It was a better week this week! The Cauliflower Alfredo was surprising easy and actually a fairly big hit with everyone. We will be enjoying it again! I was so on top of cleaning out the fridge this week that it was almost scary by the weekend. Time to get cooking again!
The theme for the Gluten Free Menu Swap over Gluten Free Goodness is Maple. We certainly love some maple syrup around here. I started shopping on amazon for mine so that I could get the Grade B (more vitamins and flavor) and now I love it even more. It’s a staple for the Princess and her pancakes/waffles and anything else she thinks she needs to dip. It is one of my favorite natural sweeteners. This week we’ll be using it in our breakfast for dinner when I make these Apple Cinnamon Waffles (using gluten-free flour mix, and adding a bit more flour to get the right batter texture) and I used quite a bit to make Apple Chunk Muffins from Peas and Thank You (blog no longer available).
Spaghetti sauce on spaghetti squash!
This week I think I will double the breakfast for dinner to have some leftovers for the freezer. I might make some breakfast cookies too. We seem to have run out of quick breakfast options and that is not a good thing!
Sunday
Breakfast:
Buckwheat granola with strawberries and Apple Chunk Muffins from Peas and Thank You
Lunch: Lunch with the family. I had a veggie burger with spaghetti sauce, coleslaw, and veggie tray with ranch dressing dip. Everyone else had meatball subs with the same sides.
For dessert we celebrated my mom’s birthday with a cheesecake from a local goat farm and I made some mini vegan cheesecakes for myself.
Dinner: Maybe Broccoli apple soup or fish, bread, roasted beets with balsamic vinegar, chocolate covered strawberries
Rest of the week:
Breakfast:
Eggs all kinds and all ways!
Green Smoothie
Waffles
Dinner:
Breakfast for dinner: Waffles with bacon for everyone else. I will top mine with nuts and/or almond butter.
Some soup from the freezer either veggie or chili!
Fish Chowder (using coconut milk instead of heavy cream)
Feel Good Lunch Bowl
Veggie pot pie probably with a side of BBQ Chicken breast for everyone else
Pizza, Salad
Orange Berry Smoothie, popcorn
Pan cooked Fish with sauce DU JOUR, roasted sweet potatoes, veggie
Leftovers!
For more menu ideas check out Org Junkie’s Menu Plan Monday! Or for gluten-free menus check out Gluten Free Week and the Gluten Free Menu Swap!
The Girl Who Couldn't Eat Anything 
I love spaghetti squash! And Cauliflower Alfredo sounds so good!
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Really? I don’t know anyone else who loves spaghetti squash. Is it supposed to be crunchy or did I just undercook it?
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It’s a little more crunchy than pasta…don’t you like it?
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I don’t know. It was the crunchiest I’ve squash I’ve ever eaten. But I felt great after eating it which is more then I can say for even gluten free pasta. So maybe I do? With reservations? It’s tricky to reheat without a microwave I will say that for it.
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Yes, I bet it would be. But you must come to like it, madam!
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Well I don’t dislike it so that’s a start. I will start eating more of it when I don’t have some ditzy moments and forget to cook it ahead of time.
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That does it! I’m bringing my tent and camping on the porch for the week.
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That might be a little wet. And possibly uncomfortable…unless it is the back porch with the swing! What sounds so good to you this week?
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I was thinking the back porch with the swing. Everything except the spaghetti squash – but I’d be up for trying it.
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ah ha. Well if I can figure out how to get the spaghetti squash uncrunchy… Otherwise it was an excellent boat for spaghetti sauce.
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You even had some sauce!
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Too true!
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Spaghetti squash. That sounds interesting. Something to add to my list of new things to try along with the vegan cheese cake. Now that sounds yummy.
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The vegan cheesecake was YUMMY! I didn’t feel at all sad that I couldn’t have the regular cheesecake even though it was something that I used to really enjoy. I even really messed up the recipe and it still tasted super good!
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Getting excited. 😛 New recipe for March.
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It’s right around the corner! Which flavor do you think you are going to try?
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Think I am gonna go classic with strawberry.
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I did think about that…but then I accidently covered all my strawberries with chocolate. 😉
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Hmm. Eating a larabar jocolat chocolate mint and thinking about combining. ….
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hmm! That does sound interesting. I makes me hungry for peppermint patties. Peppermint patties might be my recipe for March. 🙂
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Oh gosh–never thought of cauliflower alfredo! How amazing! thanks for joining us this week
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I was a little nervous about it, but it truly was a hit! 🙂
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Question. For grinding the dates wilk a hand blender work?
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For thw cheesecake recipe..sorry. quicky fingers
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Hmmm. I don’t know about that. I used a miniature food processor myself or if that hadn’t worked I would use my regular blender. That sounds like it might be frustrating.
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Ugh.k. gonna have to postpone until I budget for a food processor
:-\
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aww bummer. Dates and nuts are sometimes hard to grind up even with the proper equipment. A good regular blender would probably work too.
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Welp, good thing I held off because I only have a blender small enough to make my homemade smoothies and when I went to Wholefoods yesterday to pick up the dates and walnuts, wow! The walnuts were extremely expensive plus I didnt calculate if a pound each of the nuts would be sufficient for the recipe so I held off. Trying to figure It out on the phone standing In the middle of the aisle didnt help either. Plus I need some baking equipment. I used to make cakes from scratch and when I went full gung ho on the gluten free bandwagon, my zeal caused me to swear off baking for eternity hence th reason why I have no muffin pans, cake pans, etc. Yeah u went a little over board.
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*I went a little over board.
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Do you have a trader joes around? They have really decent prices on nuts. There are no whole foods around here, but I have heard they are expensive. I completely understand about the whole gf baking thing. I know I was in tears more then once before I started doing some more research. Little by little you will get back into it! 🙂
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Yes. I just found one in Plano TX. I was so excited because I used to live@ TJs when I was in AZ. For WF overall yes but it also depends on what ur looking for. Of course the meat is expensive but being that it is grass feed I would expect it to be so and after shopping and comparing products and prices among the local food chains WF has become the one stop shop.
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I don’t think I’ve been to a WF, but I am thankful that our conventional store (Publix) has a generous selection and pricing on whole foods so I don’t have to visit our local specialty store often since it’s so expensive. Glad you found a TJ!!! I was super excited when one opened about 45 minutes away.
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