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Healthy eating plans were on-and-off in my head for the past couple of years. My dad had bypass surgery when I was in the sixth grade. That means I always eat the lean ham, egg and cheese Breakfast Jack at Jack in the Box…not the best of healthy eating plans, I’ll admit.  Anyway, it’s pretty safe to say that I’ve never gone a week making my own food and never eating out.  I just finished reading Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food,” which preaches the value of whole foods and more conservative eating habits (which I got the feeling could be summed up by saying do everything opposite of Americans), somewhat extreme healthy eating plans.  Now, I’ve been warned about fully buying into any extreme philosophies time and again by my dad, a conservative by any definition.  However, I couldn’t help but identify with a lot of the concepts he talked about which made me want to create some healthy eating plans of my own.

I’m not going to explain the whole book, however, if you’re the least bit interested in healthy eating plans of your own, I highly recommend reading it. What it did do was peak my curiosity to the point of defending food myself. It turns out that healthy eating plans aren’t too hard to stick to after all, or make up for that matter.  The following posts tell about a week of…healthy eating.

If you really need this legend. . .well, I’m just proud that you were able to get online.  So congratulations, and here it is:

B – Breakfast, L – Lunch, D – Dinner, S – Snack

Monday’s Healthy Eating Plans

B – 1 bowl Oatmeal, 7-9 cherries, edamame (soy) beans (15 or so)

Oatmeal with Cherries

L – Salad (cherries, cheddar cheese, lettuce, green, red, yellow pepper, cucumber), homemade strawberry vinegrette (sugar, olive oil, rice vinegar)

S – Naked Juice (thank you Janelle) Green Machine

D – Mandarin chicken (6 chicken strips, 1 can of mandarin orange with juice, shoyu (soy sauce), natural raw sugar, flower, green onion), brown rice, salad (cheese, lettuce, green, yellow, and red pepper), chipotle and lime dressing, V8 Fusion drink.

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