tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265394983771680093.post4640436941532233161..comments2023-03-02T00:35:57.137-08:00Comments on My Mad World: UGH - Monday again already???Hillary M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08762294970115037185noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265394983771680093.post-13201518574048591412012-09-11T19:05:38.972-07:002012-09-11T19:05:38.972-07:00Hey, I think I got your comment, but it seems to h...Hey, I think I got your comment, but it seems to have disappeared from my site, so I'll try to remember what I can.<br /><br />For me, doing the Whole30 was more about getting the last bit of crap out of my diet -- the preservatives and added sugar (and I guess soy, too). I decided to do it because I bought a cookbook called WellFed that had good, easy, basic recipes and they happened to be Whole30 friendly, so I figured if I was going to be cooking out of this book frequently, I might as well see what this Whole30 thing was about.<br /><br />She did this thing called "hot plates" where you spend about two hours on Sunday prepping all your food for the week: grilling meat, chopping veggies, baking or sauteing anything that would require extra time, so that when it was time to make dinner, you just threw ingredients into a pan and cooked them up. It's kinda changed my life, and I found that I barely used the cookbook! Now I'm going to my cookbook to look for recipes that use what I have hanging around, instead of finding a recipe and basing my shopping list on that.<br /><br />So I think in short, no, I'm not using anything that's specifically Whole30, but this way of cooking food just kinda lends itself to a Whole30 way of eating.Deannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07297218258560830869noreply@blogger.com