30 Days of Real Food Challenge

ARE YOU READY???

Tomorrow we kick off 30 Days of Real Food, gluten free style!

I have wrangled up some real food eating friends over on Facebook in a new, “Gluten Free & Good For Me” closed group and you should join us too!

Here’s a little “Real Food 101” so we’re ready to go…

• Know where we’re headed!
  • Check out the rules for our real food challenge — just remember that Lisa and her family are not gluten-free, so just ignore the “whole wheat” and know that means whole grains for us, like brown rice, sorghum, etc. I have used several of their recipes as ideas and inspiration and any that are not written as gluten-free are easily converted.

• Plan ahead!
  • Don’t let yourself get hangry. ALWAYS carry snacks.
  • Write out your menu for the week and make a grocery trip.
  • Look at your calendar for any upcoming social events and see if you can choose a restaurant with real food, meet for coffee instead, eat before you go, etc.
• Try new things!
  • Let this month be an experiment in new-to-you foods.
  • Check out all the real food ideas on Pinterest. (be sure to modify them to be GF)
  • Dig out some of those recipes you’ve tucked away but been meaning to try, then share them with us!

• Breakfast ideas
  • Anything Goes Egg Cups
  • Morning Monkey Mocha Smoothie
  • Overnight Oats (please use GF Harvest oats!)
  • Oatmeal Raisin Breakfast Bars
  • Banana Nut Oatmeal Bites (breakfast cookies!)
  • Pumpkin Spice Granola (or omit pumpkin spice and just do cinnamon and have this with plain Greek yogurt sweetened with honey or maple syrup)
• Lunch ideas
  • Spicy Tomato Dill Soup 
  • Potato Leek Soup
  • All kinds of satisfying salads
• Dinner ideas
  • Zucchini Planks 
  • Simple Shrimp Skillet with Chive Potatoes
  • Italian Chili (people LOVE this one!)
  • Grilled Asparagus with lemon (top with a fried egg!)
• Snack ideas
  • Peach “Sorbet” (ONE ingredient!)
  • Almond Joy-like Lara-like bars 😉
  • Chocolate Banana Peanut Butter Mock Ice Cream 
  • Four Ingredient Hummus
  • BLT Bites (if you can find bacon sans sugar)

See? You’re set for the first few days!

TO-DO LIST

• Add yourself to our Gluten Free & Good For Me page.
• See the RULES here. 
• Leave a comment below with any questions or real food recipes to share!

I know we can do this! (I did over 50 days of real food in the fall and survived, so this will be totally do-able, I promise!)