Phew!

I've been slacking a bit; sorry. This week was the first week of the fall semester, so it's been a bit chaotic for me.

I didn't take any pictures of Cave Baby's Sunday lunch. But here is Monday's. She had taco meat (I promise you that this is not all we eat here. She is on a taco meat kick, and I'm not about to stop her. I like that she's being decisive and making healthy decisions on her own.), carrot sticks and 1/4 of a banana with almond butter.

After lunch we went out to get some vitamin D before nap. Cave Baby picked one of the last two apples from the apple tree and mowed down. Nothing like sunshine and fresh picked fruit!

I had class Monday night, so I packed a dinner for Cave Baby, who went to my Aunt's house. In her dinner was an almond butter and no-sugar-added strawberry jelly sandwich on Paleo bread (by far my favorite Paleo bread recipe!), carrot sticks, raisins, a Double Chocolate Mocha cookie, and two Lindt 70% cocoa chocolate squares.

Tuesday Cave Baby was with her daddy for breakfast and lunch (I packed leftover Paleo pizza and carrot sticks for her to have at lunch time, and her dad still had some Paleo pancakes that I'd sent over for breakfast). For dinner she had Italian turkey sausage and cabbage noodles. I just thinly slice the cabbage and season it with sea salt, pepper and curry powder, wilting and frying it in a cast iron pan on the stove.

Yesterday's lunch was leftover Italian sausage and cabbage noodles with a Double Chocolate Mocha cookie.

Yesterday after nap Cave Baby and I went to Barnes and Noble and looked at books. Cave Baby thoroughly enjoyed the "stage" in the children's book area and had me sit and watch her "perform." After that we went grocery shopping and by the time we got home, it was getting late! I reheated some leftover cabbage noodles for her, and grabbed some Paleo chicken nuggets from my stash (I'll post the "recipe" below), gave her a ramekin of Paleo Ketchup, and some yummy cherries (her favorite).

Today for lunch Cave Baby asked for ::surprise:: taco meat. I obliged. So she had taco meat (made from ground chicken), grapes and crispy brussels sprouts.

I have a beef shank in the crock pot, but Cave Baby is going to my Aunts this afternoon so that I can get my Crossfit in. I doubt it will be ready by the time we leave, so I'll likely be packing up some leftover taco meat, carrot sticks and cherries for her.

Here's the chicken nugget "recipe." Please note that I don't measure anything, and I just kind of "wing it."

Chicken Nuggets
Ingredients:
Boneless skinless chicken breast/s cut into bite size pieces
Almond flour
Seasoning (I use sea salt, pepper, garlic and onion powder)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Put almond flour and seasonings in a gallon size ziplock back, seal and shake like crazy to mix thoroughly. Put the chicken in the bag and shake like crazy to coat all of the chicken well. Place chicken on oiled (olive, coconut or grape seed)(tinfoil lined to make cleanup easy) cookie sheet, and bake for about 15 minutes, turn over and bake for another 10-15 minutes. Voila!

These freeze really well. They reheat well, too. Just pop into a 350 degree oven for about 10 minutes. They're great to have on hand.

Hope everyone's had a fantastic week and will have a great Labor Day weekend!