San Francisco and Tahoe Lake

Hello bloggers:

We have gone on a week-long vacation down in California. Beautiful San Francisco (most of the time) and everlasting beautiful Tahoe.

I am sure when you read blogs about travels, Paleo bloggers usually will say "it's OK to cheat a little. You can go loose when traveling because you cannot find the perfect meals, but always, always, always go back to your diet when you come home."

It rings true. I usually go for items that has lower legumes, gluten, or fat. For instance: avoid desserts, sub wrap instead of thick bread-ed sandwiches, avoid legume salads/conocotions, limit beer or sub with wine/hard liquor.

Here's some examples:

Maks, the meat lover, LOVES beer. Before we went Paleo, we usually frequent local breweries when on travels. This was one of them. She got her beer fix, and I got my salad fix. This salad... OMG... ROCKED! It was mix of greens with beets, pear, and sweet vinaigrette.  I was in love. Maks went for fish and chips. Paleo: Fish, salad, fruit. BAD: Beer and potato fries. See, it wasn't that bad. We had our good stuff and some bad stuff. We did not go off the radar.

San Francisco's 21st Amendment Brewery

The next morning, we had to eat. Really. Eat. We did not realize that in San Francisco, basically half to 3/4 of restaurants in town are closed on Sundays. Fuck. Time to cheat. Luckily this place has thin bagels, so we can request them instead of the thick, regular sized ones. It helped. Especially that they served eggs and meat sandwiches.

My first time with Noah's. Really. I was unimpressed with the bagel, but COFFEE... to die for.

 

 

We ended up starving pretty much rest of the day. We ended up chewing on dehydrated banana chips and rode our bikes on the bay. We found a Mexican restaurant and decided to head in for a late lunch/dinner. Maks had heavy meat chimmy and I had the chicken burrito with one legume and rice removed. Not too bad. Our appetites reduced with more exercises from biking for few days.

We headed out to Tahoe Lake, since it was Maks' birthday, we cheated BIG TIME by getting her a chocolate ice-cream to celebrate.

We had Steak cut up in strips with us, that we cooked and made them into wrap with vegetables. It was delicious. Breakfasts consists of scrambled eggs with green pepper and chives, and bacon.

Shattup. I know I'm not the perfect cook. ;)

 Maks has a thing for s'mores with our camp fires. I allowed her to have that pleasure, she carrys that through from her childhood, having a fire and s'mores.

Although, s'mores... *gag* I don't like the marshmallows. Maks had taught me how to make s'mores WITHOUT the marshmallows. Tastes like fudge covered- graham cookies, LOL.

Careful of that dripping chocolate!

Honestly, I think we did great. We did not go whole swivel around and off the radar. We kept to our fruits, vegetables, and meats. We did not splurge on the fatty foods (ice-cream and s'mores ration for a week worth of vacation... not too bad), kept in touch with our diet.

Coming back to home, it was easy to go back to 100% paleo. It felt natural to eat things naturally. Yeah, you saw that right. Eat naturally. Eat vegetables and fruits from farmers markets, and the occasional meats. Fast food? YUCK. Boxed meals? Disgusting. Canned meals? Fuck no.