Food Pantry Haul and Day 1 of Paleo for All

Because of my increasing joint pain & health issues from eating conventional food, we decided to move up the start date for going Paleo to Saturday 11-19. DD wasn't entirely willing, but agreed after seeing how badly I was hurting from eating wheat.

Our day started off early, as we had registered for a Thanksgiving box from Hope and had to go pick it up early. It was an smaller box than usual - I think they had people show up who weren't registered and were trying to stretch the items a bit farther. But overall it was an okay box - 1 12lb turkey, a bag of instant potatoes, 6 oranges, 2 cans of green beans, 2 cans of cream of chicken soup, a loaf of bread and 2 small bottles of soda. The soda, bread and soup will all be traded as we can't eat them now on paleo. But I'm very happy to get the turkey, as that makes 2-3 meals plus turkey bone broth. Also I have noticed that a lot of the items I've been getting lately from the food pantry are Deseret Industries brand AKA LDS Church. I like them as they seem to be better quality than some of the other brands.

Here was our meal plan for Saturday:

Breakfast: DD had an apple {tossed in the bag as we left} and we both shared hardboiled eggs

Snack: DD had another apple {she loves apples} and I had a few dates to tide me over until we got home from errands

Late Lunch: Leftover potato soup {I did put canned milk in this, but I am allowing milk for DD and occasionally for me}

Dinner: Beef roast done in the crockpot until fork tender, served with mashed potatoes and green beans {from the morning's box}

All good, all paleo, and all delicious!