Day 13: Such a Saucy Saturday

Did some more experimental cooking today. I made the BBQ sauce from the Well Fed 2 cookbook. So far this cookbook has pretty much been my bread and butter (so to speak) when it comes to cooking. I have really enjoyed all of the recipes I have made thus far and am looking forward to making more!

Po lil' joey...

I had to go to Sprouts to get some last minute ingredients that I didn't have: dates and sunflower seed butter. I have never had a date. I've been on plenty of dates but I've never eaten one. Ha. Ohhhh, get it? I couldn't find any fresh ones so I just got dried Medjool dates and they were reasonably priced, surprisingly. Come to think of it I am not sure I have ever seen a fresh date. Is that something people eat? I tried one on it's own before putting it in the BBQ mixture and I thoroughly enjoyed it! It was like a little healthy candy. If you haven't tried one then you should get on that. They also actually had sunflower seed butter, which I wasn't expecting. It's kind of a greyish/greenish color and tastes just like a bunch of ground up sunflower seeds - obviously. I am not sure I would make a SB&J with it or anything but it was good. OH they also carry ground kangaroo meat, in case anyone is interesting in being super exotic. Tastes like chicken?

I also got some Kombucha and tried that. I didn't get the one with the chia seeds though. I wasn't ready for that. It was pretty good actually. Just like a carbonated tea drink thing. Not bitter because it was sweetened with fruit juice. Speaking of fruit juice, I bought some organic unsweetened cherry juice to drink and to put in my tea. It is really tasty and it's nice to drink somethings besides water. Cherries are my favorite and I can have them every which way. I was going to buy some dried black cherries but they were too expensive. I was used to buying the ones in the bag but those have an ass load of sugar. I'll have to just splurge and buy the ones at Sprouts or go without those sweet lil' treats. Technically I am not supposed to be buying anything to "snack" on. That goes against the Whole30 program...

Speaking of which... I actually did something today that I am not supposed to do. I only had meal 1 and meal 2. I woke up at 0600 to feed the dogs and fell back asleep until about 1000. Didn't eat meal 1 until like 1130 and then I didn't eat again until like 1730. Soooo that's bad. Maybe I'll have a late night small small meal 3. But we'll see. I can't be perfect every day ;) My meal 2 was really good though because I got to use my new BBQ sauce on my leftover pork loins. I was pleased and now I am content. Go checkout my recipes tab for the BBQ sauce recipe. Next sauce is going to have to be the mayo. I've put it off for way to long.