Even though I’ve already had my turn at this series, I thought it would be fun to share what I’m eating now that I’m on that crazy GAPS diet I keep talking about all the time. Pre-Husband and I are going through the Introduction phase of GAPS, which means that we started only eating very few, very easy to digest foods, and then are working our way toward introducing more and more as we’re able to tolerate them, until we reach the point where all the GAPS-legal foods are a part of our diet. There are six “stages” of Intro to follow according to the Gut and Psychology Syndrome book by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride.
So this week, I’m sharing not what we plan to eat, but what we actually ate last week during the tail end of Stage 3 and all of Stage 4. I thought it would be a good way to give you all an idea of what really goes on in a GAPS Intro kitchen from day to day.
As you may already know, my man and I have been following the What Can I Eat Now? 30 Days on GAPS Intro Handbook for the past 3 weeks. We honestly love it. The first week took a little getting used to, but after a while we really started to enjoy the excitement of introducing the new foods and have been appreciating them like never before! At this point now, our weird diet just doesn’t feel all that weird to us anymore.
Do note that this is not exactly, day-for-day what you will find in the What Can I Eat Now? book. At first, I was following that thing to a T — because I didn’t know at all what the heck I could make or eat on intro! Now that I’ve gotten more of a hang of it, I’ve been feeling brave enough to branch out a bit. I’ll take the recipes for each stage and adapt them as I like, or switch them around from day-to-day, as long as I’m still only introducing one new food at a time. But as you’ll see, I still am making most of my meals from What Can I Eat Now?
Each dish listed that is straight from What Can I Eat Now?, I’ve marked them with (WCIEN), so you can easily tell which come from the book, and which are ones I’ve just been winging it with.
You can find my full review of the book here.
Sunday (Day 14, Stage 3)
Breakfast:
- “Peanut” butter squash pancakes (these are simple pancakes made with only butternut squash, eggs, and soaked walnuts, fried in ghee, but they tasted like peanut butter cookies to us! Delicious!) (WCIEN)
- A cup of broth with pressed garlic, egg yolk, and real salt. Sauerkraut juice added in.
Morning prep: Make fish stock (I used two whole tilapia fish, some veggie scraps, and herbs — basically the recipe from Nourishing Traditions)
Lunch:
- Meat patties made with ground beef and beef heart, and veggies (broccoli, carrots, onions, garlic) ground up in my food processor, simmered in stock, and topped with homemade guacamole. (WCIEN)
- Smooth carrot and squash soup (veggies boiled in stock and pureed with an immersion blender) (WCIEN)
Snacks:
- Soaked and dried walnuts (WCIEN)
- More squash pancakes (WCIEN)
- Leftover chicken from stock, in a mug of soup
- Homemade pickles (WCIEN)
Dinner:
- Fish stew with tilapia from stock, carrots, celery, and sauteed onions. Beaten eggs stirred in to make egg “noodles.” Sauerkraut juice added in.
- Summer Squash Intro Pancakes, made with zucchini (WCIEN)
Monday (Day 15, Stage 3)
Breakfast:
- Eggs scrambled with plenty of ghee, topped with simple guacamole
- Creamy simmered vgetables (carrots, broccoli, cauliflower) topped with tallow and sprinkled with salt (WCIEN)
- Mug of chicken broth with pressed garlic and sauerkraut juice
Lunch:
- Leftover fish stew
- Chicken chunks with sauerkraut, pickles, and tallow
Snacks:
- Zucchini pancakes (WCIEN)
- Boiled veggies with sea salt and ghee
- Cup of broth with egg “noodles” stirred in and sauerkraut juice
Dinner:
- Taco Salad Casserole with steak, tomatoes, chiles, onions and guacamole (WCIEN)
- Butternut squash soup (WCIEN)
- Kimchi
Tuesday (Day 16, Stage 4)
Breakfast:
- Breakfast Intro Sausage with scrambled eggs, guacamole and sauerkraut (WCIEN)
- Olive OIl and Fresh Herb Blend (WCIEN)
- Cup of broth with garlic and egg yolk
Lunch:
- Summer Squash Soup (WCIEN) with sauerkraut juice
- Leftover Taco Salad Casserole with guacamole (WCIEN)
Snacks:
- More soup
- Creamy veggies (simmered in stock, topped with tallow or ghee and salt) with Olive Oil Fresh Herb Blend (WCIEN)
- Pickles, kimchi, or sauerkraut (WCIEN)
Dinner:
- Chunky Chicken Soup (WCIEN)
- Summer Squash Intro Pancakes (WCIEN)
- Kimchi
Wednesday (Day 17, Stage 4)
Breakfast:
- Carrot juice (made with my cheap little $30 juicer that I love!)
- Butternut Squash Pancakes (WCIEN)
- Cup of broth with garlic, egg yolk and sauerkraut juice
Lunch:
- Leftover Chunky Chicken Soup (WCIEN)
- Pickles (WCIEN)
- Slowly sauteed vegetables topped with herbed olive oil
Snacks:
- Cup of broth with garlic and egg “noodles”
- More sauteed vegetables and herbed olive oil
Dinner:
- Grilled (in the oven) steaks topped with guacamole and Olive Oil Fresh Herb Blend (WCIEN)
- Baked butternut squash, mashed with ghee and salt
- Cup of broth with garlic and egg yolk
- Kimchi
Thursday (Day 18, Stage 4)
Breakfast:
- Carrot juice
- Intro Nut Flour Bread (WCIEN)
- Breakfast Intro Sausage and veggies (WCIEN)
- Cup of broth with garlic and sauerkraut juice
Lunch:
- Roasted Carrot Soup (WCIEN)
- Scrambled eggs with avocado and sauteed vegetables with herbed olive oil
- Pickles (WCIEN)
- Veggies with tallow and salt
- Cup of broth with egg “noodles”
Dinner:
- Chili Chicken Casserole (WCIEN)
- Intro Nut Flour Bread (WCIEN)
- Kimchi
Friday (Day 19, Stage 4)
Breakfast:
- Carrot juice
- Scrambled eggs
- Leftover Roasted Carrot Soup (WCIEN)
Lunch:
- Leftover Chili Chicken Casserole (WCIEN)
- Cup of broth with egg yolk and garlic
- Pickles (WCIEN)
Snacks:
- Intro Nut Flour Bread (WCIEN)
- Sauteed veggies with herbed olive oil
Dinner:
- Stuffed Tomatoes (WCIEN)
- Egg Drop Soup (WCIEN)
- Sauerkraut (WCIEN)
Saturday (Day 20, Stage 4)
Breakfast:
- Carrot Juice with Fresh Mint
Lunch:
- Garlic and Parsley Meatballs (turned into burgers and pan fried) with caramelized onions, guacamole, and herbed olive oil (WCIEN)
- Leftover Egg Drop Soup
- Pickles
Snacks:
- Leftover Stuffed Tomatoes (I made lots of little ones instead of several big ones) (WCIEN)
- Pickles
Dinner:
- Salmon patties with herbed olive oil and caramelized onions
- Sauteed veggies
- Cup of broth with garlic
- Kimchi
Whew! That’s a lot of Intro food! And as you can see, it’s pretty darn varied. You don’t have to eat a diet consisting of nothing but soup on Intro. I loved many of these dishes from the book enough to keep around long after we’re done with the last stage!
If you’d like a sneak peek at some of these recipes, click here and you’ll find a free sample of the What Can I Eat Now? book to download from Health, Home, and Happiness.
Now, it’s your turn!
To be featured in this series, submit a week’s worth of meal planning from your meal calendar — preferably with links to recipes if they can be found online, or names of cookbooks they were found in — to me by email: emily @ butterbeliever . com (minus the anti-spammy spaces.) Of course since we’re all about real, traditional food around here, your meals have got to be legit. So obviously, no toxic, fake, or super processed ingredients. If you’re not sure what counts as real food and what doesn’t, dig around here a little or just ask me.
Your weekly meal plan could be as simple as just a list with days of the week and what you’re feeding your household for each day — breakfast, lunch, dinner, and hopefully even a few snacks or dessert thrown in there. Or you could get fancy, and submit an image from your meal calendar, or a spreadsheet, or whatever. We just wanna know what you eat! Oh and pictures are great too, if you have any you’d like to share.
(What’s in it for me?)
If your submission is chosen to be featured, you’ll get some goodies!
- A free e-book. My very first e-book to be sold on the site is coming shortly, and each featured Meal Plan Monday submitter will be getting a free copy. (as soon as it’s ready!) It’ll be worth like, lots of money of course.
- 10 bonus entries into the next giveaway. Whatever the next prize giveaway is here at BB, you’ll get 10 bonus entries for free!
- Promotion of your blog or website. You’ll of course get a link and I’ll write you a little blurb, but you could also include links to your own recipes in your weekly meal plan!
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