Tasting the Rainbow and Rule #26

This past week we focused on eating as many colors as possible in every meal. I thought that shooting for four colors per meal would be an easy feat. At lunch and dinner this was not a problem. A few meals we ate represented all of the colors in the rainbow except blue (blue seems to be a challenge, especially in the winter). Breakfast, however, was a problem for color eating. Usually we have some oatmeal or cereal. To add colors we relied on smoothies (Brooke you would have been proud!). Ryan disliked this rule because he felt like he was having to eat so much for breakfast that he would feel sick all day. He would often drink a smoothie, eat some toast, and an orange or an apple.

Our fruit and veggie consumption skyrocketed. In a normal week we try to be good about eating fruits and veggies but inevitably some go bad before we can eat them. This week we could not keep our fruit and veggie supply stocked quickly enough. It was interesting to plan meal choices around color. We often would eat less "bad" foods because we had to save room for all of the colors, and the colors were usually healthy foods such as the fruits and veggies. I have to say that we stretched this rule at times and considered the red in wine as adding a color (hey, it's antioxidants right?) or the colors in a dessert such as ice cream. Overall though it was usually adding carrots to something that we would not normally include carrots in just to get the orange.

This next week we will follow Rule #26: Drink the spinach water. We are not sure exactly what this will mean but I think it might be entertaining.

In the meantime, enjoy some of our food rainbow pictures from this past week: