His vs Hers FDOE👩🏻🍳
Let’s start off with why I make us different meals occasionally…
I don’t always make us separate meals but when I do it’s because he enjoys some things I simply cannot have due to food intolerances/gut/gi issues. He loves when I eat with him so I do my best to make substitutions so that I can eat almost the exact same meal as he does, just with a few substitutions :)
For breakfast we almost always eat different meals:
For his meal I usually make some sort of breakfast sandwich, usually around 12/1pm. I don’t use egg whites or low calories bread for his ever because he’s 6’3 (& a breakfast skipper🤫) and needs all the calories and nutrients from whole eggs, milk, butter, etc. And then I usually throw in some fruit on the side.
Mine is a bit different today because we had leftover steak that had to be eaten but usually I’ll do one whole egg and one egg white for myself, switch out the regular bread for a flatbread or Ezekiel bread, then do half the amount of cheese (lactose free most times) I use in his to adjust the calories to fit my 5’4 frame and my dietary needs. And of course I have fruit on the side as well.
Post workout we both got a smoothie from SOUP PEDDLER which if you live in Austin, tx you 100% need to try it.
For dinner I made the viral cottage cheese (lactose free) vodka sauce pasta. For mine I made gluten free pasta and for his I did regular. I almost made Banza pasta but apparently there’s some controversy right now that I won’t go into on the ingredients. And of course we had a giant salad on the side.
And for my sweet treat I had a rice cake with almond butter (Barney butter is the best), banana, honey, and chocolate chips. And he had a Barbells protein bar.
This is a normal day of eating for us and is optimal for our health, we definitely don’t go hungry or cut calories but right now my goal is to fuel my body, get my hormones in check, and just be all around healthy🤗
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Love it. Thanks for sharing ♥️