Phytic Acid and Meal Plan for the week

I loved this quote! It's a good reminder if you slip up
 one meal, just get back on trackthe next time you eat.  

Nuts, Seeds, Grains and Legumes and Phytic Acid

We are on day 11 out of 21 of the Reset in our house.  Right now we are on Step 3 which means we are not eating nuts, seeds, or grains. (Most grains and legumes are cut out completely during the Reset). The point of cutting these out on the Reset is to because sometimes they can be hard on the digestive system, especially if they are not properly prepared.  Nuts, seeds, and grains contain phytic acid; when humans digest this it prevents us from absorbing important nutrients like calcium, magnesium, zinc, and iron.  In addition to stealing minerals, phytic acid also inhibits pepsin and amylase, which are digestive enzymes.  To read more about it, you can click here.  Another reason we cut out nuts it because a lot of mindless eating occurs with nuts; they are the type of snack that if you eating them while multitasking before you know it you have eaten the entire bag.  We do bring them back in Step 4 because in moderation and when they are properly prepared they have other nutritional benefits.  

Meal Plan for the week

Here is our meal plan for the week.  Most of these recipes are from the Reset book that Marnie and I wrote (over 100 recipes):  

Sunday Dinner: Pork chops with apples and onions with a side of broccoli

Monday Breakfast: eggs over easy over sweet potato hash

Monday lunch: leftover pork chops

Monday Dinner: Salmon with tomato and fennel

Tuesday breakfast: sausage pepper onion mushroom  frittata

Tuesday lunch: leftover salmon

Tuesday dinner: Grilled steak with asparagus and steamed carrots

Wednesday breakfast: frittata

Wednesday lunch: leftover steak and veggies

Wednesday dinner: Shrimp scampi over zucchini noodles

Thursday breakfast: frittata

Thursday lunch: leftover shrimp scampi

Thursday dinner: Thai chicken soup

Friday breakfast: smoothies

Friday lunch: Thai chicken soup

Friday dinner: Bolognese over spaghetti squash- add spinach to bolognese

Saturday breakfast: scrambled eggs with spinach and tomatoes

Saturday lunch: leftover Thai chicken soup

Saturday dinner: leftover bolognese

Sunday breakfast: 2-3 hard boiled eggs and raspberries and blueberries

Sunday lunch: curry chicken salad over a green with tomato and avocado

Thanks for reading!

xx Ali