Fully Balanced Friday
Avocado Toast, Apple Broccoli Slaw, and Sweet Potato Peanut Stew
Welcome to the first Fully Balanced Friday! A full day of meals that meet all your daily values for vitamins and nutrients (macro and micro). They’re also really quick and simple to make and things I actually like eating. Enjoy!
Morning:
1 cup of water
Breakfast:
Glass of orange juice
Filling Fried Egg and Avocado Toast:
| Ingredients: 1 slice wheat bread 6 slices avocado 1 TBSP chia seeds 1 handful spinach 1 egg | Directions: Toast bread Fry egg and slice avocado while bread toasts Layer spinach, avocado, chia seeds and egg on toast Salt and pepper to taste |
Snack:
15 almonds
1 cup of water
Lunch:
Glass of water
Modified Broccoli slaw salad originally from Kate Fruit Flowers’ Freedom Food Ebook
| Ingredients: broccoli red cabbage celery, chopped apple, diced hemp seeds (optional) apple cider vinegar tahini mustard soy sauce lemon juice | Directions: Kate has a video making the recipe here, the recipe starts at 3:14 I added some chicken to meet protein needs, but you could add a mock meat or skip this if you are vegetarian or vegan. |
Dinner:
Glass of water
Sweet Potato Peanut Stew
| Ingredients: olive oil red onion, diced garlic, minced ginger, minced ground cloves salt cayenne pepper cumin carrot sweet potato vegetable broth honey peanut butter spinach brown rice | Directions: I got this recipe from Naturally Ella, I love this blog, these recipes and the photos that go along with them! I added tofu! (again for protein) |
1 cup water
Dessert:
Yogurt Parfait
| Ingredients: 1 cup Greek yogurt 3 strawberries ½ banana (freeze the other half!) ½ cup granola | Directions: Seriously just add everything in a bowl and eat it |
And…..here’s the breakdown for the whole day! (P.S. I do supplement for vitamin D and the trans-fats are .025 over what they should be but everything else looks great!)
