully tomorrow I'll be back on track with Planet Fitness.

Day -1

I will start another 30 day no sugar challenge tomorrow.  I was not even close to being a good eater today.  I started the day with chocolate cake for breakfast-enough said.

Here's the totals for our first 30 day challenge (as best as I can figure):

I had 11 out of 30 complete no sugar days, 16 minimal sugar days (ie. white bread for burgers, ketchup etc.) and 3 days with a full sugar item.

Kendra and Riley had 11 out of 27 (they ended the challenge earlier than me due to Easter.) complete no sugar days.  11 out of 27 minimal sugar days and 5 days that had a full sugar food item of some sort (ie. dessert at Buca's).

All in all we learned a lot about what we are eating.  I have also learned during this past week "off" how easy it is to slip back into bad eating habits and how important it is that I blog (I need that accountability!)  I will say there is a certain freedom that comes with eating whatever you want, but you end up paying the price later on.  I would much rather be mindful of what I am eating and feeding my children than taking the easy/unhealthy road out.  Tomorrow I plan to get back on to the road of healthy eating.

A note about going vegetarian for 30 days.  Riley has decided she wants to eat only chicken.  No beef or pork.  I think I will try to cook more vegetarian meals simply because it is cheaper and I kind of wanted to try some vegetarian meals!  (I made black bean "burgers" Sat. night to be the veg. alt. to homemade chicken nuggets.  Riley ended up eating chicken nuggets and Kendra and Pete inhaled the black bean nuggets.  Go figure!)

It's 9:00 and Tobin is sleeping.  I am going to clean the kitchen and get things ready for tomorrow and hopefully go to bed early.  I didn't post the rhubarb syrup, golden angel food cake, chocolate chip cookies or my sister's yummy bread recipes.  Since I don't seem to have the time, I will post the recipes per request.  Thanks for understanding!