DAILY MEAL HIGHLIGHTS
🌞 Good morning 🌞 gentle friends!
Let’s get this day started…

🎯 2022 HEALTH GOAL
🍎 WHOLE FOOD REFOCUS
🧟‍♀️ NO FUNKY FOOD FRANKENCHEMICALS
[ items with a ( *) indicate a packaged product – full ingredient information attached ]

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🥞 SHRIMP SATAY(ish) UDON NOODLE BOWL
▪️Kame Udon Noodles*
▪️Peanut Sesame Paste*
▪️Tamari Soy Sauce*
▪️Lime Juice
▪️Homemade Menma
▪️Baby Bok Choy
▪️Pea Shoots
▪️Carrots
▪️Purple Cabbage
▪️Purple Daikon Radish
▪️Chickpeas
▪️Duck Egg (yolk only)
▪️Shrimp

Want to make your own version – here is a traditional Satay Sauce:
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/satay-sauce

🥚 PERFECT SOFT BOILED EGGS
In small saucepan, bring enough water to completely cover the eggs to a rolling boil. Reduce temperature to med and when the water is at a low simmer, gently add eggs. Avoid dropping them in the pot as they may crack.

Cook chicken eggs for 6 min (or duck eggs for 7 min) uncovered. I like to stir them every few minutes to prevent the yolk cooking more on one side.

If you prefer hard boiled (but not chalky super done yolks), increase time to 9min for chicken eggs and 11min for duck eggs.

Once cooked, drain out the boiling water and fill the pot with cold water. I personally don’t do an ice bath because I don’t want my eggs cold to eat.

Crack the eggs gently all the way around and put in the pot of cold water to allow water to get under the membrane. Leave eggs for 5 min, peel gently under running water and enjoy.

🌀INSTANT POT VERSION
https://ifoodreal.com/instant-pot-eggs
https://greenhealthycooking.com/instant-pot-eggs

Soft Boiled – 2min – Low Pressure + Quick Release
Hard Boiled – 5min – High Pressure + Quick Release

ChefIQ Smart Cooker
Soft Boiled – Steam – 11min
Med Boiled – Steam – 13min
Hard Boiled – Steam – 18min

💛💛💛💛🤍 4/5
🍎 CALORIES – 773

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🥘 BISON SHEPHERD’S PIE
I didn’t have any ground beef but I did get a package of ground bison on sale at Kroger and thought – that will work.

▪️Ground Bison
▪️Pacific Foods Beef Broth*
▪️Simple Truth Steak Sauce*
▪️Cornstarch
▪️Peas
▪️Carrots
▪️Corn
▪️Potatoes
▪️2% Milk
▪️Half n Half*
▪️Salted Butter
▪️Light Cream Cheese*
▪️Parsley Flakes
▪️Salt / Pepper / Garlic Powder

I cooked the potatoes in the Chef IQ Smart Cooker. I just quartered them and put them in the steamer basket. Super easy and you don’t even need to peel them first. The skin just slides right off afterwards. Mashed and added the milk, half n half, butter, cream cheese, garlic powder, parsley and salt/pepper.

I had 1½ servings for dinner, put up 2 servings to freeze and am taking Sandy 2 servings. I originally made the salad to go with it but didn’t eat it… It will be tomorrow lunch…

I didnt use a particular recipe for this but here are a few you could try:
https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/easy_shepherds_pie
https://www.thewholesomedish.com/the-best-classic-shepherds-pie

💛💛💛💛🤍 4/5
🍎 CALORIES – 502 (1½ servings)

🍒 SNACKS
▪️ Red Anjou Pear
▪️ Navel Orange

💛💛💛💛🤍 4/5
🍎 CALORIES – 127

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Many thanks to @krogerco and @misfitsmarket for providing all my gorgeous produce.

Thank you for joining me today.
Until tomorrow…
In Love ♥ and Light 💫

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💉 If you aren’t familiar with my situation, basically I live with several autoimmune issues… an “inflammatory overstimulation response” brought on by my basic blood cells thinking they are Spartan Warriors and attacking everything in sight.

More information about what is wrong as well as the resources I’m using are here:
https://tinyurl.com/2p87yuw8