Third Night - like eating sunshine

Today as we prepped the third night of dinners on the elimination diet*, I decided we ought to write about this experience together. We'd already had the forethought to begin photographing each night's meal, and here's a quick recap.
Monday night we made one of Mary's favorites - to ease us into the new life of not being lazy eaters...
Quinoa salad with black beans, veggies and lime cilantro dressing.

It's been a staple in our house for some time, so it was a logical first choice when menu planning.
And now to explain the diet*... For over a year Mary and I have been talking about cleaning up our act, so to speak.
We've wanted to do something that would help us understand our bodies' interactions with particular foods more, and to be healthier generally. After a long time of saying we should do something about the current state of affairs - overspending at restaurants, eating the same five things over and over, suffering from varying ailments related to bad food choices and inactivity - we took the plunge and started with menu planning. This elimination diet is designed to help reduce inflammation in the body, and to help pinpoint foods that are regressive for you (i.e. you would do very well to just not eat them). For two weeks we get to cut out all of the following -
All sources of Gluten (Barley, Rye, Oats, Wheat, Spelt, Kamut, Bulgur, Malt)
Dairy
Soy
Eggs
Beef, Pork and Lamb
Sugar and Honey
Corn
Caffeine (oh, sweet coffee, I will return to thee)
Alcohol
the entire family of Nightshade - Potatoes, Tomatoes, Peppers, Yams, Eggplant
We personally added to the list
Garlic
Onions
fermented foods
Grapefruit and Orange

"Well shit, with all that off limits what the hell are we going to eat?" you might ask...
That's what this blog is for. To show off our creations that help us stretch in the kitchen, let us eat from our garden, and make us think about and work together to put the food in our bellies at every meal. Since both of us work, and cooking at home takes up a lot of our time we're just gonna document dinner (which we eat for lunch the next day anyway)...
So here's the second and third dinners from the beginning of this effort:
Tuesday
Curried Lentil Soup with Millet

and Wednesday - today!
Tuna Salad with Beets, Carrots, and Chives over garden greens

and our home grown Maxibel Green Beans with Almonds