Day 18: Mission Accomplished

Today begins day 1 of 4 without my built in accountability partner.

Alone with two kids will produce even more stress, which I've discovered the last few days is the trigger for me to have crazy food cravings.

But Phil agreed to do his absolute best to stay Whole 30 compliant the whole time he's gone which I know is going to be very hard, so I have no excuses to cheat.

He's in a wedding and will be going to the bachelor party and rehearsal dinner, all times where you typically indulge. It sort of worked out that he can't drink though because they needed a sober driver anyway, and he will save a lot of money that way.

He brought his long board with him so that he could get to a grocery store in the area and get fruits and veggies to eat all weekend, since he won't have a car.

I am so proud of how far he has come during this journey.

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With the last few days being harder, I was due for a little food pick me up and today I finally got that!

I went back to Whole Foods to give the bacon mission another try. When I got there and saw this I literally wanted to do a cartwheel right there in the isle!

Note the top right corner!! 

Then I was equally excited to find these, and couldn't wait to put it all together.

You can either eat raw, boil, or pan fry the squash noodles so I decided to pan fry since I was already cooking the bacon in the pan.

Of course I pan fried the squash in the leftover bacon fat.

And Whahlah! The bacon was every bit as incredible as I expected it to be. I would have liked the squash a tiny bit more cooked but overall it was really good and definitely satisfied my craving for spaghetti.

Bacon mission: Successful

Finishing off the night with an Apple Cranberry LaCroix.