Day 20  SUGAR FREE ME.  Eat Green Food.
Our garden is booming with zucchini.  So proud of my babies I grew from seed.    Now, if the tomato plants can survive the heat, I may all the ingredients for zucchini boats straight from my organic garden.

Zucchini Boats

In the meantime, I have lot of other uses for those babies.  Of course zucchini cookies & bread for the kiddos.  But for me, a healthier choices.

Baked Zucchini Chips

No Noodle Zucchini Lasagna

Baked Zucchini Srips

Baked Zucchini Strips

Zucchini Bites

Zucchini Tots

Paleo Zucchini Brownies

Day 11 SUGAR-FREE ME!

Family camping trip last weekend.  We were a bit limited with the "no open fires" rule due to recent wild fires and camping w/o running water making clean up difficult. But quite frankly, I think I was just lazy about cooking & cleaning on a simple overnight trip. So while everyone else ate Nathan's hotdogs, chips & fruitables juice boxes and of course smores, what did I eat?   A piece of pork loin cut in the shape of a hotdog, an apple (which my son tried to steal from me several times), and raw brocolli.  For breakfast the kids splurged on pop tarts which I don't hardly ever buy.  But they were on sale & I had a coupon, my moral dilema cost/benefit.  I had a boiled egg & strawberries (which the kids wanted too).  Trail mix & beef jerkey are also always a hiking/camping standard. 

The next trip I'm going to try some healthy camping food ideas/recipes:
http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/rethinking-campfire-food-15-healthy-easy-ideas-2-recipes/
http://www.complete-family-camping-guide.com/camping-food-ideas.html
http://www.tasteofhome.com/camping-recipes
Pancakes-you can use bananas instead of eggs if you don't want to hunt down dried eggs.
Oatmeal-If you bring a glass mason jar or a large thermos, you can just use boiled water even on old fashioned oats.  Just let it sit for 15-20 minutes. 
Breakfast burritos can be made ahead, wrapped in tin foil & reheated like a "hobo meal". My son's #1 choice.

Lunch:  I always pre-make homemade pb&j sandwiches, but I let them eat chips & have fruitables juice boxes.  Pretty easy to switch the chips for carrots etc.

Dinner:  Oh, the possibilies are endless if we are allowed to have fire. I love the idea of hobo meal.  But if limited with a propane camp stove & no running water, I would choose something with a short cook time & easy cleanup.

Now if I could just manage to get some sleep on the next trip. 

Day 4 MSG FREE SOUP DAY

Chili=smushed fresh tomatoes with spices (cumin is good), chunked steak, & water.  Forgot to buy cabbage head or I would have added some shredded as well. 

Chicken w/ mushrooms=homemade chicken broth, garlic, onion, celery, sage, chunked chicken from self-canned, & mushrooms.

Why I like soup? It's a  light meal but yet it fills you up.

Chicken broth is so easy to make why would you ever buy something processed & chemicalized.
The crockpot makes it even easier.  Just throw the chicken bones in a crockpot overnight with onion, celery, carrot & bay leaves covered with water on low overnight.  In the AM strain the broth (I use a flour sack cloth in a strainer), cool down in non-reactive pot immersed in ice water in the sink.  Do NOT put a hot pot in the fridge!  You will overwork it and heat up the food surrounding it. Once cooled, pop the pot in the fridge to harden up the floating fat, scrap it off and you are for soup or homemade condensed cream of chicken. 

Wow! I have so much leftover broth. What ever am I to do?  Freeze it or Pressure Can it. 
Freeze it?  I pour it into a 9x9 glass pan that way it's nice and flat in the freezer. Once frozen, I pop it out of the pan and vacuum pack it. Thank you foodsaver.  Another option I utilize is pouring into a muffin tin.  If I need broth for a recipe, I can just grab a few "muffins" and defrost them on the stove.   Downside:  plastic wrap.
Can it?  I usually make some kind of soup & then can that instead.  It's a lot of work & time but worth it compared to eating what manufacturers try to pass off as food.

Day 1 Restart A Healthier Me Sugar-Free
Life without sugar, sugar-free, flour, starch, high glycemic foods, dairy or processed foods.  A clean real food diet comprised of daily allowance of protein but all carbohydrates are made up of green vegetables and low glycemic fruits. 
The first few detox days are the WORST.  Drink plenty of water and try not to rip anyone's head off.
This is an addiction worse than nicotine.  I cracked that one over 10 years ago and I can crack this one again!