Fried cheese curds

E and I both like the fried cheese curds we get from restaurants, so we wanted to try to make them at home. There are quite a few recipes on the web, but we settled on this one. It was pretty much a disaster. We tried to deep fry and we tried using the air fryer. Neither worked all that well. They both kind of ended up like blobs of cheese with a little batter somewhere. I think we’ll just stick to ordering fried cheese curds at restaurants.

MW30 Day 11

Breakfast - had two pieces of the egg bake I made last night with Tabasco and 1/2 an avocado.

Lunch - last of the curried butternut squash soup. That was a really good soup that I wish the rest of my family liked. I also had a big spinach salad with olives, 1/2 orange pepper, 1/4 of the roasted cauliflower, tomatoes and the balsamic vinaigrette.

Dinner - I made carrot ginger soup based on a recipe I found from plated cravings. It was just ok. I added more ginger after cooking but it still didn’t have the flavor I had hoped for. Afterward, I had a couple handfuls of nuts and raisins.

Small batch chocolate cupcakes

L really wanted cupcakes so I made some based on a recipe that was really for two (ramekins). I didn't want to make my go-to because I am following the MW30 diet and I chose not to eat them and didn't want to have lots of cupcakes/a whole cake around the house. So this fit the bill nicely and we ended up with five cupcakes overall. I replaced the AP flour with white whole wheat, but made everything else except the frosting as the recipe described.
I didn't taste them, but both L and R liked them. I think E could taste the WWW because he didn't like it.

MW30 Day 10

I skipped breakfast today, mostly because I was running around and didn't know what to have. I stuffed an avocado and EBTB seasoning in my backpack, but I didn't get a chance to eat it.

Lunch, another sad salad because customer audit, but I ate the avocado from home that I didn't get a chance to earlier. Same salad as yesterday, but less hard boiled egg.

Dinner - baked sweet potato with ghee and huge spinach salad with tomatoes, olives, and homemade balsamic dressing.

Snacks - I scarfed a couple handfuls of almonds after the audit.

I had a chance to catch up and do a lot of food prep this evening. I made an egg bake based off a recipe from Paleo Running Momma and used some shredded zucchini that was in the freezer from the summer, also onions and mushrooms with a sweet potato base/crust. I added thyme, rosemary, S&P to the eggs before dumping it in.
I also roasted a spaghetti squash and a head of cauliflower. It feels good to get ahead, because I haven't really been eating well because I didn't have stuff prepped.

MW30 Day 9

Breakfast - whole avocado (though I shared with R) with EBTB seasoning and banana rejects (also from R).

Lunch - sad salad with no dressing due to lunch at our cafeteria during a customer audit. It included shredded iceberg lettuce, olives, cucumbers, green peppers, pickle, sunflower seeds.

Dinner - baked sweet potato with ghee and olives.

MW30 Day 8

I made it a week, but now I need to prep food so I have stuff ready and on hand to grab. This morning I was lost trying to figure out what to eat for breakfast. I'm still not sure I want to eat eggs yet, so I had a little orange and leftover steamed carrots, but it was not enough, so I was hungry at work for a while. I didn't have to break into the soup I brought for lunch.
Still a little intestinal distress this morning, so maybe I need to hold back on the nuts too... Looking back, I should have at least had an avocado with some EBTB seasoning.

Lunch - Leftover curried squash soup and kale salad (practically the entire bunch) with tomatoes, 1/2 avocado, and lemon tahini dressing.

Dinner - Spinach salad (about 1/2 the bunch) with 1/2 avocado, olives, 1/2 red pepper, and olive oil/balsamic vinegar dressing.

MW30 Day 7

I've made it a week!

Breakfast - Leftover black eyed peas that need to be eaten. Large handful of almonds, and 1/2 banana that was rejected by the toddler.

Lunch  -  Leftover Japchae and two handfuls of almonds. I was a little hungry around 11:40 so I downed the almonds before.

Dinner - I tried out the Trader Joe's cauliflower gnocci with a tomato sauce I had frozen previously. Also consumed with green peas. I was going to have something else, but I was tired of making stuff and just tired in general. I tried to follow the instructions on the package for the gnocci, but they turned out pretty mushy. I'm going to have to try for a different method to get them soft and warm on the inside and crunchy on the outside.
After dinner I had three handfuls of nuts. Probably not a good idea, but I was a little hungry and it was easy to get/eat.