• Weekly Eats #2
  • Weekly Eats #2

    I’m back with another visual food diary of what I eat in a week. I’m calling this series “Weekly Eats” and I’m sharing my meals partly to keep myself on track with my healthy eating, but also to give you ideas for healthy meals and meal planning.

    This was my first week attempting to eat a modified version of Paleo. I say modified because I will still eat yogurt, almond and soy milk as well as a little feta cheese and none of these are allowed on a true Paleo menu (I say menu because I hate the word diet).

    However, I didn’t do so well and caved in to eating wholemeal toast on 3 days. This was because towards the end of the week I did struggle with the idea of not having carbs. Although I was getting my carbs from fruit and vegetables, I have been brought up to believe that the main sources of carbohydrates are things like potatoes, bread, pasta and rice. I found it hard to try and change my mentality in one week and kept thinking ‘I can’t believe I’m not eating carbs’. This week wasn’t smooth sailing, but I’m ready to start a new week!

    The Visual Food Diary

    Weekly Eats: What I eat in a week

    The Meal Plan

    Day One: Spinach omelette with two eggs and one egg white, chopped cherry tomatoes. Chicken salad. Almonds. Huge tuna salad.

    Day Two: Spinach scramble, salsa. Chicken salad. Turkey slices, gem lettuce, guacamole. Salmon, asparagus, balsamic vinegar.

    Day Three: Scrambled egg, spring onion, wholemeal toast. Chicken salad. Graze pistachios. Salmon, asparagus, balsamic vinegar.

    Day Four: Scrambled egg, wholemeal toast. Salmon salad. Greek yogurt, strawberries, honey. Chicken, asparagus, balsamic vinegar.

    Day Five: Scrambled egg, wholemeal toast, spring onion. Tuna salad. Greek yogurt, blueberries, honey. Chicken, roasted vegetables.


    That was my first week of eating modified Paleo! Let me know in the comments below what you think of this visual food diary.


    More Weekly Eats


    16 Comments

    1. April 7, 2013 / 9:30 pm

      This is a brilliant idea to do this hun! I think I might give it a go too :) Can’t promise it’ll be sin-free enough to post online although I’m soooo much better than I used to be!
      Natalie xoxo
      The Blonde Ethos

    2. April 7, 2013 / 9:29 pm

      Wow, I’m so jealous of your food this week!! I wish my week was that good, but my parents being here made it super hard since we went out to eat every night :-( time to get back into my routine tomorrow! So excited!

      • April 15, 2013 / 2:31 pm

        Aww I hope you had a lovely time with them! Must have been lovely to see them! :)

    3. April 7, 2013 / 10:05 pm

      Not jealous of the no carbs part of all this. I love rice and wholemeal bread wayyyyy too much to cut it out! Your afternoon snacks look delicious though :) the strawberries aren’t quite ripe enough yet for me here in France :(

    4. Beauty Fashion Skin Care Blog - Girlie Blog Seattle
      April 8, 2013 / 5:59 am

      You know, I recently started clean eating. Will certainly take these meals into consideration.

    5. April 8, 2013 / 3:00 pm

      Stopping eating bread for lent was definitely one of the hardest things I’ve ever done so I can’t imagine how hard it is to cut out carbs completely! That said, I am trying to eat ‘fresh’ as well as eat clean, so I’m going to be trying to cut my pasta/grain consumption down to only once a week if possible. :)
      I’ll just have to bulk curry out with chick peas and stuff instead! :)

      Good luck with paleo, I look forward to seeing what sorts of meals you come up with! :)

      Rhiannon xx
      THE BARBELLE

      • April 15, 2013 / 2:36 pm

        I absolutely love bread! And as you can see I haven’t been able to cut it out fully, but I’m working on it. Bulking curry with chickpeas and beans is a great thing to do! And eating sweet potatoes as it’s a vegetable, but still a carb :) xx

    6. April 8, 2013 / 6:03 pm

      I must say this is very inspiring, I keep trying to get into a clean eating or paleo state of mind but it just keeps not happening for me. I need to find the willpower like you have :-)

      Sharon x

      • April 15, 2013 / 2:37 pm

        Thank you! It hasn’t happened overnight for me and I’m still struggling, but it will get easier (I hope! haha) xx

    7. April 11, 2013 / 2:25 pm

      It can take awhile to get used to the carb thing! I gave up bread for lent last year, so got used to going without, and seriously I get enough grams of carbs from the veg I eat, there’s a lot of carbs in fruit and veg, paleo is definitely not low carb!

      • April 15, 2013 / 2:37 pm

        Absolutely! I won’t be deprived of carbs and will still have loads of energy :)

    8. April 15, 2013 / 11:00 am

      I love this blog already :) xxx

    Leave a Reply

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

    This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.


    Looking for Something?