"Paleo" challenge, Days 1-3

So, our gym is embarking on this paleo diet challenge for the month of January.  I'm not really one for diets and strict eating, because I think it'll just make me more likely to want to go off the wagon in a big way, but I thought I'd bend the rules my way and just journal all the stuff I cram in my food hole for as long as the desire persists.  I'm not out to make any big sweeping changes, but over the holidays there was definitely an increase in the cookie/chocolate/packaged stuff content of my diet, so I'm really just looking to get back to practicing what I preach.  Less grains, legumes, and dairy; less alcohol; less plant-based fats; more veggies and happy meat.

Here's the first 2.5 days... I think I'm making pulled pork for dinner tonight:

1/3/11 (we were on "vacation" the first two meals, hence the sammidges and hash browns)
Breakfast: 2 eggs, 3 bacons, a big scoop of hash browns with peppers, onion, and garlic, coffee w/ half and half
Nosh: 1/2 apple, piece of dried mango
Lunch: Turkey sandwich on rye w/ lettuce, tomato, pickle, cheese, mayo, mustard; club soda
Dinner: Bunless burgers (1/2lb. pre-cooking grass-fed beef) on lettuce w/ 1/2 avocado, sauteed mushrooms, mashed parsnips, broccoli (w/ butter)
Dessert: 1 beer

1/4/11 
Breakfast: coffee w/ half and half, banana, 2 eggs (cooked in duck fat), salad greens, hot sauce

Eggs, salad, and hot sauce

Lunch: the Big A** Salad (BAS): lettuce, cherry tomato, 1/2 avocado, cucumber, radish, green onion, broccoli, cauliflower, 1/2 baked chicken breast - dressing: balsamic vinegar, olive oil, mustard, s&p

The Big A** Salad

Nosh: a couple glasses of soda water w/ lemon, handful of mixed nuts (we mix ourselves, lightly salted), coconut water, orange
Dinner: pork chop w/ apples, onion, garlic, reduced sherry, spinach
Dessert: (was still feeling really hungry) little handful of nuts and a beer

1/5/11
Breakfast: 2 eggs (cooked in duck fat), 2 slices of ham, coffee doctored, orange
Lunch: BAS

Thoughts: It sure looks like I eat a whole lot, but I think listing all the ingredients in home-prepared food made from whole foods just makes it look like a lot of different things?  Derek and I were talking about this, and it seems like you could just list "one lean cuisine", and it looks like barely anything, but if you had to list every ingredient it would take up a whole page, for example, from the Lean Cuisine nutritional info:

Ingredients:

COOKED CHICKEN TENDERLOINS (CHICKEN TENDERLOINS, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, WATER, CORN OIL, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SALT, CARAMEL COLOR, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, GARLIC, ONION, PAPRIKA, SPICE), WATER, BLANCHED ENRICHED LONG GRAIN PARBOILED RICE (WATER, RICE, IRON, NIACIN, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, FOLIC ACID), GREEN BEANS, MUSHROOMS, ONIONS, 2% OR LESS OF BLANCHED WILD RICE, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, SUGAR, SALT, CULTURED WHEY, CHICKEN FAT, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, CARAMEL COLOR, DEHYDRATED ONIONS, SPICES, DEHYDRATED GARLIC, PAPRIKA.

Anyway, we'll see how long this lasts, wish me luck...