What I Ate Wednesday: September 2, 2015

September 2, 2015 in Other with: breakfast, dinner, gluten-free, grain-free, lunch, meat, paleo, recent eats, restaurant review, WIAW

Look who is back with a blog post! Hint: it’s me, Hannah (in case you had forgotten my name).

Life has been crazy busy lately and, to be honest, blogging just has not been where my heart and mind have been over the past couple of weeks. But that does not mean I don’t still love cooking, eating, and talking about delicious food!

This past Saturday, I met up with five of my six bridesmaids in Des Moines to go dress shopping for my wedding. We had an awesome time and found the dresses! I also ate delicious food, and I am linking up with What I Ate Wednesday to share my day of eats.

What I Ate Wednesday: September 2, 2015

My morning started off bright and early. In fact, I actually woke up earlier on Saturday than I do on a normal work-week day. That was a bit brutal for my body, but the adrenaline and excitement got me going!

I ate my Chocolate Banana Coconut Chia Pudding topped with almond butter and banana slices on the drive to pick up Jordan and Erin. Word to the wise: don’t eat chia pudding in the car. It is way more difficult to eat than cereal <– which I happen to be an expert at.

Once we found the bridesmaid dresses, we celebrated with lunch at Red Robin. This was the first time I had eaten out at a restaurant since almost two months ago when I went Paleo and nightshade-free. Eating out while following a diet like this is honestly so difficult, if almost impossible in some cases. I figured that I would give nightshades a try again (since my chronic joint/muscle pain had not improved), and found that Red Robin was probably the easiest place for me to stick with a Paleo diet.

I ordered the Guacamole Bacon Burger on a lettuce bun with no cheese, no tomatoes, and no mayo. I chose steamed broccoli on the side <– even though I wanted french fries (not gluten-free) so badly!

The meal was delicious, but looking back on it, I am starting to think that maybe the nightshade reintroduction was not such a good idea. I stopped taking my PPI for my acid reflux right around the same time that I went nightshade-free. Coincidentally (or maybe not), my GERD was surprisingly good during the month of August. It is possible that it is because it can take a little while for PPI’s to wear off, but I have never had such luck in the past when trying to go off of the medication. So I am starting to think that maybe nightshades are the key? Understandably, I am going back to nightshade-free in hopes that the GERD will be back under control!

After the drive back to Omaha, I was starving. I snacked on a handful of tigernuts before a little grocery shopping. Have you tried tigernuts yet? This was my first bag ever, but it definitely will not be my last. I love them! Also, did you know that they are actually not nuts? They are tubers, which is a type of root vegetable.

I was still hungry after my quick trip to Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s, so I snacked on an organic Gala apple.

Dinner was so delicious, you guys! I whipped up some nightshade-free Paleo baked chicken strips (more on these as soon as I get some energy to type up the post) with a side of a Thai slaw that I found on Instagram. Do yourself a favor and make the slaw. It was delicious!