Whole 30 Day 7! One week down!!!!

Did you know that cinnamon has a ton of health benefits?  On top of being super, duper delicious, cinnamon regulates blood sugar, reduces cholesterol levels, can help reduce pain, and is shown to reduce chronic inflammation, making it helpful for people with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, brain tumors and meningitis.  I just like it because it tastes amazeballs.

For breakfast today, I made the Whole 30 oatmeal I've been digging with LOTS of cinnamon.  It looked like this: 

Soooo filling

I intended to have beef fajitas for dinner.  In fact, I threw everything into the crockpot after running errands today, using this recipe.  While I was waiting for it, I made a big batch of homemade salsa, some guacamole and one of my favorite cauliflower recipes, cauliflower tortillas.  These are so amazing! 

In a typical case of first world problems, I got hungry before the fajitas were done.  So I made dinner with with the leftover chicken that I had in the fridge.  Oh well, I guess tomorrow's meal is done.  And they were still yummy with chicken.  Win win.

That's a horrible picture. I should have taken a better one. But I got hungry and it smelled good so I ate it instead.  My bad.

To round out my Mexican fiesta, I made plantain chips for dippin'!  I love plantain chips. They're crunchy and neutral and are the perfect paleo dipping vessel (because, let's face it, people who say using raw veggies is the same as chips are just stupid).  To make plantain chips, find the greenest plantain you can. Plantains go from green to yellow to black the more they ripen. The riper they are, the softer and sweeter.  You don't want this.  You want them green and starchy.  Cut the plantain out of the skin, and then slice it with a mandolin into chips.  Toss them in oil and sea salt and then lay flat on a baking pan.  Bake at 350 until they are just starting to brown and then take them out.  They go from perfect to burned really quickly so keep your peepers on these guys.  When they're done, they look like this: 

Again...bad pic with bad lighting.  Don't care.

So that's all.  Day 7 over, week one over, bronchitis (almost) over.  Next week I may actually get to see how this works out on a normal schedule where I actually go to the office, work out, and resume a normal sleeping schedule.  How did everyone else's first week go??