According to the Japan Meteorological Agency the area of Japan I live in has officially entered the rainy season. Sigh. While the rain doesn`t necessarily keep us from going out, it does put a damper on our park time. Yesterday it rained off and on all day and Noa and I never left the house. I was unusually energetic, not sure if it`s related to me doing Whole 30 or not, but I got a lot of cleaning done yesterday. I decided I`d get one room clean then play with Noa for a while and then when she tired of whatever we were doing I`d do the next room. I was able to clean the living room, dining room, tatami (Japanese style) room all before Koichi came home. Then after dinner Noa wanted to play with him so I was able to get the kitchen cleaned including cleaning out the refrigerator, which was long overdue.
Even though I tried to tried to get Noa to take a nap with me around 2pm, she just ended up watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on my phone and I slept about 15-20 minutes and then argued with her because she told me she wasn`t going to take a nap. I did make her stay in bed to rest a bit, but she never went to sleep. Of course she passed out on the sofa around 5pm and slept for 2 hours, which meant she was wide awake until around midnight. Oh toddlers!
On to my meals for Day 6:
Breakfast: ground pork/beef with the spice mixture I use to make sausage patties mixed with kale and tomatoes, sweet potatoes, 2 eggs, kiwi.
Lunch: I cubed and microwaved a sweet potato and on top of it I put a meat sauce I made with ground pork/beef, eggplant, and Arabiata sauce (a spicy tomato sauce). With it I had some bell pepper slices and Deleware grapes.
Dinner: the meat sauce covered sweet potato at lunch was so good I did it even better at dinner. I baked the sweet potatoes whole in the oven and added black olives and green bell peppers to the meat sauce which I made with regular marinara since Noa would be eating it too. The salad is Romaine and kale with olive oil, vinegar, and Trader Joe`s Everything but the Bagel seasoning. And I had a soup made of chicken stock that I just added some seasonings and frozen spinach to.
That baked sweet potato was a game changer! Throughout dinner I kept thinking of other things I could make to put on top of it; barbecue pork or chicken, salsa chicken, taco meat, etc. Be on the lookout to see what I come up with!
Note: this was the first day that I didn`t feel hungry in the afternoon didn`t have a snack or iced coffee! I did have an iced coffee in the late morning and in the afternoon I replaced with it an iced green tea.
I was surprised at how much energy I had throughout the day. Hopefully it will last!
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