It's Day 3 of my AdvoCare 24 Day Challenge, and I'm pretty proud of myself so far! After I hit my goal weight last year, I would still repeat the challenge every 3 months or so to help keep my digestive system and metabolism healthy, as well as using products between challenges to help with energy and metabolism, also. The problem that I would fall into each "maintenance" cleanse, was that I would tell myself, "Eh, it's okay to have a cheat...this is just maintenance, I'm already at goal weight." I think I cheated EVERY challenge after my first one, at one point or another! {Disclaimer: I don't advise doing that! I'm ashamed to admit it, but transparency is key and today is a new day!}
A meal that I've enjoyed twice so far this challenge {dinner on day 1, lunch today!} is a turkey burger with sweet potato fries.
Turkey burger is pre-formed burger patties by Jennie-O. Hubs grilled a few for me Monday night, so I could reheat them for lunches. I topped with lettuce, tomato, onion, and spicy mustard...YUM. It would also be good with the same toppings, sans mustard, add guacamole...just sayin'.
The sweet potato fries were homemade, and delicious! After a failed attempt at making sweet potato chips, I was nervous about making fries...but it was super easy! The hardest part was cutting the raw sweet potato...those suckers are TOUGH! Here's the step-by-step:
Sweet Potato Fries
Ingredients:
- 1 large sweet potato
- chili powder (to taste)
- sea salt (to taste)
- olive oil cooking spray
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Cut sweet potato in half, and each half in half. Cut into 1/4"-1/2" strips.
3. Lay flat on cookie sheet, sprayed with olive oil spray.
4. Spray fries with olive oil spray, and sprinkle lightly with chili powder and just a little sea salt.
5. Bake for 20 minutes.
{I took them out around 12 minutes, and flipped them! Also, sprayed a few "dry-looking" fries with extra olive oil and sprinkled a little extra chili powder!}
Can you say DELICIOUS?! I bet they would be good with cinnamon, for those of you who don't like chili powder!
We purchased a grill last weekend, and several of our meals this week have been whipped up thanks to that baby. I'm going to share recipes as we make them, but here's some grilling ideas for you to think about and try!
- Foil packets. These are GENIUS and whoever first did this is my hero. I used to think it was only for veggies on the grill, but why not full meals? We went camping a few summers ago, and someone had brought along individual foil packets with salmon, lemon, a little butter, and asparagus in them. Why haven't I thought of doing the same thing on the grill before? I'll keep you posted on fun recipes for that.
- Kabobs! There are so many yummy variations, and I'm excited to try one tonight! A lot of them call for peppers, and I usually get awful reflux with green/red peppers...so my coming recipes will likely not have them, but you can add them to anything I post!
I'll post as I come up with more! I'm just beyond ecstatic that it's grilling season...the best season of them all, y'all.
Til next time!
-a
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