The 9:00 AM class rows their hearts out. It's Foodie Friday! November is naturally a food lovers favorite month. We transition into savory fall casseroles and a great big feast at the end of the month. Before we eat, drink and be merry, it's good manners to take care of those who need our help. We are holding our 4th annual Fall Food Drive during November. The Gallatin Valley Food Bank donation bin is in the front room next to where you check into class. Now until November 18 all of our donations go toward the Can the Griz food drive challenge. Last year we donated 100 pounds of food. Let's double that this year. YES, WE CAN! I discovered an easy and delicious way to cook several pounds of chicken in my slow cooker. When the slow cooker is done you get several meals worth of tasty shredded chicken that you can put on top of baked sweet potatoes, use for chicken tacos, or for salads. I recently discovered this collection of chicken marinades from Ambitious Kitchen that I'm excited to try with my slow roasted chicken.
For each of the marinades, place all ingredients into a Ziploc bag or a large ceramic dish. Add 1 pound chicken to the bag or dish, and mix well to evenly coat.
Let the chicken marinade in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours before cooking. Thirty minutes before you’re ready to cook the chicken, remove the chicken from the marinade. Grill, bake, or cook in your slow cooker on low for 8 hours, high for 4 hours or in your Instant Pot on the Meat setting. Shred and enjoy!
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Tami mid-burpee. Today's Foodie Friday post is a sideways turn from the regular Paleo recipes I usually share. Today I want to discuss how much to eat, e.g. food quantity. A missing piece in the Paleo nutrition discussion is how much food should we be shoving into our mouths. Food quantity matters, and I can tell you from personal experience, it matters quite a bit. You can't out-exercise your diet. I know many of you try your hardest to out-exercise the Saturday night beer & nachos or the Sunday morning pancakes. I'm sorry to tell you, it's not going to happen. Sure, you're going to loose some weight through exercise, but your body composition will plateau and your weight loss will stall until you start to focus on how much you're eating. Think of it this way, you exercise for your health and its affects on inside your body. You eat to affect your appearance. Want to look better naked? Watch what you eat. However, figuring out how much to eat doesn't need to be complicated. In fact, a simple approach is the best approach, and the approach advocated by Precision Nutrition is, hands down, my favorite simple approach. What is their amazing simple approach? Use your hand to guide how much to put in your face. The illustration shows the correct amount of food to eat of you're a woman. If you're a man, double the amounts. Lucky boys!
This food quantity guideline is for every meal. Yes, you should be eating vegetables at breakfast! Just scramble your eggs with a handful, or two, of kale or spinach and you're good to go. If you're eating Paleo or are following one of the Whole Life Challenge nutrition levels, your carbs can come from fruit, below ground veggies, e.g. carrots, beets, parsnips, sweet potatoes, or hard skinned winter squash, e.g. butternut, acorn, spaghetti. The first step in getting your nutrition under control is to focus on food quality, eating primarily whole foods that had a face and went from the soil to your plate. The second step is controlling how much you eat. Honestly, it really is that simple. There is no magic pill, powder or shake. There is just the magic of diet and exercise. Good luck!
Have you been to a Sprouts Dinner Club? It's so much fun and we're meeting again this Sunday at 3pm to learn how to make a casual Spanish dinner using game meat.
True Spirit member, Heather Kahler AKA Chef HK, leads the dinner club and guides us through meal prep like a pro. We create our menu from scratch, come up with the ingredient list, create our mise en place, and then start cooking. You will learn easy techniques you can use at home to create fabulous tasting meals without a recipe. We hope you can join us this Sunday. Look at this amazing meal we created in April.
Today's Workout
Gymnastics Pulling Progressions then,
Heavy deadlifts are on today's menu. Brace your core and push the floor away!
It's Foodie Friday! Today's recipe is from The Primal Blueprint author Mark Sisson. Mark's blog, Mark's Daily Apple, is a great resource for primal recipes, workouts and deep thoughts on primal living. It's worth checking out! I LOVE frittatas and eat them every week. I usually make a big frittata and have slices for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Frittatas are so easy to make and are delicious hot or cold. Enjoy this slow baked BLT frittata recipe from Mark's Daily Apple.
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