Fall and Winter GAPS Meal Plan

This plan should serve my needs from November to March.   Once a week I bake, make a ferment, and do prep work and chopping so its done early and relatively easy.  My lunch is always leftovers from the night before.

*ingredient re-used that week
^ingredient re-used the following week

Week 1

Sweets:

Apples

Bananas

Ferment:

Tomato jam/relish^

Weekday Breakfasts:

Chia seed cereal with dried cranberries and bananas.

Weekday Meals:

Butternut squash, thyme, and leek soup

Ligurian Ministrone (vegetable minestrone with basil and spinach)

Tomato, coconut milk*, and tarragon soup

Pumpkin^, coconut milk, cinnamon soup

Trout with green beans and carrots

Weekend Brunch:

Pear 'sauce' [applesauce made with pears]

Weekend Meals:

Portobello, watercress, lentil soup

Roast chicken^ with sweet peas

Week 2

Sweets:

Pumpkin tarts with walnut crust

Brownies

Ferment:

Carrots

Weekday Breakfast:

Applesauce with nuts

Weekday Meals

Cabbage rolls

Thai cashew chicken on spaghetti squash*

Spaghetti squash with bell peppers and feta

Taco salad

Whitefish with capers, olives and tomatoes with beans

Weekend Brunch

Smoked salmon cucumber^ lettuce wraps with horseradish

Weekend Meals:

Grapefruit dill perch with puréed carrots

Roast chicken with mashed cauliflower

Week 3

Sweets:

Lemon Raspberry Loaf 

Almond apricot* muffins

Ferment:

Cucumbers

Weekday Breakfast:   

Banana bread with blueberries or walnuts

Weekday Meals:

Antipasto and lentil salad

Sesame chicken thighs with shredded veg salad

Apricot pork with green beans

Thai coconut chicken soup

Charcuterie, cheese^ & sauerkraut

Weekend Brunch

Bacon^ and eggs

Weekend Meals

Mustard seed crusted salmon with mashed cauliflower

Roast beef^ with mushrooms and bell peppers^

Week 4

Sweets:  

Date brownies

Cinnamon bun muffins

Ferment:

Sauerkraut

Weekday Breakfast: 

Bacon, egg, and cheese muffins

Weekday Meals:

Spaghetti squash* with pomodoro sauce

Beef pad khing (ginger stir fry) on spaghetti squash

Sausage, cabbage, and bell pepper stew

Tikka masala on spinach^

Sesame salmon with broccoli

Weekend Brunch

Scrambled eggs

Weekend Meals

Mussels in marinara sauce

Roast chicken with grilled eggplant