Spaghetti

Here's an easy recipe for paleo "spaghetti"!

3 zucchini (or 1 giant zucchini like in my last post)

1 jar of tomato sauce -make sure no corn or sugar is in it! (they like to sneak that in there)-

2 pounds ground meat

2tbls olive oil

1 garlic clove

A couple leaves of fresh basil

Step 1:

Chop or slice if you have the patience your zucchini.

Step 2: 

fry up that meat and add the sauce. Let simmer for a bit then keep on warm while your cooking the zucchini.

Step 3: 

In a large pot add zucchini, olive oil, chopped garlic cloves, and chopped basil. Turn stove up about halve way and keep stirring the zucchini so it cooks evenly. I like my zucchini a little crunch so I don't cook it all the way. Feel free to experiment!

It will look something like this yummyness!

A Saturday In The Life Of...

OK so Friday was a rough day. I found out I have arthritis... at 19! AND I've had the wrong inhaler for the last 4 YEARS so when I was hiking and wheezing and thinking my inhaler didn't work because I had let myself go and was fat as hell it was all because my inhaler prescription was switched for whatever reason and I never had this explained. So with all this my emotions were on high and I ended up crying in the backseat of my dads truck while my parents were bike shopping...

SO after giving myself a day to process and move on I was determined to start Saturday morning a new. I woke up promptly at 5:50am which was way annoying because my alarm was set for 7:50am it is Saturday after all. But I guess it's a good thing because it's just another sign of how much energy living Paleo has given me! Woot! Goodbye to the days of sleeping 10-12hours when I was a sick mess with no idea what was wrong with me. So I woke made myself a spicy tomato omelet and hit up a local farmers market.

I got me some of these:

Then planted these!:

TOMATOES!

I was way excited to grow my own tomatoes and save money! Then I realized the plants were $15 each and they will yield 5-6 tomatoes... That's $3 a tomato, not to mention the soil and the pots and the cages... So this turned into a somewhat expensive hobby but it will be fun to watch them grow and whatnot a guess.. JK I'm still excited about them and proud of myself for planting and growing something.

Think my Saturday was done after this? naw that just catches us up to noon.

I planted some flowers for my mom cuz I was on a roll planting things, and then I looked at my car and decided to tackle the deep cleaning I've been wanting to do to it for a while now.

OK I kinda HAD to clean my car because a tomato plant tipped over in the back but boy did it need it and I would have gotten around to it eventually I'm sure.

When I say I deep cleaned my car, I mean I took a toothpick and cleaned the gunk out of every crack and I vacuumed in every crevice. I washed the outside scrubbing the front twice because there are bug guts from my road trips which after round two of scrubbing I determined some bugs just do not come off the front of your car (it adds character?) and was finally done. As you can imagine this took a couple hours so I brought out the stereo and pumped some music while I was working (get over it neighbors).

Finally I watched Eat Pray Love while chopping giant zucchini (spelled that right without spell check!) and made zucchini spaghetti.

And that has been my Saturday in a nut shell. Man it was a long day, did you make it through my rambles? I guess the point of the story is to show how eating this way has given me energy to do things I could never do all in one day before... endless possibilities and all that. But if you got that the moral of the story is I had a break down and cried in the back of a truck yesterday I guess that works to!

Any-who I hope to upload some of the recipes I like soon so stay tuned!