Week of April 21st

Last week! I am pretty happy with this process. Many times I get lazy and I am like oh I won't make the smoothie today but then I remember it is only another week, and that actually makes me continue. I am not sure why, but I guess it sets an end to it, it is not like if I don't do it know I will do it later. I want to do it this month, so I should do it.

The smoothie plan went very well, I changed a lot of recipes, specially I mostly used orange juice instead of almond milk. One thing I learned about smoothies, at least the type I like, is you can combine any combination of milk/juice, fruits, banana, nuts, sesame seeds, yogurt and honey and the result is usually satisfactory. So I am not posting any recipes because that is actually what I did last week.

For the meals, I will have the following plan (some days repeated because I am making more than one serving)
1- Ashe Jo
2- Stuffed peppers and tomatoes: the stuffing is brown/wild rice, herbs, lentil, tomato sauce
3- Chicken Salad

Week of April 14th

Last week was good, but I need to reduce the nuts amount. They give me canker sores. We have this notion of 'garmi' (which literally means something hot) and 'sardi' (which literally means something cold) in Iranian old medicine, and surprisingly it is very common even nowadays. Ask any Iranian born and raised in Iran about if something is hot or cold, and most probably they will know what you are talking about. All said, nuts are considered very hot, and apparently my body does not like it. So I need some cold meals to balance everything. Examples of cold ingredients are watermelon and barley. To get rid of the sores, I am trying a lot of watermelons in my smoothies, and I will also have barley soup.

Here is the smoothie plan:

1. Watermelon Smoothie
2. Watermelon Smoothie and Strawberries
3. Berry and Watermelon (without cinnamon which is hot)
4. Mango, Berry and Banana
5. Banana - Oat Smoothie

Here is the lunch plan:

1. Tahchin
2. Salad Olivieh
3. Soy Marinated Chicken
4. Chicken Vesuvio
5. Cesar Salad

Week of April 8th

This is a quick post, just to say last week was good, I really liked the smoothies. Here is the plan for next week:

1. protein packed blackberry smoothie
2. strawberry smoothie
3. cantaloupe smoothie
4. berry watermelon smoothie
5. Banana-Mango smoothie

Here is the lunch plan:

1. Barberry Rice with Chicken
2. Peri-Peri Chicken
3. Jooje-Kabab (from last week)
4. Vegetarian Loobia Polo (Green beans with Rice)
5. Vegetarian adas Polo (Lentil with Rice)