Autoimmune Protocol + meal plan critique

This is not going to be a normal post. It is all about food though, so I will post it here and not on my other blog. The last 4 weeks I have followed the autoimmune protocol. To make it easier to start, I bought a meal plan that I followed exactly for most of the time. It was called 28 Days of AIP.

This was immensely helpful. It was totally worth buying. However, there were some issues with it (and spelling errors). It is designed to feed 2 people, so recipes usually have 4 servings. She builds her recipes around 1/4 lb of protein per person. That's a fine amount, but there were times when she oversimplified. For example, 1/4 lb of chicken wings is not enough for a serving. That is only a single wing. That was the very first dinner I made, and thankfully I realized I needed to buy more so we weren't all hungry. Also--she often says to buy 1 lb of sardines (pantry list), but she really means 4 tins of sardines in olive oil that are 3.75 oz each. Stuff like that.
There were no instructions for batch cooking. There were some weeks where you made chicken like 3 or 4 times, but it did not give a heads up that you could make it all at once. I tried to study the meal plans and look at all the recipes before shopping, but I still had issues.
Also, many of her salad recipes call for 2-3 times the amount of dressing you need. I foolishly mixed up everything to realize I had a salad with a cup of dressing left afterward. So keep that in mind with her salad recipes. Some of the salads also call for a random meat to make it a complete meal, but those random meats are not on the shopping lists. Also in week one there should have been 2 more cups of broth on the shop list.

There were a few meals that were pretty terrible, which is so discouraging when its all there is to eat.
This is my terrible list:
green smoothie (it is fine without the avocado, and with loosely packed greens. I put in 2 cups packed and it was horrid)
Nomato sauce (this may have been worse because I used vidalia onions instead of yellow, so was over sweet)
Root Vegetable Stew
Thai Whitefish Curry

Weird:
Sweet Potato, Artichoke, and Bacon soup

Did not make:
Pineapple Chili
Savory Plaintain Soup
--these were toward the end of the meal plan when I stopped making things that looked sweet or strange. There were times when I went hungry because I didn't want to eat the food, so I became more cautious.

Fantastic (or good):
Spiced Chicken Wings
Ranch Dip
Sausage and Apple stir-fry
Hawaiian Burgers
Spiced Sweet Potato Fries
Chicken Waldorf Salad
Strawberry-basil salad
Thai coconut soup (w/chicken added)
Veggie Delight Salad (w/o pickles though)
Spicy Coconut Whitefish
Five-Veggie Stir-fry
Moroccan Stew (more good than fantastic. i added pureed cauliflower to this too).
Apple Avocado Salad (Dressing is great too--but makes way too much)

The rest of the food was fine and does not stick out in my memory. I was not able to make every side dish, but I did make most of them. These recipes are all on the Clean Plate website. http://www.acleanplate.com/

Also, a word on her liverwurst and Kidney Stew recipes--I really can't stand organ meat. I made the food, and I ate it with my nose plugged. I really can't judge how good they were since I am not an organ meat fan. I think the stew would have been great if it had been regular stew meat. I liked the celeriac and collard greens in it.

I will stay on AIP, but make my own meal plans now, since I realize how valuable they are. I purchased Nourish, which I am thrilled about, and will use that as the base for meal plans.